DLHS
Denton Local History Society

Events 2024 /2025.

All meetings begin at 7.30pm

Meetings with speakers are held at Victoria Park Community Centre, Market St Denton M34 2AP (At rear of Town Hall)

No Workshop meetings at present due to ongoing problems at The Festival Hall. {added October 2023}/p>

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We still do not know when we will be fully able to access Room 10

Speaker meetings planned are as follows:

Speaker meetings held on the 4th Tuesday of the month, at Victoria Park Community Centre, Market Street, Denton, M34 2AP. Start 7.30pm, doors open 7pm. Christmas Social 1st Tuesday in December at 7PM.

Diary – September 2024 to July 2025.

    2024

  • Sept 24th – Brian Hallworth, ‘EVERY TIME I PASS A CHURCH”
    “From mighty cathedral to tiny chapel, their history and beauty is something to behold”. A forerunner to our exhibition in October on the churches of Denton.
  • October 19th/20th – Exhibition “THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCHES OF DENTON”
  • October 22nd – Martin Ford, “TITANIC”
    An illustrated talk about the building of that ship, a modern day look around the Titanic Museum in Belfast, the Harland and Wolf shipyard, and the story of some of the lesser known facts that contributed to the infamous sinking, apart from the iceberg, and more.
  • November 26th – Alan Kibble,” THE REINVESTIGATION OF THE MOORS MURDERS”
    A talk by a retired police officer explaining the why’s and wherefore’s of the reinvestigation.
  • December 3rd Christmas Social, starts at 7PM
  • 2025

  • January 28th – Angela Cainen, “ LYME HALL”
  • February 25th – Allan Arrowsmith, “REPORTER PICTORIAL 1929 TO 1938”
    People and events in Denton from the local newspaper.
  • March 25th – Claire Robinson, “ I’VE SEEN IT IN BLACK AND WHITE”,
    Cultural life and events in Manchester 1887-88, including the Grand Jubilee Exhibition, the first visit of Buffalo Bill, sport, dialect & more. ( Claire is Joyce Robinson’s daughter, she has previously given us a talk on Pantomimes ).
  • April 22nd – ( provisional ) VISIT TO A PLACE OF INTEREST,
    usually held in May, this event will be brought forward because of the 80th anniversary of the end of WW2, see below.
  • May 27th – Lynne Quirk, “THE DENTON BOMBINGS”

  • June 24th – ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
  • July 8th – SOCIAL EVENT/QUIZ/SUPPER etc, to end the year. Our version of ‘The Proms’.
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