This month we will be meeting on the 20th and 27th of April at the Lydiate VIllage Hall. The work produced by our memebrs is of very high quality and I will endeavour to obtain some photographs of that work to illustrate the skill being demonstrated. As usual wwe extend a welcome to anyone who just wishes to come along and see what we do and maybe try their hand at soem basic glass cutting.
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Our next meeting will be on the 4th of May and we will be looking at military history. Many will have had members of their family in various parts of the military and this time we will look particularly at Army records.
Last month we looked at Irish records and if anyone wants any notes from that meeting I have some copies available. There were several free websites which have quite an ammount of information, but it is very fragmented.
Window by Bob Jones
view from the pew
Over the last few months one of our group has been working well on a very special piece. Bob Jones is a member of the Waterloo United Free Church which is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Bob has constructed a window incorporating two Christian symbols which shape the figure 100. This imaginative piece of stained glass work is now in place in their place of worship. Members of the congregation have been high in praise of Bob’s work and are encouraging him to extend his work and create an even bigger window.
Bob is a good example of the talent that is being exhibited by our group the members of which are engaged on many pieces of challenging and tasteful designs. The vibrant colours of glass are enriching their homes.
We are progressing with the analysis and presentation of the work we started a year ago. By June we hope to have a small booklet as the result of our research into the Censuses of 1841 – 1871. Our work will throw some light on the people of Lydiate in those years and provide a source of information for those researching their families in Lydiate during the period.
Friday 2nd March 13:30
Looking at the IGI, Latter Day Saints website and talking about maritime research. All welcome.
Lydiate Village Centre.
At our last meeting we looked at two websites commonly used by members. ‘Ancestry’ is the most widely used site and the family tree builder is a very useful part of this website. David Evans showed us the Ancestry disc he had purchased which enables you to download and store the details of your family safely.
Roy Ferguson has recently joined ‘Find my past’ and took us on a tour round that website. It has the advantage of having the full 1911 Census information.
In March we will have a look at the IGI website compiled by the Church of the Latter Day Saints; a very useful free website.
In future we will be meeting at Lydiate Village Centre in Lambshear Lane. Our first meeting will be on the 30th of September and then after that the 14th and 28th of October.
We are moving as we have several new members of the group and there is a need for more room within which to work. There will be plenty of room at Lydiate to spread out and work on larger pieces. Anyone interested should just come along and see work in progress and then you can judge whether this is a new skill you would like to aquire.
We meet at 2.00 pm till 4.00
In July I completed the collection of sponsor money which people have so generously contributed. The final sum was £800 for which I sent cheques off to Médecins Sans Frontières MSF (Doctors Without Borders). I have received acknowledgement of this and will post this on the notice board on Tuesday.
Again very grateful thanks to all those who sponsored Reg Moore
and myself.
John Jackson.
The creative writing group is having a rest until October. When we start again we intend to focus on people who want to write something about themselves. This sounds very introspective and self centred. However people may wish to write about themselves for several reasons. Most have interesting incidents or episodes in their lives and it is good to share these. If you have family then you may want to share these events with your family. Maybe some wish to write up the history of their family. There are many reasons why we may want to share our past experiences. With some guidance we may be assisted to present these events in a way which will make easy reading and thus make them more memorable for the reader.
Keep your eye open for more news of this and if you are interested contact Arthur Hughes or any committee member.
A great experience and one which I would not mind repeating, but not for a week or two. Thank you David for posting information on our web site and keeping people informed about our progress.
It was good to have Phil and Reg for the first leg and Reg for the second. Both had to suffer extremely strong winds, which unfortunately continued through the whole week. Reg did magnificently on the second day when we had to battle with wind, bank holidaymakers with their prams, children, dogs, tandems, uncles, aunts and grandparents. The trail was not quiet that day and our bells were ringing constantly. But after eleven hours and becoming quite exhausted Reg decided the sensible move would be to return home.
For the next three days I did have the wind to accompany me! At one isolated level crossing the crossing keeped chatted. When I mentioned the wind as my main problem he, sagely, commented, ‘You should have let me know I would have had a word with a friend of mine, Odin’. I am not sure he had the right god!
The trail is very beautiful and takes you through the quiet and very rural heart of the industrial North. It follows rivers, Mersey, Dearne, Don, Ouse and Humber, many canals, disused railway lines and very quiet country roads. The advantage of this is that generally you are riding along quite flat paths, even, though they are quite bumpy which can be a bit hard on the behind! All this in very sunny weather made for a very enjoyable ride. It was hard work but whenyou are riding you get into a rythm and just plod on.
I was pleased to reach Hornsea, which was rather quiet , closed up and cold, with an east wind whipping up the sea. It was even better to turn rounnd and head for Hull and the train home and this time with the wind behind me!
It would have been even better had I not got on the wrong train in Leeds and found myself heading for Middlesborough! Fortunately a son lived not far from the first stop and so I stayed with him. The next day another son met me in Manchester and made sure his idiot father got the right train!
Thanks to everyone who wished us well in our escapade and those who generously sponsored us. So far Medecins sans frontieres will be better off to the sum of over three hundred pounds and more still coming in.
Hopefully this could be repeated again next year and be an enjoyable experience for others too.
We had a very entertaining presentation from Andrew Sackville about these studies. Anyone who wants to follow up information should go to this website www.one-name.org which will give further information. Andrew has been working on genealogy for many years and has amassed a great deal of information about web sites. He will return in the Autumn to talk to us about further sources of information.