| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| Coordinator: | |
| When: | On Mondays 2:00 pm Fourth Monday of each month |
| Cost: | £3.00 for indoor meetings. |
The Group re-started this January with a new Coordinator, Trudi Wakeman. Meetings are usually held at 2.00pm for a 2.15pm start on the fourth Monday of each Month at the Kelsick Centre in Ambleside. Fees are £3 a meeting which includes refreshments. Parking is not available at the Kelsick but there are various car parks nearby, the nearest being King Street Car Park. Other options include Miller Bridge Car Park and Lake Road Car Park.
Speakers needed: many members will have an interest and information that can be shared with our group. Please consider doing this and we will do all we can to help you organise a presentation.
A list of our FORTHCOMING EVENTS is given below.
Forthcoming events
28th September 2026
Meeting
Mike Green & Pam Gould: The letters of J D Dawson. Much has been written about the building of the Thirlmere reservoir dam but the struggle of the local farmers […]
Venue: Kelsick Centre
26th October 2026
Outing
Mark Hatton. A visit to Goldscope Mine. Mark Hatton is from The Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society (CATMHS). He will lead a visit to Goldscope Mine in the Newlands Valley […]
23rd November 2026
Meeting
Dick O'Brien. ‘The Pilgrimage of Grace’. The Pilgrimage of Grace was a massive 1536–1537 popular rebellion in Northern England. Starting in Yorkshire and spreading across Cumberland, Northumberland, Durham and Lancashire, roughly 30,000 […]
Venue: Kelsick Centre
7th December 2026
Meeting
The opportunity for us local historians to discuss historical matters (and how to solve the World's ills) over afternoon tea in an attractive location. Details to be confirmed shortly.
25th January 2027
Meeting
Mark Hatton. ‘Elizabethan Miners’. Mark Hatton is from The Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society (CATMHS). In 1564 a group of Copper Miners came to Keswick from Germany. They came at […]
Venue: Kelsick Centre
22nd February 2027
Meeting
Andy Lowe - The Lake Windermere Area: its Architecture and Industrial Heritage. Andy Lowe is a retired Buildings Conservation Officer for the Lake District National Park and is an expert […]
Venue: Kelsick Centre
22nd March 2027
Outing
A walk around historic Penrith, led by a Blue Badge Guide.
26th April 2027
2:00 pm
Meeting
Geoff Holmes - SL Shamrock - an Edwardian Gentleman's steam launch. The Edwardian Gentleman’s Launch was the Rolls-Royce of steamboat luxury. But as the Edwardian Era faded, the boats had […]
Venue: Kelsick Centre
24th May 2027
2:00 pm
Meeting
Ian Jones - The Stained Glass Windows of Troutbeck. At the bottom of Troutbeck valley along the Kirkstone Pass is Jesus Church, where the Browne family of Townend Farm worshipped. […]
Venue: Kelsick Centre
28th June 2027
Outing
A visit to 2 important industrial landmarks, only a mile apart. Stott Park Bobbin Mill near Lake Windermere is the very last survivor of the 100-odd Lake District mills which […]
26th July 2027
2:00 pm
Meeting
Dr Rob David. ‘A Hotbed of Communist Activity’. In June 1940 two prominent women communists, recently dismissed from their jobs in London for their political activities, arrived in Howtown pursued […]
Venue: Kelsick Centre
23rd August 2027
Meeting
NO MEETING IN AUGUST
27th September 2027
Meeting
Mike Green: ’T W Thompson – local historian extraordinaire’. T W Thompson (1888 – 1968) was a local lad made good. He was born into a working-class family in Burneside, […]
Venue: Kelsick Centre
25th October 2027
Meeting
Martin Cooper: The Remarkable Story of Rev. Theodore Hardy, VC. Martin Cooper is a retired Royal Artillery Regimental Colonel. Martin will be talking about the life of the Reverend Theodore […]
Venue: Kelsick Centre
22nd November 2027
2:00 pm
Meeting
Pam Gould - ''From Horror to Beauty: John Brown’s Letter and the Discovery of the Lake District" Dr. John Brown (1715-66, a poet and clergyman from Wigton) was an energetic […]
Venue: Kelsick Centre