| 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
27th April 2026
Meeting
Chris Rushton. Two of the most important domestic ‘Arts and Craft’ buildings are situated in the Lakes - Broad Leys and Moor Crag This presentation looks at who designed them, […]
Venue: Kelsick Centre
25th May 2026
2:00 pm
Meeting
Mike Huggins. ‘All the fun of the Fair - Kendal as the centre of Westmorland horse racing 1820-1834’. In the 1820s and 1830s there were around 130 British centres holding […]
Venue: Kelsick Centre
22nd June 2026
Meeting
Dr Rob David. ‘In search of Arctic Wonders’: Cumbria and the Arctic in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.This illustrated lecture ranges widely over Arctic exploration and whaling in those times. […]
Venue: Kelsick Centre
27th July 2026
Outing
Industrial archaeology attracts a growing band of enthusiasts and the Threlkeld Quarry & Mining Museum is a wonderful source. Situated three miles east of Keswick, the quarry and museum have […]
24th August 2026
Meeting
NO MEETING IN AUGUST.
28th September 2026
Outing
Trudi Wakeman. This outing will visit St Michael’s and All Angels Church and the Grammar School. The church is a grade one listed building and we will hear about its […]
26th October 2026
Meeting
23rd November 2026
Meeting
Steve Dickinson. ‘Vikings in Cumbria’. This talk will reveal fascinating new insights about the Vikings in Cumbria. A research project in the valley of Kentmere in the 1980’s found the […]
Venue: Kelsick Centre
28th December 2026
Meeting
NO MEETING IN DECEMBER.
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 brought progress […]
Venue: Kelsick Centre
22nd February 2027
Meeting