Cartmel Peninsula Local History Society

Cartmel Peninsula in the south of Cumbria, England

Messages for members:

1. The Villages History Project. Members are researching the history of, initially, 6 of our peninsula villages. To see a summary of our discussion at the workshops please click on an underlined village in the navigation bar at the top of this page. Our next workshop is in the Cartmel Village Hall Supper Room at 7.30pm on ~~Tuesday 26th January 2010~~. RE-ARRANGED FOR THURSDAY 4TH FEBRUARY 2010. APOLOGIES FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE. Please come along even if you missed to the previous 2 meetings. If you wish more information please ring or e-mail Nigel Mills.

2. Lectures in 2010. These are finalised with the first one entitled "Shap Abbey". Full details will be in the January Newsletter but for your diaries they are:

18th February: Shap Abbey with Harry Hawkins.

18th March: Lakeland Architecture with Andy Lowe,

15th April: The History of Shorts Flying Boats with Judith Shingler

May: A Field Trip. Location to be confirmed.

17th June: Yeoman Farmers and Reformation with Chris Craghill.

July: A Field Trip. Location to be confirmed.

August: A Field Trip. Location to be confirmed

23rd September: Thomas Hayton Mawson with Bette Kissack

21st October: The Dark Ages in Cumbria with Sheena Gemmell

18th November: AGM

3. Newsletter. The next Newsletter will be issued in January 2010. If you have any local history news or articles please e-mail them to our Secretary Ruth Hughes by the end of December. Also if you wish to see anything specific in the Newsletter please let Ruth or any Committee member know.

4. AGM. At the AGM we were pleased to welcome 3 new committee members. They are Pat Rowland, Mike Hornung and Stuart Harling. Many thanks were given to Gail Swanson and Peter LeMare who stood down after several successful years on the committee.

5. Subsciptions for 2010. If you wish to remain a member of CPLHS or wish to join for the first time please print off the Membership Form from this web site, complete it and post to the Treasurer with a cheque for £6 pp. Early payment of membership fees helps the Society and avoids queues at the first lecture. Thank you in anticipation of your co-operation. Nigel Mills, Treasurer.

Welcome to the website for:

Cartmel Peninsula Local History Society

The society was founded in 1996 with the objective of promoting an interest in local history within Cartmel and the surrounding parishes, roughly the area between the Leven Estuary to the west and the Kent Estuary to the east.

This objective was to be met by:

a)  Promoting Lectures
b)  Organising Field Excursions
c) Providing Information
d)  Encouraging Local History Research

These four aspects of the society are still key and drive the varied programme of lectures, excursions and members research organised and supported by the society.

AGM and Quiz on Thursday November 19^th, one of the wettest days in the history of Cumbria. Consequently there were 12 members present. The Chairman thanked the Committee members for all their hard work. Membership had again increased by 50% and now numbers 102. Reports were presented by the Secretary and Treasurer.

Special thanks went to Dr Stuart Alan, a founder member and now a life member, and his wife Rita. After the business side of the AGM was concluded refreshments were enjoyed, and this was followed by a quiz entitled “Name this Place”, presented by Nigel Mills. A series of old black and white photographs taken around the area were shown and this produced lively debate. Members were able to identify some of them. The meeting was closed at 9.00pm. Our programme for 2010 will commence on Thursday February 18^th with a talk by Harry Hawkins on Shap Abbey and the monks who lived there in medieval times. Please note that all our meetings will be held on the 3^rd Thursday of the month.