WELCOME TO RAVENSTONEDALE PARISH HISTORY GROUP
Talks
Programme
2025-2026
Wednesday 17th September 2025
2.30pm in Newbiggin-on-Lune Public Hall: Mary’s Memories – of growing up in Newbiggin-on-Lune in the early 1900s by Jackie Wedd
Wednesday 15th October 2025
7.30pm in Ravenstonedale Community & Heritage Centre: The Bank House 1690-1990 – A History of our Ravenstonedale House by Steve Fermer
Wednesday 19th November 2025
2.30pm in Ravenstonedale Community and Heritage Centre: Weather Forecasting the Cumbrian Way by Jean Scott-Smith
Wednesday 10th December 2025
7.30pm in Ravenstonedale Community and Heritage Centre
Our usual Christmas get-together, on a bring-and-share basis. We hope to show some of the slides of local scenes which have recently been donated to the archive – using historical tech of course.
Wednesday 18th February 2026
2.30pm in Newbiggin-on-Lune Public Hall: Ravenstonedale Parish in the County Archives by Anthony Hughes, an archivist based at Kendal Archives – to include a brief introduction to the County Archive Service.
Wednesday 18th March 2026
7.30pm in Ravenstonedale Community and Heritage Centre: Lime Burning and Land Improvements in the Barony of Westmorland by David Johnson.
We play an important role in documenting the parish’s history – both as volunteer archivists preserving records and as volunteer historians interpreting stored documentation.
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About the
group
How to Join
RPHG
There are two membership categories. Ordinary Members pay £7 per year and a £4 attendance fee for talks. Please consider becoming a Friend of RPHG for £50 per year if you would like to give RPHG additional support to help us budget for our ongoing costs – monthly rent for the archive room at RCHC, hire of meeting rooms and speakers, and purchase of archive-standard storage boxes and folders. Friends do not have to pay to attend a talk.
Both categories of RPHG members automatically become members of Cumbria Local History Federation.
Please fill in the contact form below if you would like to join us and we will get back to you with details. Your email address will not be made public.
MEMBERSHIP FORM
RPHG ARCHIVE CATALOGUE
Current members may also request a login and password to view and comment on our growing online catalogue Ravenstonedale Archives hosted by Cumbria Local History Federation. Click on our Squirrel logo below to see the Home Page. Should your membership lapse then your login and password to the archive site will no longer be valid.