AFLHS Winter 2024 Newsletter
Autumn 2024 and Winter 2025 Programme of Evening Talks
The autumn season of talks by local speakers has been well attended with typically 40+ members and guests attending the talks. By around the time this article is published, a talk on Limekilns by David Johnson on 11th December 2024, followed by festive refreshments will round off our 2024 season.
Annual membership of the Society runs from September 2024 to end of August 2025 and from January 2025 the cost is reduced from £10 to £5 per person for the six remaining evening talks in the spring/ summer of 2025. All are welcome to our meetings and the cost for non-members is £3 per person (cash only please) at the door. Refreshments will also be available with donations welcome. Talks start at 7.30 pm in Austwick Village (large) Hall. Members wishing to renew their membership should bring cash or a cheque to one of the autumn/ spring meetings.
The following evening talks are scheduled on the third Wednesday in the month for the Spring/ early summer of 2025
- January 15th: Ospreys
- February 19th (Provisional): Archaeology in Saudi Arabia
- 19th March: Butterflies of the North West
- 16th April: Nature Recovery in a National Park
- 21st May: The Settle-Carlisle Railway
- 18th June: The Swath Moor Peat recovery Project
Summer walks are also planned to the Osprey site at Foulshaw Moss and to the Hoffman Kiln near Stainforth-dates to be circulated to members in due course.
For anyone hard of hearing you will be pleased to know that the Parish Hall Committee has recently invested in high quality projection and sound equipment including a hearing loop for the main Hall. This new equipment has already proved its value to everyone attending recent AFLHS evening talks.
If you are not a member and would like know more about our season of talks next year or to be included on our records for future meeting notices, please contact our membership secretary Tony Horsewill on tonyhorsewill@me.com.
Annual General Meeting in November
The AGM of the Society will be held shortly after the deadline for this article, followed by a talk on Yorkshire Navvies by Sarah Lister. The AGM in November will discuss and hopefully approve a change to the Constitution to allow the Society to pursue grants, and with the help of local volunteers, undertake local “nature recovery” projects in Austwick. The next AFLHS article in the Spring Newsletter will provide further information including opportunities for volunteer support to several planned wild flower and woodland schemes around Austwick village.
Graham Cleverly
AFLHS chairman