Celebrating Our Local Heritage
Our meetings will recommence on 23rd September 2025. There has been a late change to the speaker; Michael Fraser will talk about
The Forgotten Northumbrian Appeaser: Viscount Runciman’s Mission to Czechoslovakia in 1938
The meeting will be held in Alnwick Cricket Club, starting at the normal time of 7.30pm.
As always, new members or guests are welcome welcome to attend – just turn up on the night.
23rd September 2025
The Forgotten Northumbrian Appeaser: Viscount Runciman’s Mission to Czechoslovakia in 1938
Speaker Michael Fraser
28th October 2025
M.R.G. Conzen’s Study of Alnwick: The lasting legacy
Speaker Dr M. Barke
This will be a joint meeting with Alnwick Civic Society
25th November 2025
The History, Mystery, Meaning and Beauty of Northumberland’s 18th Century Gravestones
Speaker Mark Hatton
27th January 2026
Newbiggin Pharmacy; Alnwick’s Chemist with magnificent furnishings, where they came from and where they are now
Speaker Phil Huntley
24th February 2026
Searches for Churches on Lindisfarne; An Historical Re-Evaluation of the Early Medieval Monastery resulting from Recent Archaeology on the Heugh
Speaker John Woodhurst
24th March 2026
Tin Tabernacles; A Victorian story of Local tin churches
Speaker Sandra Gann
This meeting will be preceded by the AGM, which will start at 7pm.
28th April 2026
The Story of Alnwick; From Inception to the Post War Period
Speaker Nick Lewis
Membership is £10 for the year and non-members can attend for £2 per meeting.
Twice a year the Society produces a journal, “The Bondgate”, which contains articles and research undertaken by the members. There are also regular book reviews.
The Society has seven meetings a year, running from September through to April.
The meetings are held at the Alnwick Cricket Club on Weavers Way (NE66 1BX) on the fourth Tuesday of each month, with a start time of 7.30pm.
There is no meeting in December and the AGM is held before the March meeting.
New members are always welcome. Just turn up on the night, or get in touch with the secretary.
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