LONGRIDGE HISTORY SOCIETY

Our next meeting is at 7.30pm Thursday 16th April

Anne Charlesworth will be our speaker and her talk is :-

 "The Recusant Tyldesley's - Rebels with a Cause"

An illustrated talk on the activities of the recusant Catholic Tyldesley family of Myerscough Lodge and Fox Hall, Blackpool in the 17th and 18th Centuries

The Tyldesley family were active over several generations, including during the English Civil War and the Jacobite Period.

Some of their activities were chronicled by Thomas Tyldesley(1657-1715) who was heavily involved in th early Jacobite Plot in Lancashire of 1689 to 1694

                This meeting will be held in St Paul's Church Centenary Room ( off Berry Lane )

Please note in your diary that the 16th April meeting will be the last meeting to be held in St Paul's Centenary Room , as future meetings will be held in Christ Church , Berry Lane ,Longridge .

( Rev Mike Barton of St Paul's has kindly invited us to continue to use St Paul,s car park )

            Annual subscription for the 2025/26 programme is £15 and visitor admission is £3 

also Sir Francis Fenwick Pearson was Member of Parliament for Clitheroe Constituency