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Our next meeting is 7.30pm Thurs 15th October Amy Stanning will be our speaker and her talk is :- "How the Taxpayers of Rural Lancashire Helped Britain Defeat Napoleon" |
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Amy is a PhD research student at Lancaster University, with a background in finance, and she is studying :- |
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" Britains financial history and the collection of revenues during the late Georgian period " |
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Our meetings are now held at Christ Church, Berry Lane , Longridge . PR3 3JA ( we have been kindly invited to use the car park at St Paul's Church if parking is difficult on Berry Lane ) |
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| Visitors are most welcome with complimentary tea / coffee served after the talks. | |
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Annual subscription for the 2026/27 programme is £15 and visitor admission is £3 The preferred payment is cash as we now can't accept cheques. It is now possible to pay by bank transfer to our Lloyds Bank. |
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| Our Society was founded on Tuesday 14th April 1970 | |
| when Harold Wilson was our Prime Minister and Richard Nixon was President of the USA | |
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also Sir Francis Fenwick Pearson was Member of Parliament for Clitheroe Constituency |