October 2024 Meeting - The Boat Families of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal

Name: October 2024 Meeting - The Boat Families of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal
Start: 2024-10-23T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Guide HQ, Moorgate, Ormskirk, L39 4RU

Schedule

Wed Oct 23 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Guide HQ, Moorgate, Ormskirk, L39 4RU | Ormskirk, EN

Ormskirk and District Family History Society (registered charity no. 1004895) invites you to join us as ODFHS Chair Kate Hurst presents her new talk on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, and the way it transformed the working lives of so many families from West Lancashire and beyond.
Drawing on sources including newspaper articles, parish registers, land tax assessments, photographs, maps, trade directories and the ODFHS boat families website, this talk hopes to create a picture of the boat families’ world and the resources that can help historians to research a community that was constantly on the move.
Why not join us to find out more about the history of the famous waterway that has been a feature of the landscape of northern England for two and a half centuries?
Refreshments will be available. Doors open from 7p.m. for a 7.30p.m. start.