Big thank you to Morley and District Family History Group, especially Ann Bogue, Julie Heeley and Carol Sklinar for the invitation to participate in their 30th Anniversary Open Day yesterday and their great hospitality.
Another opportunity for me to meet fellow family history enthusiasts and tell them about the potential for discovering their missing ancestors hidden within Yorkshire's lunatic asylum records. I just happened to have a box of Proper People with me and I am pleased to report that it was much lighter by the end of the event.
Now looking forward to revisiting Morley on 1st February next year to deliver my illustrated presentation Early Asylum Life which will include tales of local folk from around the district.
Proper People - Early Asylum Life - enables the reader to travel back to the early nineteenth century to meet some of the mentally ill patients who passed through Yorkshire’s West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum in Wakefield
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Tuesday, 6 September 2016
Speaking engagements in 2017
A number of engagements have already been confirmed when I will be delivering my illustrated presentation "Early Asylum Life".
The calendar is as follows:
"Early Asylum Life" aims to take the audience back to the early 19th century to experience what it was like to have been a patient in the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
I have my own projector and laptop but will need the venue to provide a projection screen or equivalent.
The calendar is as follows:
Wakefield Local and Family History Network
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The Learning Zone,
Library Main Floor, Wakefield One, Burton St, Wakefield, WF1 2EB |
1.30pm, Monday 23rd January, 2017
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Morley Family History Society
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St Mary's in the Wood,
Commercial Street, Morley, LS27 8HY |
7.30pm, Wednesday 1st February,
2017
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Ossett Historical Society
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Trinity Centre,
Church Street, Ossett, WF5 8ET |
7.30pm Monday 27th March, 2017
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East Yorkshire Family History Society
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Carnegie Heritage Centre,
342 Anlaby Rd, Hull, HU3 6JA |
7pm, Tuesday 21st March, 2017
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Garforth Probus Club
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Garforth Working Men’s Club
Barley Hill Rd, Garforth, Leeds, LS25 1AU |
10.30am, Wednesday 5th July, 2017
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Bradford Family History Society
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Glyde House
Little Horton Lane Bradford BD5 0BQ |
10am, Thursday 6th July, 2017
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20 Fitzwilliam St, Swinton, Rotherham S64 8RG |
10.30am, Tuesday 15th August, 2017
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Upper Dales Family History Group
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Harmby Village Hall,
Brook Terrace, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 5PG |
2pm, Wednesday 27th September, 2017
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"Early Asylum Life" aims to take the audience back to the early 19th century to experience what it was like to have been a patient in the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
I have my own projector and laptop but will need the venue to provide a projection screen or equivalent.
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