Bowburn LHS meetings 2022

Meetings in 2022

Monday 14th February: 

David Butler, 

Durham County Records Office:

"Great Pains and a Large Amount of Labour": the Building of Durham Viaduct

Zoom meeting*, starting at 7pm

Monday 14th March: 

Mike Syer, Bowburn LHS: 

Fatal Accidents at Bowburn Colliery

Zoom meeting*, starting at 7pm

Monday 11th April: Jack Turton, Coxhoe LHS: 

Asylum: Winterton in words and pictures.

Bowburn Community Centre, starting at 7pm

All welcome. Admission free but donations welcome

Monday 16th May: AGM and members’ evening: 

Family history? How and where people lived and worked locally? What are your local history interests?

Bowburn Community Centre, starting at 7pm

Monday 13th June: Members meeting

Planning further activities of Bowburn LHS

 Bowburn Community Centre, starting at 7pm

New members welcome

Monday 18th July – Bowburn Schools

A summary of 113 years of formal education in Bowburn

(in Wylam Street, Surtees Avenue and now Crowtrees Lane)

will be followed by the sharing of memories by those who attended these schools.

Bowburn Community Centre, starting at 7pm

All welcome. Admission free but donations welcome

[No meeting in August]

Monday 12th September – My Life with The Doors, by Jimmy M !

Jimmy McGrath: “30 years working at Henderson’s Garage Doors”

(P. C. Henderson was one of Bowburn’s biggest employers after the closure of Bowburn Colliery.)

Bowburn Community Centre, starting at 7pm

All welcome. Admission free but donations welcome

Monday 10th October – The Changing Face of Bowburn

as shown on old maps and aerial photographs

Bowburn Community Centre, starting at 7pm

All welcome. Admission free but donations welcome

Monday 14th November – Crowtrees Tilery

Richard Annis, Senior Archaeologist, Durham University,

will describe what was discovered about Bowburn’s 19th century brick and tile works

by the dig in 2019.

Bowburn Community Centre, starting at 7pm

All welcome. Admission free but donations welcome