Meetings 2024

Monday 12th February: 

Graham Robson: 

“Mining Equipment used at Bowburn Colliery”

Monday 11th March: 

Warrick Rochester:

“Metal Detectorists’ Finds in Old Quarrington and elsewhere in the North East”

Monday 8th April

 Tony Hutchinson:

“Mary Ann Cotton, Notorious Serial Killer”

Monday 13th May

Gordon Henderson:

“Roman Medicine”

Monday 10th June

Michael Chaplin

“Sid Chaplin: From Durham Pitman to Acclaimed Man Of Letters”

Saturday 13th July

Big Meeting Day – Durham Miners’ Gala

Monday 29th July

"Bowburn – Now and Then"

 A Reminiscence walk round Bowburn

Meet in Community Centre car park at 6pm

(If weather is bad, alternative date = Monday 12th August)

Monday 19th August

AGM and members’ evening:

“Now & Then” photographs + Plans for 2025

Friday 6th September

Geoff Smith (English Heritage):

Finchale Abbey – afternoon visit

Meet in Community Centre car park at 2.30pm

or at Finchale Abbey at 3pm

Saturday 21st September

Bowburn Fun Day – including local history display

Thursday 3rd October

Members of Coxhoe & Bowburn local history groups:

“A Night at the Flicks – Coxhoe and Bowburn Cinemas”

Meeting at St Andrew’s Church Schoolroom. Front Street, Coxhoe

Monday 4th November

Nick Miller, Edith Cavell Archivist, Swardeston:

“Nurse Edith Cavell (1865-1915): why did a Bowburn banner remember her in 1920?”

(Meeting by Zoom – since posted on YouTube)

[No formal meeting in December]