Local Heritage Day

Following on the success of our very first Heritage Day in 2023, why not join us for our second Heritage Day on Saturday 14th September 2024 from 11am to 4pm

 

St Thomas’s Church hall, Church Street, Garstang 

 

There will be displays of old local photos & artefacts from the rural district, local authors, local history and heritage groups, old Lancashire books and more!

Confirmed attendees:

Garstang & District Heritage Society

Bleasdale Heritage

Lancaster Family History Group

Garstang Town Trust

Wyre Natural Heritage

Pilling Heritage 

Landy Publishing – old Lancashire books for sale

Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Winmarleigh Heritage including the story of Lord Winmarleigh

Wyre Archaeology

Fylde & Wyre Country Life Preservation Society

Several local authors

Garstang (the world’s first Fair Trade town) Fair Trade history

 

 

 

Local Heritage Day

Saturday 9^th September 2023

 11am to 4pm

St Thomas’s Church Hall, Church Street, Garstang

Free Admission

 

There will be displays of old local photos & artefacts from the rural district, local authors, local history and heritage groups, military museums, old Lancashire books and more!

Tea, coffee and delicious homemade cakes will be on sale

Confirmed attendees:

• Garstang & District Heritage Society
• Garstang Town Trust
• Garstang Historical Society
• Wyre Council Natural Heritage
• Bleasdale Heritage Centre
• Winmarleigh Church
• Winmarleigh display of Lord Winmarleigh story
• Garstang and Knott End Railway Society – featuring a display about the Pilling Pig by pupils at Nateby Primary School
• Garstang Town Trust
• Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Group
• Lancashire Family History Group
• Landy Publishing – sales of old Lancashire Books
• Angela Norris – local author
• Brenda Fox – local author

 

New exhibition space!

 

We are really excited to announce that Booths have very kindly given us space to put regular exhibitions of Garstang Heritage in their Garstang store.  These will be right at the top of the stairs as you come up to the cafe, opposite the lift and will be open to view when the store is open.

 

 

 

 

Our third exhibition is currently on display, and features the history of the Lancaster Canal in Garstang. It is sometimes called The Black and White canal, due to it carrying coal (black) and Limestone (white)

More information about the canal is in the canal section here

 

 

 

A coal barge from the Wigan Coal & Iron Company loading its cargo

 

 

 

 

Our second exhibition featured memories of Garstang Victorian Festival, and ran in conjunction with the Festival.  We showed lots of photos of previous Festivals, and we are grateful to Lynn Harter, Jo Coleran and Barry Till for sharing their photos with us – their kindness is appreciated.

 

 

 

 

Our first exhibition was in August 2022 and was about the history of Booths in Garstang.