Information on Next Meetimg
Please note Local History meetings for June & July are cancelled. Next meeting hopefully will be on the 10th September 2019.Subject to Carol making a good recovery. Stay alert for further information. BC
Local History Group January 2016-December 2016
Programme of Study The group decided to use a chronological timeline to give us a foundation for our study, however we are not limited by this and may deviate if something of current interest sparks our interest. Members also research topics themselves and are happy to take the lead [...]
Local History Updates May 2013
The group continue to research the building that was the Inn of Old Seaham in 1808.We looked at the 1784 map of the village and tried to assess how much we know of other inns, and how relevant it would be to ours. We wondered what newspaper the grandfather [...]
Which building was the Inn?
The group studied an etching of the village of Old Seaham in 1784. It was drawn by the vicar of Saint Mary the Virgin, the Reverend Richard Wallis. The etching shows six houses, the Inn and the medieval Manor House, but which was which? We also considered information from a book published [...]
Introduction to the Local History group
Leader : Beatrice WilsonThe group meet upstairs in the The Featherbed Rock Café at 2pm on the second Tuesday in the month. It’s a fitting rendezvous as the building has an interesting history.For a time it was the home of Mary Ann Cotton who is considered to be Britain’s [...]