Lancashire Local History Federation

Federation Activities & Participatory Events 2025 - 2026

Here is the Event Diary for the whole county including all the Societies who have provided their programme for the coming year.


The pages include when and where the meeting is but not the cost which can be obtained from the Societies websites on the Member Societies page

The Federation “At Home “ this year will be hosted by Preston Historical Society on Saturday 4th July.


Historic Preston - Lancashire Local History Federation

‘At Home’ with Preston Historical Society and Friends of Winckley Square - Saturday 4 July 2026

 Programme

 THE HARRIS: MARKET SQUARE, PRESTON PR1 2PP

 9.15     Registration with refreshments

9.30     Welcome: Mayor of Preston Nweeda Khan

9.40     M.C. Patricia Harrison: Outline of the day

9.45     Steve Harrison: How what happened in Preston changed Lancashire, Britain, and the World

11.00   Comfort Break and meet your morning tour guide

11.15   Optional Visits and Guided Walks: repeated in the afternoon.                   

 CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH: LUNE STREET, PR1 2NL

12.30   Lunch / Preston in the 1950s Exhibition

13.30   Jennifer Reid: Echoes of the Industrial North: Lancashire Dialect Work Songs and Broadside Ballads

14.30   Comfort Break and meet your afternoon tour guide

14.45-16.00 Optional Visits & Guided Walks

14.45- 16.00 Judy Beeston Meet Edith Rigby: A presentation in role

For members who are less mobile and would prefer to remain seated for the last session of the day. This choice will be dependent on the demand being more than 10 people.

 Optional Visits and Guided Walks with Friends of Winckley Square Tour Guides

Further details of each will be sent with confirmation of booking.

The Harris Tour: James Arnold
Tour of Lancashire Archives and Local History: Alex Miller & Vicci McCann
Preston the Jerusalem of Temperance: Guided Walk Steve Harrison
The Cotton Lords of Preston: Guided Walk Susan Douglass
Preston: it’s a Gas: Guided Walk Peter Wilkinson
Drawing Board Dreams: the reinvention of Preston: Guided Walk Michael Akers
From Anchor to Plau: Historic Inns & Taverns of Friargate: Guided Walk Steve Halliwell
Edith Rigby: A Life that scandalised Preston: Guided Walk Judy Beeston
‘Old and New’, Preston’s Tram bridge and its Lancaster Canal heritage: Guided Walk Nigel Hardacre


Click on the button for the booking form and further details.

 This is sure to be an excellent day so book early to avoid disappointment. 

Member Society Events.