The art of survival during WW2 captivity in the Far East. Meg Parkes, Honorary Research Fellow of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, will be clarifying what it takes to make it home again.
The Secretary of the Risley Moss Stick Makers, Geoff Williams, will be explaining everything you need to know about walking sticks and also bringing along a wide variety of sticks for you to examine.
Tony Rea, a local historian, traces the beginnings of the Italian Community in Ancoats in the late 19th century to its demise in’ the slum clearances of the 1960’s. The talk covers the new immigrants’ determination to work hard, the businesses they started as well as the difficulties of settling…