2023/24 Programme –
Dates and confirmed speakers: talks start at 7pm
Talks will take place in Port Seton Bowling Club.
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Tuesday 12 September 2023 (no talk) -
Tuesday 10 October 'The Remarkable Women of East Lothian: A History in Pictures (Dr Hanita Ritchie)
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Tuesday 14 November 'Lighthouse Lives' (Martine Robertson)
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Tuesday 12 December 'Tapestries of Scotland and Beyond' (Andrew Crummy)
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Tuesday 9 January 2024 'Bricks with a Story.' (Mark Cranston)
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Tuesday 13 February 'Powerful Prestongrange: From Monks to Bricks' (Deborah Chalmers & Dr Hanita Ritchie)
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Tuesday 12 March 'Travels & Travails of the Scots Herring Girls' (Jill De Fresnes)
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Tuesday 9th April 'East Lothian at War' (David Haire)
2022/23 Programme –
Dates and confirmed speakers: talks start at 7pm
Talks will take place in Port Seton Bowling Club.
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13 September 2022 - 'Norman Churches of the Lothians' (Bryan Hickman)
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Tuesday 11 October - 'The Salt Industry around Cockenzie, some recent thoughts and discoveries.' (Gareth Jones)
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Tuesday 8 November - 'In Their Own Words.. Collecting Memories and Recollections' (short films) - (Jill De Fresnes)
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Tuesday 13 December - The Past is Always With Us - Charlie Horne ‘From fishing boats to minesweepers’ (Martine Robertson) An illustrated video, with extracts from recorded archives of the life of local fisherman and D Day Veteran Charlie Horne. -
Tuesday 10 January - '1722 Waggonway Trust: Update on latest excavations' (Ed Bethune)
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Tuesday 14 February- 'The Traprain Treasure – latest research on a remarkable Roman silver hoard' (Dr. Fraser Hunter, National Museums Scotland)
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Tuesday 14 March - ' "Go to school or go to help your mother in the shop"' (Mary Contini)
2021/22 Programme – @Port Seton Centre
Dates and confirmed speakers:
- 08 March 2022 – Robert Burns’ Links with East Lothian (Gordon Jamieson)
2020/21 Programme
9 August 2020 – Unfortunatley, due to the current coronavirus pandemic, the local history talks are postponed until further notice.
2019/20 Programme
Dates and confirmed speakers:
- 11 Sept 2019 – 30th Anniversary celebration + AGM
- 8 Oct 2019 – From Braegreen to the Dean: Witches and Witchcraft in the 17th century (Joyce Miller)
- 12 Nov 2019 – “Mary…keep an eye on the shop while I help your Uncle Alex!” (Mary Contini)
- 11 Dec 2019 – Seasonal Cheer: How Christmas was celebrated during WW1 and WW2 (Ruth Boreham)
- 14 Jan 2020 – Aberlady: A sense of place (Ian Malcolm)
- 11 Feb 2020 – Cockenzie House and Gardens Revealed (Marietta Di Ciacca)
- 10 Mar 2020 – Coal, seaweed and sand- how East Lothian became the crucible of the Scottish Glass Industry in the 17th and 18th centuries (Helen Spencer)
Dates and confirmed speakers:
- 11 Sept 2018 – “Search for Lost Palace of Seton” (Gordon Neil, Billy Campbell & Frank Chambers) and AGM
- 9 Oct 2018 – Seton – A Missing Burgh(Aaron Allen)
- 13 Nov 2018 – Fisherman to Crime Writer (part 2) (Peter Ritchie)
- 11 Dec 2018 – Members Christmas Social
- 8 Jan 2019 – Great Tapestry of Scotland and other tapestries(Andrew Crummy)
- 12 Feb 2019 – Life of Sir Walter Scott (Hamish Reid)
- 12 Mar 2019 – On the trail of Mary Queen of Scots in East Lothian(Fiona Edwards)
- Apr 2019 – Visit to place of local interest TBA
2017/18 Programme
Dates and confirmed speakers:
- 12 Sept 2017 – AGM and History of Hamilton House (Jim Nisbet)
- 10 Oct 2017 – The Siege of Haddington 1548-49 (Gerald Urwin)
- 14 Nov 2017 – From Fisherman to Crime Writer (Peter Ritchie)
- 12 Dec 2017 – Christmas Social
- 9 Jan 2018 – Fishwives’ Lives and Their Costumes (Olive Richardson)
- 13 Feb 2018- 1722 Waggonway – Scotland’s First Railway (Ed Bethune)
- 13 Mar 2018 – Oyster Fishing in the Forth (Archie Johnston)
- Apr 2018 – Visit to place of local interest TBA
2016/17 Programme
Dates and confirmed speakers:
- 13 Sept 2016 – AGM and Preston Lodge High School Films
- 11 Oct 2016 – WW2: First on Britain: The Raid on the Forth
- 8 Nov 2016 – History of Wallyford
- 13 Dec 2016 – Social Evening
- 10 Jan 2017 – East Lothian: Wartime Backwater?
- 14 Feb 2017- TBA
- 14 Mar 2017 – Battle of Pinkie
- Apr 2017 – Visit to place of local interest TBA
2015-16 Programme
- AGM & Local History (Sept 2015)
- Historic Tales – Tim Porteous (Oct 2015)
- History of East Fortune Aerodrome – talk by Tony Bray (Nov 2015)
- Social Evening – Dec 15
- Old St Andrews Church Gullane – talk by Bill Nimmo (Jan 2016)
- Reminiscing Night – (Feb 2016)
- Talk on John Muir – talk by Will Collins (Mar 2016)