Author Topic: Quaker Family History Society Event - Sheffield Yorkshire 14th October 2017  (Read 3923 times)

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Autumn One Day Regional Meeting
On Saturday October 14th 2017
At Sheffield Central Friends Meeting House, 10 St James Road, Sheffield S1 2EW
10:30 -16:30

Anyone interested can come (small £5 charge).
Let us know if you are coming please (to info@qfhs.co.uk)

Programme includes talks by :-
 
Margaret Lawson - Meeting member: A Brief History of Sheffield Meeting
Andrew Russell    - QFHS Member : Henry Swan: photographic innovator and disciple of John Ruskin
Sheffield Meeting members :- Linda Hoy, Margaret Lawson and Romayne Gayton:
                                            The Pen and Pencil archive

Lunch (not provided, please use local cafes or eat your own food outside)

Extra time allowed so you can view the 4 panels commemorating the 25 year anniversary of Sheffield Central Meeting House.

Afternoon speakers are:-

Richard Hoare - Hartshead Meeting’s Lost Love Child – Sheffield Quakers and their Adult School
Faith Rodger and Margaret Lawson - The Sheffield Quaker Tapestry - stories behind the making inspired by the Quaker Tapestry at Kendal

Final discussion and depart

See our website www.qfhs.co.uk under the Events tab
also follow us on our Facebook group -  group Quaker Family History Society

See you there
Thompsons (of Rothwell and Ackworth Yorkshire); Binns, Spence, Dougill (all Quakers); Langley (of Yaxley and Stilton Huntingdonshire and Wentworth, Yorkshire); Coopers (of Eakring, Notts.); Cock(c)roft (of Lancs. and Yorkshire); Marshall (of Derbyshire); Alp and Mills (of Beccles Suffolk)