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Our first external speaker for two years, Anthony, a local historian with a diverse range of interests focused on maritime and industrial history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, brought the competitive story of these local collieries to our attention.  He told the story of the use of remarkable construction and engineering ideas in successfully mining coal in this period. Individuals, as different as the engineer George Stephenson and Emma, Lady Hamilton (later, Nelson’s mistress), played a part in the story as did the dangerous, appalling conditions of work along with the living conditions and health of the individual miners and their families of Neston.

Anthony Annakin-Smith

 

===Saturday 23rd April 2022===

 

We undertook a canalside walking tour from Cow Lane Bridge to Hoole Lane Bridge led by Phil Cook. This is now a popular walking route but Phil showed that this was not always so and gave a detailed explanation of the industial and social history of this corridor through the city, pointing out many interesting features which can be overlooked.

 

===Tuesday, 27th Sept 2022===