Despite having been asked, in April 1917, to remove a testimonial from Peter Welsh from their website, Lonely Tower have still not done that. The testimonial is no longer appropriate.
The group received a £10,000 grant from HLF and the money has now been paid to us – in order to fund our last project – ‘Now This Lousy War is Over’. With some songs specially written by Fool’s Gold Acoustic and words by the War Memorials group, we have arranged 5 performances as follows
11th November at North Biddick Club at 12.00 noon
12th November at Usworth Holy Trinity Church at 2pm
13th November at Beamish Museum Band Hall at 11.30am
16th November at Washington Holy Trinity at 7.00pm
19th November 2:00 pm at North Biddick Club – for U3A members (though any spare tickets will be made available).
Tickets designed by the Poppy Girls will be available for this. They are all ticketed events but tickets will be free. There will be a CD/booklet for people to purchase if they wish to do so.
11th November at North Biddick Club at 12.00 noon
12th November at Usworth Holy Trinity Church at 2pm
13th November at Beamish Museum Band Hall at 11.30am
16th November at Washington Holy Trinity at 7.00pm
19th November 2:00 pm at North Biddick Club – for U3A members (though any spare tickets will be made available).
Tickets designed by the Poppy Girls will be available for this. They are all ticketed events but tickets will be free. There will be a CD/booklet for people to purchase if they wish to do so.
January 11th Beamish Research Day
Feb 10 and 11 – Beamish talks on What did you do in the Great War Mammy – talks am and pm in Chapel/Pit Cottage – times to be confirmed………
Feb 20th Howden le Wear History Society – What did you do in the Great War Mammy?
Feb 22nd Dunelm U3A - What did you do in the Great War, Mammy?
Feb 27th Beamish Research Day
Feb 10 and 11 – Beamish talks on What did you do in the Great War Mammy – talks am and pm in Chapel/Pit Cottage – times to be confirmed………
Feb 20th Howden le Wear History Society – What did you do in the Great War Mammy?
Feb 22nd Dunelm U3A - What did you do in the Great War, Mammy?
Feb 27th Beamish Research Day
November 4th – Day Exhibition at County Hall under Durham at War Conference auspices.
November 9th – Talk to Durham U3A
November 11th –reading the names of Harraton dead from 1917 and Last Post by Stuart Major – at Harraton Memorial.
November 12th - Organisation of Harraton Remembrance Service. Last Post by Stuart Major. Scouts to attend. Road closures organised near
Harraton memorial.
November 10th – setting up exhibition at Beamish for 11th/12th November.
November 14th – have arranged for Peter Hart to talk about 1917 at North Biddick Club – open to all and free. He will talk about 1917 and answer any general questions about the war.
November 16th – Beamish Research Day in the Pit Cottages
November 9th – Talk to Durham U3A
November 11th –reading the names of Harraton dead from 1917 and Last Post by Stuart Major – at Harraton Memorial.
November 12th - Organisation of Harraton Remembrance Service. Last Post by Stuart Major. Scouts to attend. Road closures organised near
Harraton memorial.
November 10th – setting up exhibition at Beamish for 11th/12th November.
November 14th – have arranged for Peter Hart to talk about 1917 at North Biddick Club – open to all and free. He will talk about 1917 and answer any general questions about the war.
November 16th – Beamish Research Day in the Pit Cottages
Wor Poppy Walk is featured in Heritage Open Days – we’ll be doing the walk from the Miners’ Statue in Concord at 1.30, September 7th. If you want to come you’ll need to register with Janet Robinson at [email protected].
Dates for talks/events are: 29th May Research day at Beamish
9th June Wearside U3A
10th June from 1pm World Knitting in Public Day on Fatfield Bridge
16th June Research day at Beamish
20th June Windy Nook Methodists
15th August Bishop Auckland U3A
17th August Beamish Research Day
7/8 September (final date to be confirmed) a guided Wor Poppy Walk as part of Sunderland’s
Heritage Open Days
12th September Beamish Research Day
18th September Great Lumley WI
3rd October Beamish Research Day
16th November Beamish Research Day
21st November West Denton Ladies’ Fellowship
9th November Durham U3A
Dates for talks/events are: 29th May Research day at Beamish
9th June Wearside U3A
10th June from 1pm World Knitting in Public Day on Fatfield Bridge
16th June Research day at Beamish
20th June Windy Nook Methodists
15th August Bishop Auckland U3A
17th August Beamish Research Day
7/8 September (final date to be confirmed) a guided Wor Poppy Walk as part of Sunderland’s
Heritage Open Days
12th September Beamish Research Day
18th September Great Lumley WI
3rd October Beamish Research Day
16th November Beamish Research Day
21st November West Denton Ladies’ Fellowship
9th November Durham U3A
Newcastle/Northumbria Universities 30-31 March 2017 (part of the programme)
Objects in and After Hostilities: The Material Culture of Conflict
Day 1 – Newcastle University
9.00-9.30 – Registration.
9.30-9.45 - Welcome
9.45-10.45 – Prof Nicholas Saunders – title TBC
10.45-11.00 – tea and coffee
11.00-12.30 Parallel 1 Politics and Propaganda
Jack Hepworth – Republican Funerals in Northern Ireland, 1981-2015: Public Power Struggles During and After Conflict
Mike Reeve – The proliferation, collection and display of ‘war relics’ following the bombing of civilian areas in the North East during the First World War: collective identities, sense of self and commemorative processes
Dr Katarzyna Jarosz – A cluster bomb in Gori
11.00- 12.30 Parallel 2 Renegotiating the Immediate Aftermath of War
Emily Bartlett – ‘Re-Growing’ Disabled Identities: Artificial Flowers and the ‘War on Disability’ in 1920s Britain’
Alan Fidler – What is or is not to be memorialised – and for whose benefit?
Matthew Lord - A ‘welfarisation’ of gallantry? Victoria Cross annuities and the British welfare state, 1955-59
12.30 – 1.20 Lunch
1.20 – 2.50 Parallel Session 3 Family Memory
Jason Bate – Object relations: First World War photograph albums and familial histories of social reintegration
Pete Welsh – Lawks-a-Daisy, our Brenda, where did you get that from?
Steve Erskine – Name, rank and number: remembrance through discovery
1.20 – 2.50 Parallel Session 4 The Object as Representation
Katie Vernon - ‘What is […] þis’: Objects with Wrong Names in two Middle English romances.
Sarah R. Klein – Conflict on Canvas: Picasso’s Guernica, 1937-1981
Stacey Clapperton – An Untruthful War Painting: C.R.W. Nevinson’s La Mitrailleuse, 1915
Objects in and After Hostilities: The Material Culture of Conflict
Day 1 – Newcastle University
9.00-9.30 – Registration.
9.30-9.45 - Welcome
9.45-10.45 – Prof Nicholas Saunders – title TBC
10.45-11.00 – tea and coffee
11.00-12.30 Parallel 1 Politics and Propaganda
Jack Hepworth – Republican Funerals in Northern Ireland, 1981-2015: Public Power Struggles During and After Conflict
Mike Reeve – The proliferation, collection and display of ‘war relics’ following the bombing of civilian areas in the North East during the First World War: collective identities, sense of self and commemorative processes
Dr Katarzyna Jarosz – A cluster bomb in Gori
11.00- 12.30 Parallel 2 Renegotiating the Immediate Aftermath of War
Emily Bartlett – ‘Re-Growing’ Disabled Identities: Artificial Flowers and the ‘War on Disability’ in 1920s Britain’
Alan Fidler – What is or is not to be memorialised – and for whose benefit?
Matthew Lord - A ‘welfarisation’ of gallantry? Victoria Cross annuities and the British welfare state, 1955-59
12.30 – 1.20 Lunch
1.20 – 2.50 Parallel Session 3 Family Memory
Jason Bate – Object relations: First World War photograph albums and familial histories of social reintegration
Pete Welsh – Lawks-a-Daisy, our Brenda, where did you get that from?
Steve Erskine – Name, rank and number: remembrance through discovery
1.20 – 2.50 Parallel Session 4 The Object as Representation
Katie Vernon - ‘What is […] þis’: Objects with Wrong Names in two Middle English romances.
Sarah R. Klein – Conflict on Canvas: Picasso’s Guernica, 1937-1981
Stacey Clapperton – An Untruthful War Painting: C.R.W. Nevinson’s La Mitrailleuse, 1915
Permission has been given for the poppy installation at Fatfield Bridge – from the end of March 2017.
Monday 13th March
Durham Branch WFA – free to all. Rob Thompson: ‘The Church in the Bog: the Battle of Poelcappelle’
Friday March 24th
Talk to Hetton Ladies Group
Wednesday March 29th
Talk to Wheatley Hill History Society
Saturday 18 and Sunday 19th March
Exhibition at Tanfield Railway
Durham Branch WFA – free to all. Rob Thompson: ‘The Church in the Bog: the Battle of Poelcappelle’
Friday March 24th
Talk to Hetton Ladies Group
Wednesday March 29th
Talk to Wheatley Hill History Society
Saturday 18 and Sunday 19th March
Exhibition at Tanfield Railway
Wessington U3A War Memorials Group project has been selected as one of ‘six really great projects from across the country to feature in a film made by Heritage Lottery Fund – more details as we get them.