what's on
The Society’s lectures are held in The Trinity Centre, Church Street, Ossett, WF5 9DW (next to Holy Trinity Church)and start at 7.30 p.m.
The Society meets on the last Monday of the month from September to April.
2017
SEPTEMBER 25 Eric Jackson: The Barnbow Lasses.
The story of the building and operation of the National Shell Filling Factory No. 1 at Barnbow near Leeds during the First World War, of those who worked there and the dreadful explosion of 1916.
OCTOBER 23 David Scriven: A World We Have Lost: Ossett and Horbury in the Seventeenth Century.
Life and death in neighbouring villages in an age of war and revolution.
(Please note: this meeting is on the fourth Monday of the month)
NOVEMBER 27 Kevin Trickett: A Brief History of Wakefield.
An illustrated talk about the architectural history and development of Wakefield from medieval town to modern city.
2018
JANUARY 29 Ruth Nettleton: The Pickards of Ossett.
The story of an Ossett family best known today for the Pickard memorial fountain.
FEBRUARY 26 Gary Brannan: The Black Death in West Yorkshire.
How the Black Death spread with disastrous results in a fourteenth century community.
MARCH 26 Jo Heron: The Metcalfe Society – a Yorkshire clan.
A historic family dating back to the early Middle Ages and their spread nationally and internationally. If you have Yorkshire origins, are they related to you?
APRIL 30 Annual General Meeting followed by
Deborah Scriven: A Crystal Palace in Miniature.
Ossett and the Wakefield Industrial and Fine Art Exhibition of 1865
The Society meets on the last Monday of the month from September to April.
2017
SEPTEMBER 25 Eric Jackson: The Barnbow Lasses.
The story of the building and operation of the National Shell Filling Factory No. 1 at Barnbow near Leeds during the First World War, of those who worked there and the dreadful explosion of 1916.
OCTOBER 23 David Scriven: A World We Have Lost: Ossett and Horbury in the Seventeenth Century.
Life and death in neighbouring villages in an age of war and revolution.
(Please note: this meeting is on the fourth Monday of the month)
NOVEMBER 27 Kevin Trickett: A Brief History of Wakefield.
An illustrated talk about the architectural history and development of Wakefield from medieval town to modern city.
2018
JANUARY 29 Ruth Nettleton: The Pickards of Ossett.
The story of an Ossett family best known today for the Pickard memorial fountain.
FEBRUARY 26 Gary Brannan: The Black Death in West Yorkshire.
How the Black Death spread with disastrous results in a fourteenth century community.
MARCH 26 Jo Heron: The Metcalfe Society – a Yorkshire clan.
A historic family dating back to the early Middle Ages and their spread nationally and internationally. If you have Yorkshire origins, are they related to you?
APRIL 30 Annual General Meeting followed by
Deborah Scriven: A Crystal Palace in Miniature.
Ossett and the Wakefield Industrial and Fine Art Exhibition of 1865
