All our lectures will now be held on the second Tuesday of the month, October to April. The venue is the Toby Carvery (L39 1NN) situated at the Five Ways junction on the A59 Ormskirk bypass commencing at 2.30pm
Parking is available
All members are invited to join us, the lectures are free and you may bring guests. There is nominal charge of £2.00 for non members of ODANTM
SEPTEMBER 8TH 2026
For our first talk of the Autumn season Francis Raftery will wow us with her talk entitled “The Royal Personal Jewels.”
OCTOBER 13TH 2026
Today Keith Hick will abandon railways and present a talk entitled “Wings over Sephton”
November 10th 2026
Today’s speaker is an old friend Peter Turner who will delight us with a talk entitled ‘Heads I win, tails you lose’.
December 8th 2026
Following our AGM Emma Ritson and Ashley from Rufford Old Hall will talk to us about recent developments at the Hall and the National Trust in General
January 12th 2027
We start the year with one of our favourite speakers Roger Mitchell who will give us a talk entitled ‘The Georgian Country House’
February 9th 2027
Today we welcome the return of Melvyn Saunders who will tell us about George Groves of St Helens.
March 9th 2027
We welcome Josephine Gosling whose talk is entitled ‘Ambles past Architecture’
April 13th 2027
To complete our winter season talks we welcome the return of Jean Finney with a talk entitled ‘Nursery Rhymes Part 2