The following is a list of events organised by the Cleveland and Teesside Local History Society, or to which the Society had a significant input.
Reports on some of the talks can be found in our News section.
Saturday 13th March 2016
ANNUAL DAY SCHOOL
SPORTING CLEVELAND
Speaker: Various
Jointly organised by Cleveland and Teesside Local History Society and Teesside University Centre for Regional and Local Historical Research
Friday 9 September 2016
DAY SCHOOL
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH US – NATURE AND HISTORY ON THE TEES
Speaker: Various
Jointly organised by Cleveland and Teesside Local History Society and River Tees Rediscovered
Saturday 24th September 2016
MY GRANDAD WAS A ‘FELON’
Speaker: Peter Appleton
GUSTAVAS MARTENS – ARCHITECT
Speaker: Ian Stubbs
Saturday 19th November 2016
THE EIGHT STREETS OF GRANGETOWN
Speakers: Peter McCarthy and Catherine Ford
THEOSOPHILUS PHILLIPS AND THE PHILLIPSVILLE ESTATE
Speaker: Linda Polley
Saturday 3rd December 2016
THE ELGEE MEMORIAL LECTURE
NATURE AND INDUSTRY ON THE TEES – Wildlife where you would least expect it
Speaker: Dr. Robert Woods, Executive Director of The Industry Nature Conservation Association
Jointly organised by the Cleveland Naturalists Field Club and the Middlesbrough Museum Service
Saturday 4th February 2017
FROM ROMAN NAILS TO THE CLEVELAND IRONMASTERS
Speakers: Dr. G. D. Spenceley MBE and Mr. R. Widdowson
IN SEARCH OF COOK’S COTTAGE
Speakers: Kev Cale and John Rowlands
Saturday 11th March 2017
ANNUAL DAY SCHOOL
PROSPERITY AND DISCORD: THE NORTH EAST IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Speaker: Various
Jointly organised by Cleveland and Teesside Local History Society and Teesside University Centre for Regional and Local Historical Research
Saturday 8th April 2017
GERTRUDE BELL – THE UNCROWNED QUEEN OF IRAQ
Speaker: Gordon Hetherington
MIDDLESBROUGH 1912
Speaker: Geoff Braddy
Saturday 10th March 2018
ANNUAL DAY SCHOOL
CAPTAIN COOK’S CLEVELAND
Speaker: Various
Saturday 7 April 2018
AGM
Saturday 15th September 2018
‘The Port of Whitby during Queen Anne’s War 1703-1714’
Speaker: Christina Kroebel
‘A Wise and Humane Regime – The Stockton Workhouses’
Speaker: Martin Peagam
Saturday 6th October 2018 Golden Jubilee Lectures
‘Arncliffe Hall and Estate’
Speaker: Carol Cook
‘Ingleby Greenhow Manor, A Unique Example of a Tudor Fortified House’
Speaker: Barry Harrison
Saturday 27th October 2018
Celebrating Local History in the Teesside, Cleveland and Surrounding Areas
Saturday 3rd November 2018
‘Westerdale During the Time of the Knights Templar’
Speaker: Carol Wilson
‘The World War One Wireless Y Station at Stockton’
Speaker: Alan Betteney
Saturday 2nd February 2019
‘Skinningrove, its social development due to Ironstone Mining and the Iron Industry’
Speaker: Colin Hart
‘Forensic Archaeology’
Speaker: David Dance
Saturday 6th April 2019 (AGM)
‘A Story of Dark Deeds, Deception and Discovery at Meynell Hall in the Seventeenth Century’
Speaker: Geoffrey Taylor
‘Home Comforts. The Role of the Red Cross Auxiliary Hospitals in the North Riding 1914-1919’
Speakers: Eileen Brereton and Anne Wall