:: Lectures ::
Family History Society of Cheshire
1st November
Beginners' Day take your first steps in researching the history of your family. Speakers, workshops, computer demostrations etc. Northwich Memorial Hall
9.30am to 4.00pm
Advance bookings essential. For further information telephone 01606 74719. (Free car parking available)
DIGGING UP THE POTTERIES - by Katey Banks
Monday 17th November
Hartford Village Hall,
Chester Road, Hartford, Northwich
8.00pm - £4.00 (£3.00 concessions)
Katey Banks, Collections Officer Local History, at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, will discuss the development of the pottery industry in Stoke-on-Trent and how archaeology is helping to unearth information about the city’s past.
Tel:01606 41597 for further details
ART TREASURES OF ST. PETERSBURG - by Adrian Sumner
Monday 15th December
Hartford Village Hall,
Chester Road, Hartford, Northwich
8.00pm - £4.00 (£3.00 concessions)
The Greatest of Peter the Great’s ‘Windows on the West’, St Petersburg remains an Imperial fantasy to this very day. Concentrating mainly on the fabulous collections of the Hermitage (you’d hardly notice that the six tons of jewellery, precious metalwork and fine art liquidated by Stalin in the 1930s to obtain Western currency is gone), we examine the gems of the seemingly endless Old Master galleries, the quite startling quantity of Modern Masters (including crucial Impressionist and post-Impressionist works), as well as jewellery, applied arts, textiles, Imperial and Russian art, and, of course, examples of the work of Carl Faberge. We also visit the many other fascinating sites and buildings in this most dramatic of cities, including the world-famous gilded sculptures. Slide lecture by Adrian Sumner.
Tel:01606 41597 for further details
