The History Group meet at Central Methodist Church at 2pm to about 4pm. The price is £2 to cover the cost of the room, a speaker and refreshments. Please note: next month we are back to our normal meeting of the third Wednesday in the month, 19th March when Denis Hill is coming to tell us all about Kirkby Castle. I have become a little fed up with people telling me there wasn’t a castle at Kirkby – “Oh yes there was” and Denis will explain.
Last month Stephen Walker came to tell us about a Study of Migration of Millworkers to Darley Abbey. It was interesting to see the original census returns and other records used in his work as he checked out where the millworkers had come from. The Evans family who owned the mill very close to the river Derwent seemed to be decent employers at the time.
Some time ago I said the u3a magazine was talking about family sayings and Christine Faithful has taken on a project to record them. She has written the next paragraph to explain. An example of one of my mum’s is “We need to get that mess or room ‘firked’ up”. She said it when the room was untidy and we had left toys all over.
“Hucknall u3a History Group is trying to get together the materials for a project to celebrate the sayings, that families in everyday life use among themselves, to describe things such as the weather e.g. Its black over Bill’s mother’s; when its about to rain. This is used by many people. We believe there may be many more (not just about the weather!) which are not so well known. Some maybe even completely personal to one family but passed down the generations. It would be of great interest, we think, not just to the History Group, if enough words of wisdom could be collected to make a booklet. Members of the group have already been provided with a slip on which to write their favourite sayings and we would like to expand this project to the whole of our u3a. There will be slips available at the next full u3a meeting for anyone who might wish to contribute. Sayings from where ever they originate in the country will be very welcome.”
See you on the 19th March.
Maureen