News
On this page you can catch up on all our past
present and future news.
Newsletter Easter
2017
Newsletter Xmas
2017
Newsletter Xmas 2016
News 2017
On the 20th September the
Chief Executive of Heritage
Lottery Fund Ross Kerslake,
along with other senior
members of HLF North West,
Eilish McGuinness – Director
of Operations, Nathan Lee –
Head of HLF, North West,
Louise Sutherland –
Development Manager, HLF
North West, Laura Ward –
Casework Manager, HLF North
West, Kay Watson – Office
Manager, HLF North West and
Committee Members Tiffany
Hunt, Stephen Welsh, Aileen
McEvoy, Humphrey Welfare,
Ivan Wadeson, Sir Neil
Cossons, Nigel de Noronha
and Steve Garland. Visted
various Heritage Lottery
Funded projects in the North
West to see what difference
the funding was making.
We were thrilled to be chosen
as one of the projects they
visited and even more so with
the very positive response by
all the the visitors, that our
two Heritage Lottery Funded
projects Nursing Heroes the
Fern Hill Story and Keeping
the Homes Fires Burning, Mrs
Ibbitt’s 1917 Shop & Parlour
recieved.
News 2015
Our oldest member , Albert Marston , celebrated his 90th birthday on the 9th December and one day later was presented with a commemorative mug by the Society's President , Ken F Bowden , in the company of many fellow members .
News 2014
Our main news and project for 2014 was the creation of a diorahma representing number one ward at Fern Hill Hospital, Stacksteads. Funded by winning a Heritage Lottery bid for which we recieved the fantastic news in July. Following our succesful HLF bid for a World War 1 Then and Now bid, we began work in August 2014, on converting what was once the back yard of the building which many people know was the Hare and Hounds Pub. The area had once been open to the elements but was covered over some years ago.
News 2013
Pictured with Callum, our youngest member is our local MP Jake Berry. We were thrilled to finally welcome Jake and ex Rossendale Mayor Phillip Dunne to the nat after the original planned visit in Septemberhad to be cancelled at the last minute due to the recalling of Parliament and the debate on Syria. Jake spent the evening chatting to members and looking around the museum, libraryand new resource area taking the opportunity to use our newly installed broadband to tweet his September 2013.
Sharing Heritage Lottery Grant
Today the 18th August 2018, the Bacup Natural History Society & Museum Committee are thrilled to announce we have been successful in bidding for a Heritage Lottery, Sharing Heritage Grant and have received a National Lottery grant of £10,000 for a project called The Muck & Flea Club.
Coming in 2019 - News on our Fossils - Bugs & Peace events
Bacup Natural History Society & Museum
News 2016
The Nat is absolutely thrilled to
announce happier news than this
time last week.
Thanks to a Heritage Lottery
Fund award, we will have a new
addition to the Nat in the New
Year. As part of a 10,000.00
World War 1 Then and Now
programme grant to mark the
Centenary of the First World War,
we will be creating Mrs Ibbitts
1917 shop and parlour. Through
which we will tell the story of life
in Bacup during 1917.
The name Mrs Ibbitts is based on
a real lady Mrs Ibbs, who owned
a haberdashery shop in Bacup
during the Great War and who
often appeared in the local
newspaper the Bacup Times in
response to her work in
organising and sending out war
comforts to the boys in the
trenches and those held as
prisoners of war.
Newsletter Easter
2018
Newsletter Xmas
2018
On Thursday 13th December we welcomed President
Joan Martin of Soroptomist International of Rossendale
and ladies from the club to present the chain of office
and other memorabilia from the old Bacup branch of
the organisation, now merged into the present
Rossendale organisation. She was received by our
President, Ken Bowden, Secretary, Wendy Watters and
Museum Curator, Ken Burke and , after a tour of our
exhibitions and museum, were able to see for
themselves the new location for the donated items in a
display cabinet. Anyone wishing to know more about
SI Rossendale can visit their website
sigbi.org>Rossendale.
