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Preserving Our Heritage
The Tameside Local History Forum was established
in January 2000 to increase public awareness and use of all the
elements of local history throughout the Borough.
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We aim to promote
the study of archive and source material for social, business and
archaeological purposes, |
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To make sure that such material
is well preserved, collated and accessible to all, |
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We encourage
co-operation between related historical and civic societies and
statutory authorities and act as a point of contact for them, |
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We produce an ambitious, glossy magazine, HISTORY ALIVE - TAMESIDE packed with items of historical interest about Tameside. click here to download on-line versions*** Our latest 2009 edition was launched on 28 April 2009.*** |
Support Your Local Societies
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If you care about your local heritage, |
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If you have
concerns as to proposed planning and development in your area, |
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If
you want to contribute time to researching and cataloguing Tameside’s
wealth of local history, |
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If you are interested in finding out a
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then please contact and
join one of the societies listed in the members section or apply
directly to us by using the contact page. Your membership and
contribution would be greatly welcomed by all concerned!
Recent Research Paper "Chemicals, Plastics, and the Sterling Group: a Chapter in the Recent Industrial History of Stalybridge".
It sets out the history of the Sterling Group of chemicals and plastics manufacturing operations that eventually occupied five of the derelict cotton mills in Stalybridge and Dukinfield. These manufacturing businesses were started in 1948 by an Austrian refugee, Rudy Sternberg, and at the their peak employed about 1000 people in Albion, Castle, Whitelands, Tower and Queen Mills, as well as the Globe and Phoenix Iron Works sites.
by Tom Craig - it is in the Tameside Local Studies and Archives Centre at Ashton-under-Lyne.
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Latest Up-dates
Next Forum Meeting Tuesday 27 April 2010 between 2.00pm and 4.00pm at DukinfieldTown Hall.
Press Release re: New Exhibition at the Manchester Regiment Museum
GM Church Preservation Society
New Calendar of Events posted
Audenshaw Historical Society
Unveiling of the Red Hall Date Stone “A D 1876” and change of venue and programme for 2010
Heritage Fair 2009
Photos of the Day
Heritage Open Days 2009
Press Report
For both the Heritage Open days and our Heritage Fair
Broadbottom Community Association
click here for details of a series of talks.
Tameside Archives Centre
'History Club' talks
Can You Solve the Albion Silk Mystery?
Click for Photos of the Forum Visit to Renishaw Hall
***H V Morton***
click for details of a brief biography
Stamford Street Methodist Church Graveyard Inscriptions
Click to find out more
'Smokestack to Urban Chic'
New book published by the History on Your Doorstep Group, all about the St Petersfield Area of Ashton
Click for more details
"Stalybridge Sabres Returned" Ceremony to unveil them
11th July 2008.
"Help with St Georges Handbells History"
Photos from the Forum's visit to Croxteth Hall, 13 May 2008
Click Here for photographs of the Dedication Ceremony in Stalybridge on 21st July 2007 for 300 'Forgotten Fallen' from World War I
Click here to view photographs from a very special Royal Visit to Old Chapel, Dukinfield on 3rd July to unveil a plaque at a service to celebrate their 300th anniversay.
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