Chorley Heritage Centre Articles
Chorley Heritage Group Newsletter October 2024 Please find attached the latest newsletter for the Chorley Heritage Group more information |
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Lancashire Archives monthly newsletter July 2023 The latest edition of the newsletter celebrates the recent Windrush 75 events of which Chorley Heritage were heavily involved. The following pages provide further details. more information |
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Myles Standish Key Stage 2 and 3 Educational Teaching Aides more information | |
October Exhibition in Chorley Library We are currently displaying photographs and information concerning three local families; Sykes, Sharples and Norris in Chorley Library for the month of October. All the photographs are numbered, so if anyone recognises these people as family members, please get in touch either here or through our Facebook page quoting the number and explaining... more information |
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CAPTAIN MYLES STANDISH: A Drama linking Lancashire and America CAPTAIN MYLES STANDISH: A Drama linking Lancashire and America |
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Myles Standish, Man of Mystery: A Play in Four Acts Setting: Briefly Holland and then New England, 1620-1655 Staging: A sylvan background or wooden hut beyond a platform, dais or visible space will suffice Characters: Narrator and player of small parts if necessary( e.g John Billington, Edward Winslow) William Bradford, Pilgrim, becomes governor of New Plymouth, ages, dies 1657 Myles Standish,... more information |
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Chorley Celebrates Myles Standish, 1620- 2020 + 1 The Virtual Coach Tour The Myles Standish Working Group hoped to take people on coach tours to sites associated with Myles Standish (c.1583-1656), the military adviser who sailed with the Pilgrim Fathers on the Mayflower in 1620 and who is seen as one of the founding fathers of modern America. The Covid epidemic, covering virtually the whole life of the project,... more information |
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MYLES STANDISH- MAN OF MYSTERY In 2020 Chorley, Duxbury and Standish will celebrate Myles Standish and the voyage of the Mayflower in 1620. Myles was the military adviser and leader attached to the Pilgrim Fathers, religious refugees and migrants, who undertook to cross the Atlantic and found their own godly settlement in North America. Open the linked pdf for full... more information |
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The Sykes, the Sharples and the Norris families. Are you descended from these families? Recently, a lady with Chorley links sent a number of photographs to the Chorley Heritage Group. Not many are named but with the few details we have established the following: The Sykes Family John Sykes of Coppull was born in 1874 in Barkisland, near Halifax. He was the son of Ann (MS Wignall) and Joseph Andrew Sykes. In... more information |
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Mayors of Chorley Acknowledged source Chorley BC Website |