Great Lancashire Comedians (Tom Preston)

Upcoming Talk - March 2024

7.30pm at Harwood Methodist Church, Longsight
Thursday 25th April 2024

Speaker: Tom Preston

For over a century, Lancashire has supplied some of the nation’s best drolls, from Stan Laurel to Eric Morecambe to Peter Kay. Why has the old county produced so many comedians? Partly a lecture and partly a performance piece; this amusing talk includes a bit of social history with impressions of some of the great comedians in their celebrated skits.

The Gardener’s Bothy at Turton Tower

The following article by Phil Broughton appeared in our newsletter number 105 in April 2024, relating to work undertaken by the Turton Tower Kitchen Garden Volunteers group.

Ever since 2009 when we began the clearance of bracken, brambles and self-seeded trees in the garden, the Bothy has stood prominently yet forlornly over-looking the Victorian Kitchen Garden at Turton Tower. It was already a roofless ruin with dangerously unstable sections of wall with huge stones poised to drop on the unwary. For public safety, it had been fenced off within the garden and on the side facing the Tower.

The Bothy following recent conservation work