The Artisan Naturalists. Rob Trueblood of the Friends of Prestwich Forest Park has won a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. It is for a project to research and celebrate the lives and work of the local botanists of the 19th Century. The grant application was supported by the Heritage Society and the Churchyard Action [...]
An exhibition commemorating Prestwich’s celebrations during Coronation Week in 1953 is currently being staged in the Heritage Museum in Prestwich Library. To accompany that Exhibition we have produced a booklet that tells the story. Prestwich Borough Council set up a subcommittee to organise and run Coronation events in the town. They had a budget of [...]
Celia Birtwell, the fashion designer, features on a first class stamp. Celia (71) was brought up in Prestwich ; her family lived in Holyrood Road. She went to Salford Technical College aged 13 after attending St. Margaret’s School. Celia and her husband, Ossie Clark, set the tone in the Sixties with all kinds of celebrities wearing [...]
Coronation 1953. Next year, 2013, brings the 60th Anniversary of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. It will be celebrated throughout the Nation and the Commonwealth. Prestwich and Whitefield Heritage Society are going to stage a Museum Exhibition about the 1953 Coronation as it happened locally. The Coronation of 1953 was the event that marked [...]
Bury Museum and Art Gallery are currently staging an exhibition about Roman Rainsough. As is well known, Rainsough Hill was home to a Roman Agrimensorial Fortlet. That is to say a defended farm run for and by the Roman Army. It was most likely to supply the fort at Mamucium with food. Rainsough hill was [...]
The Timeline of Prestwich history that has been prepared by Society members was opened by the Mayor of Bury, Joan Grimshaw, on Thursday 14/6/12. The event was well attended by Society members and others. The Timeline is on four panels and runs round the outer corridor of the Heritage Museum in the Library. [...]
Table Centrepiece of Prestwich Borough On Friday 31st May a party from the Society went to Bury Town Hall to see the Regalia and Plate of Prestwich. When Prestwich joined Bury in 1974 it handed over all its silver and gold Regalia. The Prestwich items come in two groups ; one set from the time [...]
A member of the Society honoured for his contribution to the community. Lunch with the Queen : Peter Roughan H.M. the Queen is in the midst of her national tour to celebrate her 60th Anniversary on the Throne. The Lord Mayor of Manchesterorganised lunch for the Queen at ManchesterTown Hallon 23rd March [...]
Help ! Your Park needs YOU ! Following Bury Council’s decision to abandon St. Mary’s Flower Park at the heart of Prestwich, a group of local volunteers have taken over. They intend to revive the beds in the Park and have them in good order for Clough Day on May 13th. Bury Council have provided [...]
Jewish Service men in the Austrian Army in WW1 The Manchester Regional Group of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain is holding its Tenth Northern Annual Conference on Jewish Military Records. IThe event will be of great interest to anyone researching their family history. This conference is open to everyone, and it is [...]