Updates
We were delighted to be part of a very vibrant Ormskirk Gingerbread Festival yesterday with our stall beside the town's historic clocktower. Deputy Mayor Anne Fennell and Deputy Mayoress Sarah Lawton (pictured here) showed a keen interest in our display and were very pleased to be given a copy of Family History and The Lost Buildings of West Lancashire to peruse at a later date.
Parbold Library Officer, Jayne Chambers (right) and Library Assistant Claire Birks with their eye catching display. Copies of Family History and the Lost Buildings of West Lancashire have been disappearing quickly! Thank you to all members of staff at Parbold Library who have been promoting our booklet so enthusiastically. Digital downloads are available from the ODFHS website https://www.odfhs.website/index.php/downloads
Family History and the Lost Buildings of West Lancashire proving very popular and we thank libraries in West Lancashire for supporting our project and acting as distribution points. Ormskirk Library Manager, Elizabeth Russ, is pictured at our launch with members of the project team. Free digital downloads from the ODFHS website are also in great demand https://www.odfhs.website/index.php/downloads
Family History and the Lost Buildings of West Lancashire will be launched in Ormskirk Library on Monday (10th June) at 11 am with a presentation outlining the project and talks about some of the buildings. From Monday copies of the booklet will be available free of charge from any West Lancashire library (Ormskirk, Skelmersdale, Parbold, Burscough or Tarleton). For those further afield booklets can be ordered (from Monday) via Parish Chest for the price of a stamp https://www.parishchest.com/ormskirk-district-fhs-3508.php and a digital version will be available to download from the ODFHS website (downloads section on the main menu) https://www.odfhs.website/index.php/downloads after the launch. We are delighted to have reached this milestone and thank everyone who has supported us. Work is now in progress on the second of our two booklets"Family History and the Landmarks of West Lancashire" due for publication in the Autumn.
We are delighted to announce that the first of two freely available publications funded by the Sharing People's History of West Lancashire crowdfunding project and Lancashire County Council will be launched on Monday 10th June 11 am at Ormskirk Library. There will be a video explaining the background to the project plus a series of short talks by members of the ODFHS publication group highlighting the family history connections to buildings featured in the book.
Our new display boards saw action for the first time at Ormskirk Library yesterday. We presented an exhibition of photographs and adverts from our archive at the very successful "Memory Collectors" event. The display depicted Ormskirk shops and businesses past and present and can be seen again at Ormskirk Parish Church next Saturday (23rd March 2024) between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Good news, the first publication funded by our Spacehive crowdfunding and Lancashire County Council is taking shape. We have been looking at historic buildings which are no longer part of today's landscape and considering how they influenced the lives of our ancestors. We hope this will help those researching their West Lancashire family roots.
