1152 Club: Talks at Abbey House Museum

We meet in the Gatehouse at Abbey House Museum one Tuesday a month. Doors open at 10am and talks begin at 10.15am. Tea and coffee is provided on a Pay As You Feel basis. Highlights of a selection of upcoming talks can be found below.

Tuesday 2 June

Reelise: A talk about a community exhibition exploring Leeds and film at Leeds Industrial Museum (Armley Mills), with Assistant Community Curator Aleks Fagelman.

Tuesday 7 July

Children’s Clothing Through The Ages, with Curator of Dress and Textiles Natalie Raw 

Tuesday 4 August 

Victorian Circuses of Leeds, with Steve Ward.

This talks is a 'virtual' tour of the city centre looking at the sites of nineteenth century circus venues.

Tuesday 8 September

Weird and Wonderful Silver, with Assistant Community Curator at Temple Newsam, Rathi Tamilselvan      

Tuesday 6 October

A history of The Leeds Library, with librarians Jane Riley and Anna Goodridge. 

Tuesday 3 November

Common Wealth War Graves Commission: Architecture & Renovations, with Brian Joyce.

Tuesday 1 December

Yorkshire trams- A Forgotten Era, with Bill Jagger. 

A look at historic photographs of the street tramways of the towns and cities of Yorkshire from the 19th Century to 1960. The talk shows images of horse, steam and electric trams and looks at their surroundings and background.