History Café Newsletters

Local History Cafe Newsletters were developed during the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown as a way of keeping in touch.  They proved such a success that they have continued to be published monthly. 

Newsletters can be downloaded below.  If you would like to be put on the mailing list for these newsletters, or you have a memory to share please contact our editor Andy Moore via SJMFHeritage@post.com .

Latest Newsletters

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LHC Extended August 2026

What did a blacksmith own in 1732? Plus more about the Church yard and Appleby pubs

LHC Extended July 2026

An historic game which taught children about their ancestors - as well as those of their playmates!

LHC Extended June 2026

Historic technology for shops to handle cash and school memories

LHC Extended May 2026

May traditions and nature, medical support during WW1

LHC Extended April 2026

Easter activities and historic recycling!

LHC Extended March 2026

Recycling in 20th C Appleby and Victorian Lenten practices

LHC Extended February 2026

February weather myths and the last part of the Huskisson story

LHC Extended January 2026

An Appleby Bee keeper and New Year's traditions

LHC Extended December 2025

Christmas edition plus the life of a chimney sweep

LHC Extended November 2025

Remembering Appleby residents whose lives were shaped by WW1, Part 2 of Huskisson family story

LHC Extended October 2025

William Huskisson's Appleby ancestors and more memories from Anne Silins

LHC Extended September 2025

Autumn themed articles and Sir John Moore

LHC Extended August 2025

Crows in the rural environment - literal, legend and myth, and imagination

LHC Extended July 2025

Keeping cool in Victorian times and a long lost begging letter to Sir John Moore

LHC Extended June 2025

The origins of the WI, the story of Joyce de Appleby and the important role of the knackerman

LHC Extended May 2025

Missing treasure, learning about house plants and another favourite teacher

LHC Extended April 2025

A favourite teacher and girl guide leader, and Appleby's Neolithic beginnigs

LHC Extended March 2025

Variable Spring weather and rural communities, the village cobbler

LHC Extended February 2025

Edwardian Valentines, ghost signs and mobile shops

LHC Extended January 2025

When many rural households kept a pig

LHC Extended December 2024

Christmases past and Appleby footpaths

LHC Extended November 2024

Including memories of Ashby Statutes and Memorials to child deaths in the 19th C Appleby graveyard

LHC Extended October 2024

Continuing memories of the wartime blackout, plus exploring harvest time and halloween

LHC Extended Golden Anniversary Supplement

To celebrate our 50th edition of the newsletter, a look back over earlier editions

LHC Extended September 2024

How WWII blackouts affected Appleby life and our volunteer project to decipher the hall graffiti

LHC Extended August 2024

Memories of summer fetes, the school year of 1891 and the history of our museum

LHC Extended July 2024

The school year in 1891 (on which our museum is based) and other summer items

LHC Extended June 2024

A final part of memories of wash day, how steam trains changed holidays and religion and prosperity in the 1890s

LHC Extended May 2024

How children were named in the past, some history of Birmingham and more

LHC Extended April 2024

A history of postcards, a visit from the High Sheriff and more Appleby childhood memories

LHC Extended March 2024

More Appleby characters and lead inkwells in the museum collection

LHC Extended February 2024

Memories of the village cobbler, the big freeze of 1947, and boards to share Appleby's heritage

LHC Extended January 2024

More memories of Appleby and nearby