2.30pm Tuesday 17 November 2.30pm

The Brontës, My Mother and Me: Anna Biley

A tender story of mother-daughter love and gentle compassion. Walking the hills with Cathy and Heathcliff in Brontë country, Anna ponders her mother’s final-year diaries and the forgetfulness and frailty that emerges from her stories. This book is so much more than a tribute to a mother, who is a representative of the resilient northern women of the war generation. This is a coming-of-age story, about shaking off traditional female roles, as well as a lens for reading Jane Eyre as the voice of a grieving young girl.

Signed copies of Anna’s book will be available to purchase at £8.

Members £4, Non-members £6, Refreshments £1

Higherford Methodist Church, Barrowford BB9 6JH

2.30pm Tuesday 8 December

Members’ Event: Christmas Fair
Featuring Artists from Higherford Mill Studio:

Nighat Ahmad – Painting & Drawing

Wendy Clark – Hand-crafted Jewellery

Emma Clarke – Ceramics, Basket Weaving

Simon Clarke – Batik, Drawing, Prints

Norma Foulds – Textiles, Collage

Carole Patten – Needle Felted Animals

Lucy Waide – Paintings, Crochet Bags

Join us for a fun afternoon of Christmas nibbles, free raffle, with
Christmas jumpers encouraged.

Members no charge, Non-members £6, Refreshments £1
Higherford Methodist Church, Barrowford BB9 6JH

2.30pm Tuesday 19 January

My Grandma’s Heirloom

A talk by Bob (Robert) Abel, Chairman of the Earby and District Local History Society.

A family story about a pendant, a soldier whose life had been saved, and a trail from the late 19th century coal fields of Yorkshire to London, Egypt, and the Sudan.

Members £4, Non-members £6, Refreshments £1
Higherford Methodist Church, Barrowford BB9 6JH