Author: Janet Nelson

War Memorial, Market Street, Carnforth © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU District: Carnforth Branch

Promoting the League of Nations in Carnforth and the surrounding villages...

Victoria Institute, Caton The village meeting place since 1887 © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU District: Caton Sub-Branch

A sub-branch of the Lancaster League of Nations Union?...

Burton-in-Lonsdale Sunday School Meeting place of the Burton-in-Lonsdale LNU, 1935-1939 © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU District: Burton-in-Lonsdale Branch – 1935 Formation

Taking the League of Nations Union to the countryside ...

Bleasdale C. of E. School, near Garstang, in the early 20th century Courtesy of Bleasdale Archive Collection, Bleasdale Parish Hall, Bleasdale PR3 1UY

Bleasdale C. of E. School and the Wider World

The wireless in an isolated elementary school between the wars ...

Town Hall, High Bentham © Janet Nelson

Bentham Branch of the League of Nations Union

Taking the League of Nations Union to the countryside ...

Arthur Knowles, 1922 Lancaster Guardian

Lancaster LNU: Arthur Knowles 1864-?1931

Labour Party member of the Lancaster League of Nations Union...

Arnside Educational Institute, still in use today © Janet Nelson

Arnside Branch of the League of Nations Union

Promoting the League of Nations in south-west Westmorland...

High Street Congregational Church (now URC), Lancaster George Wright’s Christian faith would have been an important factor in his belief in the League of Nations © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU: Alderman George Wright 1850-1927

‘A strenuous advocate of the Lancaster League of Nations Union’: Chairman, Lancaster LNU, 1924-25...