Lancaster LNU: District Branches

Letter heading of the League of Nations Union, c.1935-39 Headquarters exercised control over branch structure and activities Courtesy of Dr Glyn Price

Lancaster and District Branches of the League of Nations Union

A survey...

Scorton, Nether Wyresdale, one of the mill and farming villages of Wyresdale © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU District: Wyresdale Sub-Branch

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Main Street, Warton © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU District: Meeting at Warton, near Lancaster

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Gaskell Memorial Hall, Silverdale, meeting place of the Silverdale branch of the LNU in use by 1932

Lancaster LNU District: Silverdale Branch

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Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Tunstall, a focal point in a scattered parish. The LNU may have met in the village Reading Room. © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU District: Tunstall Branch

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Green Street Methodist Church, the largest Methodist Church in Morecambe. Many of the clergy who supported the LNU were nonconformists. © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU District: Morecambe Branch

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

Lancaster LNU District: Burton-in-Lonsdale Branch (1935-1939)

A small branch’s first year...

Melling Institute, opened in 1922 © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU District: Melling Branch

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Wray Village Institute Public meetings have been held here since 1923 © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU District: Wray Branch

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From April 1922, public meetings at Glasson Dock would have been held in the Memorial Hall, now restored © Janet Nelson

Lancaster LNU District: Meetings at Glasson Dock

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