The Sale Group meet on the second Wednesday of the month, starting at 7.30pm for a 7.45pm talk. We meet at Sale Moor Community Centre, Norris Road, Sale M33 2TN
Visitors are always welcome and there is free parking in the Centre car park or on the road outside. We charge £2 for members of the FHSC and £2.50 for visitors. This charge includes light refreshments as you arrive. We are a friendly group and welcome visitors.
We try to arrange speakers on a wide range of topics - from specific family history research to more general local and social history topics. Sometimes we have meetings with no speaker but instead a forum where members share and talk round a theme, about aspects of their own research. We have found these meetings to be very enjoyable and useful. We learn useful tips from each other.
For our Program for 2024, please click Events in the left hand panel of the FHSC Home page, then select Sale from the panel which appears to right hand side of the page.Talks last about an hour giving time to chat to other members before and afterwards.
We are a relatively new group within Family History Society of Cheshire, starting only in January 2017. Many of our members are experienced family historians who have previously belonged to other groups, alongside some new members. We are always pleased to help anyone get started if they are new to Family History.
Each year we arrange a visit to a place of social, local or family history interest. Previous visits have been to the Police Museum and Archives at Newton Street, Manchester; Manchester Central Library for a very interesting guided tour of resources for family historians; and to the beautiful historic John Rylands Library on Deansgate, Manchester; also to Walkden Gardens Sale. This year, in July 2024, we visited Bramall Hall, Stockport - the hall is a superb example of a Tudor Manor House with origins dating back to the middle ages. We had an afternoon guided talk which was thoroughly enjoyed by all those who attended.