Come along and tell us about your family's festive celebrations from the past. Nativity plays, carol singing, concerts, pantomimes, festive food, family entertainments and party games. Please bring any photographs, concert programmes etc.

Also enjoy a cup of tea and a mince pie.

Poynton is a town in Cheshire 7 miles north of Macclesfield, 5 miles south of Stockport, and 11 miles south-east of Manchester. Nowadays Poynton is also known as a commuter town but it has an industrial heritage. Coal had been mined here since the 16th century and later, the Poynton collieries were in operation until the mid-1930s.

David Kitching has studied in detail in the industrial archaeology of the coalfield, its pits, its owners & workers, machinery, the colliery railways and links to the main lines and canals 

Come along and tell us all about any birth, marriage or death certificates that are intriguing, interesting, that reveal family secrets or were helpful for your family research.  A follow-on meeting from our September forum 'The Ins and Outs of Civil Registration'