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North Lincolnshire Museum Society's aim is to encourage active interest in the North Lincolnshire Museum and Art Gallery by the people of the area.

03/11/2026

You may be interested in this local opportunity.

01/11/2026

The Scunthorpe and Brigg Local Group of the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust
Our next meeting is on Thursday, 12th November when Ian and Alex Gouldthorpe, joint owners of Messingham Zoo, visit to tell us about their animals and experiences in developing the zoo.
It is quite a unique development for a village/small town like Messingham to have someone start and establish a zoo so nearby. There must be many problems to overcome as well as getting the land, buildings and animals. This meeting gives us a great opportunity to find out about these problems and how Alex and Ian have solved them.
Starting at 7.30pm, our meeting will take place in the St Hugh's Church Small Hall, Ashby Road, Scunthorpe, DN16 2AG, which is opposite the Applegreen filling station near Brumby crossroads.
There is a free car park at the Church and also at the Old Brumby United Church opposite, as well as on the nearby roadside.
There is a £2.50 entry charge which includes light refreshments at the mid-talk break.

01/11/2026

The North Lincolnshire Museum Society
Our 9th November meeting is a presentation by Milton Keynes Ornithologist Martin Kincaid, who will be telling us about the lives and current status of Kittiwakes sea birds.
Our Society member Paul Manchester has arranged this meeting with Martin to be a video presentation using Zoom technology, a method which is used often by the Milton Keynes Natural History Society.
This will be a pioneering trial meeting using this videotelephony technology which could expand enormously our access to speakers and widen the scope of meeting topics. Also, since speakers do not have to travel to venues, it saves time for them and reduces fees for us.
All feedback about the meeting will enable us to assess the success of this venture.

ALL ARE WELCOME TO OUR MEETINGS which start at 7.15pm in the St Bernadette's Church Hall, Ashby Road, Scunthorpe, DN16 2RS. The Church is opposite the Priory Hotel on Ashby Road and has a large, free car park accessible as you enter the grounds through large iron gate opening. The Hall is behind the opening of the second set of iron gates.
Light refreshments will be available for a £1 charge during the mid-talk break.
There is a £5 entry charge for non-members of the Society.

12/10/2026

Tonite! Cranes of Lincolnshire with David Cohen LWT.
7.15 St Bernadette's Church Hall
See you later :-)

11/10/2026

We hope you find time to seek out some fungi this weekend.

09/10/2026

DON'T FORGET THE DAVID COHEN ILLUSTRATED TALK NEXT MONDAY, 12th OCTOBER, ON THE GRANES OF WILLOW TREE FEN LWT NATURE RESERVE. MEETING AT ST BERNADETTE'S CHURCH HALL, 7.15pm START.
This is a success story of the reintroduction of these spectacular birds into Lincolnshire, which David has monitored for several years.
Free parking at the Church. £5 entry if not a Museum Society member, £20 subscription due for the year's meetings if a member.
Refreshments at mid-talk break for £1.

07/10/2026

Don't forget the LWT meeting on Thursday night when Mike Pickwell tells us all about the Lake District wildlife. 7.30pm at St Hugh's Church Small Hall, DN16 2AG. £2.50 entrance fee to include mid-talk refreshments.

05/10/2026

Good morning, we hope you had a fine weekend.

These annual BBC lectures might be of interest.

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This year's BBC Radio 4 Reith lecturer will be the best-selling author and Spell Songs inspirer Robert Macfarlane,

Robert will argue that a belief in human superiority has brought us to the brink of planetary catastrophe.
He says: “We imagine ourselves perched atop a pinnacle, when in fact we are entangled in a web of life."
Across four lectures, each taking one of the elements (Earth, Air, Fire, Water) as its focus, he explores the causes and consequences of this ‘human superiority complex’ for our relationships with the larger living world. And he shows how scientists, writers, artists and activists around the world are contesting the story of human exceptionalism in order to realise a hopeful, viable future on Earth.

The lectures will be chaired by presenter, journalist and author, Anita Anand and will be recorded in front of live audiences in London,Bangor, Aberdeen and Amsterdam. They will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service later this year and will be available to listen to on BBC Sounds.

BBC Radio 4
19 October 2026 – 10 November 2026

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Indoor Meetings Take Place In: St Bernadette's Church Hall, Ashby Road
Scunthorpe
DN162RS

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