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How We Evolved … (as a group)

 

The founding of Lancashire Secular Humanists is in many ways the closing of a circle first begun forty years ago this year.

In 1967, following a meeting of the British Humanists Association in Preston this leaflet was circulated to households in Blackburn, Blackpool, Chorley, Fleetwood, Lancaster, Leyland, Lytham, Preston, Southport, and St. Anne’s:

British Humanist Association: President A.J.Ayer. F.B.A.

There will be an informal meeting at the Fernlea Hotel, South Promenade, St Annes-on-Sea. Thursday March 9th at 7:30 for 8 o’clock, of people interested in the above association and its aims with a view to forming a local group.

We hope you will come and bring any friends who may be interested.

Tea and biscuits 2 / -.*

A reply to Mrs. Fogg, 153 Inner Promenade, St Annes; would be appreciated

[* 2 / - is ‘Two Shillings’; i.e. 10p … Eeeee; those were the days!]

And so ‘The British Humanist Association St. Annes Group’ was formed.

A year later (presumably born of a desire to be more inclusive of the wider geographic community), the group’s name appeared to morph from ‘The British Humanist Association St. Annes Group’ [a bit of a mouthful as I’m sure you’ll agree] to ‘Fylde Humanists’.

Later still, and no doubt for the same reasons, ‘Fylde Humanists’ became ‘Blackpool & Fylde Humanists’.

With the significant developments in transport and communications over the interim years it is precisely that same desire; the desire to be more inclusive to a wider geographic community, that ‘Blackpool & Fylde Humanists’ have changed their name and are now ‘Lancashire Secular Humanists’

But some things never change … [See ‘About Us’]

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