Talk:History of the club

Discussion:


 * There was TCHHC written on some of the really old maps - I think Technical College Hiking and Hostelling Club? Andrew is bound to know. --GC


 * Think that a lot of the old MUHC stuff may be with Paul, the secretary from my 1st year. No one seems to have seen any of it since then! Imagine it is now lost/sat in the attic etc etc. Ps keen to help if you are gonna r-kive things. - KF

(I stayed on to do a Ph.D and post-doc). I still have quite a bit of material, including my membership cards which have all the dates of all the years hikes which I can easily dig out. Plus lots of photos I could scan. -- DJK
 * I was a member of MUHC from 1983 until the mid-90s


 * iirc TCHHC was known as "Tech Commanchi" or somelike like that. -- DJK


 * DJK, who are you? Could you please get in touch with me by email if you see this? (webmaster@umhc.org.uk) --Chris Banks 11:09, 25 September 2008 (BST)


 * Note the early references I have found in the archive (The Manchester University Walking Club) that date between 1939-1949. More on this once I've visited the archivist tomorrow. - TB


 * Rock And Peak Explorers was blatantly a much better name than UMHC, to be told! - LD.


 * The UMIST club orginated in the late 1940s, as it appears it was 25years old in 73 or 74 (exact date unknown as it is a passing comment in the minutes from that time that the previous committee had not organised any anniversary celebrations and that this was thought to be a great oversight and should be rectified.) CEJ


 * The UMIST club comprised both students from what would have been UMIST untill 2003 and also students (mostly female I think) from "Domski", which was a female teaching college based out at Chorton-cum-Hardy and Didsbury (http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Elizabeth_Gaskell_College_of_Education_Manchester). This was a college orginally set up for women to study Domestic Science (hence the nick-name "Domski"), but branched out to teaching other subjects too and also became a teacher training college. It became City of Manchester College of Higher Education (COMANCHE), and hence students from COMANCHE rather than Domski were hiking with UMIST students from the late 70s. Eventually, the city council handed the colleges over to Manchester Poly, which subsequently became Manchester Met. University, who still have their teacher training section based out at Didsbury. CEJ


 * In the mid-70s (I will check exact year) the TCHHC proposed the idea of a 5 legged pubcrawl that would take the form of a race for RAG week. This was a sucess and became an annual race against MUHC, known as the Pentapedal pub crawl. It involved starting from the top of the Maths tower (you were permitted to use the lift to get to the top of the stairs).  CEJ


 * I checked with Manchester High SChool for girls library - they have no references in their collection.

To Do List:
 * The Students Union have archived almost ALL of their Students Guides, which normally include a list of societies. These are with the Uni. Archives. I beleive that the Men's and possibly the Women's Unions Guides are also kept here. This will be of use for the MUHC record.


 * There is a theory that the MUMC orginated from the Men's Union and the MUHC orginated from the women's union and this is why there were two clubs within the Victoria University. it would be worth tracing the (apparently quite extensive) MUMC archive in the University Archive collection for the history of that club.


 * Obtain the MUHC records - was this ever done?
 * did/should the UHMC(and all it's previous names) records be given to the university library for archiving?