The next meeting of the Society will be on Tuesday, 14 June at 7.30 pm at the Weaverham Primary Academy, Northwich Road, Weaverham, CW8 3BD. That evening we will have Bernard Dennis, who is a member of the British Long Bow Society, telling us about the history of the British…
The next meeting of the Society will be on Tuesday, 10 May at 7.30 pm at the Weaverham Primary Academy. We will have Gavin Hunter, a local historian, giving us the lowdown, or is it highup, on the overhead railway that ran in Liverpool. The LOR was the first electric…
The society has been fortunate in having access to two ledgers relating to the Barrymore Institute. One was the Accounts Ledger from 1908 onwards (with the occasional gap) and one the Minute Book from 1930 onwards. It is worth noting that the year…
To any newcomers to the village it may seem that the High Street has been a steady unchanging presence, a bit like a familiar tune. A wander through the archives offers a different refrain. The society aims to keep an updated photographic record of the village as it evolves and…
Below is the account of Weaverham resident and Falklands veteran Tom Navin who served in 1982 as a combat medic as part of The Red and Green Life Machine. ‘I passed out from basic training in March 1982 aged 18 qualifying as a Combat Medic and posted to 16 Fd…
29/01/2022 It is very difficult transferring from a large ship to a small boat or vice versa and accidents often happened (and presumably still do). 18-year-old Ordinary Seaman Edward Ashton D/JX565396 Royal Navy was young and inexperienced and was injured whilst serving on HMS Patroller in 1943. He fell out…
Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, 12 April at 7.30 pm at the Weaverham Primary Academy, Northwich Road, Weaverham, CW8 3BD. In a change of plan, our speaker in April will be Geoffrey Scargill, the President of the Watkin Society. Sir Edward Watkin MP, nicknamed the Railway King, was…
The next meeting of the Society will be on Tuesday, 8 March at 7.30pm when we have Angela Brabin talking about the use of poisons, which were readily available in Victorian times. As an example, Catherine Flannagan and Margaret Higgins were Irish sisters who lived in Liverpool. In 1884 they…
On 8 February at 7.30 pm we have as our speaker Elizabeth Williams who is a trustee of the Elizabeth Gaskell House in Manchester. She will be talking about the life of Fanny Trollope, who as well as being a novelist – she wrote over 40 books and was also…
