Welcome to the start of our new season of talks. On Tuesday, 9 September we have Jonathan Plant who has been exploring some of the prehistoric forts and enclosures which can be discovered in Cheshire, in particular along the Sandstone Ridge. So although the grassy lumps and bumps you may…
The website is now back on line after being in Maintenance Mode for several weeks. Sorry for the time that this has taken, but we had to check all the pages for potential copyright issues in the images that had been used. Some pages remain “Unavailable” while we edit the…
08/12/2022 An interesting black and white print of the old Star Inn and Scales and Sons Boot Manufacturers by local artist Mr. A. Daffern welcomes the Christmas season in for this year. Last year its coloured counterpart and others that have adorned Christmas cards showing village life at this time…
In 2022, Her Majesty the Queen becomes the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee after 70 years of service. The village has celebrated previous jubilees over the years, in different ways. They provide useful landmarks of the particular times in which they happened. An early reference is to…
The next meeting of the Weaverham History Society will be held on Tuesday, 11 March at 7.30 pm at the Weaverham Primary Academy, Northwich Road, Weaverham, CW8 3BD. That evening David Nellist will be reviewing the history of this major chemical works in Middlewich which was taken over by ICI –…
Bradshaw House as you see it now on Lawton Street, Congleton, was built in 1820 and is a grade II listed Georgian-fronted property. Bradshaw House, Congleton by David Weston, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The name, however, derives from an occupant of a previous house on the site which…
Operation Neptune, often referred to as D-Day, took place 80 years ago, on Tuesday, 6 June 1944. It was preceded by extensive aerial and naval bombardment and marked the start of the Allied invasion of Normandy. It was the largest seaborne invasion in history and the operation began the liberation…
(and impeccable handwriting). 29/09/2022 One of the more recognisable buildings that has been featured before is the Barrymore Institute. It is not one of the listed buildings in the village but that doesn’t mean it has not played a major part in the history of Weaverham. An earlier article on…
The Weaverham History Society has just published a new book. It is based upon an earlier book by the Society from the 1980s called ‘Old Weaverham – a Pictorial History’. With the help of Anne Loader Publications, we have updated and reissued this book. The new publication is called ‘Weaverham…
The 2023 Weaverham Rose Queen is Poppy Sofia Gibson. She is 14 years old and attends The County High School Leftwich. Her hobbies are football and troupe. We wish her a wonderful time for her year representing Weaverham. The history of the Weaverham Rose Fete started in the early 1900s…
