Our next meeting will be on 12 December and if you would like to join us it is necessary for you to book a place as we will not be meeting in the school. Instead we will be celebrating Christmas in the committee room at the Owley Wood Recreation Club,…
In November we are taking a look at Queen Victoria who was a carrier for the hereditary bleeding disease haemophilia. Eight of her 9 children married into the royal families of Europe, proving disastrous for some of those families and having a significant effect on the history of Europe. Our…
In October Margaret Ingham, Chair of the Friends of Warrington Transporter Bridge, will be talking about transporter bridges, both the one across the Mersey in Warrington and others across the world. The Friends act as the independent voice of the bridge, which is the only rail transporter bridge in the…
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…
In September we start a new series of talks, the first one being on Tuesday, 12 September at 7.30 pm at the Weaverham Primary Academy on Northwich Road. This evening will also be the time for you to renew your membership subscription of £15 for the year. Preferably you can…
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…
The next meeting of the Society will be held on Tuesday, 11 July at 7.30 pm at the Weaverham Primary Academy on Northwich Road, CW8 3BD. On the 11th we will have Anthony Annakin Smith, a local historian, who will be talking about the Foundling Hospital in Chester. This hospital…
Now it is July, and you may have put in your diary the dates for the next RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park, which is between 19 to 23 July. It is high summer and everything in your garden will be in full growth, so I thought it appropriate to…
Postscript: A Glance at History in the Making? In 2022, Her Majesty the Queen becomes the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee after 70 years of service. The village celebrated previous jubilees over the years, in different ways. They provided useful landmarks of the particular times in which…
Both Charles I and Charles II had 2 coronations, one in Scotland and one in England. Charles II was first crowned in Scotland at Scone on 1 January 1651.
