Hello everyone I do hope that you have had a brilliant summer but are now looking forward to activities this autumn. First up are the Heritage Open Days and I give you details below of the events in Weaverham this Saturday. Heritage Open Days: 6-15 September – England’s largest festival…
A fun story about Benjamin; from being a lad in Rochdale, via a time fighting in the Napoleonic Wars, to all his ‘dubious’ activities in Manchester that Del-Boy Trotter would have been proud of! The story closes with an unexpected twist as his long-suffering wife has the last laugh! Our…
There is no History Society meeting in August, but we still have places available for our trip by coach to the Black Country Living Museum at Dudley on Wednesday, 7 August 2024. This trip is really good value for money at only £35 per person, which includes admission and the cost…
The next meeting of the Society will be on Tuesday, 9 July at 7.30 pm at the Weaverham Primary Academy, Northwich Road, CW8 3BD. For the last meeting of the season we have Steve Warbis from the Macclesfield Astronomical Society, who will be telling us in a simple way the…
Bradshaw House as you see it now on Lawton Street, Congleton, was built in 1820 and is a grade II listed Georgian-fronted property. The name, however, derives from an occupant of a previous house on the site which it replaced. This original building, then known as Cole Hill House, was…
Operation Neptune is more commonly known as D-Day and refers to the landing operations and associated airborne operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy on Tuesday, 6 June 1944. It was the largest seaborne invasion in history. Planning began in 1943 and the Allies conducted a substantial military deception codenamed ‘Bodyguard’ months…
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…
The next meeting of the Society will be held at the Weaverham Primary Academy, Northwich Road, Weaverham, Cheshire, CW8 3BD on Tuesday, 11 June at 7.30 pm. Our speaker for June is Dr Graham Dodd, who is closely involved with the Nantwich Museum as a Trustee and who is also Vice…
May 14th 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Weaverham Primary Academy Northwich Road, Weaverham,, Cheshire, CW8 3BD Angela Brabin, retired solicitor with an MA in History and the author of ‘The Black Widows of Liverpool will talk about the trial of Dr Tomanzie. Dr Tomanzie practised as a Doctor in Victorian Liverpool. Dr Tomanzie…
(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…
