The next meeting of the Society will be on Tuesday, 12 July at 7.30 pm at the Weaverham Primary Academy, Northwich Road. Professor Stephen Harding is Professor of Applied Biochemistry at the University of Nottingham, but his not so secret passion is researching the Vikings and where their genes are…
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…
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…
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…
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…
