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The History and Making of Walking Sticks

admin 11th May 2025 3rd June 2025Events, Uncategorized Next-meeting

  At the June meeting of the Society our speaker will be Geoff Williams, who will be telling us all about walking sticks. From the 17th century, a walking stick became an essential part of the European gentleman’s wardrobe. Voltaire, who proclaimed that he lived a life free from fashionable…

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Website back on line.

admin 11th May 2025 11th May 2025Uncategorized Frontpage-Post

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…

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Memories of Christmas Past

admin 10th May 2025 10th May 2025Articles, History checked

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…

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The Electro Bleach Company of Middlewich

admin 16th February 2025 10th May 2025Events, News checked, Next-meeting

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 –…

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The Institute of Weaverham

admin 23rd April 2024 10th May 2025Articles, History checked, Frontpage-Post

(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…

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Weaverham Revisited – Glancing Through Time

admin 10th September 2023 10th May 2025Articles, Events, News checked, Frontpage-Post

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…

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Weaverham Rose Fete

admin 6th July 2023 10th May 2025Articles, News checked, Frontpage-Post, Next-meeting

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…

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Tom Navin – Falklands War 1982.

admin 29th May 2022 10th May 2025Articles, History checked

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…

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A Village Link to a Different Time: The Barrymore Institute.

admin 4th April 2022 10th May 2025Articles, Places checked

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…

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A Street Through Time

admin 4th April 2022 10th May 2025Articles, Places checked

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…

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