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…
The next meeting of the Society will be on Tuesday, 8 March at 7.30pm when we have Angela Brabin talking about the use of poisons, which were readily available in Victorian times. As an example, Catherine Flannagan and Margaret Higgins were Irish sisters who lived in Liverpool. In 1884 they…
On 8 February at 7.30 pm we have as our speaker Elizabeth Williams who is a trustee of the Elizabeth Gaskell House in Manchester. She will be talking about the life of Fanny Trollope, who as well as being a novelist – she wrote over 40 books and was also…
Postponed from December 2020, we can now present Elizabeth Morris, a performance storyteller, with A Christmas Carol. You may remember we have had Elizabeth before when she portrayed a young Cheshire girl born and living in poverty. We have a limited number of places for this event and this meeting…
We are coming up to November and once you have enjoyed the celebrations of Guy Fawkes Night we have the next meeting of the Society, when Rina Tillinger will be talking about the friendly invasion of GIs during WW2. Our meeting will be on Tuesday, 9 November at 7.30 pm…
After an extremely successful first meeting in September when we returned to face to face meetings at the Weaverham Primary Academy, our next meeting will be on Tuesday, 12 October at 7.30 pm. Once again we will be at the Weaverham Primary Academy and we look forward to seeing you…
Helsby had its balloon pioneer but Weaverham also has had its occasional brush with aeronauts of one sort or another, mostly in wartime but not entirely. The best known and featured elsewhere on the website is the bombing of Nook Farm in November 1940. But, as revealed by memories of…
Netflix is not usually on the Weaverham History Society’s sources for local history matters. However, the recent film “The Dig”, from an original book of the same name by John Preston, tells a semi-fictional story of the Sutton Hoo Excavation. Newlyweds Frank and Edith Pretty purchased a property, Tranmer House,…
It is July and we have reached our last Zoom meeting this summer. In August we will be taking a break but our 2021 – 2022 programme starting on Tuesday, 14 September is already available for you to see. Just use the Programme link at the top of this website.…
Hartford Civic Society have recently published a leaflet detailing information about the Blue Plaques project in the village.
