Articles about events.
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 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…
Welcome to the next meeting of the Weaverham History Society which will be on Tuesday, 13 June at 7.30 pm at the Weaverham Primary Academy, Northwich Road, CW8 3BD. To entertain us we will have Tom Jones, a Chester tour guide, who will be finding the darker areas of Chester…
This month we have Dr Michael Nevell, Head of Archaeology at the University of Salford, looking at the archaeology of Warburton from its prehistoric past to its 19th century buildings. We will be taking a look at the Warburton Roman hoard, the timber framed and brick buildings of the…
Miss Lydia Becker was from Manchester and was a successful biologist, astronomer and botanist and, between 1863 and 1877, an occasional correspondent of Charles Darwin. The eldest of 15 children, she become a suffragist and the acknowledged, though unofficial, national leader of the women’s suffrage movement in the late 19th century. …
Not all art is imaginatively fluid. Sometimes the artist must accurately portray the subject, with perhaps a little flexibility on the background. Paintings of ships at sea are among the most iconic artworks in the world and artists who painted ship portraits are renowned for their careful and accurate depiction…
