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Tins, Tubes and Tenacity

admin 5th July 2025 5th July 2025Events, Talks Next-meeting

The next meeting of the Society will be held on Tuesday, 8 July at 7.30 pm at the Weaverham Primary Academy, Northwich Road, CW8 3BD when we have Meg Parkes looking at her research into the British military perspective of Far East captivity.  As she says “Far East prisoners of…

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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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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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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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