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Queen Victoria – who do you think she was?
The Warrington Transporter Bridge
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…
Weaverham Revisited – Glancing Through Time
The Boer War
Suffer the Little Children – the Chester Foundling Hospital
The Ghosts of Chester
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…
The Warburton Archaeology Survey 1996 to 2022
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…
The Great Miss Lydia Becker
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. …
Pierhead Painters
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…
Articles about events.
Queen Victoria – who do you think she was?
The Warrington Transporter Bridge

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…
Weaverham Revisited – Glancing Through Time
The Boer War
Suffer the Little Children – the Chester Foundling Hospital
The Ghosts of Chester
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…
The Warburton Archaeology Survey 1996 to 2022
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…
The Great Miss Lydia Becker
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. …
Pierhead Painters

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…