Articles about events.
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…
The next meeting of the History Society will be on Tuesday, 14 February when we have Chris Green telling us of the amazing story of the villagers of Eyam in Derbyshire. In 1665 the village tailor, Alexander Hadfield, received from London a parcel of cloth that he intended to make…
The life and loves of a Maid of Honour at the Court of Queen Elizabeth I At our meeting on 10 January 2023 we have local historian Tony Bostock shining a light on the first Elizabethan Age, with the history of Mary Fitton, the daughter of Edward Fitton of Gawsworth.…
Due to illness our speaker, Jean Finney, is unable to give us an evening with Joyce Grenfell. We shall have to meet her another time. However, to fit in with the current weather we have a speaker who is new to the Society, talking about the lost expedition led by…
On 8 November we have the return of Michael Crumplin, a retired surgeon from Wrexham hospital. He will be looking at what surgery was like, from both sides of the knife, from 1914 to 1918 and aren’t we thankful we are living now and not then. His lectures are like…
This month our speaker is Peter Bolt, Secretary of the Thomas Brassey Society. Peter will be talking about Thomas Brassey who was born at Buerton, Aldford a few miles south of Chester in 1805. Brassey’s career began as a trainee surveyor on Thomas Telford’s Shrewsbury to Holyhead road through North…
The next meeting of the Society will be on Tuesday, 13 September at 7.30 pm at the Weaverham Primary Academy on Northwich Road, Weaverham, CW8 3BD. That evening we will have Tom Navin, who is a Falklands veteran, and he will be talking about his experiences as a combat medic.…
