Articles about speakers and their subjects
A fun story about Benjamin; from being a lad in Rochdale, via a time fighting in the Napoleonic Wars, to all his ‘dubious’ activities in Manchester that Del-Boy Trotter would have been proud of! The story closes with an unexpected twist as his long-suffering wife has the last laugh! Our…
On Tuesday, 9 January we have our first meeting of 2024 at 7.30 pm at the Weaverham Primary Academy, Northwich Road, CW8 3BD. On that evening we will be taking a look at the Victorian attitudes to “fallen women”, and what life may have been like for women who were…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
