Articles about speakers and their subjects
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, 12 July at 7.30 pm at the Weaverham Primary Academy, Northwich Road. Professor Stephen Harding is Professor of Applied Biochemistry at the University of Nottingham, but his not so secret passion is researching the Vikings and where their genes are…
Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, 12 April at 7.30 pm at the Weaverham Primary Academy, Northwich Road, Weaverham, CW8 3BD. In a change of plan, our speaker in April will be Geoffrey Scargill, the President of the Watkin Society. Sir Edward Watkin MP, nicknamed the Railway King, was…
The next meeting of the Society will be on Tuesday, 8 March at 7.30pm when we have Angela Brabin talking about the use of poisons, which were readily available in Victorian times. As an example, Catherine Flannagan and Margaret Higgins were Irish sisters who lived in Liverpool. In 1884 they…
Our first ever Zoom meeting! Tuesday, 10 November 2020 starting at 7.30 pm. So, exciting news. After the very long break your committee felt it was time to start up the History Society meetings again – but as we cannot actually meet in person, we are going to do this…
