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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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Website back on line.

admin 11th May 2025 11th May 2025Uncategorized Frontpage-Post

The website is now back on line after being in Maintenance Mode for several weeks. Sorry for the time that this has taken, but we had to check all the pages for potential copyright issues in the images that had been used. Some pages remain “Unavailable” while we edit the…

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Our Beginnings

admin 1st September 2015 10th May 2025Articles, Uncategorized checked, update

A few interested people had for many years been transcribing the church records whilst others had been studying photographs and other aspects of village history. In 1983 they got together and on 21 March the Weaverham History Club was formed. This was renamed the Weaverham History Society in April 1987.…

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