The next meeting of the Society will be on Tuesday, 14 June at 7.30 pm at the Weaverham Primary Academy, Northwich Road, Weaverham, CW8 3BD. That evening we will have Bernard Dennis, who is a member of the British Long Bow Society, telling us about the history of the British…
The next meeting of the Society will be on Tuesday, 10 May at 7.30 pm at the Weaverham Primary Academy. We will have Gavin Hunter, a local historian, giving us the lowdown, or is it highup, on the overhead railway that ran in Liverpool. The LOR was the first electric…
On 8 February at 7.30 pm we have as our speaker Elizabeth Williams who is a trustee of the Elizabeth Gaskell House in Manchester. She will be talking about the life of Fanny Trollope, who as well as being a novelist – she wrote over 40 books and was also…
After an extremely successful first meeting in September when we returned to face to face meetings at the Weaverham Primary Academy, our next meeting will be on Tuesday, 12 October at 7.30 pm. Once again we will be at the Weaverham Primary Academy and we look forward to seeing you…
Netflix is not usually on the Weaverham History Society’s sources for local history matters. However, the recent film “The Dig”, from an original book of the same name by John Preston, tells a semi-fictional story of the Sutton Hoo Excavation. Newlyweds Frank and Edith Pretty purchased a property, Tranmer House,…
It is July and we have reached our last Zoom meeting this summer. In August we will be taking a break but our 2021 – 2022 programme starting on Tuesday, 14 September is already available for you to see. Just use the Programme link at the top of this website.…
Hartford Civic Society have recently published a leaflet detailing information about the Blue Plaques project in the village.
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.…
