All meetings, unless otherwise    stated, are held at Wallerscote Community School at 7.30 pm on the second Tuesday of the month.

Programme 2011 - 2012

2011

13th September

Dilys Hooper

Chairman, Weaverham Branch of the Royal British Legion

         Chairman of Barnton &Anderton Branch of Royal British Legion

         Chairman of The North Group of the Royal British Legion

         County Training Officer of the British Legion for Cheshire

"From the Beginning to Present Day. From 1921: The Royal British Legion-

11th October

Ron Playford

Senior Lecturer (History and Business) University of Chester

    Visiting Lecturer, US History at Glyndwr University

 "The Building of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct"

Unfortunately October's speaker, Ron Playford, who was to speak on "The Building of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct" has been taken ill.

In his place Idris Evans will talk on Cattle Drovers.

8th November

Graham Fisher

Retired Cheshire Librarian,

    Vice-President Chester Civic Trust,

    Chairman of the Liverpool Group of the Victorian Society

"Edwardian Sunset - celebrating John Douglas"

13th December - Christmas Party

Tom Hughes

Community & Education Officer, Cheshire West & Chester,

Weaver Hall Museum & Workhouse and Stretton Watermill

"A Tudor Christmas"

Please note that this is a private party for members and their guests. An additional charge for food will be payable. Venue to be confirmed.

2012

10th January

Michael Crumplin

Curator of the Hunterian Museum based in London’s Royal College of Surgeons

Retired surgeon, Wrexham Hospital

"The Death of an Admiral – Surgery in Nelson’s Navy

14th February

Mark Adams

Senior Archaeological Project Officer, National Museums of Liverpool

"Yeoman Houses of the Lowland North-West"

Yeoman Houses were those occupied by minor landowners and gentry and this talk focuses on the period 1500-1750 using evidence from excavations in Merseyside and Wirral

13th March - Annual General Meeting

Anne Beswick

Manchester Green Badge Guide

"The Women Who Made Manchester"

Including the Parkhursts but also some lesser-known ladies of the city

10th April

Dr Georgina Muskett

  Curator of Antiquities (Classical & European) National Museums of Liverpool

"In Search of Splendour. Early Medieval Carved Ivory in National Museums of Liverpool"

A talk based around the ivories in the museum. In particular , the museum has a little known – and very rare narwhal horn, carved in the 12th century AD, used in the ecclesiastical ritual

8th May

Professor Peter Gaunt

Reader in History and Professor of Early Modern History, University of Chester

"Four Churches and a River: Aspects of the Civil War in Cheshire"

Explores aspects of the civil war in Cheshire and retells the story of the county’s civil war by hanging the account on four churches and one river (the Dee) which played important parts or have important links with the course of the conflict in Cheshire.

12th June

Dr Jonathon Lageard

Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University

"Bodies in Peat and Ice: Not for the Squeamish"

10th July

Mark Bevan

Journalist, former editor of Northwich Guardian

Writer and publisher of many books on local history.

Born and bred in Cuddington/Sandiway

"A Day Out at Tarporley Races"