Owing to a change of dates our November talk on Trinity House has had to be postponed. Instead we have Mark Relf, a military and naval researcher, who will, appropriately, be talking about the history, development, current projects and types and dates of commemorations of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission,…
Our October meeting will be held on Tuesday, 8 October at 7.30 pm at the Weaverham Primary Academy, Northwich Road, Weaverham, CW8 3BD. Our speaker will be Robert Knowles, Chair of the Oxton History Research Group who will be telling us about Edith Smith, Oxton’s pioneer police woman. This meeting will…
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…
The next meeting of the Society will be on Tuesday, 9 July at 7.30 pm at the Weaverham Primary Academy, Northwich Road, CW8 3BD. For the last meeting of the season we have Steve Warbis from the Macclesfield Astronomical Society, who will be telling us in a simple way the…
The next meeting of the Society will be held at the Weaverham Primary Academy, Northwich Road, Weaverham, Cheshire, CW8 3BD on Tuesday, 11 June at 7.30 pm. Our speaker for June is Dr Graham Dodd, who is closely involved with the Nantwich Museum as a Trustee and who is also Vice…
May 14th 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Weaverham Primary Academy Northwich Road, Weaverham,, Cheshire, CW8 3BD Angela Brabin, retired solicitor with an MA in History and the author of ‘The Black Widows of Liverpool will talk about the trial of Dr Tomanzie. Dr Tomanzie practised as a Doctor in Victorian Liverpool. Dr Tomanzie…
April is here at last to greet the longer evenings of spring and with that positive outlook we can look forward to the next meeting of the Society will be held on Tuesday, 9 April , at 7.30 pm at the Weaverham Primary Academy, Northwich Road. This month we have…
It is March and although we can see signs of spring the winds are still cold and the skies cloudy. However, to cheer you up we have the next meeting of the Society which will be held on Tuesday, 12 March, at 7.30 pm at the Weaverham Primary Academy, Northwich…
If any of you have shopped in Chester you will remember that iconic department store, Browns of Chester. At our February, Sue Taylor, a family historian, will be giving us the story of the family who owned the store and what they did for the city of Chester. The meeting…
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…
