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The Falklands War – a first hand experience

admin 5th August 2022 5th August 2022Events, News, Uncategorized Next-meeting

The next meeting of the Society will be on Tuesday, 13 September at 7.30 pm at the Weaverham Primary Academy on Northwich Road, Weaverham, CW8 3BD. That evening we will have Tom Navin, who is a Falklands veteran, and he will be talking about his experiences as a combat medic.…

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Science and the Vikings

admin 24th June 2022 24th June 2022Events, News, Talks Next-meeting

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…

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The British Long Bow

admin 23rd May 2022 23rd May 2022Events, News, Uncategorized Next-meeting

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…

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The Liverpool Overhead Railway

admin 27th April 2022 27th April 2022Events, News, Uncategorized Next-meeting

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…

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The Last Laugh of the Railway King

admin 17th March 2022 31st March 2022Events, News, Talks Next-meeting

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…

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Poison is a Woman’s Weapon

admin 15th February 2022 15th February 2022Events, News, Talks Next-meeting

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…

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The Life of Fanny Trollope

admin 17th January 2022 17th January 2022Uncategorized Next-meeting

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…

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Elizabeth Morris presents

admin 16th November 2021 12th December 2021Events, News Next-meeting

Postponed from December 2020, we can now present Elizabeth Morris, a performance storyteller, with A Christmas Carol.  You may remember we have had Elizabeth before when she portrayed a young Cheshire girl born and living in poverty.  We have a limited number of places for this event and this meeting…

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“Overpaid, oversexed and over here”

admin 27th October 2021 27th October 2021Articles, Events, News Next-meeting

We are coming up to November and once you have enjoyed the celebrations of Guy Fawkes Night we have the next meeting of the Society, when Rina Tillinger will be talking about the friendly invasion of GIs during WW2. Our meeting will be on Tuesday, 9 November at 7.30 pm…

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Liverpool Cowkeepers – a family history

admin 7th September 2021 4th October 2021Events, News, Uncategorized Next-meeting

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…

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