Articles about events.
This August the Weaverham History Society has arranged a guided walking tour of the historic town centre of Nantwich. Places are currently limited to 20 people and to reduce the costs and improve convenience please make your own way to the town. We will meet our guide and start our…
The next meeting of the Society will be held on Tuesday, 9 June at 7.30 pm at the Weaverham Primary Academy, Northwich Road, CW8 3BD. In June we shall see the return of one of our favourite speakers, Elizabeth Morris, a performance storyteller. She will be looking at the Methodists…
The next meeting of the Society will be held on Tuesday, 13 January at 7.30 pm at the Weaverham Primary Academy on Northwich Road. This month Clive Brooks, a local historian, will be giving us an oversight of Robert Smith-Barry and his flying exploits. Robert Smith-Barry was one of the…
Welcome to the start of our new season of talks. On Tuesday, 9 September we have Jonathan Plant who has been exploring some of the prehistoric forts and enclosures which can be discovered in Cheshire, in particular along the Sandstone Ridge. So although the grassy lumps and bumps you may…
In 2022, Her Majesty the Queen becomes the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee after 70 years of service. The village has celebrated previous jubilees over the years, in different ways. They provide useful landmarks of the particular times in which they happened. An early reference is to…
The next meeting of the Weaverham History Society will be held on Tuesday, 11 March at 7.30 pm at the Weaverham Primary Academy, Northwich Road, Weaverham, CW8 3BD. That evening David Nellist will be reviewing the history of this major chemical works in Middlewich which was taken over by ICI –…
The Weaverham History Society has just published a new book. It is based upon an earlier book by the Society from the 1980s called ‘Old Weaverham – a Pictorial History’. With the help of Anne Loader Publications, we have updated and reissued this book. The new publication is called ‘Weaverham…
