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Music in Western Europe 1200-1500

Weaverham Primary Academy Northwich Road, Weaverham, CW8 3BD

A wonderful opportunity to  hear medieval music played live - you will perhaps be a guest in a medieval great hall - and listen to a talk illustrated by music.  The event is to be given by the Maranella Medieval Minstrels.

Moving Cheshire salt and coal by rail and water

Weaverham Primary Academy Northwich Road, Weaverham, CW8 3BD

How industrial railways were used to move coal and salt extracted in Cheshire, starting with the 18th century tramway and canal era and  finishing with the national railway network at Winsford some 200 years later.  A talk by Paul Teather with analysis, maps, contemporary photographs and some views of what…