A trip on the Llangollen Canal from Trevor Basin over the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. Two alternative dates Saturday 23rd or Sunday 24th June. Click on this link for a map: https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/places-to-visit-pdf/Pontcysyllte_Aqueduct_Canal_World_Heritage_Site.pdf Please book at a History Society Meeting.
Our speaker this month is John Michael Corfe who will be talking about Napoleon II. Francois Joseph Charles Bonaparte, the son of Napoleon Bonaparte was raised in Austria and taught initially to speak of his father as "the enemy". He died at the age of 21, it is thought of…
Speaker: Claire Moores. Independent history researcher
Michael Anthony Blackburn will be focusing on Telford's growth and pushing the boundaries of new technology and new materials at many locations across the UK. The talk will be illustrated by his own photographs of Telford's structures and locations.
Presented by Stuart Wood and Bob Connell and with other volunteers from the Daniel Adamson Preservation Society, we will be given insights into the preservation of this wonderful steamship now based at Liverpool.
This Christmas we will be at the Lighthouse ( Formerly Church House ) where Bob Thomas will be telling us about all things festive, or not so festive during the Civil War. He has a particular interest in the Civil War and especially what it meant for the common man.…
Sir George Beeston can be regarded as a Tudor hero who fought against the Spanish Armada with Drake, Hawkins and Frobisher. This month Tony Bostock, a well known local and family historian, will be filling in the details of this man's remarkable life.
This month our speaker Owen Powell - who is a senior member of the First World War living history society and the author of 'Snapshots from the Boer War', will be illustrating his talk with uniforms, equipment, weaponry (deactivated) and ephemera from that conflict.
In a change from our published progamme, the talk this month will be given by Michael Murphy. We will hear not about the suffragettes nor even the suffragists for, in fact, Mrs Ward was quite the opposite of Mrs Pankhurst. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting where we…
Dr Simon La Frenais will be detailing the tempestuous career and death of this remarkable sailor who, as well as captaining the Beagle on its amazing voyage, also founded the Meteorological Department, now known as the Met Office.