After our usual short Annual General Meeting, Dr Simon la Frenais will be giving us a talk covering Darwin's early life, the voyage of the Beagle and what happened when he came back.
This month Elizabeth Royles from the Grosvenor Museum in Chester will be telling us about pre-Roman Cheshire.
Pauline Lloyd will be telling us about healthcare in Manchester from Georgian times, Manchester's first infirmary being founded in 1752, to the present day. Discover the medic with the mummy, the maternity home in a pub, a nursing heroine, the doctor who penned a thesaurus and John Dalton's opinion of…
Dr Diana Leitch MBE telling us all about the chemical industry in Runcorn and Widnes with additional references to Northwich.
Vanessa Oakden, the Portable Antiquities Scheme Finds Liaison Office for Cheshire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside will be telling us about the Knutsford Hoard.
Colin Edmondson, an amateur historian, researcher and writer, will be taking a look at the effect of salt mining at Marston and Northwich.
The talk this month is given by Edward Hilditch whose grandfather lived in Cheshire and kept a diary. He lived at Elworth, Sandbach and worked at Fodens. The talk this evening covers a period of relative prosperity when Edward's grandfather gained promotion at work and was able to buy a…
This month Professor Ian Morison, who has worked at Jodrell Bank since 1965, will be talking about how the passage of time has been measured over the centuries and the problems of synchronising clocks one with another (will train timetables be mentioned perhaps?). He will also explain how Pulsars provide…
This is to be a surprise - and it is something completely different! More details to be revealed in due course, so please ignore the dates and times shown at the moment.
At one time the Wirral was a mini-state with its own language - the old Viking language called Old Norse. Eleven hundred years ago when the Viking settlers arrived in the Wirral they would have seen cranes on a sandbank. "Tran" is their word for a crane and "mere" is…