Our next meeting will take place on Thursday 12th September at 7.30pm, at St Andrew’s United Reformed Church, Ledbury Road, Netherton, Peterborough PE3 9RF. Chris Porsz – “Paramedic Paparazzo”. To many of you, Chris will need no introduction. A Peterborian Paramedic, turned street photographer, Chris will share from his vast collection of images and recount […]
A Invitation to Cotterstock Village Hall TIM STUBBS IS BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND Tim returns to Cotterstock, bringing his new one man show “Reflections of Life – Part 2” to the village hall on Friday 27 September at 7.30 p.m. in order to raise money for Diabetes UK. Tim’s new show will tell more tales […]
Heritage Open Days at St Johns Church In Cathedral Square Open Days in St Margarets Church Fletton
By Julie Nicholson The evening of Thursday 9th May was a fine and dry one. Indeed, as the fifty-one members and guests of Peterborough Local History Society left St Andrew’s Church, Netherton, at the end of the meeting, their journey home was illuminated by a beautiful sunset. This was all in stark contrast to […]
The pandemic caused us to cancel our annual charity event in 2020, just weeks before it was due to take place. We decided that the time was now right to reinstate it and are delighted to be supporting Little Miracles, a local charity doing tremendous work with children with a disability or life-limiting condition. The […]
Thursday evening, April 11th, was another well attended meeting of the Local History Society to hear the evenings speaker, Doctor Martyn Thomas, a retired local General Practitioner, give a talk about his research into the history of the Peterborough War Memorial Hospital and the involvement of a Doctor John Norton Collins in the funding and […]
The April meeting of Peterborough Local History Society is on Thursday 11th, at 7.30pm, at St Andrew’s United Reformed Church, Ledbury Road, Netherton, Peterborough PE3 9RF . Dr John Norton Collins and the Peterborough District Memorial Hospital By Dr Martyn Thomas This talk tells the story of the building of Peterborough’s first purpose-built hospital which […]
A Brief look at the History of Horrrell’s Dairies Talk given by Marcus Horrell On Thursday evening March 14th at the Peterborough Local History Society meeting 60 people attended to hear the history of a well known local company that served the Peterborough residents for almost a century. If you didn’t use their products you […]
The March meeting of Peterborough Local History Society is on Thursday 14th, at 7.30pm, at St Andrew’s United Reformed Church, Ledbury Road, Netherton, Peterborough PE3 9RF . The story of Horrell’s Dairies – 1904 to 1993 By Marcus Horrell How the business evolved from selling the milk from the farm’s own cattle and the gradual […]
By Julie Nicholson Forty people braved the weather, on what was a really miserable, cold, wet evening, to hear the speaker at the February meeting of Peterborogh Local History Society. Local author, Linda Ball talked about The Mendicant Friars of Stamford. Who they were? Why they settled there? What became of them? She looked at […]
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