April 24th In the Cathedral’s Knights Chamber. By Julie Nicholson The Society’s annual fund-raising event on 24th April was completely sold out, with people eager to share what the afternoon had in store. Proceedings commenced with one of the Society’s Committee members, Rita McKenzie, presenting “Peculiar to Peterborough” – a look at what makes […]
April 11th 2019 Another full Hall for the April meeting. Tonight, Martyn Smith was our speaker, his subject, The Huntingdon Cycle Battalion. Martyn has researched, in depth, the formation and the history of this local World War 1 Battalion. His talk was a fascinating insight into the lives, action and often injury and death of […]
March has commenced true to form, producing some very wild, gusty, windy weather but this hadn’t deterred the members from attending the evenings meeting. Stephen Perry one of our foundation members and Local Historian was to give a talk about the medical care and hospital provision to the people of Peterborough through the centuries. It […]
Februarys meeting on a relatively mild night for the time of the year was again well attended. Our speaker for the evening was Michael Lee an enthusiastic Campanologist and an amateur Horologist who has researched and written about the 18th century Bell maker Henry Penn. Michael gave us, through a film made by him, […]
Wishing all our members a very Happy New Year and welcome to the first Local History Society meeting report of the year. The meeting for January was well attended with a full hall and several potential new members were welcomed. There were a few notices to be announced before the evening’s speaker was announced. Our […]
After a series of successful alfresco meeting, in wonderful Summer weather, our monthly meetings for the Autumn and Winter back in the St Marks Church Hall have continued to be blessed with reasonable seasonal weather, so have been well attended. Our December 13th Social event was no exception. After the Notices were quickly dealt with by Our […]
Once more our members gathered in the St Marks Church Hall for our November meeting and AGM. Despite the cold chill in the night air, the attendance was high. The business part of the meeting went well without any problems Our Chairman, Trevor, gave his annual report, praising the excellent speakers at the meetings […]
Summer might be over, but the October Meeting of the Local History Society was well attended on an unseasonably warm evening. Our Speaker was Mr Paul Goldsmith, Chairman of the Parson Latham Hospital Charitable Trust in Oundle. His talk was on the history of the 17th century Grade 1 listed Hospital This was Mr Goldsmith’s […]
A Space Oddity. Words and Photos by Julie Nicholson. Ok, so we weren’t quite in the orbit of “Ground Control to Major Tom” but, where were we? We saw these two windows – I don’t recall ever noticing them before. Do you know whereabouts in Peterborough they are? I’ll give you a clue – we’re […]
September 14th and the dark nights are back. The Peterborough Local History Society met in St Marks Church Hall for their first inside meeting since the three very successful outside summer visits. Our topic for the evening was the History of the Peterborough Gang Shows and our speaker was Peter Ashpool, sporting his Scout uniform […]
