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 […]
July 12th. 2018 The Second Summer Visit. by Julie Nicholson. On a gloriously sunny evening in July, thirty-eight of our members enjoyed the second of the summer visits in our programme for 2018. We were the guests of Oundle School, kindly hosted by their archivist – Mrs Elspeth Langsdale, and a couple of her colleagues. […]
Our First Summer. June 14th 2018 Article and Photos by Julie Nicholson. Driving into the village of Langham, it became apparent that this was a place of historical interest. We gathered outside the church of St Peter and St Paul, where we were met by our hosts from the Langham Village History Group. A lovely […]
Thursday 14th June The first of three outside meetings. This evening is a Walk around Langham Village. is an historic Village 2 miles North West of Oakham on the A605. A notable inhabitants, Simon Langham, a 14th century Monk became Archbishop of Canterbury. The meeting is a ticketed event and hosted by the Langham History […]
May 10th 2018 With the advent of the first light evening meeting of the year and the attendance was good. Our speaker for the evening was Mr Alan Peasgood Historian and archivist at St Marks. During the early 1800’s with the arrival of the railways Peterborough was a rapidly expanding City. Worship in the City […]
The 2018 Charity event was held on April 25th in the beautifully restored historic Knights Chamber, part of the newly created Visitors and Learning centre in the Cathedral Precincts. Instead of the usual afternoon and evening performance we opted for just the one program in the afternoon. The event was well attended and successful. […]
Another cold damp evening. The attendance was down a little which was a shame as this evenings talk was given by Bob Weston of Weston Homes. Weston Homes is the company building the super modern apartments on Fletton Quays as well as restoring and renovating The Gables on Thorpe Road, a short row of Victorian […]
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