By Peter Clarkson. Huntingdon was the destination for the second outdoor visit of 2019 on our usual Thursday evening. The visit was hosted by Stuart Orme and commenced with a tour of Huntingdon Town Hall. We learnt that the town hall was rebuilt in the 18th century and replaced an earlier medieval building that was […]
By Peter Clarkson Peterborough Local History Society’s first outdoor visit of 2019 was made on the very unseasonal cool and soggy evening of 8th June to the Peterborough School formerly known as Westwood House School after the name of the building in which it was established. However, the welcome that we received was […]
At our May meeting on May 9th, Tom Grimes, the newly installed President of the Spalding Gentleman’s Society gave the meeting a fascinating insight into this ancient Spalding Society. Its conception began 300 years ago, when, in 1710 a Spalding born London Lawyer, Maurice Johnson, of Ayscoughfee Hall in Spalding, invited a group of eminent […]
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 […]
