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Summer Visits 2023

Summer Visits 2023

What a fantastic summer it has been for the Society! We’ve enjoyed four of the very best summer outings that we have ever had. In June, we met at Castor and our friend Professor Stephen Upex explained all the Roman remains of a palace not bettered anywhere outside Rome. From there we moved on to […]

Join us in September

Join us in September

After four successful summer visits in the wider community, September sees the society back at St Andrews United Reform Church in Netherton, Peterborough. The topic for the evening is Peterborough Dwellings – a visual trip around our city, looking at places people have called home. By Trevor Pearce, Society Chairman and Peterborian Visitors are very […]

The Puzzle of the Hedda Stone.

The Puzzle of the Hedda Stone.

The evening of May 11th the last monthly meeting before the three annual Summer visits was a particularly wet evening but, despite the weather, the meeting was well attended. We welcomed some guests from the Cathedral congregation to the meeting.  The evening’s speakers were Dr Jackie Hall, the Peterborough Cathedral archaeologist and Teresa Porciani who […]

May Meeting.

May Meeting. Creative Commons CC0 License; Peterborough Anglo Saxon Hedda Stone in Peterborough Cathedral.

Our next meeting will take place on Thursday 11th May at 7.30 pm, at St Andrew’s United Reformed Church, Ledbury Road, Netherton, Peterborough PE3 9RF. Topic- The Story of the Hedda Stone, by Dr Jackie Hall and Teresa Porciani Teresa is in the final year of her PhD (University of Leicester) on figural sculpture dated 700-850. […]

St Marys Church, Boongate, Peterborough

St Marys Church, Boongate, Peterborough St Marys's Church clock tower.

On a light spring evening in April, the Monthly meeting of the Peterborough Local History Society was very well attended with several new members and visitors. The evening’s speaker was Dr Hilary Dawson. Dr Dawson is the secretary and magazine editor of St Mary’s Parochial Church Council. Her subject was the history of the St […]

April Meeting

April Meeting Doctor Hilary Dawson.

Our April meeting will take place on Thursday 13th, at 7.30pm, at St Andrew’s United Reformed Church, Ledbury Road, Netherton, Peterborough PE3 9RF . We’re delighted to welcome Dr Hilary Dawson, with “St Mary’s Church, Boongate” St Mary’s Church, Boongate St Mary’s in New Road doesn’t have a long history, but it’s an interesting one.  […]

March Meeting

March Meeting Peter Daldorph

Our March meeting will take place this coming Thursday evening (9th March) at 7.30 pm, at St Andrew’s United Reformed Church, Ledbury Road, Netherton, Peterborough PE3 9RF. We’re delighted to welcome Peter Daldorph, with “The Proceedings of the Adventurers: a new exploration of the archive (particularly related to Peterborough)”. The engineering works that transformed the […]

Recollections of Millfield and New England during the 1970s by Del Singh

Recollections of Millfield and New England during the 1970s by Del Singh

The February meeting of The Local History Society was well attended. Our Speaker, Deljit Singh, a Peterborian with Asian Sikh ancestry, is a locally well-known Youtube sensation and a self-styled ‘Accidental Historian’. Del,  in collaboration with Peterborough Presents, (a group that works with communities and artists to create great art across the city that is […]

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