For our September meeting, we were promised a visual trip around our city, looking at places people have called home and that’s certainly what we had! It was the first meeting back indoors for our autumn/winter session, following our very successful summer visits. Our chairman, Trevor Pearce, was born in our fine city and is […]
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 […]
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 […]
Come and see us in St. John’s Church on Cathedral Square this weekend. See photographs of old Peterborough and learn more about the Society’s activities. Saturday and Sunday 9th & 10th September
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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. […]
The talk by Peter Daldorph on Thursday the 9th of March was a snapshot of a wealth of information found in records of the Cambridgeshire archives. His talk focused on information and letters between the London Company of Adventurers and their early work to drain some of the watery fens in and around the Erith, Welney […]
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 […]
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