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The  well attended November meeting of the Local History Society at St Andrews Church began with the society’s AGM. The formal meeting went swiftly and smoothly, chaired by the Society’s Chairman, Trevor. This was  followed by a talk from one of our members, John Dewis, entitled  ‘A Local Hero’ John gave an interesting and comprehensive […]

Thomas Clarkson Steam Bus Pioneer.  The October meeting of the Local History Society convened in St Andrew’s Church at 7.30pm and was well attended as usual. Announcements over, the Chair, Trevor, introduced the evening’s speaker – Mr Russell Bulley, C.Eng B.Eng MIET. His subject was Thomas Clarkson – born in 1864, in Chelmsford, Essex. Mr […]

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 […]

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 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 […]