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 […]
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 […]
Our February meeting will take place on Thursday 9th, at 7.30pm. We’re delighted to welcome Del Sing, with “Magical History Tours of Peterborough”. Del, who is proud of being born and bred in Peterborough, has worked with the local organisation “Peterborough Presents”, on a community project aimed at sharing stories of growing up in Peterborough, […]
The Whittlesea Festival of the Straw bear is enacted on the Tuesday after Plough Monday. The first Monday after Twelfth Night. There seems to be no record of its beginnings but in 1909 an overzealous Police Inspector decided to ban the festival calling it a form of ‘Cadging’ The ‘Bear’ a local man dressed in […]
Our January meeting will take place this coming Thursday evening (12th January) at 7.30 pm. We’re delighted to welcome Brian Kell, with “43 years of Straw and String”. Brian is the founder of the Whittlesey Straw Bear Festival. He resurrected an ancient tradition and put Whittlesey on the map both locally and internationally. His work […]
The Committee would like to extend Seasons Greetings to all the members of the Peterborough Local History Society. Looking back on 2022, as Christmas and the New Year approaches, the Society has successfully survived the 2020/21 Covid-19 pandemic and has bounced back with a year of insightful and engaging talks from various experts in their […]
Our Chairman, Trevor opened the 31st AGM of the Peterborough Local History Society by welcoming all the members attending and giving us a rundown of the year’s events. The first full year of meetings since the Covid Pandemic disrupted events locally and worldwide. The business part of the AGM was conducted swiftly and successfully and […]
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