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 […]
The November meeting of the Peterborough Local History Society is due to be held on Thursday, November 10th. The evening will commence with our annual general meeting. Following this, our speaker for the evening will be Society member, Carolyn Perkins, with “From Farming Fenlands to Ploughing Canadian Prairies.” This brief history of the Canadian Emigration Service […]
The History Society’s next meeting is on Thursday 13th October. The venue is the St Andrews United Reform Church. Ledbury Road, Netherton, Peterborough PE3 9RF Parking is behind the church. Visitors are welcome with an entrance fee of just £3. Coffee and biscuits are provided. Commencing at 7.30 pm, our speaker for the evening will […]
Marholm Meanderings by Bella Craven. On Thursday evening the 8th September the Society met in their new permanent location of St Andrews Reform Church in Ledbury Road, Netherton, Peterborough. This was the first full meeting since the three successful summer outside monthly visits. The meeting was well attended with a few visitors our new venue […]
Visit to Oundle School Chapel – 7 pm, Thursday 9th June Conducted tour of the chapel, which contains some of the most important and influential stained glass in the country. In addition to windows by Hugh Easton depicting the Seven Ages of Man, there are also designs by John Piper and Mark Angus. Cost £10 […]
May 11th, a pleasent Spring evening and the last Spring meeting of 2022 for the Peterborough History Society and the last meeting to be held in the St Mark’s Church Hall. After the Summer Outside meetings in June July and August, the new venue will be the St. Andrews United Reform Church in Ledbury Road, […]
Julie Murray, Marketing and Customer Care Director of Notcutts Ltd. will be our speaker. In the year that Notcutts is celebrating its 125th anniversary, Julie will be sharing with us how the company began in Suffolk, how it came to Peterborough and how successive generations of a family have made it what it is today. […]
