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‘Ar yer orrite bor?’.

‘Ar yer orrite bor?’.

December, dark, damp nights, cheered by the bright colourful Christmas lights, decorating homes along our evening route to the History Society’s Christmas meeting.  Held back in our original venue, St Mark’s Church Hall, our Chairman, Trevor, opened the meeting with a few notices. The main one is a change of venue for meetings. From January […]

AGM and Secret Peterborough

AGM and Secret Peterborough

Thursday evening, November 11th was the 30th AGM of the Peterborough Local History Society. Held at our alternative venue, the St Andrew’s United Reformed Church in Netherton. The meeting was chaired by our Chairman Trevor Pearce supported by the Society secretary, Julie Nicholson and treasurer, Roger Dangerfield. The meeting went smoothly, with the retiring committee […]

AGM

AGM

Peterborough History Society AGM this evening Thursday 11th November 7.30pm. At St Andrews Reform Church, Ledbury Road, Netherton. PE3 9RF. Car parking available at the rear of the church. The formal meeting will be followed by a talk by our members, June and Vernon Bull. Their subject will be Secret Peterborough. Last year our AGM […]

The Delaine

The Delaine

One Hundred and Thirty Years of The Delaine Buses of Bourne, Lincolnshire. Back to the dark nights of winter, on October 14th, this was the second indoor meeting since Government restrictions were lifted and was held once again in the St Andrews Reform Church in Netherton.  Trevor our Chairman, introduced the meeting promptly at 7.30 […]

October Meeting

October Meeting

Tomorrow evening, Thursday, Oct. 14th the History Society is holding its second indoor meeting since 2020. As last month the venue will be the St Andrews Reform Church in Ledbury Road, Netherton. PE3 9RF.  Easy to find and with good parking.  Our speaker will be Mr Peter Moore, sharing with us an “Illustrated history of […]

Back in Business.

Back in Business.

Georgian Peterborough. On the evening of Thursday, September 23rd two weeks later than originally planned and after the stress of finding a new temporary location and then finding a new speaker at the last minute, our first inside meeting went ahead after an enforced break of 18 months. Our temporary home for the evening was […]

Visit to the Spalding Gentleman’s Society

Visit to the Spalding Gentleman’s Society
On the evening of August 11th, the second outside visit of 2021 took place. We travelled to the market town of Spalding, just 20 miles north of Peterborough. Those of us who signed up for the visit were in for a treat. The Gentlemen’s Society of Spalding is to be found in a Grade 11 [...]

We Meet Once More.

We Meet Once More.
8th July 2021 - A Walk around Titchmarsh by Julie Nicholson. We enjoyed the first face-to-face meeting of Peterborough Local History Society since March 2020, with a visit to a small village (600 inhabitants), 20 miles south-west of Peterborough. The sun shone and we couldn't have picked a better evening for a guided tour around [...]
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