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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 […]

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 […]

To speak at our first indoor meeting of the Society since March 2020, we now have Stuart Orme, bringing us “Georgian Peterborough”. The Georgian period is a neglected part of Peterborough’s past, overlooked by nearby Stamford. Stuart will reveal how the town was not quite the backwater we might expect and will show us some […]

Written by Julie Nicholson, Society Secretary. Boris says we can’t meet – oh no – what do we do? That was the question the committee asked themselves, back in March 2020. We’d just held our March meeting, in St Mark’s Church Hall – little did we know at the time, that it would be the […]

April 2021, and still under the threat of this dreadful Pandemics and unable to hold meetings. However, on April 8th members of the Local History Society met once again via a Zoom meeting. Although, not by any means are these meetings a substitute for our monthly physical meetings of exchanging greetings and gossip, there are, […]

Last night December 10th should have been the Society’s Christmas Social, sadly with the continuing Covid restrictions, this year’s event was another destined to be ditched…BUT…by the magic of the internet, a Zoom social was arranged. Members were all emailed an invitation and joining instruction. Christmas hats and jumpers were worn and best of all […]

Good news! Peterborough Archives Service is now open again to customers Search room opening and closing times have been adjusted to allow us to provide a safe environment for both staff and customers. The new times are: Monday 10am-1pm Tuesday 1pm-4pm Wednesday 10am-1pm Thursday 1pm-4pm Friday 10am-1pm Saturday closed To maintain social distancing, only two […]