Category: General

“Awful Harvest Week of Rain and Flood’

“Awful Harvest Week of Rain and Flood’ “Streams became raging torrents, Roads became rivers and the sheaves of corn were washed from the fields.”

By Julie Nicholson The evening of Thursday 9th May was a fine and dry one. Indeed, as the fifty-one members and guests of Peterborough Local History Society left St Andrew’s Church, Netherton, at the end of the meeting, their journey home was illuminated by a beautiful sunset.   This was all in stark contrast to […]

The Peterborough War Memorial Hospital.

The Peterborough War Memorial Hospital.

Thursday evening, April 11th, was another well attended meeting of the Local History Society to hear the evenings speaker, Doctor Martyn Thomas, a retired local General Practitioner,  give a talk about his research into the history of the Peterborough War Memorial Hospital and the involvement of a Doctor John Norton Collins in the funding and […]

From Cow to Customer

From Cow to Customer

A Brief look at the History of Horrrell’s Dairies  Talk given by Marcus Horrell On Thursday evening March 14th at the Peterborough Local History Society meeting 60 people attended to hear the history of a well known local company that served the Peterborough residents for almost a century. If you didn’t use their products you […]

March Meeting

March Meeting

The March meeting of Peterborough Local History Society is on Thursday 14th, at 7.30pm, at St Andrew’s United Reformed Church, Ledbury Road, Netherton, Peterborough PE3 9RF . The story of Horrell’s Dairies – 1904 to 1993 By Marcus Horrell How the business evolved from selling the milk from the farm’s own cattle and the gradual […]

Charity Event

Charity Event

Great news, after a gap of three years our annual charity event is returning. Please support us and add the date to your diary. April 25th 2pm at St. Andrews United Reform Church. The Charity chosen to for this year is Little Miracles. A Charity that supports children and their families with life limiting conditions.

Finding Collyweston Palace

Finding Collyweston Palace Lady Margaret Beaufort

The January 2024 meeting of the Peterborough Local History Society was, as usual, well attended. Our speaker for the evening was the Chairman of the Collyweston Historical & Preservation Society, Chris Close, Chris became a reluctant historian after making a promise to a relative to keep the Collyweston’s Historical Society going ‘No matter What’. Chris […]

AGM and a Local Hero

AGM and a Local Hero

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 […]

The Steam Bus Era.

The Steam Bus Era.

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 […]

Peterborough Dwellings September 2023

Peterborough Dwellings September 2023

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 […]

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