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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 […]

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 […]

After four successful summer visits in the wider community, September sees the society back at St Andrews United Reform Church in Netherton, Peterborough. The topic for the evening is Peterborough Dwellings – a visual trip around our city, looking at places people have called home. By Trevor Pearce, Society Chairman and Peterborian Visitors are very […]

The evening of May 11th the last monthly meeting before the three annual Summer visits was a particularly wet evening but, despite the weather, the meeting was well attended. We welcomed some guests from the Cathedral congregation to the meeting.  The evening’s speakers were Dr Jackie Hall, the Peterborough Cathedral archaeologist and Teresa Porciani who […]

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, […]