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 […]
Making your Physical event Virtual Thanks to the ongoing Covid19 pandemic the Country has regressed to a second, slightly less restrictive lockdown. This meant our usual meeting have now been on hold since March and new innovative ways have been used to keep in touch with members. Our Chairman and Secretary, Trevor and Julie have […]
Unfortunately, the Government rules have prevented our plans to look at re-starting monthly meetings. At this time last month, we were awaiting details of meetings such as ours being permitted to go ahead, but that was overtaken by the latest set of restrictive measures. Please do keep visiting the website for further news. members will […]
On the evening of Wednesday, the 16 September members of the Local History Society were treated to an unusual Lockdown meeting. Since March our meetings have had to be postponed as was the September meeting. Our Chairman, Trevor and Secretary Julie worked hard researching and writing an article each month on a Peterborough related history […]
One again most of the committee met this week in our usual way, and we must have had a lot to discuss because we took nearly an hour longer than the previous month. After much discussion, it was decided to postpone the September visit of Chris Porsz until next year; when hopefully it will be […]
