Begin your application today, it's just £15.00 per year!
Category: Monthly Meeting
March Meeting
Our next meeting will take place this coming Thursday (13th March) at 7.30 pm, at St Andrew’s United Reformed Church, Ledbury Road, Netherton, Peterborough PE3 9RF. The speaker for the evening will be Prof K. Schurer, with “The Discovery of Richard III – Ten Years On”. The discovery of a skeleton in a car park […]
February Meeting
Peterborough and the 1926 General Strike Our next meeting will take place this coming Thursday (13th February) at 7.30 pm, at St Andrew’s United Reformed Church, Ledbury Road, Netherton, Peterborough PE3 9RF. The speaker for the evening will be Dr Hazel Perry, with “Peterborough and the 1926 General Strike”. Hazel studied for an MA in […]
Our Festive Entertainment
December 12th was the final meeting of the year and the evening of the annual social and festive entertainment of the Society. This year we were uproariously entertained by PODS the Peterborough Operatic and Dramatic Society with a festive seranading of well-known Yuletide songs, with a little extra slapstick thrown in by recruiting some of […]
Peterborough’s First Lady Mayor
Lily Violet Bryant 1882-1965 The Society’s AGM meeting took place on Thursday November 14th, followed by a talk from one of our society members Dr. Sadie McMullen entitled ‘Peterborough’s First Lady Mayor’. Trevor, the Society’s Chairman, welcomed the audience and commenced with the AGM business. Trevor was unanimously re-elected as Chairman and Annette Matin was […]
September Meeting
Our next meeting will take place on Thursday 10th October at 7.30pm, at St Andrew’s United Reformed Church, Ledbury Road, Netherton, Peterborough PE3 9RF. The Very Revd Chris Dalliston, Dean of Peterborough, will be speaking on “A New Chapter – Dean’s Cathedrals and the Future”. The Cathedral is such a well-loved historic building, that’s stood […]
Capturing Peterborough’s Street Life.
The members at the Septembers meeting of the Peterborough Local History Society welcomed Chris Porsz the ‘Paramedic Paparazzo’ once more. The last time Chris was welcomed to the Society meeting was during Covid 19 Pandemic and then it had to be a Zoom meeting. This time we were meeting in the warmth of the St […]
Next Meeting September 15th
Our next meeting will take place on Thursday 12th September at 7.30pm, at St Andrew’s United Reformed Church, Ledbury Road, Netherton, Peterborough PE3 9RF. Chris Porsz – “Paramedic Paparazzo”. To many of you, Chris will need no introduction. A Peterborian Paramedic, turned street photographer, Chris will share from his vast collection of images and recount […]
“Awful Harvest Week of Rain and Flood’
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 […]
April Meeting
The April meeting of Peterborough Local History Society is on Thursday 11th, at 7.30pm, at St Andrew’s United Reformed Church, Ledbury Road, Netherton, Peterborough PE3 9RF . Dr John Norton Collins and the Peterborough District Memorial Hospital By Dr Martyn Thomas This talk tells the story of the building of Peterborough’s first purpose-built hospital which […]
