The Whittlesea Festival of the Straw bear is enacted on the Tuesday after Plough Monday. The first Monday after Twelfth Night. There seems to be no record of its beginnings but in 1909 an overzealous Police Inspector decided to ban the festival calling it a form of ‘Cadging’ The ‘Bear’ a local man dressed in […]
Our Chairman, Trevor opened the 31st AGM of the Peterborough Local History Society by welcoming all the members attending and giving us a rundown of the year’s events. The first full year of meetings since the Covid Pandemic disrupted events locally and worldwide. The business part of the AGM was conducted swiftly and successfully and […]
The November meeting of the Peterborough Local History Society is due to be held on Thursday, November 10th. The evening will commence with our annual general meeting. Following this, our speaker for the evening will be Society member, Carolyn Perkins, with “From Farming Fenlands to Ploughing Canadian Prairies.” This brief history of the Canadian Emigration Service […]
The History Society’s next meeting is on Thursday 13th October. The venue is the St Andrews United Reform Church. Ledbury Road, Netherton, Peterborough PE3 9RF Parking is behind the church. Visitors are welcome with an entrance fee of just £3. Coffee and biscuits are provided. Commencing at 7.30 pm, our speaker for the evening will […]
Marholm Meanderings by Bella Craven. On Thursday evening the 8th September the Society met in their new permanent location of St Andrews Reform Church in Ledbury Road, Netherton, Peterborough. This was the first full meeting since the three successful summer outside monthly visits. The meeting was well attended with a few visitors our new venue […]
May 11th, a pleasent Spring evening and the last Spring meeting of 2022 for the Peterborough History Society and the last meeting to be held in the St Mark’s Church Hall. After the Summer Outside meetings in June July and August, the new venue will be the St. Andrews United Reform Church in Ledbury Road, […]
The April meeting of the Peterborough Local History Society was very well attended and we were delighted to welcome fourteen visitors! David Lowndes shared with us images from his vast portfolio, gathered during 48 years as a press photographer in the city. The photographs and the backstories that David recounted, gave a real glimpse of […]
Our April meeting will take place on Wednesday 20th April at 7.30 pm, at St Mark’s Church Hall, 82 Lincoln Road, Peterborough PE1 2SN. David Lowndes will be showing us images taken during his 48 years as a press photographer. A pictorial history of our city, over the latter part of the 20th and into […]
The March meeting of the History Society was quite a special event and was very well attended. Our speaker for the evening was none other than Professor Stephen Upex who is a leading authority on the Roman and early Saxon period in East Anglia. Professor Upex is a Tutor at Madingley Hall Cambridge, in addition, […]
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