Category: Monthly Meeting

Once more our members gathered in the St Marks Church Hall for our November meeting and AGM. Despite the cold chill in the night air, the attendance was high.  The business part of the meeting went well without any problems   Our Chairman, Trevor, gave his annual report, praising the excellent speakers at the meetings […]

Summer might be over, but the October Meeting of the Local History Society was well attended on an unseasonably warm evening. Our Speaker was Mr Paul Goldsmith,  Chairman of the Parson Latham  Hospital Charitable Trust in Oundle. His talk was on the history of the 17th century Grade 1 listed Hospital This was Mr Goldsmith’s […]

September 14th and the dark nights are back. The Peterborough Local History Society met in St Marks Church Hall for their first inside meeting since the three very successful outside summer visits. Our topic for the evening was the History of the Peterborough Gang Shows and our speaker was Peter Ashpool, sporting his Scout uniform […]

May 10th 2018 With the advent of the first light evening meeting of the year and the attendance was good. Our speaker for the evening was Mr Alan Peasgood Historian and archivist at St Marks. During the early 1800’s with the arrival of the railways Peterborough was a rapidly expanding City. Worship in the City […]

Another cold damp evening. The attendance was down a little which was a shame as this  evenings talk was given by Bob Weston of Weston Homes. Weston Homes is  the company building  the super modern apartments on Fletton Quays as well as restoring and renovating The Gables on Thorpe Road, a short row of Victorian […]

New buildings from old. An exploration of the process of redeveloping historic buildings to modern Homes Formed in 1987, by Bob Weston, Weston Homes Plc  is a building firm, from Takerley Essex, with over 30 years experience of new builds and redeveloping historic and listed buildings into contemporary ultra modern apartments for 21 century living. […]