Category: Summer Visits

What a fantastic summer it has been for the Society! We’ve enjoyed four of the very best summer outings that we have ever had. In June, we met at Castor and our friend Professor Stephen Upex explained all the Roman remains of a palace not bettered anywhere outside Rome. From there we moved on to […]

By Annette Martin. We arrived at Elton church on a beautiful summer evening to meet our host Jane Brown who gave us an interesting talk about the history of the church and Elton.  The stained glass windows in the church are beautiful and very detailed – they were made by 4 of the most important glass […]

By Peter Clarkson. Huntingdon was the destination for the second outdoor visit of 2019 on our usual Thursday evening. The visit was hosted by Stuart Orme and commenced with a tour of Huntingdon Town Hall. We learnt that the town hall was rebuilt in the 18th century and replaced an earlier medieval building that was […]

By Peter Clarkson Peterborough Local History Society’s first outdoor visit of 2019 was made on the very unseasonal cool and soggy evening of 8th June to the Peterborough School formerly known as Westwood House School after the name of the building in which it was established.      However, the welcome that we received was […]

A Space Oddity. Words and Photos by Julie Nicholson. Ok, so we weren’t quite in the orbit of “Ground Control to Major Tom” but, where were we? We saw these two windows – I don’t recall ever noticing them before. Do you know whereabouts in Peterborough they are? I’ll give you a clue – we’re […]

July 12th. 2018 The Second Summer Visit. by Julie Nicholson. On a gloriously sunny evening in July, thirty-eight of our members enjoyed the second of the summer visits in our programme for 2018. We were the guests of Oundle School, kindly hosted by their archivist – Mrs Elspeth Langsdale, and a couple of her colleagues. […]

Our First Summer. June 14th 2018 Article and Photos by Julie Nicholson. Driving into the village of Langham, it became apparent that this was a place of historical interest. We gathered outside the church of St Peter and St Paul, where we were met by our hosts from the Langham Village History Group. A lovely […]