Previous Meetings

  • Posted on 25/04/2024

    The Peterborough War Memorial Hospital.

    • Meeting Date: 11/04/2024

    Thursday evening, April 11th, was another well attended meeting of the Local History Society to hear the evenings speaker, Doctor Martyn Thomas, a retired local...

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  • Posted on 10/03/2024

    March Meeting

    • Meeting Date: 14/03/2024

    The March meeting of Peterborough Local History Society is on Thursday 14th, at 7.30pm, at St Andrew’s United Reformed Church, Ledbury Road, Netherton, Peterborough PE3...

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  • Posted on 25/03/2024

    From Cow to Customer

    • Meeting Date: 14/03/2024

    A Brief look at the History of Horrrell’s Dairies  Talk given by Marcus Horrell On Thursday evening March 14th at the Peterborough Local History Society...

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  • Posted on 04/02/2024

    The Mendicant Friars of Stamford.

    • Meeting Date: 08/02/2024

    Who they were?  Why they settled there? What became of them? By local author and historian, Linda Ball Who were these evangelical preachers who arrived...

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  • Posted on 10/02/2024

    Grey Friars Or White Friars?

    • Meeting Date: 08/02/2024

    By Julie Nicholson Forty people braved the weather, on what was a really miserable, cold, wet evening, to hear the speaker at the February meeting...

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  • Posted on 20/01/2024

    Finding Collyweston Palace

    • Meeting Date: 11/01/2024

    The January 2024 meeting of the Peterborough Local History Society was, as usual, well attended. Our speaker for the evening was the Chairman of the...

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  • Posted on 06/01/2024

    December Meeting 2023

    • Meeting Date: 14/12/2023

    By Julie Nicholson What a great end to the year for Peterborough Local History Society! Our December meeting certainly concluded the programme for 2023 with...

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  • Posted on 16/11/2023

    AGM and a Local Hero

    • Meeting Date: 09/11/2023

    The  well attended November meeting of the Local History Society at St Andrews Church began with the society’s AGM. The formal meeting went swiftly and...

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  • Posted on 03/11/2023

    The Steam Bus Era.

    • Meeting Date: 12/10/2023

    Thomas Clarkson Steam Bus Pioneer.  The October meeting of the Local History Society convened in St Andrew’s Church at 7.30pm and was well attended as...

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