St Marys Church, Boongate, Peterborough
On a light spring evening in April, the Monthly meeting of the Peterborough Local History Society was very well attended with several new members and...
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March Meeting
Our March meeting will take place this coming Thursday evening (9th March) at 7.30 pm, at St Andrew’s United Reformed Church, Ledbury Road, Netherton, Peterborough...
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The Company of Adventures
The talk by Peter Daldorph on Thursday the 9th of March was a snapshot of a wealth of information found in records of the Cambridgeshire archives....
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Del Singh, Peterborough’s Accidental Historian.
Our February meeting will take place on Thursday 9th, at 7.30pm. We’re delighted to welcome Del Sing, with “Magical History Tours of Peterborough”. Del, who...
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Recollections of Millfield and New England during the 1970s by Del Singh
The February meeting of The Local History Society was well attended. Our Speaker, Deljit Singh, a Peterborian with Asian Sikh ancestry, is a locally well-known...
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Staw and String in Whittlesey
Our January meeting will take place this coming Thursday evening (12th January) at 7.30 pm. We’re delighted to welcome Brian Kell, with “43 years of...
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On Reviving the Staw Bear
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...
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The AGM and Peterborough to the Canadian Prairies.
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...
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November, Farming Fenlands to Canadian Prairies
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...
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