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Unless noted otherwise, we hold our monthly meetings at [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kingswood/@53.2077779,-2.8682727,3a,75y,334.68h,96t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1ssbOZ1UFmyNrP4DM4m-CXpA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xf6115cc5f819abae!8m2!3d53.208277!4d-2.8681444 The Kingswood Complex, Kingsway, Newton, Chester, CH2 2FF], starting from 19:15. The programme for the following months is: |
Unless noted otherwise, we hold our monthly meetings at [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kingswood/@53.2077779,-2.8682727,3a,75y,334.68h,96t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1ssbOZ1UFmyNrP4DM4m-CXpA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xf6115cc5f819abae!8m2!3d53.208277!4d-2.8681444 The Kingswood Complex, Kingsway, Newton, Chester, CH2 2FF], starting from 19:15. The programme for the following months is: |
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===Saturday 28th January 2023=== |
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From 1-5pm at Hoole Community Centre, CWaC (the Council) is holding a Community Engagement event. This is intended to provide a further opportunity for local people to learn about what the new Archives Centre will have to offer (and express their opinions). Members of our Society and Cheshire Family History Society are welcome to attend. |
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===Thursday 16th February 2023=== |
===Thursday 16th February 2023=== |
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Revision as of 08:38, 6 February 2023
Unless noted otherwise, we hold our monthly meetings at The Kingswood Complex, Kingsway, Newton, Chester, CH2 2FF, starting from 19:15. The programme for the following months is:
Thursday 16th February 2023
Clive Tolley on "Hoole Heath: Raking up the Past". Back in the time of Edward III there was an "inquisition" about Hoole Heath. Since then many historians have used documents from that time to interpret the landscape, but have they made mistakes? Clive will be taking a fresh look at the location and development of the heath and routes across it.
Thursday 23rd March 2023
John Walker on Dr John Haygarth of the Chester Infirmary. Haygarth (1740 – 10 June 1827) played an important role in the epidemiology and eradication of smallpox and the exposure of medical quackery. Haygarth spent 30 years at Chester and became known as one of the best physicians of his time.
Thursday 20th April 2023
Peter Elliott on the April 1923 Suspension Bridge across the Dee. It will almost exactly 100 years since the new bridge was opened, and Peter will be looking some features of the bridge that are not in the guidebooks.
Thursday 11th May 2023
Monty Mercer - the Rainhill trials were an important competition run from the 6 to 14 October 1829, to test George Stephenson's argument that locomotives would have the best motive power for the then nearly-completed Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR). Stephenson's Rocket was the only locomotive to complete the trials, and was declared the winner, and some family of Monty were involved.