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An Introduction
There are many organisations
and individuals in the
The Peterborough Area Local History Forum, established in September 1999, provides a means by which all these organisations and individuals can meet, exchange information on their programmes and plans, where relevant, and support each other on projects of one sort or another.
This Directory lists all the members of the Forum as at March 2001. It is divided into five sections covering official bodies; local museums and heritage sites; schools and churches; societies; and individuals -
Each entry includes a brief background note on the organisation or individual and a contact point.
All the members would welcome enquiries about their work and the societies are always keen to welcome new members.
PALHF Directory, first edition, March 2001
Directory of Members
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Official Bodies |
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Peterborough City Council, which became a unitary authority in April
1998, is responsible for a wide range of cultural and recreational services
including the Library Service, the Museum and See separate entries for the Central Library, Museum and Tourism Officer: Linda Wills Tel: 01733 343329 / 452336 Fax: 01733 341928 / 452353 |
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PETERBOROUGH CENTRAL LIBRARY Local Studies Librarian: Richard Hillier Broadway, Peterborough PE1 1RX Tel: 01733 348343 Fax: 01733 555277 EMail: libraries@peterborough.gov.uk The Library houses the Local Studies Collection which has material that relates to the area within a ten to fifteen mile radius of Peterborough, including books, maps and plans, newspapers and periodicals, and engravings and photographs. There is also a variety of microfilm/microfiche material including local census records from 1841 onwards, church registers, civil registers and probate indexes. |
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PETERBOROUGH MUSEUM AND Heritage Services Manager: Michael Dillon Priestgate, Peterborough PE1 1LF Tel: 01733 343329 Fax: 01733 341928 EMail: museum@peterborough.gov.uk Website: www.peterboroughheritage.org.uk
The Museum houses displays on Peterborough's archaeology, natural history and social history. It also has a library, a collection of fine art and a bookshop. A major new Millennium-funded exhibition on the story of Peterborough was launched in August 2000. The Museum is open Tuesday to Friday from 12.00 to 5.00, Saturday from 10.00 to 5.00 and Sunday from 12.00 to 4.00. |
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PETERBOROUGH COLLEGE OF ADULT EDUCATION Principal: Dr Graham Winton Tel: 01733 761361 Fax: 01733 703545 EMail: gwinton@pcae.org.uk The College provides adult education courses in the daytime, evenings and at weekends in a variety of subjects including history, local history, archaeology, landscape history and field archaeology both for general interest and formal qualifications. The College provides a linked programme with the University of Cambridge Board of Continuing Education. |
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NORTHAMPTONSHIRE RECORD OFFICE County Archivist: Rachel Watson Deputy: Sue Groves Wootton Hall Park, Northampton NN4 8BQ Tel: 01604 762129 Fax: 01604 767562 EMail: archivist@nro.northamptonshire.gov.uk Website: www.nro.northamptonshire.gov.uk
The Record Office preserves the written history of the county of Northamptonshire, including areas formerly within its boundaries, and makes it available for public consultation. It preserves the recorded past for the present and for the future. |
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Museums and Heritage Sites |
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Contact: see Thorney Society entry The Tankyard, Station Road, Thorney, Peterborough PE6 0SE The Museum shows the development of Thorney from Monastic days. It includes material illuminating the Walloon and Flemish influence after Vermuyden's drainage and the model housing established by the Duke of Bedford. The Museum is open from Easter to the end of September, weekends only, from |
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NENE VALLEY RAILWAY Hon Curator: Brian White Hon Archivist: Peter Waszak Wansford Station, Stibbington, Peterborough PE8 6LR Tel: 01780 784444 Fax: 01780 784440 Website: www.nvr.org.uk/ Heritage steam railway. The NVR has a museum at Wansford Station and the archives will be based at Ferry Meadows station. Currently a proportion of the archives are on loan to the County Record Office at Huntingdon. 'Nene Steam' magazine contains regular articles on aspects of local railway history. There are also several NVR books. |
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Churches and Schools |
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ALL SOULS RC CHURCH ARCHIVES Hon. Archivist: Peter Waszak The Presbytery, Geneva Street, Peterborough PE1 2RS Tel: 01733 562528 Fax: 01733 346933 The Church archives date back to the late 18th century. Various publications and articles are available on local Catholic history. |
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ST JOHN FISHER RC SCHOOL School Librarian: Peter Waszak Tel: 01733 343646 Fax: 01733 347983 The School Library has a large local studies section which is aimed at students and staff at the school but can also be made available to others by prior written request. The Library is of particular use to those involved in GCSE and A-level projects. |
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Societies |
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CROWLAND TOWN SOCIETY Chairperson: Margaret Smith Secretary: Sheelagh Elphee 48 North Street, Crowland, Peterborough PE6 0EF Tel: 01733 210260 E-Mail: cathi@cruland.freeserve.co.uk Meetings are held generally on the second Monday of each month, to hear speakers on local topics or visit places of historic interest. The Society holds a large collection of photographs, documents and artifacts pertaining to the town and has a long-term aim to set up a Heritage centre. |
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DEEPINGS HERITAGE Chairman: Neil Hermsen Secretary: Keith Simpson 43 Eastgate, Deeping St James, Peterborough PE6 8HH Tel: 01778 344553 EMail: keith.r.simpson@talk21.com Website www.deepings-heritage.org.uk A civic society with interests in local planning matters, the environment and local history, archaeology, and architecture. The Society holds the social meetings each year on the second Thursday of each month in the Sixth Form Common Room, at The Deepings School. Deepings Heritage also publishes a newsletter and several books/booklets. |
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EYE HISTORY SOCIETY Chairman: David Fovargue Secretary: Chris Clark 87 Fountains Place, Eye Peterborough PE6 7XX Tel: 01733 222267 EMail: john.e.clark@talk21.com A group of people interested in the social history of Eye village. |
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JOHN CLARE SOCIETY Chairman: Dr John Goodridge Secretary: Peter Moyse ARPS The Stables, 1A West Street, Helpston, Peterborough PE6 7DU Tel: 01733 252678 The Society brings together all lovers of Clare's poetry and prose who find in him 'a voice for our time' and promotes Clare's writings to a wider audience by way of exhibitions, talks etc. It also seeks to protect Helpston's environment and to encourage rural education and a sensitivity to the English countryside. |
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FRIENDS OF PETERBOROUGH MUSEUM & ART GALLERY Chairperson: Maisie Terrell Membership Secretary: Peter Green Arley, High Haden Road, Glatton, Huntingdon PE17 5RU Tel: 01487 830357 The Friends aim to organise interesting and entertaining events and activities including a programme of monthly lunchtime lectures to promote the work of the Museum and help raise funds for the purchase of new items for the collections. |
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PETERBOROUGH MUSEUM SOCIETY Chairman: David Sharp Secretary: Ruth Rodwell 9 Royston Avenue, Orton Longueville, Peterborough PE2 7AA Tel: 01733 231434 The Society founded the Museum, passing it to the care of the City Council in the 1960s. Currently the Society organises a series of lectures at the Museum fortnightly on Tuesday evenings between September and March and summer visits to places of interest. The Society also publishes historical texts relevant to the area. |
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PETERBOROUGH AND DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY Chairman: Ewan Cappitt Secretary: Pauline Kennelly 33 Farleigh Fields, Orton Wistow, Peterborough PE2 6YB Tel: 01733 235956 EMail: michael kennelly@email.msn.com The Society provides a forum for people presently living in and around Peterborough who are interested in studying geneology and the history of the various societies in which their ancestors grew up. It also provides assistance to people living anywhere in the world whose ancestors lived in or near Peterborough and who wish to find out more about those forebears. |
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PETERBOROUGH CIVIC SOCIETY Chairman: Barry Pulford Membership Secretary: Ian Webb 5 Buckland Close Peterborough PE3 9UH Tel: 01733 263149 EMail: ian.webb@unisonfree.net Website: www.peterborough.net/civicsociety/ The Society seeks to encourage urban renewal and an appreciation of the local heritage of buildings and other features of historical and environmental interest. It maintains links with other bodies, organises a programme of talks and visits and publishes a spring newsletter and an annual report. The Society has also mounted plaques on a number of local buildings of historical interest and publishes a 'Plaque Trail' leaflet. |
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PETERBOROUGH LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY Chairman: Stephen Perry Secretary: Fred Browning 8 Cardinals Gate, Werrington, Peterborough PE4 5AS Tel: 01733 322278 The Society meets on the second Thursday of each month at the Museum at 7.30 pm from September to May. Visits are normally arranged for June and July. The Society publishes a magazine in March and October that usually has a local content. In March it holds an annual film night in aid of the Mayor's charities when the programme includes items of local interest. The overall aim of the Society is to enjoy the history of Peterborough. |
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PETERBOROUGH PUB ARCHIVE Contact: Steve Williams Tel: 01733 896320 Mobile: 07802 896641 Please The project researches and maintains an archive of material relating to the public houses, breweries and people involved in the licensed trade and seeks out new material (oral or written) relating to the history of local public houses. It also forms links with other societies and individuals for the mutual exchange of information. |
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RAILWORLD Chairman: Rev Richard Paten Tel: 01733 344240 Railworld is a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee with the objective of public education about railways in the broadest sense, ranging from Peterborough's local railway history to the long-term environmental benefits of travel by rail. The exhibition is open from 11.00 am to 4.00 pm on Monday to Friday between November and February and every day from March to October. |
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PETERBOROUGH RAILWORKERS' REGISTER Contact: Clive Smith Buildings Farm, Thorney Road, Milking Nook, Peterborough PE6 7PT Tel: 01733 810223 Fax: 0870 734 6096 EMail: csmithcf@cs.com The project, which is a part of Railworld, is compiling a register (including biographical and genealogical data) of all railworkers connected with Peterborough since the arrival of the railway. |
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PETERBOROUGH YOUNG ARCHAEOLOGISTS Contact: Patricia Roberts 9 St Pega's Road, Peakirk, Peterborough PE6 7NF Tel: 01733 253111 A club to encourage an interest in archaeology in children from eight years upwards by running monthly sessions, events or outings and providing members with information on other archaeological events in the area. |
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THORNEY SOCIETY Chairman: Secretary: Dorothy Halfhide Peterborough PE6 0SE Tel: 01733 270908 EMail: dot.thorney@tesco.net The aim of the Society is the presentation of the heritage of Thorney. It manages the Thorney Heritage Museum and arranges tours of the village (see the Museum entry). |
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WERRINGTON LOCAL HISTORY GROUP Chairman: Judy Bunten Secretary: Mary Crunkhorn Tel: 01733 574116 The group aims to promote an interest in, and knowledge of, the local history of the area in the widest sense by means of monthly talks on all subjects connected with the local history and by organised visits. A newsletter is produced bi-annually. |
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Individuals |
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BUNCH, ALLAN Tel: 01733 564608 Fax: 01733 706675 EMail: allan.bunch@virgin.net Former librarian and writer or editor of a number of books on local history subjects, now a freelance writer/designer under the pen-name Pen to Print. |
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CHISWELL, DON Tel: 01733 569951 Lecturer in history |
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MOYSE, PETER The Stables, 1A West Street, Helpston, Peterborough PE6 7DU Tel: 01733 252678 Member of the Association of Historical & Fine Art Photography and an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society, specialising in architecture and landscape. Also provides a service for copying of old photographs and documents. |
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