Frodsham & District History Society
Information – 2024
Our Society holds monthly talks in the Main Street Community Church, Frodsham, followed by refreshments, or walks and visits during the summer months The 2024 Programme of Meetings is listed below.
Frodsham & District History Society was founded in 1981; it promotes the value of history and heritage to its members and the wider community via a programme of talks, visits, topical displays, exhibitions and an annual journal.
In our 43 years we have accumulated an impressive archive of local documents, photographs and artefacts which are stored in Castle Park House. A grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2007 enabled volunteers to digitise the collection of printed photographs. About 4,500 images were added to Cheshire Image Bank in 2017 whilst the original hard drive is retained by our archive. More recently we’ve had a grant from the Marshes Community Benefit Fund for an Archive Modernisation Project which began with valuable online training in September 2020 from Cheshire Archives and Local Studies staff. This taught us how to catalogue and conserve our materials using the Cheshire Record Office system – CALM – and that kept volunteers, working online in pairs, busy throughout lockdown! Cataloguing of documents is almost complete though there are many more photographs and artefacts still to work through.
Journals 2011-2019 may be downloaded from our website, and future monthly meetings are also listed there: frodshamhistory.org.uk
Our email address is: fdhsarchive@gmail.com
Programme of Meetings Feb to Dec 2024
Membership £5.00 p.a. + £2.00 per meeting. Visitors welcome £3.00.
Subscriptions are due from the start of each year.
Subscribers receive a copy of the society’s Journal each December.
5th February 2024
Cheshire Maps and Map-makers
Jonathan Peplar
4th March 2024
Place-names and field names: a source for local history
Tony Bostock
8th April 2024
The history of Ness Gardens
Edward Hilditch
13th May 2024
“We don’t want any – Master’s not in”. What really happened on Census night
Claire Moores
June 2024
Visit to historic St Michael’s Church and village, Shotwick
Date to be decided
1st July 2024
Short local walk
Theme to be decided
2nd September 2024
Things that go bump in the night and a quick history of Speke Hall
Sheila Walsh (a Speke Hall guide)
7th October 2024
The coming of the canal to Chester and the re-cutting of the Dee
Mike Royden
4th November 2024
History of Bridge Street, Chester
David Cummings
9th December 2024
Christmas traditions in Britain and around the world
David Hearn
Programme Secretaries, Fran and John have arranged the 2024 meetings.