The Family History Society of Cheshire

Tales from St Paul's Churchyard 

By Dave Williams

May 28th 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

All Welcome

Admission Charge £2 for members £3 for visitors

including refreshments

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Chester Station celebrated its 175th anniversary in 2023

Talk by Keith Lawrence

Meetings held at Hartford Methodist Church Hall, Beach Road, Hartford, Northwich CW8 3AB

Doors open 7.00 for 7.30pm start. Admission fee £2.00 to include refreshments. Visitors welcome.

The quirks and idiosyncrasies in parish records.

Admission: £2 for members of the FHSC & £2.50 for non-members including light refreshments

What would you tell the next generation about your grandparents?

Admission: £2 for members of the FHSC and £3 for non-members, including light refreshments.

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Lidice 1942 – its destruction and the part played by

 Staffordshire people in its re-birth – presented by Steve Booth

Face to Face talk at 'The Wishing Well, Crewe.  Tuesday 18^th. June

  Doors open at 7.15pm for a 7.30 start  Admission £2 for members of FHSC and £3 for all others

 Lidice in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, which is now a part of the Czech Republic, was razed and its inhabitants killed in revenge for the assassination of senior Nazi, Reinhard Heydrich.

Nearly 180 men were shot with women and children sent to concentration camps.

Stoke miners raised the equivalent of £1m for the fellow coal mining community, after its 1942 destruction.

A talk by Derek Arnold about Fort Perch Rock in New Brighton

Granelli Family in Macclesfield

June 25th 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

All Welcome

Admission Charge £2 for members £3 for visitors

including refreshments

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The Woodhead Railway Heritage Group set up in 2016 have been working for some time to set up a museum at Guide Bridge Railway Station: officially opening early this year. Both Woodhead and Guide Bridge have fascinating and gloomy histories and this visit should be fascinating.