The Family History Society of Cheshire

A talk about Ordnance Survey maps and the Godfrey series of maps discussing their usefulness to both family and local historians.

Janet is the current President of the Family History Federation and Chair of Devon FHS. Janet is an experienced and qualified family, social and community historian who lectures regularly on these subjects throughout the UK and overseas. She has spoken at many national and international genealogical events and is also a well-known author. Janet makes a welcome return to FHSC with this presentation which examines the symptoms, prognoses, and treatments for a number of well-known and less well-known epidemic diseases from the Black Death to the influenza of 1918. It mentions some of the relevant records and considers how our ancestors might have reacted.   This event is for members only and registration opens on 1 July  and closes on  18 July REMBEMBER you need to be logged into the website using your user name and password to register, Then please click on the title of this Seminar, then click ‘Join’, followed by ‘Save’ – You will receive an email confirmation of your request to attend the talk and the zoom links/meeting protocol will be forwarded 2 days prior to the talk.  If you run into any difficulties with this then please contact us on the dedicated seminar email address – or see the 'Seminar Talks and how to Register' section under 'Online Talks and Meetings' in the FAQ section of the website. The Seminar series is co-ordinated by Margaret Spate, Jean Laidlaw and Margaret Roberts and ALL correspondence, queries etc should be sent to the dedicated email address -   

Both pre and post WW2 one of the gifts hoped for at birthdays and Christmas was a train set. The presenter will talk about the more affordable trains of these times. The talk will only be part based on a slide presentation but also the practical demonstration of several trains running on a layout. There will be audience participation!

The story of the WW2 shadow factory making the Wellington bomber and later the AVRO Lancaster at Broughton in North Wales, near to Chester. In 1943 there was a publicity project to break the world record by successfully building a Wellington bomber from scratch in just 24 hours. The present Broughton factory is owned by Airbus Operations and is the centre of wing production for all models of Airbus commercial aircraft.