HISTORY
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Previously.
2014 - November. Collection of pictures taken at the Deepings Community centre for the WW1 100 years memories. 201411 WW1Deepingsmemories.
2014 - July. A visit to Peterborough Cathedral by the Photographic group. (link to photos 2014Cathedral.)
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SPEAKER ROGRAMME 2024
| Month Date | Title/topic | Speaker Contact | |
| January 17th | "From Deeping to Stamford - by canal". | Maggie Ashcroft. |
| February 21st | Villages of South Lincolnshire | Reverend David Bond |
| March 20th | ‘The Clarkson's of Wisbech and their role in the Abolition of the Slave Trade and Slavery’. | Maureen James |
| April 17th | Paul Robeson | Brian Keegan |
| May 15th | “With a Strong and Steady Hand…” Medicine and Surgery in the Roman Empire. | Stuart Orme |
| June 19th | 'So you thought YOU were odd’? | Sandra Jones |
| July 17th | The Ark Royal. | Brian Thornthwaite | |
| August 21st | TRIP, |
| September 18th | “History of Molecey Mill and it’s owners” | Graham Gladwell Patterson |
| October 16th | Fair Maid: Joan Holland, a romantic royal medieval story | Philippa Massey |
| November 20th | Poems | Ian Jones |
| December 18th | Christmas Lunch |
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PROGRAMME 2023
Speaker List 2023 as at FEB 2023.
| Month Date | Title/topic | Speaker |
| January 18th | Mr Jones | Sandra |
| February 15th | ‘Legends of the Lincolnshire Carrs’ | Maureen James |
| March 15th | The Historic Landscape of Burghley Park | Reverend David Bond |
| April 19th | Travel Down the River Nene over the centuries. | Brian Keegan |
| May 17 th | ‘The Secret Museum’. | Patty Harris |
| June 21st | Wellington’s Secret Service | Stuart Orme |
| July 19th | “I never knew that”. | Jill Collinge |
| August 16th | TRIP | |
| September 20th | Paths in the Wood. | Brian Thornthwaite |
| October 18th | A Vespa trip through Europe. | Pat Abel |
| November 15th | Appeasement in the 1930s. | Henry Roberts |
| December 20th | Christmas Lunch | |
PROGRAMME 2022
Speaker List 2022 as at Nov 2021.
| Month Date | Title/topic | Speaker# |
| January 19th | Liverpool at War | Brian Thornthwaite |
| February 16th | ‘The 1960s and 1860s compared’ | Tony Plunkett |
| March 16th | Women in the 1st World War | Henry Roberts |
| April 20th | St George in Myth, Tradition and History | Maureen James |
| May 18th | My Childhood in a Borstal. | Kay Plunkett |
| June 15th | The History of Biscuits | Sandra Jones |
| July 20th | The Life and Times of Isabel de Clare | Margaret Baldry |
| August 17th | TRIP | |
| September 21st | TBC | Toby Wood |
| October 19th | 'An Updated History of the Panama Canal'. | Geoff Whittle |
| November 16th | ‘Ague in the Fens’ | Dr Martyn Thomas |
| December 21st | Christmas lunch. | |
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PROGRAMME - 2020
| January 15th | Time Goes By: An Illustrated History of Bargoed-Gilfach | Terry McCarthy |
| February 19th | A Crowland Miscellany | Stephen Perry |
| March 18th | A History of Rutland Water | Dale Martin Conservation Ranger |
| April 15th | St George in Myth, Tradition and History | Maureen James |
| May 20th | Peterborough trip ? | Stuart Orme |
| June 17th | 'Origins of the second world war' | Henry Roberts |
| July 15th | Liverpool at War | Brian Thornthwaite |
| August 19th | Trip. | |
| September 16th | Fenland through music and poetry | Paul Edey |
| October 21st | ‘The 1960s and 1860s compared’ | Tony Plunkett |
| November 18th | My Childhood in a Borstal. | Kay Plunkett |
| December 16th | Christmas meal. | |
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PROGRAMME - 2019
| Month Date | Title/topic | Speaker# |
| January 16th | Cromwell and 'The Civil War’. | Stuart Orme. |
| February 20th | ‘The Treaty of Versailles’. | Henry Roberts |
| March 20th | ‘The jewel in the crown’: the History of Stamford’. | Jill Collinge |
| April 17th | The Market Deeping Railway | Brian White and colleague Martin. |
| May 15th | Peterborough Blue Plaque Scheme | Peter Lee and Toby Wood |
| June 19th | The History of the Red Cross. | Liz Waterland? |
| July 17th | Liverpool in the war. | Brian Thornthwaite |
| August 21st | Trip. |
| September 18th | ‘The Story of Alfred Caleb Taylor’. | Dr Martyn Thomas |
| October 16th | Deeping in the Fifties | Liz Parkinson. |
| November 20th | Quiz | Sandra and Mary |
| December 18th | Christmas meal. |
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| Month Date | Title/topic | Speaker | |
| January 17th | 'Flag Fen to Must Farm'. | Stuart Orme |
| February 21st | ‘The madman and the foundation of the Oxford English Dictionary’. | Eddie Adams |
| March 21st | ‘Kaiser Bill’. | Kay Plunkett |
| April 18th | ‘The Making of the Fens’. | Jim Winstone |
| May 16th | ‘The Condor Legion’. | Brian Thornthwaite |
| June 20th | ‘History of Peterborough in 20 architectural details’. | Toby Wood |
| July 18th | ‘A History of Airships, Blimps and Balloons’. | Geoff Whittle |
| August 15th | Trip | |
| September 19th | ‘Musical memories’. | Sandra Jones |
| October 17th | ‘The Frederick Frank Story’. | Stephen Perry |
| November 21st | ‘Christmas Customs and Folklore’. | Maureen James |
| December 19th | Christmas meal | |
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| WEDNESDAY Month Date | Title/topic | Speaker Contact | # |
| January 18th | The making of the English human landscape. | Jim Winstone | |
| February 15th | Tobacciana | Alexander Arlow | |
| March 15th | Talking machines, old gramophones and phonographs etc. | Colin Ray | |
| April 19th | Transport of London | David McVitie | |
| May 17th | 'Bogles, Boggarts and Wil 'o' the Wykes - Exploring the Folklore of the Lincolnshire Fens'? | Maureen James | |
| June 21st | Peterborough Hospitals | Stephen Perry | |
| July 19th | The Cuban Missile Crisis | Geoff Whittle | |
| August 16th | Coach Trip | |
| September 20th | ‘British nationality and passports - from Empire to Brexit.’ | Tony Plunkett | |
| October 18th | Lloyd George, Part 2. | Ian Jones | |
| November 15th | Deeping in the 50s | Liz Parkinson and John Bloomfield | |
| December 20th | Christmas meal | |
