We have a range of talks relating to the history of Nantwich to local groups etc. which can also be delivered digitally.
Nantwich Museum Talks – 2023/2024
Helen Cooke
• A 17th Century Nantwich Apothecary’s Tale
• Life during the Siege and Battle of Nantwich
• The Parochial Library at St Mary’s Church
• The History of Townsend House and Nantwich Walled Garden
• Joseph Priestley, Discoverer of Oxygen: his Time in Nantwich
• The River Weaver and its Water: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• A Summer of Science at Nantwich Museum
• Introducing Nantwich and Its Museum
Coming soon (should be available by spring 2024):
• Women in the Civil War
• Helen Macfarlane: from Revolutionary to Vicar’s Wife
Graham D Dodd
• Tales of the Marches
• Travellers’ Tales of the Marches
• The Story of the Shropshire Union Canal
• A Glimpse of Life on the Shropshire Union Canal
• The Canal at Nantwich
• The Story of a River, Nantwich and the Weaver Navigation
• Nantwich in Tudor Times
• The Drovers, their history and visits to Nantwich
• A Cameo of the Six Towns
• Andrew Fuller Chater – a living memory
• The Story of Crewe Hall
• Crewe Hall at War
• John Gerard, English Herbalist
• Andrew Fuller Chater – a living memory
• A Crewe Factory Girl – the life of Ada Nield Chew
• Such stuff as dreams are made on
• Landscape with Mills – in the Nantwich Hundred
• Fortresses of the Marches
• Nantwich on Fire
• POW Camp 74 – a story of common men
Wyn Jones
• Local Geology
• The Welsh Drovers
• A Gangster in the Family
• Wybunbury Moss
• The changing face of the countryside
• UK Overseas Territories
David Nellist
• Brine & its multiple uses. Cheshire’s blessing
• Middlewich’s lost chemical plant which closed in strange circumstances and all files were ordered to be destroyed
• The History of Murgatroyd’s Brine pump
• The History of the Gas Works
Les Pickford
• Illustrating History
• When Turner came to Town
• Cricket and the Victorians, when All England played Nantwich
Ian Short
• A Story of Witchcraft – Nantwich and beyond
• Death in Nantwich
• Coronations – Past and Present
• Nantwich Illuminated- The History of the Gas Works site
Please get in touch for more information.