Programme

Our 2023 programme: 23 Feb: '1926' - our speaker is our Chairman, Martyn Lockwood. 23 Mar: Annual General Meeting. 27 Apr: 'John Ray' - Jennifer Rowland. 25 May: Napoleonic Invasion Plans - Neil Wiffen. 22 Jun: 'Jersey under the Jackboot: the occupation of Jersey during WW2' - Patrick Griggs. 27 Jul: 'The Life and Times of William Byrd (c1540-1623): A Local History' - Andrew Smith. 26 Oct: 'The Prison at Hill Hall' - Anne Padfield. 23 Nov: Pre-Christmas meeting. Talk to be confirmed. Admission: Members £1, Non-members £5 Annual Membership: £15 (Family: £30)

Wednesday 2 July 2014

Journal No. 52 (June 2014)

Members of the High Country History Group received their copies of the latest Journal at the meeting last week.  Items in this edition include:
- Anniversaries
- Unhealthy Occupation: The Derby Mercury commenting in 1749 on the high number of clergy who had died in the Ongar district
- Centenary of Chelmsford Diocese (1914 - 2014)
- Dedication of Church at Theydon Mount, taken from the Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society 'New Series' Volume 12 Part 3 (1911)
- William Sworder of Stapleford Tawney
- Christmas Eve: taken from Leaves of a Hunting Diary
- Inquest of the body of William Reed, 1788
- Hue and Cry: Stanford Rivers Imprisonment for Fowl Stealing, 1897
- The Queen's Jubilee and the Woes of Stanford Rivers
- Opening of a Jubilee Fountain at Stanford Rivers, 1898
- The Pilgrims Way: a reference to St Edmund
- Place Names Quiz (answers)
- St Michael's Church Theydon Mount 400th Anniversary Weekend, advertisement
- Parliamentary and Parochial Electors for Stapleford Tawney, 1914
- Dr. Livingstone I Presume!
- That's My Seat. Anne Archer of Theydon Garnon

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