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)

Thursday 29 December 2016

Journal No. 62 (December 2016)

The latest Journal of the High Country History Group contains the following items:
- Greensted Hall, the Seat of Captain Budworth
- Essex Churches Then and Now: a talk to be given by the Essex Society for Archaeology and History on 27 April 2017
- Homeless in Stanford Rivers
- Captain Atherton Harold Chisenhale-Marsh 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers
- Zeppelins Commemoration, September 2016: Memorial unveiled at Billericay, and Zepfest at Little Wigborough
- Apotrophic Marks
- Hainault Forest
- Listed Buildings in the High Country - 1. Theydon Mount
- Book Reviews
- From The Papers
- Essex Archaeological Society visit to the High Country in 1908
- Programme for 2017

Wednesday 28 December 2016

Journal No. 61 (September 2016)

The quarterly Journal of the High Country History Group contains the following items:
- Green Man Public House, Toot Hill - an update
- Verdun Oaks
- Toot Hill Windmill
- Memorials against the Police
- Threatened Closures of Stapleford Tawney and Theydon Mount Schools in 1911
- Extensive Fire at Greensted
- St James Church, Matrden Ash, Ongar
- The Post Office Rifles at Ongar
- Amelius Mark Richard, 1st Baron Lambourne (1847-1928)

Tuesday 27 December 2016

Journal No. 60 (June 2016)

The quarterly Journal of the High Country History Group contains the following:
- The sad story of Mr Mikkish
- World War II Airfields in Essex
- The Token Coinage of Essex in the Seventeenth Century
- Zeppelins Over Essex: Sources for Talk
- The Green Man Public House, Toot Hill
- Richard Mulcaster, Rector of Stanford Rivers 1598
- Hill Hall, Theydon Mount - a Haunting!
- The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales