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)

Monday 31 March 2014

High Country History Group AGM: Thursday 3 April 2014

A reminder to members that our AGM will be held on Thursday 3 April, 8pm, at Toot Hill Village Hall.  Followed by a film '1953' and cheese and wine.  Not to be missed!

Thursday 13 March 2014

An Evening With Dickens: Stapleford Tawney Church: Friday 21 March 2014


PARISH of STAPLEFORD TAWNEY with THEYDON MOUNT

Friday 21st March, 7.00 for 7.30pm
Stapleford Tawney Church   
Tawney Lane
RM4 1DQ

AN EVENING WITH DICKENS

Presented by NICK DOBSON

Charles Dickens is one of our best-known writers.  In his epic stories he created some of the world's most vivid fictional characters.
Get in the mood by dressing as one of his characters – a prize for the best!  Or just come along and enjoy the evening.

Ticket includes glass of wine and refreshments

Raffle

Tickets £10.00

Tuesday 11 March 2014

Journal No 51 (March 2014)

The 40 page quarterly magazine is now available to members of the High Country History Group. Two new series commence in our second 50 of Journals: palaeography, and extracts from the Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society (now Essex Society for Archaeology and History  Items include
- Coopersale House, Theydon Garnon - an enigma
- Transportation reprived (of Samuel James of Theydon Garnon, 1797)
- Boxing Match at Ongar
- Greensted Church and James Barlow, an historical record of his life
- Mad Dog
- Palaeography
-- (i) Introduction
-- (ii) Vagrants' Certificate from Stanford Rivers, 1598
-- Place Names Quiz
- Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society
-- Greenstead Church, by Henry Laver F.S.A.
- A View of Stanford Rivers 1866. A visit to Issac Taylor
- Obituary. Sir Richard Smijth, Rector of Stapleford Tawney with Theydon Mount, 1837
- Farming in Stapleford Tawney 1902