About Us
We were formed in February 2010The society meets every 2/3 months. At each meeting there is a presentation by a guest speaker. This is a list of all the presentations given. To see a summary of the Speaker's remarks please click on the date.
Date | Speaker & Subject |
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2010-03-10 | David Verlander - Local Maps and Aerial Photos |
2010-06-09 | Roger Taylor local author, reminiscences on his life as a Train Driver |
2010-09-18 | John Hurwitz former Managing Director of the Elsenham Jam Factory |
2010-11-10 | Frances Lambert - Archaeological Practice |
2011-03-09 | Alf Wright - Easton Lodge and Daisy, Countess of Warwick |
2011-06-08 | Peter Paye - Elsenham to Thaxted Light Railway |
2011-09-14 | Bruce Munro - Thaxted History and Its Significant Buildings |
2011-11-09 | Professor Anthony Tuck - The Black Death in Essex |
2012-03-07 | Tim Turner - Auctioneer - Antique Fakes and Forgeries |
2012-06-06 | Stanley Sutherland - Why Start Family History ? |
2012-11-07 | Member's Evening - Alan Taylor and War Memorial Sub-Committee, The Production of Our Book "For The Duration" |
2013-03-06 | Bruce Munro - A Chat on Saffron Walden History with Slides |
2013-06-12 | Fred Feather - Arsenic and Olde Essex |
2013-09-11 | Peter Paye - The Saffron Walden Branch Railway |
2013-11-06 | Pat and Steve Schorah - The Dunmow Flitch |
2014-03-05 | Derek Winter - Stansted Airport - Its History and Notable Happenings |
2014-06-11 | Sarah Doig - There's no Such Thing as a Good Tax |
2014-09-10 | Tony Kirby - Railways in The Essex Landscape |
2014-11-12 | War Memorial Team - War Memorial Research Update |
2015-03-04 | Dr. Richard Nunn - It's a Doctor's Life |
2015-06-10 | Tony Kirby - Tides of Fortune - The Rise and Fall of The Seaside Resort |
2015-09-09 | Local Farming in The 1950s - A Narrated Film |
2015-11-11 | Richard Priestley - Newport Free School - A History |
2016-03-09 | Bill Hardy - Carpenter's Marks in Wood Framed Buildings |
2016-06-08 | Peter Turrall - The History of Marconi 1874 to 1937 |
2016-09-07 | Herbert Eiden - The Peasants Revolt in Essex |
2016-11-09 | Moira Jackson and Avril Braidwood - Elsenham Women's Institute |
2017-03-08 | Richard Priestley - The Last Days of Pompeii |
2017-06-14 | Carolyn Wingfield - Curator Saffron Walden Museum - Saffron Walden Museum and Local Finds |
2017-09-13 | Roger Clarke - Church Warden - The History of St Mary's Church Elsenham |
2017-11-08 | Bill Hardy - The Bishop's Stortford Union Workhouse |
2018-03-14 | Dr. Herbert Eiden - The History of Holidaying at the Seaside |
2018-06-13 | Richard Priestley - The Story of Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire |
2018-09-12 | Terry Ward - Station to Station - History Along The Cambridge to Bishop's Stortford Rail Line |
2018-11-14 | Alan Taylor - Battlefield Tour Guide - The End of World War 1 - The Final Battle |
2019-03-13 | Roger Barrett - The Fuller Maitlands at Stansted Hall |
2019-06-12 | Lee Player - Master Thatcher - Thatching - History and Practice |
2019-09-11 | Bill Hardy - Building King's College Chapel and Arabic Assembly Marks |
2019-11-13 | Mark Carroll - DNA, Surnames and Genealogy |
2020-03-12 | Ray Franklin - Elsenham Jam Factory Reprise (10th Anniversary Meeting) |
2020-06-10 | Anthea Hawdon from Raking Light - Church Graffiti Postponed due to COVID |
2020-11-11 | Ken McDonald - 100 Parishes Society -Postponed due to COVID |
2021-03-10 | Nina Gaubert - The Great War Escape Plan POSTPONED |
2021-06-09 | Anthea Hawden from Raking Light - Church Graffiti - POSTPONED |
2021-09-08 | Nina Gaubert - Worlds War 1 Essex Evacuation Plan |
2021-11-10 | Ray Franklin - Photographs of Bishops Stortford (Change of Speaker) |
2022-03-09 | Anthea Hawden - Raking Light - Church Graffiti |
2022-06-08 | Prof. Anthony Tuck - Newport A Great and Poor Town |
2022-09-14 | Ken Macdonald -100 Parishes Society |
2022-11-09 | Richard Till - The Cutlers of Thaxted |
2023-03-08 | Chris Bush - History of Park Road Elsenham |
2023-06-14 | Tony Wellings- History of Stansted Mountfitchet Windmill |