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to the...
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site
The
next Meeting is on
Thursday,
15 May 2008
Higham Then and Now
by Andrew Rootes
8.00pm
in
Higham Library,
Forge Lane
All
welcome. Members free, visitors £2.00 per person. |
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**IMPORTANT
NOTICE** 
St Mary's Church Opening CANCELLED.
HVHG
intention to have St Mary's Church, Lower Higham open to the public on Sunday 25th May 2008 have been stopped by circumstances beyond our control. We regret any inconvenience caused.
BUT...good news!! By kind permission of The Chequers PH, between 12 noon and 4pm on 25th May there will be an exhibition of old photographs with Reminiscence Readings at 1pm and 3pm.
Other events during Gravesham Heritage Festival will proceed as normal. For more information, please click here.
HELP!!?
Do
you recognise the occasions or people in these photographs below? HVHG need your help. Click
here for more information.
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(To email us, please click
here.)
Higham History in the Making
Higham was on the route for the first ever Tour de France cycle race to
start in Great Britain. On Sunday 8th July 2007 this grand spectacle
came through Higham on the A226. Click
here for more details & photographs.
St
Mary's Church, 6 May 2007
As a part of the Discover Gravesham Heritage Festival 2007, Higham Village
History Group, with the kind permission of the Churches Conservation
Trust, opened St Mary's Church, Church Street, Lower
Higham on Sunday 6th May 2007. On display was an exhibition of old photographs
of Higham. The newly printed Volume Two of the
book "Higham in Old Photographs"
was also available for the first time, priced £6.00.
To
view some photographs of this event, please click
here.
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About
Us
The
Higham Village History Group was formed in May 1997 by those villagers interested
in local history and is affiliated to the Kent History Federation. Higham is
a large village situated between Gravesend and the Medway Towns in north-west
Kent. For a Higham location map, please click
here.
Membership
of the Village History Group has grown steadily and costs £5.00 per person
per year with visitors at £2.00 per meeting. Complimentary refreshments
are available after all meetings. Membership fees are reviewed at the AGM. Membership
is for 12 months and renewable in May. Membership entitles you to free entry
to all our meetings and talks by invited guest speakers. Fundraising
Raffles are held at our Christmas time meeting and at our AGM.
We
hold our meetings at 8.00pm bi-monthly
on the third Thursday of the month in the Memorial Hall, School
Lane, Higham. See the Meeting Dates listed below for more details.
Click
here for more information about the Larkin Monument depicted on our our
logo. 
New Book
Launch, May 2007 |
The
History Group's highly successful and popular publication of Higham
in Old Photographs now has a new volume two!! It was publicly
available on sale Sunday 6 May 2007 at St Mary's Church opening.
Priced
at only £6.00, this new volume, complied by HVHG member Andrew
Rootes, expands on the first volume with all new photographs.
It is an illustrated record of Higham village using more than 180 photographs.
A
launch ceremony and book signing session with the author was held on
Saturday 2 June 2007 in Higham Library, Forge Lane. Both books
are now on sale (Vol 1 is now £2.50; the new Vol 2 is £6.00)
in Higham Library as well as from Meadows Store and the Upper Higham
Post Office. |
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(left)
This book, Higham in Old Photographs compiled by Andrew Rootes and Sue
Williams is available for sale.
(right)
Volume 2 of Higham in Old Photographs was launched in May 2007. |
 
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The
History Group has a growing collection of old photographs and is very keen to
collect more. Here on our web site we have a page of old photographs
that show all areas of life in the past including: pictures of people in front
of shops or buildings that are no longer here; social occasions and carnival
processions; School or Church activities; agricultural scenes – farm workers,
machinery, hop or fruit picking. Click here to
go down memory lane...
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Meeting
Dates for the 2008/2009 Season
20 March 2008 -- People, Plots and Plants by Jean Lear.
15th May 2008 -- AGM and Andrew Rootes: Higham Then and Now.
17th July 2008 -- Geoff Hutchinson: History in Comic Verse, 1066 to the Internet.
18th September 2008 -- Imogen Corrigan: The Black Death and its Aftermath.
20th November 2008 -- Martin Harris: Taking Dickens to America.
15th January 2009 -- Russell Bowes: A Nice Cup of Tea.
19th March 2009 -- Martin Lloyd: Buzz Bombs and Bicycles: a cyclist’s look at Hitler’s V1.
To
go to our Previous Year's Meeting Archive, please click
here.
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Contact
Information
To
contact HVHG, please telephone 01634 718285 or to email click
here.
Web site
comments or problems? Email the HVHG Webmaster here.
Please
do look out for posters which are displayed around the village giving details
of our next meeting.
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Publications
and Books
Volume
1 was published in 2004 by the History Group and is now priced at £2.50.
Volume 2, launched in May 2007, is priced at £6.00. Both books are
on sale in Higham Library, Meadows Store and the Upper Higham Post Office.
Or, to order your copies, please click
here to email giving your full name, postal address and telephone
number. We shall then contact you to arrange delivery and to collect your
payment. (Each book P&P £1.50 for UK addresses, overseas P&P
at cost.)
Other
relevant publications:-
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A Mosaic History
of Higham, published March 1974. (Out of print but
is available in Higham Library for perusal.) |
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Moments
before the Millennium: The Higham Village Appraisal 1997.
(Out
of print, but is available in Higham Library for perusal) |
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Higham
Priory. A pamphlet produced in the Gravesham Local History series by Christoph
Bull, Librarian in Gravesend Library. (Available
to purchase from Gravesend and Higham Libraries and TownCentric) |
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