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The next Meeting is on

Thursday September 16th 2010
 

Old Gravesend Shops
Speaker: Sandra Soder


8.00pm

in Higham Memorial Hall,
School Lane, Higham, ME3 7JL

All welcome. Members free, visitors £2.50 per person.

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photograph of HVHG members presenting a £476.25 cheque to Kent Air Ambulance, October 2009

HVHG raised funds for Kent Air Ambulance through sale of Higham in Old Photograph books.  We presented a cheque for £476.25 to KAA Trust in October 2009.


HELP!!?

 We have been asked about the family name Clare.  A Michael Clare (or Clear) and Elizabeth C. appeared in the first Census of 1837 as living at Higham. They and their descendants appear to have lived at Higham for some time after. Can anyone tell us if there are still any families with the surname Clare still living in the area? [July 2010]

 

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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.

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The poster above announces this KCC Libraries initative from November 2009.
 

St Mary's Church, 31 May 2009image of advert poster
As a part of the Discover Gravesham Heritage Festival 2009, Higham Village History Group, with the kind permission of the Churches Conservation Trust, opened St Mary's Church, Church Street, Lower Higham on Sunday 31st May 2009. There was a photographic display by the History Group and Thames and Medway Canal Association plus readings from the
reminiscences of Higham people at 1pm and 3pm.


photograph of the Obelisk at Higham on the Thames and Medway Canal

The Obelisk at Higham on the Thames and Medway Canal

More Help Sought...Can you please provide any answers to these queries
 
1. “Harbrook”, Charles Dickens Avenue. A request for information about its use as a nursing home in the 1950’s.
2. Paddy Lodge, School Lane. How did it get its name?
3. Bentley Cottages. We have had confirmation that these were located next to The Village Club, Hermitage Road, and later known as Club Cottages. Is this correct?
Please reply using the “Email Us” link or phone 01634 718285.

  

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. HVHG logo

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 2010/2011 Season

Thursday May 20th 2010 -- AGM with Speaker: Frank Turner "Gravesend Airport and the Dummy Airfields"

Thursday July 15th 2010 -- Speaker: Dr Ann Kneif "Hall Houses of Southfleet"

Thursday September 16th 2010 -- Speaker: Sandra Soder "Old Gravesend Shops"

Thursday November 18th 2010 Speaker: Chris Barker "Tommy Atkins is Back!"

Thursday January 20th 2011 Speaker: David Carder "Building a Mediaeval Cathedral"

Thursday March 17th 2011 Speaker: Norma Crowe "Sir Cloudsley Shovell"

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

To order our Books, please email eileen.rice1@btopenworld.com.

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.
  

Are you searching for information about Higham and the surrounding area? Researching your family tree? Interested in local history archives and other sources? Then please look first at our extensive list of weblinks.

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Publications and Books

image of Higham in Old Photographs book cover  image of Higham in Old Photographs Vol.2 book by HVHG image of Higham in Old Photographs Vol.2 book by HVHG

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 email eileen.rice1@btopenworld.com giving your full name, postal address and telephone number.  We shall then arrange delivery and how to collect your payment.  (One book P&P £1.50, two books P&P £2.50 for UK addresses, overseas P&P at cost.)

Other relevant publications:-

Mosaic History of Higham book cover

 

 

 

A Mosaic History of Higham, published March 1974.  (Out of print but is available in Higham Library for perusal.)

 

 

 

Moments before the Millennium: The Higham Village Appraisal 1997.

(Out of print, but is available in Higham Library for perusal)

Moments Before the Millennium book cover

 

Higham Priory pamphlet

 

 

 

 

 

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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