The
next Meeting is on
Thursday 15th March 2012
"Pioneers of Flight in West Kent"
Speaker: Monty Parkin
8.00pm
in
Higham Memorial Hall,
School Lane, Higham, ME3 7JL
All
welcome. Members free, visitors £2.50 per person. |
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Latest Book!!!
Volume
1 of A History of Higham was published in May 2011 by Andrew Rootes and is priced at £7.50. Available to purchase from Higham Post Office and Higham Library. Any surplus after costs is split between St John's Church, Higham and Higham Village History Group. See here for all orders by post.
Volume 2 of A History of Higham coming soon.
See our other publications.
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HELP!!?
Thank you to all who contacted us to help with extra information on previous queries.
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.)
The Obelisk at Higham on the Thames and Medway Canal
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.
On 20th July 2012, the Olympic Torch will be carried through Higham onwards to the start of the London 2012 Games. If you are taking any photographs of this memorable day, please do consider sharing them with us.
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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.
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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. 
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 2011/2012 Season
All meetings are at 8pm in the Memorial Hall, School Lane, Higham, ME3 7JL. Free entry for members - £2.50 for non-members.
Download our 2011/12 Programme of Meetings in PDF.
Additional event for the Discover Gravesham Festival:
Sunday 8th May 2.30pm
"3 Parishes Guided Walk" led by Chris Bull.
Thursday May 19th 2011
-- AGM with Speaker: Andrew Rootes
"A Higham Miscellany in Old Photographs"
Thursday July 21st 2011 -- Speaker: Andrew Mayfield
"The Shorne Woods Archaeology Project"
Thursday September 16th 2011
-- Speaker: Alan Cartwright
"History of the Port of London"
Thursday November 17th 2011 --
Speaker: Alan Stockwell
"Harlequin to Soap Star: 300 years of English Pantomime"
Thursday January 19th 2012
-- Speaker: Dr. Ann Kneif
"The Women’s Land Army"
Thursday March 15th 2012
-- Speaker: Monty Parkin
"Pioneers of Flight in West Kent"
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
Volume
1 of Higham in Old Photographs was published in 2004 by the History Group and is now priced at £2.50.
Volume 2, launched in May 2007, is now priced at £3.00. Both books are
on sale in Higham Library and the Upper Higham Post Office.
To order 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 £2.75 1st Class Mail, £2.35 2nd Class Mail. Two books P&P £3.50 1st Class Mail, £3.00 2nd Class Mail. Three books P&P £4.00 1st Class Mail, £3.50 2nd Class Mail for UK addresses, overseas P&P
at cost.)
HVHG raise funds for Kent Air Ambulance through sale of Higham in Old Photograph books. The total amount handed over to date is £1,548.75.
Photograph of History Group representatives presenting a cheque for £476.25 to KAA Trust, October 2009.
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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