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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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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.
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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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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