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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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]
Do
you recognise the occasions or people in these photographs below? HVHG need your help. Click
here for more information.
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. |
(To email us, please click
here.)
St
Mary's Church, 31 May 2009
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.
The Obelisk at Higham on the Thames and Medway Canal
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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. 
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. To order books, please email eileen.rice1@btopenworld.com. |
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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 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
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:-
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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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