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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.
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New Book
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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.
12th 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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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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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. (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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