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Cholesbury-&-St Leonard's Local History Group

Cholesbury-&-St Leonard's Local History Group is an amateur society founded in the early Sixties to stimulate interest in the Hilltop Villages. A regular feature has been the talks by guest speakers, be they acknowledged experts or enthusiastic amateurs, and the emphasis is naturally on subjects local to the Chilterns.

No one who delves into history comes away without regretting a lack of documentation on some aspect or other. The Group has built up a fairly substantial archive of local documents, maps and photographs but this can never be complete and additions from any source are welcome, however trivial they may seem. Help us to record today what may not exist tomorrow, whether it be a building or a bus service!

You can read the programme for this year's (2007/08) talks here.

An excellent newsletter is published on a regular basis for members. You can read them here:

Newsletter No. 10: 2006/07
No. 9: 2005/06
No. 8: 2004/05
No. 7: 2003/04
No. 6: 2002/03
No. 5: 2001/02

(These files are in PDF format. For free reader software download Acrobat from Adobe if you don't already have it.)

 

Local History Site Index

This year's Programme of Events

From Danish tax collectors to Chiltern District Council - a history of the parish

An Iron Age Hill fort in our midst - Prehistoric Settlements

Bankruptcy strikes in the Chilterns - Cholesbury and the Poor Laws

Our connection to the New Colonies - The Putnam Family

History of the Pubs in the Parish - it appears that the hilltop villages were very thirsty places in years gone by.

What story can these hedgerows tell about the history of our locality?

"Beating the Bounds" - when walking round in circles makes good sense.

Neither grim nor really a ditch - Grim's Ditch

"Men's Club", as was - Cholesbury Village Hall


The latest information about the Field Names Survey

 

2007 - 2008 programme

Fri 5 October 2007

Cholesbury
Village Hall

Buildings of Berkhamsted

Jenny Sherwood

Fri 2 November

St Leonards
Parish Hall

The noble art of strategic deception

Hugh Davies

Fri 7 December

St Leonards
Parish Hall

Tring Gardens - then and now

Wendy Austin

Fri 4 January 2008

St Leonards
Parish Hall

Archaeology of the A41

Robert Masefield

Fri 1 February

St Leonards
Parish Hall

The history of Technicolor

Clive Foxell

Fri 7 March

St Leonards
Parish Hall

Westminster Abbey - the building and its restoration

Geoff Roberts

Fri 4 April

St Leonards
Parish Hall

A Batchelor's delight

Anne Batchelor

Fri 2 May

 

Cholesbury
Village Hall
8pm sharp

Members' evening and Annual General Meeting

 

All meetings at 8:00 pm for 8:15pm
(except AGM 8pm sharp)

Membership: £6.00 p.a. Visitors welcome £2.00 per meeting

Please contact: Mrs S Watson 758914 for further information


About the speakers

Jenny Sherwood is the Secretary of Berkhamsted Local History Society.

Hugh Davies, who doesn't mind my describing him as the poor man's Deighton and Le Carré.

Wendy Austin, who returns with another instalment of her ongoing saga of Tring and its environs.

Robert Masefield, who is an archaeological consultant managing projects in the South East and Midlands.

Clive Foxell, “Our Man on Metro-land” is also a keen aficionado of the cinema and its history.

Geoff Roberts, was site surveyor during restoration work on the Abbey.

Anne Batchelor is a direct descendant of St Leonards’ most distinguished and largely unknown son, Daniel Batchelor (Bachelier).

Members' Evening - A time when we look forward to entertaining each other with our own enthusiasms.

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