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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 (2008/09) talks here.

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

Newsletter No. 10: 2006/07 No. 11: 2007/08  
No. 7: 2003/04 No. 8: 2004/05 No. 9: 2005/06
No. 4: 2000/01 No. 5: 2001/02 No. 6: 2002/03
No. 1: 1997/98 No. 2: 1998/99 No. 3: 1999/2k

(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

 

2008 - 2009 programme

Fri 3 October 2008

Cholesbury
Village Hall

London between the wars

Colin Oakes

Fri 7 November

St Leonards
Parish Hall

Sulgrave Manor

Thea Young

Fri 5 December

St Leonards
Parish Hall

Where do you think you live - does your house have a history?

Laura Robertson

Fri 9 January 2009

St Leonards
Parish Hall

Buckinghamshire's favourite churches

Julian Hunt

Fri 6 February

St Leonards
Parish Hall

First landing at Halton

Francis Hanford

Fri 6 March

St Leonards
Parish Hall

Life in a Foundling Hospital

Lydia Carmichael

Fri 3 April

St Leonards
Parish Hall

Cholesbury cum St Leonards parish - the first 75 years

LHG's own "Time Team"

Fri 1 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: Barry Warr 01784 454950 for further information


About the speakers

Colin Oakes is an archaeologist and expert on London's history. He returns once again to perform for us in his unique and entertaining way.

Thea Young, whose day job is Visitor Manager at Sulgrave Manor but she will be visiting us for the evening.

Laura Roberston, is Senior Archivist at the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies and ran the "Old Handwriting" workshop for us last season.

Julian Hunt, is long-standing friend of the Group and is an expert, lecturer and prolific writer on all things historic in Buckinghamshire.

Francis Hanford, is curator of the The Trenchard Museum and an authority on the history of RAF Halton.

Lydia Carmichael, will speak from first hand experience as a former pupil of the hospital in Berkhamsted.

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

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