Meetings of the Wivenhoe History Group

Details of Wivenhoe History Group meetings

About the Wivenhoe Quarry - talk by Alex Stanmore
WHG Meeting - Wed 24th February 2016
Annual Meeting - 22nd March 2017 with speaker Glen Jackson
Glendower Jackson was born in Wivenhoe and has a fantastic collection of photographs and stories to tell
History Group Meeting in Sept 2017 - an illustrated talk by John Foster
John talked about the information he has discovered through analysing census and Parish records, old maps and pictures of Wivenhoe.
History Group meeting Wed 13th December 2017
With guest speaker Bob Needham talking about the History of Town Criers
Next WHG Meeting - An Evening with the Greens - Thursday 13th February 2020
Ken Green & Peter Green - A lifetime of memories of the River Colne and the fishermen on it
The Annual Meeting of the Wivenhoe History Group 2019
The Annual Meeting will be held in British Legion Hall on Thursday 21st March 2019
The WHG Christmas Meeting - Wed 14th December 2016
With Guest Speaker Keith Lovell and his talk 'A Secular Christmas Pot-Pourri'
WHG - Meeting 20th June 2019 - Colchester, Britain’s First Roman City
With Philip Crummy, Director, Colchester Archaeological Trust
WHG - Meeting Thursday 19th Sept 2019 - Tracing Wivenhoe’s Ancestors
With Guest Speaker John Foster of the Wivenhoe History Group
WHG Meeting - 14th October 2015 with Di Naylor about researching her family history
WHG Meeting - May 2017 about the Sanford Family
An illustrated talk by Frances Belsham about this significant family in the 1800s
WHG Meeting - September 2016
John Foster was the special speaker for this meeting
WHG Meeting on Wed 17th October 2018
Unlocking the Secrets of Wivenhoe’s Cemeteries by John Foster
WHG Meeting: December 2015 about the Nottage and its founder
Details of the meeting on Wed 9th December at 7.30pm
Wivenhoe History Group - A talk about the History of St Mary's Church
Friday 8th June 2018 at 7.30pm in St Mary's Church
Wivenhoe History Group - Annual Meeting - 22nd March 2018
With Andrew Phillips as our guest speaker
Wivenhoe History Group - Meeting on Thursday 20th December
A meeting to celebrate the first 5 years of the Wivenhoe History Group.