Cheddington History Society

Meetings in 2009 and 2010

You are welcome to attend meetings of the Society, which are normally held at 8 p.m. on the third Monday of the month, at the Methodist Church Room facing the Village Green.   We welcome members at a fee of only £8 per person for a year, and we have a reduced rate for young people in education.

Here is the full programme of talks and visits arranged for the Society's current year:

September 21st 2009     2009 AGM, followed by our Archivist, Marlene Lee, with More Stories from our Archive

October 19th                    Code Breaking in World War II at Bletchley Park - Nick Miers

November 16th                Railways in the Chilterns – Ron White

January 18th 2010         The Restoration of Windsor Castle after the Fire – Alan Frost

February 15th                  Sanctuary – Churchyard Wildlife – Graham Atkins
                  
March 15th                      The Restoration & Working of Redbournbury Watermill – Justin James

 April 19th                         La Grava – Bedfordshire’s Best Kept Secret (it's only 5 miles away) -Stephen Coleman

May 17th                           Boy on a Battleship – Peter Davis

Summer Visits for members to Bletchley Park and to Redbournbury Watermill – to be arranged

September 20th              2010 AGM, followed by Val Atkins: A Glimpse of Cheddington's Past

October 18th                   Tracking Down Grandfather George - John T Smith

November 15th                Topic to be confirmed

There MUST be some topics to interest you here! See you at the Methodist Church Schoolroom!

For information and to illustrate the kind of talks and activities we have, this is what happened last year:  We had talks on "75 years in Cheddington", The Narrow Gauge Railway at Leighton Buzzard, and the Sand Industry there, a CID career with special reference to "The Fox" who terrorised the area in 1984, Cheddington and the Great War, the Paper trail at Apsley Mill, Woburn Abbey and its Owners, Buckinghamshire's Favourite Churches and the local Coprolite Industry.   We followed these talks with two excellent linked visits to Woburn Abbey and to the Apsley Paper Trail and Mill.

                                                                                     John T Smith, Cheddington History Society