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
Tips on finding information about ancestors
Information about the USAAF airbase at Cheddington during World War II
Cheddington Great War Roll of Honour information by John T Smith
Our research into the life of a boy born here, our first casualty in WW1 at the age of sixteen
An American Airman's recollections of life at the USAAF Station at Cheddington in 1944