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BARKING AND DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
www.barkinghistory.co.uk

NOVEMBER 2012 NOTICES

SOCIETY NEWS

Helen Spencer, recently appointed by English Heritage as Local Heritage Education Manager (Barking and Dagenham), has now supplied us with a list of topics the schools will be  researching. Helen’s contact details are: email helen.spencer@english-heritage.org.uk ; phone 07585401967 so please email or give her a call if you are able to help.

Richard Chapman is still taking bookings for a coach trip to the Thriplow Daffodil Weekend on Sunday 17th March 2013. Coach £9.00+£4 entrance fee. Book with Richard this evening  or telephone 01708 867500.

Our next meeting is on Monday 3rd December when Lois Amos will deliver an illustrated talk Upminster Court: house and garden.

EVENTS

Local historian John Barfoot will be at the Valence House Visitor Centre on Tuesday 6th November (2pm-3.30pm)  to talk about his new book Memoirs of a little blighter: 1934-1946, which explores his early life in Barking and Ilford. Admission free, no need to book.

Valence is also hosting another of its screen archive sessions on Thursday 22nd November at 2pm when you can watch old clips of Pathe newsreels as well as local footage from the archives;  the theme is Ford strikes. £2.00 per person (with refreshments). Telephone 020 8227 2034 for more details.

Malcolm Barr-Hamilton will be giving a talk A History of Tower Hamlets to members of the Chadwell Heath Historical Society at Wangey Chapel, Wangey Road, Chadwell Heath at 7.30pm on Wednesday 21st  November. Visitors welcome £1.50. Telephone 020 8590 4659 for more details.

The next meeting of the Barking Branch of the East of London Family History Society is on Saturday 10th November when Iris Lancaster will deliver a talk City Livery  Copmanies.  St.Elizabeth’s Church, Wood Lane, Dagenham at 2pm. Further details 0208 592 9540.

Homicide: how to catch a Victorian murderer
is the title of a talk by Linda Rhodes to be given to the Friends of Valence House at the Valence  House Visitor Centre at 2pm on Tuesday 13th November. Visitors welcome £1.50.  Telephone 01708 769946 for further details.

The Friends of Valence House Winter Sale takes place at the Visitor Centre, Valence House, Becontree Avenue on Saturday 24th November 10am-3pm. Telephone 020-8227 2034 for  more details.

Essex Diarists  is the subject of a talk by Jef Page to the Ilford and District Historical Society on Monday 12th November at  Ilford Hospital Chapel, The Broadway,  Ilford Hill. Visitors welcome £2.00. Telephone 07762 514238.

Earthquakes in Essex is the subject of a talk Mark Watson at the Newham History Society on Tuesday 13th November at 7.45pm. Talks take place at  the Didsbury Centre, Didsbury Close, East Ham. Visitors welcome £2.

Valence also recently created its own facebook page see:  www.facebook.com/valencehouse

PLEASE REMEMBER TO TAKE A LOOK AT OUR INFORMATION TABLE FOR DETAILS OF MORE EVENTS, FREE LEAFLETS, ETC.



John Blake – Chairman
             phone 0208 597 7210
             email: barkinghistorical@hotmail.com

 
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