First meeting of the WHS is on 16 February

by janet on 27 January 2012

Come along for drinks and nibbles and a warm welcome to the Walkern History Society, on

16 February 2012, from 6.30pm
at
Walkern Gallery

Granary Cottage, 56 High Street, Walkern

This will be followed by a meeting at 8.00pm to form a committee and discuss the programme for the coming year. If you are interested in helping in any way please do stay for the meeting.

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Happy New Year!

by janet on 8 January 2012

A new year and a new menu for the website. I still haven’t settled on how to display the vast amount of information, photos and articles on Walkern’s past, but am almost there. Let me know what you think of the layout.

 

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See our history pages build up!

December 9, 2011

Several pages on Walkern history have now been added, including ‘Fire at Glebe Farm’, ‘Brickmaking in Walkern’, ‘Walkern at War’, ‘Bakers of Walkern’ plus our section on Walkern Memories – transcripts of interviews taken with some of our older residents. You can navigate around these pages by using the Menu at the top of the [...]

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See our transcriptions of historical documents!

November 29, 2011

The first of many documents relating to Walkern’s history have gone online! Click to view the 1861-1869 minutes of the Walkern Vestry (the forerunner of the Parish Council) and the minutes of the 1856-1859 Walkern Sanitary Committee who were set up in response to The Removal of Nuisances and Prevention of Epidemic Diseases Act of [...]

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Welcome to the new Walkern History Society website

November 24, 2011

Soon this new website will tell you all you want to know about the Walkern History Society, and will hold transcriptions of historical documents and collections of photographs relating to the village of Walkern. It’ll take a little while to get everything online, so please bear with us…  

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