Calendar of Events - Future and Past (map for village hall below)
Next Meeting of the Hildenborough History Society:
Friday 19th April 2024 at 7.30pm
Visitors and members are welcome.
Village Hall, Riding Lane, Hildenborough.
Bob Ogley, the celebrated local Author, speaker and journalist, will give a talk on Kent in the 20th Century, at our AGM on Friday 19 April. Bob has a widespread reputation for his expertise on his beloved Kent.
His first book was of the Great Storm in 1987 since when he has written many works on local events.
Please join us for what is certain to be an entertaining and enthusiastically delivered talk.
Members Free, visitors £2. Tea and coffee available, £1 per cup, and time to mingle.
New members may join the Society at any time, annual membership just £5.
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Looking ahead to future meetings and the speakers at Village Hall, Riding Lane
2024
Friday 19th July 2024 at 7.30pm Gilly Halcrow - Food, Drink and Table Manners
Friday 18th October 2024 at 7.30pm Lynne Flower - Conservation and Trees
2025
Friday 24th January 2025 at 7.30pm George Buswell - Tonbridge and the English Civil War
Friday 25th April 2025 at 7pm (earlier) Dr Geoff Doel - Legendary and Ghostly Kent
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Past Speakers and Events of the Hildenborough History Society:
January 2024
Bomber Harris by Eddie Prescott. More details to follow.
2023
October 2023
Policing in Tonbridge - Pam Mills
Our speaker for the October 2023 meeting was Pam Mills, who entertained members and visitors with her presentation on the development of policing in Kent and Tonbridge, from the mid nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Pam delivered her talk with great enthusiasm and commitment with a nice underlay of humour. Thank you to all those who attended and supported the Society.
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July 2023
Members and visitors very much enjoyed Gilly Halcrow's talk at our July meeting, "Whatever happened to Christopher Robin", looking at the life and times of Christopher Robin, with slides of the Ashdown Forest, the Milne family and the real Winnie the Pooh.
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Friday 19th April 2024 at 7.30pm
Visitors and members are welcome.
Village Hall, Riding Lane, Hildenborough.
Bob Ogley, the celebrated local Author, speaker and journalist, will give a talk on Kent in the 20th Century, at our AGM on Friday 19 April. Bob has a widespread reputation for his expertise on his beloved Kent.
His first book was of the Great Storm in 1987 since when he has written many works on local events.
Please join us for what is certain to be an entertaining and enthusiastically delivered talk.
Members Free, visitors £2. Tea and coffee available, £1 per cup, and time to mingle.
New members may join the Society at any time, annual membership just £5.
__________________________________
Looking ahead to future meetings and the speakers at Village Hall, Riding Lane
2024
Friday 19th July 2024 at 7.30pm Gilly Halcrow - Food, Drink and Table Manners
Friday 18th October 2024 at 7.30pm Lynne Flower - Conservation and Trees
2025
Friday 24th January 2025 at 7.30pm George Buswell - Tonbridge and the English Civil War
Friday 25th April 2025 at 7pm (earlier) Dr Geoff Doel - Legendary and Ghostly Kent
___________
Past Speakers and Events of the Hildenborough History Society:
January 2024
Bomber Harris by Eddie Prescott. More details to follow.
2023
October 2023
Policing in Tonbridge - Pam Mills
Our speaker for the October 2023 meeting was Pam Mills, who entertained members and visitors with her presentation on the development of policing in Kent and Tonbridge, from the mid nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Pam delivered her talk with great enthusiasm and commitment with a nice underlay of humour. Thank you to all those who attended and supported the Society.
________
July 2023
Members and visitors very much enjoyed Gilly Halcrow's talk at our July meeting, "Whatever happened to Christopher Robin", looking at the life and times of Christopher Robin, with slides of the Ashdown Forest, the Milne family and the real Winnie the Pooh.
________
- June 2023 Cheese and Wine evening
- April 2023 Bob Appleton - Postcards of a journey from Gravesend to Tonbridge
- Jan 2023 George Buswell - The Medway Navigation & Growth of Tonbridge
- Oct 2022 Ros Cranston - film show - The Camera is Ours - BFI films by pioneering women documentary makers
- July 2022 Linda Wayman - Hildenborough Hall
- April 2022 George Gorham - exploring family history through photographs
- Oct 2021 Eddie Prescott - V for Vengeance - Hitler's Terror Weapons
- Sept 2021 Book launch - Hildenborough - Our Village
- April 2021 Jennifer Godfrey - Suffragettes of Kent (Virtual meeting during pandemic)
- Jan 2021 Imogen Corrigan - Stonemasons who built cathedrals (virtual meeting during pandemic)
- Oct 2019 Malcolm Pettit
- Sept 2019 Short Films of Rural Life, and Mary Smith - A Schoolgirl's War
- July 2019 George Gorham - Garden plants and gardening
- April 2019 Gilly Halcrow - Knole and Sackville family
- Jan 2019 Joe Thompson - Relocation of May Day Farm barn to Weald and Downland Museum
- Oct 2018 George Buswell - Medieval Tonbridge and Castle
- Sept 2018 Quiz Night
- July 2018 Robin Oakley - Oldhouse Farm
- May 2018 Dedication of Blue Plaque to Brian Goodale
- May 2018 Coach trip to Singleton - Weald and Downland Open Air museum of buildings
- April 2018 Mary Smith - A Schoolgirl's War
- Jan 2018 Pat Mortlock - Ightham Mote
- Oct 2017 George Gorham - History of Scouting in Hildenborough
- July 2017 Tim Asquith - History and Organisation of St John's Church graveyard
- April 2017 Bob Ogley - The Great Storm
- Jan 2017 George Gorham - Natural History of Hildenborough
- Oct 2016 Ian Beavis - Tunbridge Ware
- July 2016 Roy Ingleton - Crime and Punishment in Bygone Kent
- April 2016 Chris Rowley - Princess Christian's
- Jan 2016 George Gorham - History and Development of a Country Greenhouse
- Oct 2015 Dr Alan Heyes - Windmills in Kent
- July 2015 Malcolm Pettit and Geoff Calderhead - History of allied aircraft disasters in WW2 and excavation of Spitfire behind Half Moon pub
- April 2015 Ron Huggins - Artist John Frederick Herring Jr.
- Feb 2015 Tim Asquith and DAvid Hunter - The Rise of the Players; The Miser's Bargain, Gaza Barracks
Location of the Village Hall, 10 Riding Lane, Hildenborough TN11 9HY