BLH&MS talk on Wed 21 Dec 2022 at 8pm in the Wellcome Great Hall, Town Hall Berkhamsted. Visitors are always welcome @ £3 at the door. As this is the Christmas meeting, there will be free wine and nibbles.
This month it’s ‘Poles Apart: Polish radio experts who worked in Gade Valley during WW2’, by Roger Yapp.
BLH&MS talk on Wed 16 Nov 2022 at 8pm in the Wellcome Great Hall, Town Hall Berkhamsted. Visitors are always welcome @ £3 at the door.
Trent Park Home of the Secret Listeners by Helen Fry.
With prizes including Premium FindMyPast & 1921 census subscriptions, click here for a National Archives / BALH competition, looking for “local history stories that capture the imagination and show what local history is all about”.
Historical Graffiti at 7pm by Susan Holmes
Historical graffiti and inscriptions in St Peters Church:
St Peter’s is fortunate to have a rich & fascinating collection of medieval and later inscriptions. Learn the history of these once acceptable graffiti, & how many were carefully executed.
Heraldry in St Peter’s Church at 8pm by John Abbott
The talk will include a general introduction to Heraldry with descriptions and examples of coats of arms displayed in stained glass windows, memorial tablets and hatchments, with a discussion of links to local Berkhamsted families.
BLH&MS talk on Wed 19 Oct 2022 at 8pm in the Wellcome Great Hall, Town Hall Berkhamsted. Visitors are always welcome @ £3 at the door.
Winston Churchill’s Toy Shop by Gordon Rogers. Gordon writes: “Only ten years ago did I learn that the premises from which, as a schoolboy, I nicked a couple of Blacker bombard anti-tank missiles and a box of L-delay fuzes was ‘Winston Churchill’s Toyshop’, the UK’s premier weapons experimental station in WW2”.
BLH&MS talk on Wed 21 Sep 2022 at 8pm in the Wellcome Great Hall, Town Hall Berkhamsted.
Visitors are always welcome @ £3 at the door.
Amersham-on-the-Hill Architecture. From the heyday of the ‘Arts & Crafts’ period, on to ‘Metroland’ and Modernism – and the significance of local architect J.H. Kennard, by Chris Collier and Alison Bailey.
Come and celebrate Berkhamsted’s architecture and culture
at this year’s Heritage Open Days
This year’s HODs will be between 9 and 18 Sep 2022
Click here for HODs 2022 pdf file
Click here for details on HODs website
All events are FREE, but places are limited and must be booked via Eventbrite.
We have a new exhibition this year:
People at Work
This is an exhibition of prints and paintings/ line drawings of people at work from bygone industries. There is no need to obtain tickets for this exhibition – just drop into The Open Door Cafe. The exhibition runs from 14-18 Sep 2022 from 10.30 to 15.30pm daily.
Also don’t miss St Peters talks on the 8 Sep at 7pm on Historical Graffiti and Inscriptions.
Check out our Publications page for some bargains on Local History books…
Berkhamsted’s parish church is 800 years old. Here lies all the history of Berkhamsted. St Peter’s was the government of our town, it oversaw our births, marriages and deaths and the myriad events since the birth of the town. And it is our future.
In May, as part of the celebrations, there will be an exhibition and three talks of particular interest to Berkhamsted historians. These have been arranged in cooperation between St Peter’s and Berkhamsted Local History & Museum Society and you are very welcome to come to see the show and hear our four distinguished and knowledgeable speakers. The exhibition will be in St Peter’s Church throughout May and the talks will be in St Peter’s at 8pm
Tuesday 3rd May Talk 1. The History of Berkhamsted -speaker Julian Hunt
Tuesday 10th May Talk 2. The History of St Peter’s Church – speaker Dr Christopher Green
Tuesday 17th May Talk 3. Berkhamsted in the Next 100 Years – speaker Peter Matthews
More information here
