Our first presentation this Autumn will be “A History of the Royal London Parks” (This event was originally planned for November 2022 but unfortunately had to be cancelled)
Our presenter will be Paul Rabbitts. Paul was for 11 years Head of Parks, Heritage and Culture for Watford Borough Council and is currently Parks and Open Spaces Manager at Norwich City Council. He is also the author of several books. He is well known to us from his previous talks on Cassiobury Park and also on the historic buildings of Leighton Buzzard; his talks are always light-hearted and entertaining.
The talk will be in the Wingrave Community Centre at 7:30pm. Free entry for members of the Heritage Association; £4 on the door for guests
Future talks will be:
Friday 27 October 2023: ‘HS2 Archaeology in Buckinghamshire’ – The HS2 excavations in Bucks are now complete and in the final analysis stage, following work on 13 major sites. Our speaker will be Doug Stuckey, of Bucks Archaeological Society, who will be providing an update following his last visit to us in February 2020.
Friday 17 November 2023: ‘The Royal Bucks Hospital’ – A presentation of a vintage film taken at the hospital in the late 1930s, several years before the NHS was created. John Flewin, (who last visited us with his film on ‘The Great Train Robbery’) will be returning with footage which was last shown to “a large audience at the Temperance Hall in Wingrave” in November 1938, 85 years almost to the day from when it was last seen in the village. John was News Editor of ITN ‘News at Ten’ and Head of the ITN Archive; he is now curator of the Stewkley Film Archive.
Both events will also be in the Wingrave Community Centre at 7:30pm.
