Join us for our (short) AGM on Wednesday 17th June to elect our officers for the coming year and hear the latest news of Chiltern Railways from Martin Howard.
After the meeting, there are refreshments and another opportunity to view the three albums of the Rye Protection Society spanning from the 1800s to 1964.
Thank you to everyone who has renewed their membership for 2026 at the new rate. Renewals are ahead of where they were at this time last year. For those who still have to pay, it would ease administration if you could make your payment by the end of June. https://www.highwycombesociety.org.uk/join/#gsc.tab=0
As the HVRA is an affiliate member of the High Wycombe Society, I am passing on this invitation to attend a talk about John Hampden at 7.30 on this coming Wednesday in The Trinity United Reform Church opposite Pann Mill. It is a free event and could be very interesting indeed!
Dear Members,
A reminder of our Talk this week, to be held in Trinity United Reform Church(opposite Pann Mill on the London Road) .
Wednesday 14th May – 7:30pm
This talk explores why John Hampden came to personify popular opposition to King Charles 1’s arbitrary taxes in the mid 17th century, his transition from hard working MP to brave Colonel in the Civil War and how his name resonated after his death in British & American history.
Please forward to anyone you know who may be interested. It’s a FREE event and ALL are welcome!
Next up from the Society, is our ever popular Pann Mill open day. SUNDAY 14th JULY – 11am – 5pm This coincides with the National Mills Open event. Admission is free and there will be refreshments, flour ground by our Millers, information and other stalls.
Dear Members – Please see details below of our upcoming talk. We’d like to welcome you our next event and hope to see you all there. It’s FREE and includes refreshments !
There’s plenty of extra parking in The Swan Car Park opposite the venue
The HVRA is an affiliated organisation to the High Wycombe Society; their next event sounds very interesting indeed. You and your neighbours are welcome to join, via zoom, a talk on Friday May 28th. at 7.30pm by Dr Wendy Morrison of Chilterns AONB “Beacons of the Past”.
The link to the talk is given below and is open from 7.15pm.
Archaeologist Dr Wendy Morrison’s research areas are Prehistoric European Archaeology and Landscape Archaeology. Closer to home, Wendy leads the Chilterns ‘Beacons of the Past’ project. Her work seeks to engage and inspire communities to discover, conserve, and enjoy what is around us and the unique Iron Age hillforts and their prehistoric chalk landscapes. The Chilterns has one of the largest collections of hillforts in the UK, yet many are poorly preserved, and little is known about them. Luckily, several of these hillforts are accessible from the Ridgeway. A key part of Wendy’s project is the largest LiDAR survey ever flown for archaeology in this country, and one of the largest in the world! Images are captured with a laser scanner mounted on a small plane that captures information about the ground below; revealing intriguing ‘lumps and bumps’, such as hillforts, that are hidden by tree cover and other vegetation. Wendy is also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
Would you please pass this message on to as many residents as possible in your road in case they wish to zoom in.
If the link does not work, open or download the Zoom application (it’s free) and enter Meeting ID: 721 150 5280 (no passcode required)
For those with limited technical facilities it will be possible to hear the proceedings by phone: 0203 051 2874 – enter the meeting ID on your keypad followed by # as instructed.
The session opens at 7.15pm to allow time for people to join and resolve any little niggling technical issues, and people can stick around for a chat after the talk and questions if they so wish. Sorry, but everyone will have to provide their own tea/coffee and biscuits!
