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Coronation Flypast – 6th May 2023
Coronation Flypast 6th May 2023
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Harwich Redoubt Opening Days & Times May 2023
OPEN – Bank Holiday Monday 1st May – 10:00 – 16:00 OPEN – Thursday 4th May – 10:00 – 16:00 OPEN – Friday 5th May – 10:00 – 16:00 CLOSED…
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Why is Tollgate called Tollgate?
Any Harwich Society members who wish to know the answer to this question will enjoy the guest speaker at the Harwich Society’s monthly meeting on Friday 31st March. Throughout the…
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Holocaust Memorial Day to be commemorated in Harwich
Each year on January 27th Holocaust Memorial Day is commemorated, as this is the anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945. This day also honours the…
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Harwich Society talk features local historian
Throughout the winter months the Harwich Society runs a monthly meeting with a guest speaker and many interesting and humorous subjects are covered. The monthly talk taking place in the…
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Fear, Hunger, Death: Christmas and the Mayflower Settlers
A talk by Richard Holledge, author of Voices of the Mayflower. At Christopher Jones’ House then Lambard’s Salthouse in Kings Head Street, Harwich. Saturday December 10th, midday to 2pm. Immerse…
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Churchill And The Movie Mogul
In August 1913 the Chelmsford Chronicle reported: “The First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Winston Churchill) arrived at Harwich on Saturday morning the torpedo-boat destroyer Swift. He landed from a…
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PRESS RELEASE: Society’s sadness as Covid 19 memorial is stolen
The Harwich Society has expressed great sadness and anger at the theft of its Covid 19 memorial sundial from the Society’s nature reserve at Bobbit’s Hole in Dovercourt. The sundial…
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2022 Harwich Society History Fair a great success
The 2022 Harwich Society History Fair took place in the 1912 Centre over the weekend of Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th October and the organisers have hailed it as a…
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Harwich History Fair returns after a two year absence
After a two year absence the popular Harwich History Fair is back and will take place in the 1912 Centre in Cow Lane, Harwich on Saturday 29th October and Sunday…