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Flags to fly at half mast for ‘Fryatt Day’
Thursday 27th July will be the 107th anniversary of the execution of Captain Fryatt in 1916 and the flags flown at Harwich Society visitor attractions will all fly at half…
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Music Quiz Night
Throughout the year the Harwich Society Quiz Team run occasional music quiz nights for local good causes. The next Music Quiz Night is on Monday 13th Nov and is for…
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Harwich Society to mark 10 years of popular monthly quiz
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Napoleonic Weekend
A weekend of Napoleonic Military re-enactment of British and French troops, including Kings Own German Artillery, The Buffs and 95th Rifles, combining troop movement, skirmishes and living history displays at:…
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Organ Recital, Peter Clayton (HF 2023)
Harwich Festival 2023 The Redoubt, Friday 30th June 2023, 2:30PM This performance is free to attend with a retiring collection. About the Artist: Peter first played the organ when he…
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WW2 Home Guard Re-enactment at Harwich Redoubt
THIS Saturday, 27th May, WW2 Home Guard reenactors Grant Harris and Simon Todd will be welcoming visitors with their display of World War II guns, bombs and uniforms and will…
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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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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…