• Tale of Two Geniuses

    United Services Club Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom

    Shakespeare & Dickens are the subjects of this week's talk by Mark Rowland of Footprints of London https://markslondonrambles.wordpress.com/

  • James Herriot’s Yorkshire

    United Services Club Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom

    Dudley Chignall is a keen mountain walker and photographer. He is also a broadcaster (Radio Essex), lecturer, author and journalist.

  • Cancelled: Annual General Meeting 2020

    United Services Club Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom

    The AGM has been postponed due to the current pandemic. Further information will be published when available.

  • Churchill’s Secret Army

    United Services Club Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom

    Churchill’s Secret Army in N.E.Essex with Hugh Frostick From frostick.co.uk: Hugh gives an overview of how the GHQ Auxiliary Units - a deliberately unexciting name -  came into being in 1940 with the threat of invasion. Churchill supported the idea and entrusted the set up to some very able men who were interested in “irregular warfare”. […]

  • Pie & Mash & Prefabs

    United Services Club Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom

    Pie & Mash and Prefabs with Norman Jacobs From Amazon.co.uk : The Blitz had made many families in the East End of London homeless. One solution was to erect prefabs on fields and open spaces to give temporary accommodation to those who had been bombed out. It was in one of these 'modern' boxes that […]

  • Recent Excavations – Colchester

    United Services Club Harwich, Essex, United Kingdom

    Recent Excavations in and Around Colchester with Adam Wightman Adam Wightman (twitter @adamwightman30 ) is senior archeologist with the Colchester Archeology Trust   The Fenwick Treasure