Local History Talks
Over the last 20 years many talks have been given in the Village Hall and
to local WIs, The Rotary, U3A groups, the Maldon Society and other groups. When
a fee is offered it is passed onto Farleigh Hospice. The talks have been
largely pictorial, using a laptop and a digital projector, and the PowerPoint files
and associated notes have been archived for potential future use. The earlier
talks were specific to Goldhanger, but more recently
they have been about the Blackwater Estuary and the
local area. Subjects include...
Goldhanger
Lost - a record of buildings and features that have disappeared
Goldhanger and the Great
War
Meet the Village
Ancestors
Goldhanger Authors from
the Past
Goldhanger in the News - a selection of past newspaper
articles covering 200 years
Goldhanger
to Spitsbergen - Locals prospecting for Gold in the early 1900s
The History of St Peters - presented in the church
Smuggling around the Blackwater
Smuggling in Suffolk
Salt Extraction from the
Blackwater
A History of Osea Island
Walking tours around the
Goldhanger conservation area
Zeppelin Busters over the Blackwater - the history of local WW-1 Flight Stations
A History of Beckingham Hall
Commercial fishing at Goldhanger and on the Blackwater
in the past
A History of the Barrow
Marshes – the area from Goldhanger to Heybridge
The Story of Bentalls - from the Goldhanger
Plough to Bentalls Engineering at Heybridge
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