Walkern History Society
Walkern History Society meet on the last Thursday of each month to hear a talk on a wide variety of subjects, to discuss our history interests, and share information on useful archives, publications and websites. If you want to trace your family tree, or are interested in the history of your house, we may be able to help or at least offer advice.
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No matter what area of history you are interested in, be it social history, archaeology, family history, mediaeval history, local history, wartime, pre-history, buildings, the Victorians, we will have something for you to enjoy.
The idea of forming Walkern History Society was first discussed between Walkern residents, Janet Woodall, Eleanor Waldock and Margaret Hawson, in late 2011. Janet immediately saw the value in creating this website to house the many articles on Walkern history that have appeared in the Walkern Journal, and the transcriptions of original documents that she and Eleanor have been doing over a number of years.
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Loooks like a good site and will be in my favourites – however, the ‘drop-downs’ for the top row menu can’t be selected because they fall behind the lower row, preventing the mouse from being dragged to the subjects revealed.
eg If you select ‘People and Buildings’ – it is not possible to select anything in the drop down. Select ‘Social History’ and you will see how the drop down falls behind the lower row.
Hope this helps
Steve Mason
Many thanks for your input Steve, and sorry for the delay in replying but it’s taken me a while to realise quite what you mean – it’s when you use Internet Explorer as your browser that there are problems with the menu but it’s fine with Mozilla Firefox (which is what I use). I’ll try to get it sorted out as soon as possible.
Thank you all for making a newbie feel so welcome! I’m really looking forward to meeting everyone again.
It was great to meet you Laura. Thank you so much for coming to the meeting and for joining the committee!
To all concerned congratulations on establishing such a vitally important society. I have been engaged in local history for over 30 years, as well as being a dedicated metal detectorist both of which have resulted in the publishing of 14 books to date. One that may be of interest to you is War Torn Skies Hertfordshire, published by Redkite books. This has a chapter dedicated to the collision of two B17 bombers over Weston in 1944. In the last two years I have had two American families come and stay to see the site where their family members were sadly killed in this incident. I have worked with numerous TV channels and organised the first ever archaeological excavation of a Zeppelin, along with a Time Team episode. Currently I have just written my first novel and am awaiting its publication later this year, a time line based tale of wartime spies, metal detecting and the greatest of all buried treasures yet to be found in Britain. If I can be of any assistance to your society it would be an honour. I also do talks and presentations. Kind regards
Julian Evan-Hart.
Dear Julian
Many thanks indeed for your comments and for letting us know of your publications – I’m sure they will be of great interest to many of our members. We would be very pleased indeed for any help with the WHS, especially as we are so new, and so new to it all! It would be especially appreciated if you would consider coming along to give us a talk.
With kind regards
Janet