2024 Events
The Events Programme is organised by the Programme and Membership Group who are currently seeking new members. If you have ideas for inclusion in our future programme and/or would be willing to help make events happen, then please contact The Chairman.
Everyone is welcome at our talks and Pann Mill Open Days.
Admission to our talks is usually free (unless stated otherwise). Pann Mill Open Days are always free.
Other events such as our visits are sometimes arranged for limited numbers – places may need to be booked in advance. This will be noted below.
| 6-February | Visit | Mayor’s Parlour | 2.30 pm. Visit to the Mayor’s parlour (Booking essential). Let Colin Hingston know if you would like to be part of a group visit to the Mayor’s Parlour in the New Year. Email chairman@highwycombesociety.org.uk or tel. 07718 103603 |
| 14 March 7.30pm | Talk | Trinity United Reformed Church | 7.30pm A talk by Robert Laycock Chief Executive of Marlow Film Studios. (see Winter Newsletter for introductory remarks on p2 and a relevant update on p12) |
| 18 April 7.30pm | Talk | Trinity United Reformed Church | 7.30pm – “Tales of a House Detective” – A talk by Marian Miller. (see Winter Newsletter p15 for further details) |
| 26 April | Coach trip | St Albans | Colin Hingston is organising a coach trip to St Albans and Mill Green Watermill and museum near Hatfield £25 per person – for further details, or to book,you can contact Colin on colinehingston@aol.com or 07718 103603 |
| 28 April 3.00pm | Visit | High Wycombe Cemetary | 3.00pm “Good Mourning” – a tour of the older parts of High Wycombe Cemetery with guide, Sally Scagell. Further details in the Spring Newsletter |
| 12 May | Pann Mill Open Day | Live | 11.00am – 5.00pm at Pann Mill on the Rye. Mill operating, flour sales and other stalls. National Mills Weekend |
| 16 May 7.30pm | Talk | Trinity United Reformed Church | 7.30 pm – “Wycombe’s Military Past” – A talk by Prof. Ian Beckett, formerly Professor of Military History at the University of Kent. Further details in the Spring Newsletter. |
| 24 May 2.00pm | Visit | Ewelme | Group Visit to Ewelme Watercress beds. Further details in the Spring Newsletter (Booking essential) |
| 5 June 6.00pm | Visit | Bekonscot | 6.00 pm – Group Visit to Bekonscot for a talk and tour. Further details in the Spring Newsletter (Booking essential). |
| 13 June 7.30pm | AGM | Trinity United Reformed Church | 7.30 pm – AGM followed by “The Other Misses Dove” – A talk by Jackie Kay. Further details in the Spring Newsletter. |
| 14 July | Pann Mill Open Day | Live | 11.00am – 5.00pm at Pann Mill on the Rye. Mill operating with flour sales and other stalls. |
| 8 September | Pann Mill Open Day | Live | 11.00am – 5.00pm at Pann Mill on the Rye. Mill operating, flour sales and other stalls. Heritage Open Day. |
The Events Programme has in the past been organised by a Programme and Membership Group. If you could help to organise future events please email the Chairman.
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We are leaving some past events so that you can see the sort of programme that we aim to achieve.
2023 Events
With times returning to a semblance of normality we intend to run a more normal programme of events during the year. We hope members and supporters will share ideas for our future programme. Hopefully Zoom events are a thing of the past but we will return to running them if necessary.
| 2-Jan | Walk | With Willie | 10.00 am. “High Wycombe Unmasked” – a walk led by Society Trustee, Willie Reid – starting at the Red Letterbox at High Wycombe Station. |
| January-19 February | Exhibition | Wycombe Museum | “A Caribbean Garden” – an exhibition featuring the Botanical Garden on the island of St Vincent in the Caribbean with a fascinating history. |
| 10 March | Talk | The Riverside | 7.30pm “The English Coaching Inn” – of which there were and are many examples in Wycombe. Julian Hunt is President of the Bucks Archaeological Society, a frequent speaker on various subjects and local history researcher. |
| 28 April | Talk | The Riverside | 7.30pm – “Life and Death in Anglo Saxon Buckinghamshire”. Presented by Mike Farley. Mike’s particular speciality is Pots and Potteries, but on this occasion, he will talk more generally on the Anglo-Saxon period. |
| 12 May | Talk | The Riverside | 7.30pm Dr. Wendy Morrison with an update on the “Beacons of the Past” project. Rescheduled from 2021. In her work with Chilterns AONB Wendy has made use of the LiDAR survey investigating the various lumps and bumps and discovering hillforts that no-one knew existed before. |
| 14 May | Pann Mill Open Day | Live | 11.00am – 5.00pm at Pann Mill on the Rye. Mill operating, flour sales and other stalls. National Mills Weekend |
| 2 June | Talk | The Riverside | 7.00 pm – AGM followed by “Romans in Bucks” presented by Dr. Jill Eyers. Jill is an experienced geoarchaeologist and lecturer specialising in worked stone and Samian pottery identification and analysis |
| 9 July | Pann Mill Open Day | Live | 11.00am – 5.00pm at Pann Mill on the Rye. Mill operating, flour sales and other stalls. |
| 10 September | Pann Mill Open Day | Live | 11.00am – 5.00pm at Pann Mill on the Rye. Mill operating, flour sales and other stalls. Heritage Open Day. |
| 14 September | Talk | Trinity United Refrmed Church | 7.30pm Lord Carrington – The role and history of the Lord Great Chamberlain of England. |
| 7 October | Bucks Local History Network Conference | Oculus Conf. Centre, Aylesbury | 9.30am-4pm – Putting our local heritage on the map. Tickets from https://bas1.org.uk/blhn-2023-tickets”>https://bas1.org.uk/blhn-2023-tickets |
| 10 October | Talk | Trinity United Refrmed Church | 7.30pm Penelope Tollitt – Achieving Sustainable Urban Development – How far beyond “Business as usual”? |
| 9 November | Talk | Trinity United Refrmed Church | 7.30pm Neil Salisbury – CPRE: Saving the Countryside, past, present and future. |
| 14 December | Talk | Trinity United Refrmed Church | 7.30pm Tony Mealing – Wycombe Christmasses Past. |
The Events Programme has in the past been organised by a Programme and Membership Group. If you could help to organise future events please email the Chairman.
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We are leaving some past events so that you can see the sort of programme that we aim to achieve.
2022 Events
With the gradual lifting of Covid-19 restrictions we have high hopes of running a more normal programme of events during the year. Meanwhile we will be hosting a Zoom social event in January at which we hope members and supporters will share ideas for our future programme. We will be hosting other Zoom events if necessary.
| 7-Jan | Social | via Zoom | 7.30 pm. Members and supporters wishing to participate in this event are advised that they should first register to do so as advised in their Winter 2021 Newsletter. |
| 16 April-28 April | Art Exhibition | Guildhall | 10.00am-4.00pm – “A Brush With Wycombe’s Past” to coincide with the 250-year anniversary of William Hannan’s paintings of ‘The High Street in High Wycombe in 1772′. Free entry. See Coming Soon news item. |
| 8 May | Pann Mill Open Day | Live | 11.00am – 5.00pm at Pann Mill on the Rye. Mill operating, flour sales and other stalls. |
| 10 June | AGM | The Riverside | 7.30pm – Annual General Meeting (Location details to be confirmed.) |
| 10 July | Pann Mill Open Day | Live | 11.00am – 5.00pm at Pann Mill on the Rye. Mill operating, flour sales and other stalls. |
| 11 Sept | Pann Mill Open Day | Live | 11.00am – 5.00pm at Pann Mill on the Rye. Mill operating, flour sales and other stalls. |
| 14 Oct | Talk | The Riverside | 7.30 pm – The Pastime of an Earl: 19th Century High Wycombe in a scrapbook, by Sarah Charlton, Archivist of the Carington Estates |
| 11 Nov | Talk | The Riverside | 7.30 pm – The Early History of Wycombe Railway, by David Lane |
| 16 Dec | Talk and Social | The Guildhall, Cornmarket | 7.30 pm – The History of British Pantomime by Catherine Campbell, combined with Christmas social with buffet and wine. £10 admission; book through Treasurer. |
The Events Programme has in the past been organised by a Programme and Membership Group. If you could help to organise future events please email the Chairman.
2021 Events
Due to the current Covid-19 situation we have been unable to publish a programme of events for 2021 although we are cautiously optimistic that our Pann Mill Open Days and other public events will resume at some point during 2021. In the meantime we will be hosting a Zoom social event in January at which we hope members and supporters will share ideas for our future programme. We will also be hosting other Zoom events as they can be organised.
| 8-Jan | Social | via Zoom | 7.30 pm. Members and supporters wishing to participate in this event are advised that they should first register to do so as advised in their Winter 2020 Newsletter. |
| 19 March | Talk | via Zoom | 7.30pm – “Marlow Railway and River 1831-1891” by Adam Baxter. |
| 23 April | Talk | via Zoom | 7.30pm – “The Mitford Sisters of High Wycombe, 1911- 1949” with David Snoxell. |
| 28 May | Talk | via Zoom | 7.30pm – “Beacons of the Past” – an update on the Chilterns LiDAR results and work resulting from it by Dr Wendy Morrison of Chilterns AONB. |
| 18 June | AGM | via Zoom | 7.30pm – Annual General Meeting (login from 7.15pm from 7.30 start) Zoom link has been sent out to members. |
| 12 Sept | Pann Mill Open Day | Live | 11.00am – 5.00pm at Pann Mill on the Rye. Mill operating, flour sales and other stalls. |
The Events Programme has in the past been organised by a Programme and Membership Group. If you could help to organise future events please email the Chairman.
2020 Events
Sadly the Society’s programme of events is currently suspended due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation. If you have ideas for inclusion in our future programme and/or would be willing to help make events happen, when we are able to resume, then Please Contact Us.
| 24-Apr | Talk | The Riverside | POSTPONED to a date to be decided. 7.30 pm. Sarah Charlton, archivist for the Carington Estates will be giving a talk to the Society |
| 10-May | Open Day | Pann Mill, The Rye |
CANCELLED |
| 15-May | Film Show | Venue to be confirmed | POSTPONED to a date to be decided. 7.30 p.m. To coincide with the Wycombe Arts Festival an evening of nostalgia featuring films of High Wycombe recently digitised as part of the Society’s “Save Our Film Archive” project |
| 19-Jun | AGM | Date and Venue to be confirmed | CANCELLED |
| 12-July | Open Day | Pann Mill, The Rye |
CANCELLED |
| 13-Sep | Open Day | Pann Mill, The Rye |
CANCELLED |
The Events Programme has in the past been organised by a Programme and Membership Group.
2019 Events
The Events Programme is organised by the Society’s Programme and Membership Group who are currently seeking new members. If you have ideas for inclusion in our future programme and/or would be willing to help make events happen, then please Contact Us.
| 23-Jan | Talk | The Riverside | 2 pm. “Lesser-known Grand Houses of South Buckinghamshire – and their residents” by Mike Dewey. |
| 12-May | Open Day | Pann Mill, The Rye |
11.00 am – 5.00 pm. To coincide with National Mills Weekend, a chance to see the mill in operation. |
| 17-May | Talk | The Riverside | 7.30 p.m. As a contribution to the Wycombe Arts Festival we will be showing some of the films of Wycombe recently digitised as part of the Society’s “Save Our Film Archive” project (SOFA) |
| 14-Jun | AGM+talk | The Riverside | 7.30 p.m. AGM and talk by Guest Speaker, Miles Green on the subject of “Wycombe Heath” |
| 27-Jun | Outing | Leighton Buzzard | See Spring 2019 Newsletter for details |
| 14-July | Open Day | Pann Mill, The Rye |
11.00 am – 5.00 pm. A second chance to see the mill in operation. Craft and other stalls. |
| 15-Sep | Open Day | Pann Mill, The Rye |
11.00 am – 5.00 pm. To coincide with Heritage Open Weekend, another chance to see the mill in operation. |
| 18-Oct | Talk | The Riverside | 7.30 pm Peter Hewlett-Smith, Volunteer with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission will talk about the work of the Commission |
The Events Programme is organised by the Programme and Membership Group who are currently seeking new members.
All are welcome at Our Talks and Pann Mill Open Days.
Admission to our Talks is usually free (unless stated otherwise).
Other events such as our visits are sometimes arranged for limited numbers – places may need to be booked in advance.
2018 Events
| 17-Jan | Talk | The Riverside | 2.30 pm. “From Rations to Fashions” by Mike Dewey. |
| 20-Feb | Visit |
Trenchard Museum RAF Halton | Contact P&M Group via programme@highwycombesociety.org.uk for further information or to book a place. |
| 23-Mar | Talk | The Riverside |
7.30 p.m. “Burning to get the Vote” – a presentation in three parts by Lesley Clarke (Chair of the Women’s Local Government Society), Willie Reid (High Wycombe Society Trustee and Local Historian) and James Mercer-Kelly (Senior Deputy Head of Wycombe Abbey School). Note: This talk will be preceded by a Short Special General Meeting to consider and effect a couple of minor changes to the Society constitution. |
| 28-Apr | Talk | Trinity United Reformed Church | 2.30 p,m, A joint meeting with Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society. Guest Speaker: Leslie Webster, former Senior Keeper of the Anglo-Saxon and Viking Collections in the British Museum will give a talk entitled “Buckinghamshire’s Saxon Prince: the Burial at Taplow” |
| 13-May | Open Day | Pann Mill, The Rye |
11.00 am – 5.00 pm. To coincide with National Mills Weekend, a chance to see the mill in operation. |
| 8-Jun | AGM | The Riverside | 7.30 p.m. AGM and demonstration of WWI heritage trail |
| 8-Jul | Open Day | Pann Mill, The Rye |
11.00 am – 5.00 pm. A second chance to see the mill in operation. Craft and other stalls. |
| 5-Aug | Event | Wycombe Abbey | 50th Anniversary Celebration. Tickets for this event will be on Sale in Spring 2018 |
| 16-Sep | Open Day | Pann Mill, The Rye | 11.00 am – 5.00 pm. To coincide with Heritage Open Weekend, another chance to see the mill in operation. |
| 12-Oct | Talk | The Riverside | 7.30 pm. Society Member Dave Scott will give a talk on “George Holt Thomas” |
| 19- Nov | Talk | Trinity United Reformed Church | 7.30 for 7.45 pm. A joint meeting with Wycombe Wildlife Group. Guest Speaker: Ted Green MBE, Founder of the Ancient Tree Forum. Please note there will be an admission charge of £2 for this event. |
| 12-Dec | Hughenden Gardens Village | A pre-Christmas get-together – see Autumn Newsletter for further details |