Jun 01
Tuesday June 21st 2022 – Visit to Lidgate Church Meet there at 7 p.m. On entering the village from Newmarket/Kentford direction, look for pond on left, the lane there takes you straight to the church. Hopefully, some space can be found at the farm, but please, wherever you park, bear in mind access for the …
May 02
17th May 2022 – Visit to Mildenhall Museum…. 7pm. Members free. Others £3 entrance fee on night.
Apr 03
19th April 2022 – Tony Pringle: “Time Gentlemen Please” : The pubs of Newmarket over the ages. Tony Pringle, assisted by Peter Norman, gave a presentation about the pubs, clubs and hotels of Newmarket over the ages. Intended to be live online from the Society website, the wi-fi was too slow, so the files were accessed from …
Mar 31
29th and 30th March 2022 – The Jockey Club laid on a presentation at the Memorial Hall to explain their ideas for improving the training grounds, and at the same time providing more facilities for the townspeople. An all-weather racetrack with the dual purpose of training, some small starter stable yards, these at the back of …
Mar 16
Joanne, Louise and Tony “Up Camps’s: Tales from Beyond the Grave” The monthly talk was a joint venture by Joanne Garner, Louise Mangles and Tony Pringle (assisted on the projector by Steve Garner). This was due to the project undertaken to transcribe all the writings on the headstones in Newmarket Cemetery. Still needing the completion …
Nov 18
“The Discovery and Identification of King Richard III, the King Under the Car Park” by Matthew Morris, Leicester University. (from Joanne Garner) There was a good attendance for the local history lecture with a difference, that being it was another county’s local history. Mathew Morris, Project Officer at the University of Leicester Archaeological Services gave …
Oct 20
Helen Ackroyd from the National Trust on “One place, one time, one life: Lord Fairhaven’s life at Anglesey Abbey” Almost like old times, a talk at the The Stable. Needs more attendees though to really get back to normal. We were treated to a very interesting talk about Anglesey Abbey, mainly since the ownership of …
