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Welcome to Hemyock
Wednesday, September 08 2010 @ 10:14 AM BST
Hemyock History GroupMeetings are held in the Church Rooms, on the 2nd Thursday in the month, and start at 7:30pm.
You can see the calendar on this site to see what is planned for future meetings.
Come along and enjoy an interesting and enjoyable evening in a relaxed, social atmosphere.
We are also undertaking an Archiving Project which has received a grant from the Sustainable Development Fund of the Blackdown Hills AONB to allow the project to progress. An Image Library is being created of old photos and documents to be stored in a database so that specific requests can be answered by providing good quality prints. You can see some of the items we have archived in our Media Gallery on this site.
For a history of Hemyock written by Brian Clist, but extended by the History Group see this article.
For more information contact Mike Cooper on 01823 680175 or michaelrcooper@tiscali.co.uk.
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Tuesday, June 15 2010 @ 03:16 PM BST
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 The June meeting at the Church Rooms on 10th June at 7.30pm will be a talk on Nynehead Court, the Sanfords and the Canal given by Denis Dodds.
The April meeting was an informative talk with slide illustrations on the subject of Pub Signs, given by Mr Musgrave of Walton. Their historical origin even reached back into Roman History where the Red Post and White Post Inn signs originated as Roman road signs.
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Friday, April 02 2010 @ 11:11 PM BST
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The talk on the 8th April will be given by Bob Musgrove on the story behind Inn Signs and the talk on 13th May by David Greenfield on Brunel's work in the SW.
On 11th February Ron White spoke on "In and Out of Africa". He outlined the work he was doing with Scripture Union of Uganda, from 1971, to further daily Bible Reading and encourage Christian Union groups in secondary schools by visits and conferences. He expected this to last for about five years, but before two years were up he was visited by Idi Amin's men, one Monday morning, who said they were deporting him. Ron conjectured on the reasons why this might have been. He was held overnight in the Central Police Station and served steak and chips! His wife, Val, was able to visit and encourage him. She then joined him with their two daughters on the flight home, having been escorted to the airport by John Sentamu, now the Archbishop of York.
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Friday, February 19 2010 @ 08:27 PM GMT
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The February meeting of the history group will be a talk by Rev Ron White in the Church Rooms on February 11th at 7.30pm
The March meeting will be a talk by Mr David Pugsley in the Church Rooms on March 11th at 7.30pm
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Monday, November 16 2009 @ 12:33 PM GMT
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Contributed by: Mike Cooper
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Dennis Silk gave a moving talk last night on the life and poetry of Siegfried Sassoon. His talk was a perfect example of a clear informative, interesting and entertaining account of one of the 20th century's great literary yet controversial figures.
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Monday, November 16 2009 @ 08:20 AM GMT
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Contributed by: Paul Steed
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A unique history event took place in Hemyock on 13th and 14th November at the Primary School with archaeologists from Exeter displaying a large amount of the medieval pottery recently found at the Churchills Farm building site for Hemyock people to handle and discuss with the archaeologists.
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Friday, October 09 2009 @ 10:04 PM BST
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The 8th October meeting will be given by James Skeggs on the Luttrell Family and on the 16th November Dennis Silk will be talking on Siegfried Sassoon. The August Meeting was a talk from Mac McDonnell who had lived in Uvedale Crescent when working as a youth worker in Croydon.
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Wednesday, August 05 2009 @ 01:40 PM BST
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Dr John Griffin gave an interesting talk at our June meeting on the colourful local character who lead hunting hounds in the west country, William Pook Collier.
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Wednesday, August 05 2009 @ 01:39 PM BST
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Meetings are on second Thursday of the month at 7.30pm in the Church Rooms.
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Monday, June 22 2009 @ 10:04 AM BST
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Contributed by: Mike Cooper
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At our recent Thursday meeting, Mr Stephen Reed, an archaeologist from Devon County Council, presented a very informative and interesting talk on archaeological activity around Devon including the find of post-mediaeval pottery at the Churchill building site.
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Tuesday, June 16 2009 @ 03:34 PM BST
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At the Meeting in May there was an ongoing display of old local photographs on a digital photo frame............
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Monday, June 08 2009 @ 09:59 PM BST
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Contributed by: Mike Cooper
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The next meeting of the History Group is this Thursday 11th June when the County Archaeologist, Mr Stephen Reed, will give a talk on "Recent Archaeological work in Devon". in the Church Rooms at 7.30pm.
At the meeting in May, Mr Donald Richards, who served in the Devon and Dorsets gave an entertaining talk on Regimental Insignia with an impressive array of regimental hats, caps and berets. He is an avid collector of militaria with examples on show from Russia, Afghanistan, Germany, Iraq and Switzerland in addition to our own National Services.
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Saturday, May 09 2009 @ 06:38 PM BST
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Contributed by: Mike Cooper
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The next meeting of the Hemyock History Group is this coming Thursday 14th May, 2009 in the Church Rooms.
The meeting will include a talk about Military Insignia and Regimental Identification, Badges etc. Please bring along any examples of such Regimental badges.
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Today:Dry and bright at first, but scattered, locally sharp showers developing through the morning, especially over Devon and Cornwall. Light winds becoming westerly, and temperatures close to normal. Maximum temperature 19 °C.
Tonight:A few showers may linger at first in western parts, but otherwise a largely dry night with some clear spells. Light west to northwest winds. Minimum temperature 12 °C.
Thursday:It should be a drier day with plenty of bright or sunny spells and only a very low risk of a shower. Light northwesterly winds and temperatures around normal. Maximum temperature 20 °C.
Updated: 0500 on Wed 8 Sep 2010
Forecast for Exmoor National Park for WednesdayGenerally dry with sunny spells, although a few mainly light showers are possible from midday. Light winds and normal temperatures.
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