Hemyock History Tours
- Thursday, June 27 2019 @ 10:00 am UTC
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A Village on the Blackdown Hills
Welcome to Hemyock Thursday, September 19 2024 @ 08:51 pm UTC
Meetings were held in the Church Rooms, on the 3rd Thursday in the month, starting at 7:30pm. We are now looking for someone in the area to run the meetings. We have a number of speakers who are able to give interesting talks. All we are looking for is someone willing to arrange the meetings.
We also have all the archives stored in a database with key word catalogue access. Weekend Open Days are organised from time to time at various locations accross the Blackdowns. We have a new web site storing all types of media of the Blackdown Hills area. Please look at:
The development of this web site and the expansion of the Archive activity plus the Open Days have been made possible with a grant from the Making it Local fund and the AONB office in Hemyock.
You can see the calendar on this site to see what is planned for future meetings.
The Archiving Project which has received a grant from the Sustainable Development Fund of the Blackdown Hills AONB has allowed 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 or visit blackdownarchives.org.uk.
Various projects are run from time to time. The latest project was the writing and publishing of the book "The Upper Culm Valley before, during and after the First World War."
We also have a library of interesting historical books about the area. These are available if someone is researching a particular subject.
For more information contact Mike Cooper on 01823 680175 or mroycooper@btinternet.com
Settled this evening, but turning more unsettled for the weekend.
A breezy evening on the south coast, with clear skies soon replaced with a blanket of cloud arriving from the east overnight. Patchy mist and fog may develop on the Moors, but staying dry and rather mild for most. Minimum temperature 13 °C.
Cloudy at first, with sunny spells developing through the morning. Scattered showers arrive from the east by the afternoon, at times heavy and bringing a risk of thunderstorms. Feeling warm. Maximum temperature 22 °C.
Unsettled this weekend and into next week, with heavy, possibly thundery, showers through Saturday and more persistent rain, heavy at times, through Sunday and Monday, Feeling warm and rather humid.
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Sourced from the Met Office