Chichele Society

The Higham Ferrers Chichele Society

The Higham Chichele Society is a member of the British Association for Local History and meets regularly on the last Friday of each month at 9:30 am in the Carriage House Hotel, Market Square, Higham Ferrers, for lectures and slide shows covering the history of the area.

There is no membership fee but a small charge is made to cover costs at each meeting.

Chichele Society Meetings

Speakers for the rest of 2008 and early 2009 are as follows:

31st October 2008
River Nene
Mr & Mrs Whitney

28th November 2008
Trouble Brewing
Geoff Baguley

12th December 2008
Entertainment
Harpist - Mrs York
Buffet, Raffle & Quiz (Ticket only)

30th January 2009
Medieval Churches
Colin Ray

27th February 2009
Propaganda
Hugh David

30th April 2009
A.G.M. & Dialects
David Wilson

Meetings are held in the Carriage House, Market Square, Higham Ferrers, at 9:30am. Admission £2.50 incl. refreshments.

Chichele History Leaflet

English Heritage have published a brief Chichele History leaflet.  It is now available as a download.

Download ChicheleHistory_LargePrintLeaflet.pdf (396.2K)

2008 Exhibition

This year the exhibition will be held on 27th and 28th September 2008 at Chichele College.

The theme of the exhibition will be "Tudor Times".

Chichele Society Meetings

January 25th 2008
Old Slides
Mr Bill Warren

February 29th 2008
Ladies in Roman Britain
Elizabeth Morgan

March 28th 2008
The Story Behind the Painting
Sue Edwards

April 25th 2008
A.G.M.
Life as the Daughter of Eric Morecombe
Gail Stuart