Meetings & Events Diary
Monthly meetings take place on the last Tuesday of most months from 7.30pm to 9.30pm in the Small Hall at Hadleigh United Reformed Church, 1 Church Road, Hadleigh, Essex, SS7 2DQ.
The church can be found at the western end of Church Road in Hadleigh, opposite the car park for the Iceland store. There is parking available in the car park behind the adjacent Choice store.
There is a meeting fee of £2.50, which includes refreshments. Friends and neighbours are welcome to come with a member, as their guest, to any meeting.

April 2019
Wimpole Hall before the giant house
Graham will be giving a talk about the dig he has participated in at Wimpole Hall.
Find out more »May 2019
Test pit dig at Lynton Road
The dig will take place starting on Wednesday (9am to 4.30pm) and concluding on the Thursday (9am to up to 5pm). Current non members may join in with the dig if they pay £5 temporary digging membership on the day when they arrive. (This temporary membership will allow participation on both days and include invitations back tomfuturenAGES meetings to hear about the results from the dig). Most equipment will then be removed at the end of Thursday, but the pit(s)…
Find out more »June 2019
Preparation for the St. Peter’s Dig
Terry will be taking us through the preparation needed fornthe upcoming dig at St Peter's church.
Find out more »July 2019
St. James the Less Summer Fair
AGES will have a stall at the summer fair. Come and meet the members.
Find out more »Test Pit dig at St. Peter’s Church
The dig will take place starting on Wednesday (9am to 4.30pm) and concluding on the Thursday (9am to up to 5pm). Most equipment will then be removed, but the pit(s) left covered until backfield on the Saturday morning (10am to 12 noon) Please contact Terry Barclay if you are interested in helping with the dig.
Find out more »A review of the Lynton Road dig
Terry will review the findings from the May dig at Lynton Road .
Find out more »August 2019
“Connections – putting Essex in a national landscape”. A talk by Karen Bowman
" I have put together some instances of where our little corner of Essex has been connected to larger issues socially". Author Karen Bowman
Find out more »September 2019
Hadleigh Community Fayre
AGES will have a stall at this summer fayre again this year. Come and talk to our members.
Find out more »October 2019
Rural Essex in Victorian and Edwardian times
Peter Layzell from the Benfleet Historical Society will be giving a talk about Victorian and Edwardian Essex. Please note this meeting is located at St. James the Less in Hadleigh.
Find out more »November 2019
AGM followed by Members night
Our last meeting before Christmas is the AGM followed by some member led fun and games.
Find out more »January 2020
February 2020
A Visit to Thundersley Hall and Susan Tonge, First Lady of the Bedchamber
An interesting look at one of our local historic houses by Lynda Manning
Find out more »March 2020
Alan Jasper: Canvey B17 Crash *EVENT CANCELLED *
Due to the current advice from the government we are cancelling all events until further notice.
Find out more »July 2020
Who’s in your family
Join our second Zoom meeting and find out the interesting characters you might find when researching your family history. Terry shares some of his findings in his own research. An invite will be sent to members before the date of the meeting.
Find out more »April 2021
Surveying to Find Local Wells – Lottery Project Training
The first of a series of 4 of our weekly members' training sessions on Zoom to prepare us for mapping the wells of Hadleigh and Thundersley as part of our 2021 project, "All's Well That Ends Well" funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. (Join AGES to be sent a free invitation)
Find out more »The History of Hadleigh Castle
Join our Zoom meeting and see some detail of the records and life at the castle over the years. Terry will present a Powerpoint followed by a Project Update on our latest Lottery funded project "All's Well That Ends Well". (Join AGES to receive a FREE invite to the meeting)
Find out more »October 2021
Once More Unto the Breach Dear Friends
Hi all current AGES members and members in the recent past. After many months of restrictions preventing us from physically meeting, I am pleased to announce that our next club meeting (Next Tuesday, Tuesday 26th October) will be in the Hadleigh URC church hall, where from 7.30pm to 9.30pm, I will present Powerpoints on the Roman Road at the URC and a Project Update. As this is our first meeting back, we have made it a special Covid recovery event…
Find out more »December 2021
Christmas 2021 Zoom
This will not be a full club meeting and is just a get together so that we can say Happy Christmas to one another. There will be a short PowerPoint on the Winter Solstice so we have a focal point. Rather unusually, we are also inviting any ex-members of AGES who wish to Zoom with us on this occasion, so there may be a "blast from the past" or two. If you are an ex-member who wants to take…
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