Unless otherwise stated, meetings are held on the first floor at Moulsham Mill, Chelmsford, on a Friday from 7.30 for 8.00pm. Each year the AGM is held at a different venue of outstanding interest.
Evening meetings are held about every six weeks normally at Moulsham Mill, Chelmsford, where local, national and internationally known speakers are invited to talk to the Group.
From time to time the Group arranges visits to buildings not usually open to the public. Experienced members of the Group will guide new members through the building, pointing out key features of the layout, the style and the carpentry. This will be an opportunity to explore, to ask questions and to get some ideas sorted out. Bring along pencil and paper so that you can make sketches to record what you have seen (no artistic talent needed) and, most important a torch. Details of the visit will be published in the Newsletter and announced at a Friday evening meeting.
Next Meeting
2nd March
Talk by
Jo Bispham
on the restoration of
“Aubyns”
Writtle
Calender of Events
Throughout the year the EHBG supply volunteer guides at Cressing Temple Barns. Click here to find out when guides are available
2012
2nd Mar March
Jo Bispham
Restoration of ‘Aubyns’, Writtle, a Grade I Historic Building
The project for this Essex medieval house in Writtle used traditional building craft skills and materials whilst complying with current building regulations and the requirement to make the dwelling user friendly and more fit for modern purpose.
All meetings, except the Day School, are free to members.
There is a charge of £2 for non-members.
25th May
Elphin Watkin
The VAG Visit to Norway in 2011
Stave churches, open air museums and other interesting buildings in Norway along with wonderful landscape.
2nd June
Day School at Cressing Temple
The Wealden House:
Medieval Homes for Rural Yeomen & Urban Craftsmen
Speakers: Nat Alcock, David Martin, Martin Higgins & John Walker
30th June
EHBG AGM
Email info@ehbg.org.uk for details
13th July
The VAG Visit to the East Midlands and Members’ Evening
NOTE This meeting is at Cressing Temple Barns
20th April
Timoy Brittain-Cathitlin
The Parson in the Vanguard:
A Revolution in English Housing?
Plans and specification for new parsonages submitted with mortgage applications to the Queen Anne's Bounty in the early nineteenth century provide a wonderful picture of contemporary house building. Surviving documents in diocesan archives also track the way in which the Gothic Revival grew so fast and so dramatically across the whole of England from the mid 1840s.
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21st Sept
Lee Prosser
The Staircase: Steps to Understanding Historic Buildings
Historic staircases can provide clues in dating and assessing the status of houses, as well as being important examples of craftsmanship. This talk focuses on some recent research into this much neglected subject.
19th Oct
David Harrison
The Roads and Bridges of Medieval England
Medieval bridges were achievements in design and engineering comparable to the great cathedrals of the period. They allowed the creation of a new road system significantly different from its Roman predecessor and one which largely survived until the 20th century.