Editorial

Firstly I must apologise for the delay in issuing this newsletter. Having moved house in July I have at last found time to sit down and put it all together. I can assure you that I will meet our target of four newsletters each year.

Dates for your Diary

Visit to Aythorpe Roding Windmill

2.30 pm, Sunday, 16th September

A guided tour of Aythorpe Roding post mill has been arranged with Essex County Council. It is hoped that, wind permitting, the mill will operate.

There is plenty of space for parking, a short walk from the mill. There will be a charge for the visit of £2 per head. We have been asked to arrive ten minutes early.

Please meet at 2.20pm.

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"Repton & the Landscapes of Hill Hall"

Anne Padfield
8.00 pm, Thursday, 25th October
Toot Hill Village Hall

Humprey Repton was the landscape architect who succeeded Capability Brown. Repton worked on some of the leading country houses of his day, including our own Hill Hall, which he visited and illustrated in 1792.

The talk will focus in detail on the country park landscape of Repton's day - and how much of it survives - but will also look back to Sir Thomas Smyth's Elizabethan garden, and forward to the Victorian and Edwardian landscapes.
The garden had its second heyday in the 1920s, when Lady Hudson and the architect Philip Tilden created a series of 'secret gardens', three of which survive.

"Family History"
Edmund Curties
8.00 pm, Thursday, 22nd November
Toot Hill Village Hall

Edmund Curties has lectured both widely and enthusiastically on the pursuit of family history. Come and learn about the sources for family history; the pitfalls, disappointments and the breakthroughs.
If you are about to take your first steps in researching your family, or if you have reached to a block some generations back, then this talk is for you.

Prepare to be entertained!
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