The Hadleigh Historian
FULLY INCLUSIVE LONDON SHOWS Sun 3rd Nov Sun 3 Nov Sat 9 Nov Sat 9 Nov Sat 9 Nov Wed 13 Nov Wed 13 Nov Sun 24 Nov Wed 27 Nov Tues 3 Dec Thur 12 Dec Thur 12 Dec 2014 Wed 15 Jan Thur 20 Mar Thur 17 July Thur 25 Sept
THE NUTCRACKER ON ICE..........................£57.00 LET IT BE .............................................£61.00 BILLY ELLIOT.........................................£65.00 PHANTOM OF THE OPERA..........................£64.50 WICKED...............................................£64.50 CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY...........£70.00 THE LION KING.......................................£70.50 DIRTY DANCING .....................................£62.50 THE BODYGUARD....................................£54.50 JERSEY BOYS ........................................£57.50 BARKING IN ESSEX..................................£67.00 WAR HORSE ..........................................£70.00
LES MISERABLES....................................£64.50 FULL MONTY .........................................£64.50 MISS SAIGON ........................................£74.50 MISS SAIGON ........................................£74.50 All shows are Matinee performances. Price includes top price ticket & luxury Coach Travel
SPECIAL EVENTS Sat 26 Oct Sat 2 Nov Sat 16 Nov Sat 23 Nov £60.00 Sat 30 Nov Sun 1 Dec Sun 8 Dec Sun 8 Dec Sat 14 Dec Sun 15 Dec Sun 15 Dec 2014 Sat 8 Feb Fri 6 June
HARRY POTTER STUDIO TOUR (INC.) .............£53.50 LAKESIDE SHOPPING CENTRE .....................£18.00 WINDSOR CASTLE & AFTERNOON TEA ...........£58.00 HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT & CARVERY LUNCH (INC.) ROMFORD MARKET .................................£18.00 LAKESIDE SHOPPING CENTRE .....................£18.00 MILITARY TOURNAMENT (INC.) ...................£71.00 THE CLOTHES SHOW (INC.) ........................£60.00 CO-OP JUNIORS 2013 (INC.) .......................£36.00 WESTFIELD SHOPPING CENTRE, STRATFORD ...£25.00 WINTER WONDERLAND @ HYDE PARK ...FROM £20.00 STRICTLY COME DANCING (INC.)..................£80.00 BRICK LANE ‘SIXTIES’ SPECIAL (INC.) ...........£55.00
THURSFORD CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 26th & 27th November & 16th December (All Matinee Tickets) Prices from £55 to £57 each (£20 per person deposit will secure your ticket) For further details on the above and much more, please visit our web site or call 01473 823243 / 212521 to request a Brochure.
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The six gilds recorded in Hadleigh during medieval times were religious in nature and not, as often suggested, craft gilds that regulated the thriving, woollen-cloth industry. Their membership and activities, both religious and convivial, are explored as well as what happened to their property in 1547 when King Edward VI dissolved religious gilds in general. The meeting place of Hadleigh’s gilds was the purpose-built two-storey building that is situated behind the three-storey Market Hall facing the churchyard (see issue 5). The Guildhall is now two large open rooms, the upper storey called Old Town Hall and the ground floor is known as Guild Room. It is thought that all the gilds used this one building currently, no documentary evidence has been discovered that states otherwise. However, the original appearance and subsequent history of the Ram Inn suggests its possible use as a meeting place by an individual gild. In 2004, Richard Low wrote his childhood memories of Hadleigh during the 1930s and 1940s. He tells tales of deans, doctors and dentists and the small holding that his father set up in Boswell Lane, where his mother ran a private school. Everything changed in Hadleigh at the outbreak of war in 1939. With East End evacuees coming here and everybody doing their bit for the wareffort. Richard remembers going to the British Restaurant in Angel Street, on the site of St Joseph’s Church, where two course hot dinners were served for nine old pennies. Incidentally, in the 1950s, Richard and his wife Sheila lived on Buccaneer, a Thames house-boat, which later became the home of Eily Gayford, the Hadleigh-born pioneering trainer of women for war work on English canals, for which she was awarded the MBE in 1945 (see issue 12) The series ‘A Shop in High Street’ looks at No 41, which has been Lloyds Bank since 1919. However, the story is taken back to 1577 but concentrates upon the period 1833 until 1919, when this was the business premises and home of five consecutive chemists and their families. A prime site on the corner of High Street and Market Place, customers would have been attracted by window displays of the latest patent medicines and ladies perfumes and soaps all colourfully packaged, as well as large jars, each filled with a different coloured liquid, the traditional sign for such an establishment. In a town as old as Hadleigh, there is always decay and renewal in its buildings and a new series ‘Lost Buildings’ will feature domestic dwellings and workplaces that are now gone, starting with a block of medieval timber-framed houses in Angel Street. The series taken from the late 19th century log book of the British School in Market Place ends with ‘high days and holidays’, which highlights entertainments, social events and other reasons for the school to be closed for the day during term-time. Nigel Crisp had loaned a very interesting photograph showing Edward Ringer, headmaster from 1888 until the British School closed in 1901, outside the Congregational Church with a group of his pupils. Purpose-built as a school in 1863, the building is now the Ansell Centre, where many different community activities take place. The Hadleigh Historian Issue 18 is on sale at the beginning of October price £3 at Avis the Newsagent and Idler Bookshop in High Street and Hollow Trees Farm Shop at Semer.
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