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September
Wed
22 Sep
14:30
The Baby Boomer Nostalgia Show
0
Rhodes Minnis Village Hall -
Rhodes Minnis Evening Circle
Alan Haines talk - The Baby Boomer Nostalgia Show Part One.
We meet at Rhodes Minnis Village Hall at 2-30pm and visitors will be warmly welcomed.
For further details please contact Marion on 862913
Sat
25 Sep
10:00
-
12:00
Macmillan Coffee Morning
0
St. Mary's Church -
MacMillan Cancer Support
Sun
26 Sep
13:00
Harvest Lunch
0
St. Mary's Church -
Elham Friends of St. Mary's Church
Harvest Lunch 2021. BYO cutlery, crockery, glasses
TICKETS - £10 (£5 under 12s)
2 courses and a hot drink
For tickets and to notify special diets, please contact Judy 840994 by Tuesday 21st September
Tue
28 Sep
10:00
The Wye Downs walk
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Wye Downs -
Elham Elham Valley Walkers
The Wye Downs and woodland towards Crundale with it?s ancient church. A cirular walk of 6 miles, with some hills to climb, allow 3 hours. Meet 10am at Wye Downs Nature Reserve car park (Map Ref E079 N453)
Please wear shoes/boots suitable for the prevailing ground conditions.
Dogs are welcome but please keep under control especially around livestock.
There will be stiles on some routes. We look forward to seeing new faces and to welcoming back familiar ones!
For details of our fourteen fantastic Elham Valley self-guided walks or if you want to join us, please go to elhamvalleywalkers.co.uk and send us a message.
For more details contact Chris Jelly 01303 862933, chris@cjelly.plus.com
October
Sat
2 Oct
Coffee morning & bulb sale
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Village Hall -
Elham Gardening Society
The next main event will be the Autumn Coffee morning and bulb sale on 2nd October. It will probably follow last year's pattern but there will be a greater variety of bulbs for sale.
Wed
6 Oct
19:00
Social, Snacks and Cinema
0
Peggy Pike VH -
Elham Village Hall Association
Doors open 7pm
Continuing our programme of locally shown films for your delectation and delight, this month we are offering an all time classic!
The evening will start with a social get together in the cosy Peggy Pike room at Elham Village Hall.
You are invited to come along to catch up with friends and have a pre screening drink and a snack or two.
There may even be a lighthearted film quiz for you to try- for fun only!
The film title cannot be puBlished because of our licencing RestrIctions but, as usual, you may bE able to work it out from the inFormation givEN.
We are COnfident that attendance will eventually jUstify all the iNvestment and we will be able to make These social evEnings a Regular part of the village hall calendar.
Entry on the door - just £5.00 for Village Hall members and £6.00 for everyone else.
Do support this event if you can as we hope to make it a regular part of Elham Village Hall calendar of events.
If you have a suggestion of a favourite film you particularly would like us to show please let Jan know and we?ll check to see if it is possible. Jan can be contacted on 840820/stanyonjan@aol.com
Fri
8 Oct
19:30
-
00:00
EHS: Part 2 of Derek's Talk about Elham
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Village Hall -
Elham Historical Society
Derek Boughton with Part 2 of his Elham Women.
Entry fees for talks are £3.00 for fully paid up members and £5.00 for guests.
For further details about the above events please contact the Secretary, Andree Sladden
at elhamhistorical@outlook.com or telephone 01303 840336
To join EHS or renew membership (£10.00 pp) by bank transfer
(sort code: 523023 Account No: 34762434 Ref: surname and initials)
or cash or cheque made payable to
EHS delivered to the Membership Secretary at The Cottage, Cock Lane, Elham, CT4
Fri
15 Oct
19:30
Quiz Night - POSTPONED
1
Village Hall -
Elham Village Hall Association
Return of the autumn quiz. Please keep this date free. Hope to see you there.
Sun
17 Oct
10:00
Elham Valley Walkers
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East Cliff Pavilion -
Elham Elham Valley Walkers
Tour the Triennial Art Works of Folkestone, an easy 3.5 mile walk, of 2.5 hours.
Meet 10am at East Cliff Pavilion car park, Wear Bay Road, Folkestone. (CT129 6BL)
Please wear shoes/boots suitable for the prevailing ground conditions. Dogs are welcome but please keep under control especially around livestock. There will be stiles on some routes. We look forward to seeing new faces and to welcoming back familiar ones!
For details of our twenty-one fantastic Elham Valley self-guided walks or if you want to join us, please go to elhamvalleywalkers.co.uk and send us a message.
For more details contact Chris Jelly 01303 862933, chris@cjelly.plus.com
Thu
21 Oct
19:30
The story of Biddulph Grange
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Peggy Pike VH -
Elham Gardening Society
Talk by Russell Bowes. Portrait of a Victorian Garden James Bateman & The Story of Biddulph Grange. Russell is a freelance garden historian and has been giving talks on the subject since 2000 and in 2003 he was awarded the University of London Diploma in Garden History. He has given talks at the National Portrait Gallery, the Imperial War Museum, Chelsea Physic Garden, The Eden Project and Blenheim Palace, as well as for many National Trust Members' Associations, over 90 branches of the U3A, the WI, and hundreds of local horticultural and historical societies as far apart as Falmouth and Durham.
Sat
23 Oct
10:30
Dedication of Memorial Bench
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St. Mary's Church -
Elham Valley Royal British Legion
DEDICATION OF MEMORIAL BENCH
AND
COFFEE MORNING
The Elham Valley Branch of the
Royal British Legion
Memorial Bench in Memory
of
Squadron Leader
Henry Shackleton RAF
Opposite St Marys Church Hall
Followed by Coffee Morning in the Hall
Come and remember this great local man
Sat
23 Oct
14:00
-
16:00
Welcome to Newcomers
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Village Hall -
Elham Residents' Association
Welcoming newcomers to our beautiful village of Elham has long been a tradition, one which in recent years has been organised by the Elham Residents Association (ERA). For the 40 or so households (our estimate) which have moved into the village over the past 18 months, the village must have seemed a very quiet place. But trust us, now that we are hopefully moving out of the Covid pandemic and back to a sociable life, you will find that this is far from a somnolent community!
It is therefore with the greatest joy that ERA can once again organise a Welcome to Newcomers come and meet people, find out what the village is all about, speak to organisers of our many clubs and organ-isations, see what our local businesses have to offer.
We have booked Elham Village Hall for the occasion. It will take place on Saturday 23 October 2021 from 2 to 4pm. This event is free and open to all, newcomers, old timers, clubs, associations, business-es, from the school to the yoga classes, from the churches to the gardening society, arts classes, play-groups, parish councillors and much more besides.
Get acquainted with the Village Hall and discover its many amenities, how it is run and how you could get involved if you wish. We are inviting clubs. associations and businesses to have a table in the hall so newcomers can come and talk to you and find out what you do, what you sell, how they can join.
We have made a list of businesses and organisations who may want to be present and will contact you personally. But just in case we have missed anybody, please contact ERA chair Sharon Jacob on sharonannjacob@gmail.com or me, Anne Leva on anneleva7@gmail.com.
Welcome to Elham! We cant wait to meet you.
Tue
26 Oct
10:00
Elham Valley Walkers
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Lydden Bell Pub -
Elham Elham Valley Walkers
A circular hilly walk giving fabulous views, probable brief drinks stop midway at Kearsney Abbey. Meet at the Lydden Bell pub in Lydden, CT15 7EX, (Map Ref TR261455), 10am, 5.70 miles. Allow 3 hours. Please wear shoes/boots suitable for the prevailing ground conditions. Dogs are welcome but please keep under control especially around livestock. There will be stiles on some routes. We look forward to seeing new faces and to welcoming back familiar ones!
For details of our twenty-one fantastic Elham Valley self-guided walks or if you want to join us, please go to elhamvalleywalkers.co.uk and send us a message.
For more details contact Chris Jelly 01303 862933, chris@cjelly.plus.com
November
Wed
3 Nov
19:00
Social, Snacks and Cinema
0
Peggy Pike VH -
Elham Village Hall Association
Fri
5 Nov
19:30
Bayeux Tapestry and its local connection
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Village Hall -
Elham Historical Society
Talk by medieval historian Major Imogen Corrigan, BA (Hons). The Bayeux Tapestry and it's local connection. Imogen served for nearly twenty years in the British Army in the Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC) and the Adjutant General's Corps retiring in the rank of Major in December 1994 having been posted in the UK, Germany and Hong Kong.
In 2004 she graduated from the University of Kent with 1st class honours in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval History and is currently studying part-time for an M.Litt at Birmingham University. Her research subject is: The Development and Function of the Foliate Head in English Medieval Churches (more commonly known as the Green Man).
Imogen's knowledge covers a wide range of medieval and artistic history, starting with the baptism of Clovis in Rheims c.496 and going through to the Reformation of the 1530s, geographically her areas go from Ireland to Istanbul and from the Barents Sea to the Canaries. Her interests include ideas, artistic techniques and motifs travelling whether in manuscripts or perhaps misericord carvings. She specialises in the symbolism revealed in medieval art, whether in churches or paintings, and uses art ? usually church art ? as the evidence in her research as much as possible. To this end, she has visited well over a thousand parish churches just in England!
She has lectured extensively on Anglo-Saxon and medieval subjects in Britain and Europe and is a lecturer for the Arts Society as well as being a speaker for the Kent Federation of History, U3A and the National Trust amongst other lecturing agencies.
Imogen is also the author of Stone on Stone: The Men who built the Cathedrals (Robert Hale, 2019).
Entry fees for talks are £3.00 for fully paid up members and £5.00 for guests.
For further details about the above events please contact the Secretary, Andree Sladden
at elhamhistorical@outlook.com or telephone 01303 840336
To join EHS or renew membership (£10.00 pp) by bank transfer
(sort code: 523023 Account No: 34762434 Ref: surname and initials)
or cash or cheque made payable to
EHS delivered to the Membership Secretary at The Cottage, Cock Lane, Elham, CT4
Tue
9 Nov
10:00
Elham Valley Walkers
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Breach Down -
Elham Elham Valley Walkers
A walk in the northern section of the valley starting 10am at Breach Down, the junction of South Barham Hill with the Elham Valley Road. (Map Ref E203 N465). Walking towards Denton, Broome Court, then the golf course and back to Gravel Castle, 5 miles, allow 3 hours. Please wear shoes/boots suitable for the prevailing ground conditions. Dogs are welcome but please keep under control especially around livestock. There will be stiles on some routes. We look forward to seeing new faces and to welcoming back familiar ones!
For details of our twenty-one fantastic Elham Valley self-guided walks or if you want to join us, please go to elhamvalleywalkers.co.uk and send us a message.
For more details contact Chris Jelly 01303 862933, chris@cjelly.plus.com
Fri
12 Nov
19:00
Annual Dinner
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Etchinghill Golf Club -
Elham Gardening Society
The numbers may be slightly limited so do think about early booking. Tickets will be on sale at the Coffee Morning. There will be the usual Potty raffle and welcome drink but all other drinks must be bought at the bar.
Thu
18 Nov
19:30
Great plants for a small garden
0
Peggy Pike VH -
Elham Gardening Society
Talk by Gay Search. She is a British television presenter and journalist. She worked on the BBC television series Gardeners' World with Geoff Hamilton, and on the series Front Gardens.
Fri
26 Nov
19:30
A Talk on the Wild Side
0
Village Hall -
Elham Village Hall Association
In support of Elham Village
Christmas Illuminations
at
Elham Village Hall
Tickets £6.00 from Jan Stanyon
840 820 / stanyonjan@aol.com
December
Fri
10 Dec
19:30
EHS Talk: The Walmer Lifeboat
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Village Hall -
Elham Historical Society
Colin Varrall on The Walmer Lifeboat. As a paramedic and volunteer on the Walmer lifeboat, Colin Varrall also has a natural interest in the history of Deal and the lifeboats that serve the East Kent coast. Colin has written several stories about the characters and rescues from the past for the local newspaper, the East Kent Mercury.
Entry fees for talks are £3.00 for fully paid up members and £5.00 for guests.
For further details about the above events please contact the Secretary, Andree Sladden
at elhamhistorical@outlook.com or telephone 01303 840336
To join EHS or renew membership (£10.00 pp) by bank transfer
(sort code: 523023 Account No: 34762434 Ref: surname and initials)
or cash or cheque made payable to
EHS delivered to the Membership Secretary at The Cottage, Cock Lane, Elham, CT4
Sun
12 Dec
11:00
-
16:00
Elham Farmers' Market
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The Square -
Elham Farmers' Market
We?re now looking forward to our Christmas market on Sunday, 12 December, and hope you will put the date in your diaries. If you would like a stall at this market, please email julie.woodgate@yahoo.co.uk.
Stay safe ? and we hope to see you there.
www.elhamfarmersmarket.co.uk
Facebook.com/elhamfarmersmarket