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The Committee have agreed that we must raise the cost of membership from £7.50 to £10.00 per person with effect from 1st January 2023. 

 

With in excess of 120 members, the group meets four times a year for lectures on a wide range of historical topics with a local bias.

All meetings take place in Walberswick Village Hall starting at 7.00pm.

Subscriptions are £10.00 per member per year and run from 1st January to 31st December.  If you join for the first time on or after 1st July, your payment of £10.00  per person covers you until 31st December the following year- up to 18 months membership for £10.00. 

Membership form to download.

The group issues a Newsletter twice a year.

The archivist holds a comprehensive store of interesting local historical records and memorabilia, see "Archives" in the menu on the left of this page.  These are all now held in the Heritage Hut on The Green.

Committee Members - Updated from the AGM held on 24 April 2018:

Position Name Contact 
Chairman Rev Canon Harry Edwards  
Treasurer Mischi Vernetti  
Membership Edward Wright  
Archivist Pat Lancaster patlancaster@btinternet.com
Secretary Harriet Wilson  WLHG@secretary.net
Newsletter Editor John English  
Committee Member Richard Steward  
Committee Member Rita Woodcraft  
Committee Member Amanda Erlenbach   
Committee Member Rebecca Whiting  

 

The future programme of events/speakers is as follows. Currently, these events are for members only.

Please note the days - different to our normal Saturday - and time of the December talk, now at 4pm.

Date Item Time

Friday 20th October 2023

Shorelines:  Voices of Southwold Fishermen by Bob Jellicoe

7pm
Sunday 3rd December 2023 Southwold Railway  - Past, Present and Future. A talk by John Ridgway, Southwold Railway Trust 4pm