21 August 2021
A theatrical re-enactment of Henry 2nd granting Thatcham the right to host a weekly Friday market will take place at midday on Friday September 17th, 2021, The Broadway, Thatcham. See the Heritage Open Days website for more details.
24 July 2021
At the top of the Broadway near where the millennium monument stands today once stood the Whipping Post, Stocks and a Maypole. The maypole eventually became unsafe and in c.1865 was removed. Like many towns Thatcham had at least one set of stocks and whipping post with the last person to be placed in the …
1 May 2021
For those who do not know May is Local history month. The society has previously taken part in this with a fact a day for the whole of May. A few of those facts: During the 1880’s there were about half a dozen smithies in the parish, probably the largest was that of Charles Wheeler …
22 April 2021
Chapel Street, which forms part of the A4, is often overlooked for its history and yet it is full of items from the medieval to the present. Starting from the West (the Broadway) end there are the often forgotten milestone and water pump. Milestones were placed on turnpiked roads and this stretch being turnpiked sometime …
13 February 2021
Welcome to 2021. Our plans for 2021 have already been altered due to Covid-19, an update of our programme is given later. For all the latest events and news please keep checking in regularly to the website, www.thatchamhistoricalsociety.org.uk. From the chair Firstly I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year! I hope …
