by editor | Dec 22, 2024 | Blog, new material, website
Scans of the transcripts of the St Leonard’s Parish Registers from 1548 to c. 1781 have now been posted in the Archives section of the website. St Leonard’s has a very good collection of parish registers, dating from 1548. The originals are now stored at HALS....
by editor | Dec 22, 2024 | Blog, new material, website
A complete scan of the Church and Village Scrapbook has now been posted in the Archives section of the website. The Village Scrapbook (or Log-Book) was started in 1923 by the then Vicar of St Leonard’s, Revd Frank Conquest Clare, and was continued until the late 1980s...
by editor | Nov 19, 2024 | Blog, website
The Flamstead Heritage website has been updated now that the formal National Lottery Heritage Fund supported project has concluded (in October 2024). Content has been updated to reflect the formal end of the project and to look back on it. The website has been...
by editor | May 28, 2024 | Blog, event, press & social media
Bill Pither, the chair of the Flamstead Arts Festival committee, was interviewed at length on local radio station Mix 92.6. The interview was broadcast today, May 28th on the Mix Mornings with Elly O‘Meara show, headlined as “Flamstead Arts Festival – what a...
by editor | May 8, 2024 | Blog, event
In the poster for the expert lecture series, there was a final lecture scheduled for June 8th, i.e. during the Flamstead Arts Festival. This has now been superseded by an expert lecture by Matt Champion (time tbd) and the Heritage Crafts Fair, 1000 to 1600, both on...
by editor | Feb 9, 2024 | Blog, event
The initial details of the Flamstead Arts Festival have been announced via our poster. It will take place on 6th to 9th June 2024. The full programme will follow in March and ticket sales will start in April. For now, save the dates.
by editor | Jan 26, 2024 | event
Re the previous post on Feb 15th, there will not be an event on Feb 15th to replace the expect lecture, except that the church will be open to view the newly returned bells: arrangements & times tbd. There will also be a bells blessing service on Sunday afternoon...
by editor | Jan 24, 2024 | event
The expert lecture by Mark Regan “Bells and the Landscape of English Memory” scheduled for February 15th has unavoidably had to be postponed. We are trying to arrange a replacement event on this date to co-incide with the return of the St Leonard’s...
by editor | Dec 11, 2023 | event
The third of the Flamstead Heritage / Flamstead Society expert lecture series for 2023/24 is on Monday December 18th at 7:30 pm in St Leonard’s Church, Flamstead. It’s to be given by Dr Irving Finkel and entitled “Board Games Old and New, Up and Down”. Dr Finkel is a...
by editor | Nov 7, 2023 | Blog, event, press & social media
From October 23rd to 25th, St Leonard’s bells were removed from their tower for the first time in 100 years. This event was newsworthy enough to be covered by both the BBC and ITV. ITV Anglia covered the story in their evening news broadcasts on October 24th....