Several of our members are available to give talks to community and historical groups or to schools, on various topics including
A Victorian Farmer – the diaries of John White of Rickmansworth. These remarkable diaries and other records, given to the Three Rivers Museum in 2022, are already yielding wonderful details of the local story of Rickmansworth and west Hertfordshire from 1846 to 1896.
Industrial transport before the Railway – the canal gets much of the attention, and feratures in this talk, but road transport was a very important element of the development of the industrial revolution.
The First World War as it affected the Rickmansworth area.
Snells Hall and the Manor of Croxley.
Free Beer tomorrow The story of Samuel Salter, Publican and Brewer, and the rise and decline of Rickmansworth’s most important brewing family.
Lord Ebury’s Railway The story of the short lived railway opened in the 1860s that ran from Rickmansworth to Watford If all had gone to plan Rickmansworth might have had a broad gauge station as well a standard gauge one.
Passing Through – What the Grand Junction canal did for west Hertfordshire between 1791 and 1841.
The Manor of the More The early story of Moor Park and its owners.
The History of the Aquadrome The history of Rickmansworth’s biggest park from humble gravel pit to a venue for world championship Ice skating. The talk includes an interview with the last park keeper
Sand and Gravel in the Rickmansworth area The history of Walkers of Ricky and their contribution to the industrial history of the Colne valley. How they progressed from a firm of builders merchants via boat building to the leisure industry.
Batchworth, the heart of Georgian ‘industrial’ Rickmansworth.
Plague Cottages and Pandemics – a comparison of the isolation systems from medieval times to now, and how we’re managing COVID-19.
To enquire about any of these or other topics we might be able to offer, please use the Contact Us form. The speaker will respond, and you can make arrangements directly with them.
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