BARKWAY LOCAL HISTORY GROUP

ARCHIVES FOR RESEARCH AND LOCAL STUDY

We hold a collection of documents, pictures and artifacts collected and donated to us over the years.
Members are welcome, by arrangement, to view the archives for research and local study.

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• Monumental inscriptions for church and chapel, recorded in 1986
• Oral history interviews on CD and printed transcriptions, recorded around 2004
• Rev. Thomas Bargus diary including his 1801 census of Barkway and Reed
• Descriptions and photographs of all 65 listed buildings, plus some unlisted ones
• Village photographs – over 150, many old
• Fire marks – includes an 1800 original from Half Moon, and original issue for Berg Cottage
• Barkway Roman Hoard
• Dimsdale family and Barkway House. Includes old militaria collection
• Whole Hertfordshire Association of Local History Societies (HALH) magazine issue index
• Extracts of old parish diaries submissions from T Doig
• Copies of T Doig submissions to HALS
• 1748 Barkway fire – submissions for compensation
• Manor Farm historical report
• Maps
• J C Buckler drawings of 1832
• Various electoral registers going back to 1963
• County histories – Chauncy, Clutterbuck, Salmon, Cussans, and VCH extracts for Barkway
• Church – collection of corbel photographs
• Newsells estate
• Non Ecclesiastical Trust minute and account books 1897 up to 1980s
• Bell ringing – logbook and 1790s church wardens entries
• Log book of work on the installation of village sign by school
• School – various items
• Genealogy – 1891 census print out. Burr family tree
• Coaching inns
• Milestones – photographs of all of the series to Cambridge
• Items on the Gables ( Town House)

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