Happy Christmas, Denham
So today, winter solstice day 2020, we're wishing all our contributors, subscribers and readers a very Happy Christmas. It is of course a...
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DCHP
- Dec 7, 2020
- 17 min
Looking to the Light - our winter festivals
The world of the 21st century is so very different from that of the 19th and previous centuries. The migration of peoples to and from...
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DCHP
- Nov 18, 2020
- 11 min
Breaking News: Denham's Connections to the Gunpowder Plot?
Sir George Peckham was the owner and occupier of Denham Place towards the end of the 16th century. Established history describes him as a...
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DCHP
- Nov 2, 2020
- 12 min
Remember, remember ...
November. British Summer Time has ended. 'Tis dark by 5p.m. and this year in 2020 our autumn celebrations of harvest and the promise of...
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DCHP
- Oct 19, 2020
- 8 min
History, legend or myth
As the nights draw in, it is the traditional time to be telling stories around the autumnal fires. They may be stories passed down...
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DCHP
- Oct 5, 2020
- 10 min
Devilish Denham ? Surely not 🎃👻🎃
Autumn, the harvest season, has arrived and in normal years would bring the prospect of celebrating various fun festivals with friends...
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DCHP
- Sep 21, 2020
- 4 min
Memories in Stone
Completing our stroll around St. Mary’ s Church in this month of its patronal festival, we remember those who found their final resting...
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DCHP
- Sep 7, 2020
- 9 min
A walkabout around St. Mary's Church
September is the month of St. Mary's church "patronal" festival, the festival to mark the saint's day of its patron, the mother of Jesus....
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DCHP
- Aug 17, 2020
- 6 min
LEARNING HISTORY
Denham’s education history on the national scene In this supplement to the August 2020 education theme “The Happiest Days of Our Lives”,...
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DCHP
- Aug 3, 2020
- 13 min
The Happiest Days of our Lives ?
As schools prepare to open fully in September 2020, following their closure or partial closure during the Covid-19 pandemic, this month’s...
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DCHP
- Jul 20, 2020
- 3 min
... and further back, an Old Bakery tale
The oldest documented non-ecclesiastical property in the village is the Old Bakery. One survey suggests a very precise date of the...
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DCHP
- Jul 6, 2020
- 6 min
Blacksmiths and Bakers
Once eleven cottages, now just two If you had been strolling through Denham Village in 1795, you might have been very interested in the...
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DCHP
- Jun 16, 2020
- 5 min
Pastimes and Diversions - over to you
In any other year in June, there would be a succession of regularly scheduled early summer activities for all age groups in and around...
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DCHP
- May 4, 2020
- 10 min
All the fun of the Fayre
For the first time in very many years (perhaps a reader can tell us exactly) there will be no Denham Village Fayre in May 2020. The rules...
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DCHP
- Apr 27, 2020
- 1 min
Escape to the Country - stories of an often unexpected childhood
The “Long Read” for April is now on line. Click here to take a look. To supplement the story of growing up in the village in the...
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DCHP
- Apr 6, 2020
- 8 min
Our Village Playground
The freedom that gives our children the capacity to wander and play unsupervised has gradually been eroded and never more so than now...
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DCHP
- Mar 22, 2020
- 1 min
Time on your hands ?
Stuck at home, bored and trying to find something to do ? Well now, why not make a contribution to the Denham Community History Project ?...
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DCHP
- Mar 2, 2020
- 4 min
Down to Earth
Homely tales of Denham’s gardening history Click here for the long read about Denham's gardens "Not forgetting watercress" OR GO here to...
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DCHP
- Feb 3, 2020
- 4 min
And the Oscar goes to ...
Stories from the heydays of Denham Film Studios (The February “long read” tells the story of the studios from the days of Alexander Korda...
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DCHP
- Jan 30, 2020
- 1 min
Who wrote this and of whom ?
“ I went back to Denham in the fall. There was the ancient brick wall beside the footpath, leaning, staved by trees. In the distance the...
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