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BHP Dates for your 2025 diary & The Boxford Classic Car Show

17th July 2025 /

Boxford History Project – Remaining dates for the Diary 2025:

Saturday August 30th Boxford Classic Car Show 12.00 – 16.00 Recreation Ground Boxford Fund raising event for the BHP
Thursday September 25th Local Roman Roads – Keith Abbot 19.30 Boxford Heritage Centre Free entry/donations welcome
Thursday October 16th Researching Family Trees – Steve Smart 19.30 Boxford Heritage Centre Free entry/donations welcome
Thursday November 6th  Blacksmiths to Admirals – Liz Butcher 19.30 Boxford Heritage Centre  Free entry/donations welcome
Boxford Heritage Centre  is open every month on the first Sunday 2-5pm  Free entry/donations welcome
The BHP’s first fund raising event will be the Classic Car Show on Saturday August 30th. We need to generate funds, for as you can see, we do not charge for talks or open days at the Heritage Centre but we obviously have outgoings. Since all the vehicles are 20th Century including WW2 vehicles, we are happy to consider this a history project! The BHP covers a huge range of Boxford History, dating from 6000BC to 1999AD and to that end we will be giving an exhibition of the most important, including some from WW2, in the Village Hall!
This event is being co-ordinated by Andy Brown in Westbrook. He is looking for additional volunteers for marshalling  both visitors car parking and ticket office in Bell Meadow between 12.00 -16.00 and Classic Cars entering through the Recreation Ground from 10.00 – 12.00. He is also looking for extra bar help – not usually a difficult problem! He’s hoping that helpers will be covering only hourly slots if he has enough volunteers.  Importantly, he’s looking for help to set up on Friday 29th afternoon  and even more importantly to clear away on Sunday morning – men and ladies with muscles most welcome – exact times to be discussed.
Further information and offers of help especially please contact Andy asap: ‭07720 885915‬ or email andytammy@aol.co.uk>
For information about other events and reservations for seats at the Heritage Centre as places are limited, please email: boxfordhistoryproject@boxford.org.uk

 

For full details of the Classic Car Show please click on the link.

Boxford Classic Car Show

 

Boxford Heritage Centre Opening Times 2025

3rd February 2025 /

Apart from January, the Heritage Centre will be open to the public on the 1st Sunday of each month from 2-5pm. In November and December it will close earlier at 4pm.

Additionally, we open on demand to local historical groups and schools as well as individual visitors. Please contact boxfordhistoryproject@boxford.org.uk

We hold a wide selection of maps, family histories and slide shows of Old Boxford as well as artefacts from different periods of Boxford’s history including finds from the three Roman sites recently excavated by the community and the worked timber of aMesolithic Bog Oak, known as the Boxford Bog Oak which was found during building work. We also have a large photo courtesy of David Shepherd of The Boxford Mosaic and slideshows of the excavations.

Boxora to Boxford – the latest history book and The Boxford Mosaic book- about the 2019 excavation  are available from the St.Andrew’s Church or Boxford Heritage Centre. The Boxford Mosaic book is also available from all booksellers.

 

Repair to St.Andrew’s Church Tower

29th August 2024 /

This major project which involved replacing all the roof timbers including the huge main beam in the tower- all in oak of course, rebuilding the parapets and re-roofing, and completing a new drainage system round the entire church, is now finished. The rectangular brick and flint tower was built in 1693 replacing an earlier round tower which had collapsed, so it is hoped and expected that this work will last another 400 years! The date of this year’s work has been carved into an oak plaque placed on the main beam by the master carpenter. The work was carried out by heritage contractors JG Restorations and project managed by Mike Appleton.

 

New oak tower roof timbers

On top of the world!
Mike Appleton on the tower roof at the end of the project. Note the large hatch for removing bells if needed at a later date.

 

This major tower repair work now completes the 3R’s Project to REVEAL, REJUVENATE and REPAIR the church which began in 2010 with the remodelling of the interior of the church, removing the Victorian cement render on the south, east and chancel walls which revealed attractive flint work and the rare Saxon window in the chancel.

The PCC would like to thank all those who supported this particular appeal, with grants,  donations and fund raising events, large or small – it is most gratefully appreciated.

 

Boxford Bog Oak Talk

29th August 2024 /
The Boxford History Project is hosting a talk by Gill Campbell from Historic England entitled
The Boxford timber: its conservation and what it tells us about Mesolithic life.
This follows on from the exciting find in Boxford of worked bog oak dated to the Mesolithic period, so well before Stonehenge and is the earliest piece of worked timber so far found in the UK. We knew Boxford was an ancient settlement but this find has taken our breath away.
The talk is being held in Boxford Church on 16th October at 7.15pm. Parking will be in the field opposite the The Mill and will be signed.
Visitors are welcome but as we don’t charge for our events, we gratefully appreciate individual donations to help defray our costs.
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