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29 March 2008 March 2008 Newsletter published.

23 March 2008 Biography of Paul Mann by his daughter, Julia. Photo of Lionel Horsnell painting Laundry Cottage at Heydon, Norfolk, plus 2 paintings, courtesy of Ron Clark. Cast details for the Pantomime.

15 March 2008 2008/9 Programme. The December 2007 Newsletter is now available (at last!).

5 March 2008 New minutes: 2007 AGM - 13 March 2007.

2 March 2008 New minutes: 27 February 2008.

24 February 2008 New pages: End Farm. Also: Gowles Farm and Turnpikes. Plus: more than 30 archive photos of the School.

21 February 2008 Three new pages on the Manor House and Moat. Also: John Line's Timber Yard and George Hine's Wheelwrights. Plus: Aerial photo of Gun Lane area.

17 February 2008 New pages: Old Rectory, Sherington Place, Pantomime, VE Day Party 1945. Nine new photos of the 1953 Coronation Celebrations, three photos of the 1982 Seniors' Sandringham trip, three extra Feast pictures. Several new archive photos: GJ Hines, Church End, St Laud's, Park Road (1), Park Road (2), Park Road (3), Old Rectory, Hickson's, Croft End, Sherington Bridge and Shenanigans Poster. Also several of the existing archive photos have been replaced by larger or better quality copies.

8 February 2008 New page: Newport Pagnell to Olney Railway. Also extended information and additional archive photos for the White Hart, Crown & Castle and Royal Oak. Also several minor corrections.

2 February 2008 Minutes of several committee meetings now available: 28 August 2007, 30 October 2007, 27 November2007 and 29 January 2008. Also photos of the SHS Annual Dinner at the White Hart on 22 January 2008.

27 January 2008 Several new pages added:

Also, various minor corrections.

6 January 2008 Several new pages added:

Also, several better quality/new archive photos: White Hart, old School, Village Hall, Royal Oak, plus various minor corrections.

31 December 2007 New pages on the Bronze Age bowl barrows and Neolithic axe, the Iron Age Settlement near the church, the Roman Road and associated archaeological finds. Also, additions and corrections to the 1798 Posse Comitatus listing.

24 October 2007 - Transcriptions of the Sherington section of the Victoria County History 1927 and Lipscomb's History Of Bucks 1831 have been added.

22 October 2007 - The 25 September 2007 Committee Meeting Minutes (No 86) are now available.

21 October 2007 - The 31 July 2007 Committee Meeting Minutes (No 84) are now available.

30 September 2007 - 26 photos of the Open Day held on 29th September 2007 in the Village Hall - theme 'Sherington Shenanigans'. Also added: an article by Christine Bearman on the beginnings of Sherington Playgroup which is currently celebrating its 35th anniversary.

23 August 2007 - Another scarecrow photo added.

7 August 2007 - The August Newsletter is now available. Photo of the "Angel of the South" scarecrow added to the Scarecrow Competition page. Also added: Gillian Nursaw-Smith's Hints and Tips on seeking Family History information.

7 August 2007 - The 6 March 2007, 27 March 2007 and 26 June 2007 Committee Meeting Minutes (Nos 79, 80 and 83) are now available.

4 August 2007 - The four AVI files have been replaced by MP4 files which are about 7 times smaller, so the download is much faster.

3 August 2007 - Four short video clips of the School's Jubilee Fun Day held on 30 June 2007 have been added.

29 July 2007 - 38 photos of the SHS Scarecrow Competition June 2007 and 100 photos of the School's Jubilee Fun Day held on 30 June 2007 are now available.

16 June 2007 - The 27 November 2006 Committee Meeting Minutes (No 76) are now available.

15 June 2007 - Several Committee Meeting Minutes (5th June 2006 (No 71), 26th June 2006 (No 72), 4th September 2006 (No 73), 25th September 2006 (No 74), 30th October 2006 (No 75) and 24th April 2007 (No 81)) are now available.

6 June 2007 - The 22nd May 2007 Committee Meeting Minutes (No 82) are available.

27 May 2007 - Several features have been added:

13 May 2007 - New feature on the 1796 Enclosure Map including detailed close-up maps and transcriptions of the accompanying manuscript text. The previous A-Z tables of names from the 1796 map have also been updated, corrected and extended.

7 May 2007 - Update to the 2007/8 Programme and photos of the SHS stall at the 2007 May Day Celebrations on the Knoll. The May 2007 Newsletter added.

18 March 2007 - Various corrections to the Open Day Art - some paintings had been wrongly attributed. Amendment to the Constitution as agreed at the 2007 AGM and new Committee.

14 February 2007 - Edward Elton added to the list of Rectors.

10 February 2007 - The February 2007 Newsletter, the 2007/8 Programme and 31st January Committee Meeting Minutes (No 78) are available. A biography of Ernest Edward Rickett has also been added.

28 January 2007 - The 8th January Committee Meeting Minutes (No 77) are available.

15 January 2007 - The list of Rectors of St Laud's has been updated.

14 January 2007 - The Links page has been substantially updated to include various online historical resources.

6 January 2007 - The conversion to a non-frames site has been completed. All pages now have the full left-hand menu.

28 December 2006 - Revised left-hand navigation panel. No longer uses frames. Now based on CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and the pages are also being converted to XHTML 1.0. Note: it will take some time to update all the pages, as there are more than 600, and in the meantime those pages not yet upgraded will appear without the left-hand panel. Where this occurs, you can use the links at the bottom of each page. Pages have been tested in Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Firefox 2.0 and Opera 9.1.

4 December 2006 - November Newsletter (no. 55) and December Newsletter (no. 56).

2 December 2006 - Contacts page updated.

1 October 2006 - 179 photos of the art displayed at the 2006 SHS Open Day are available online. They cover the work Sherington artists both past and present. Also a new SHS Events page with links to photos of the Society's recent events has been added to the SHS section.

30 September 2006 - Many photos of the 2006 Open Day.

23 September 2006 - September Newsletter (no. 53).

2 September 2006 - May Newsletter (no. 51).

26 July 2006 - June Newsletter (no. 52).

29 May 2006 - The missing Newsletters (43 - Sept 05, 47 - Jan 06 and 49 - Mar 06) and the Meeting Minutes for July 2005 to April 2006 have been added.

22 April 2006 - April Newsletter (no. 50).

26 February 2006 - February Newsletter (no. 48).

15 February 2006 - 2006 Programme has been issued.

5 January 2006 - December Newsletter (no. 46).

4 December 2005 - November Newsletter (no. 45).

5 November 2005 - October Newsletter (no. 44).

27 August 2005 - Line family wedding photo - caption update.

1 August 2005 - July Newsletter (no. 42).

30 June 2005 - 13 June Minutes and June Newsletter (no. 41).

30 May 2005 - The Hickson Family who ran the butchers shop at 45 High Street.

26 May 2005 - 4 April Minutes, 11 April Minutes and April Newsletter (no. 39) have been added.

23 May 2005 - May Minutes and May Newsletter (no. 40) have been added.

9 May 2005 - An Interactive Map has been added. It shows some of the places of historical interest in Sherington.

7 May 2005 - Park Road - More historical notes, two new archive photos and four aerial photos have been added (one with interactive notes).

2 May 2005 - May Day - 2 photos from the 2005 celebrations added to the page.

27/28 March 2005 - Two brief histories of Sherington as seen through the eyes of two senior residents of the village have been added: Sherington (A Brief History), written by Philip Smith in 1981, and Parish of Sherington, written by Sidney F. Morgan in 1977.
Meeting Minutes 53, 5th AGM Minutes, Chairman's Report, February Newsletter (no. 37) and March Newsletter (no. 38) have also been issued.

26 February 2005 - Leys View and Hillview have been added to the Village Tour.

20 February 2005 - The 10 January committee meeting minutes have been added.

16 February 2005 - The 7 February committee meeting minutes have been issued.

12 February 2005 - New pages on the Prisoner of War Camp, the 1780 Posse Comitatus and a summary of Sherington Businesses. More information on the Sherington Feasts. The December 2004 newsletter (No. 35) and the Minutes of the Committee Meeting 50 on 6 December have been issued. The full 2005 Programme is now available.

6 February 2005 - The January newsletter (No. 36) has been issued.

4 December 2004 - The November newsletter (No. 34) has been issued.

20 November 2004 - The Minutes of the Committee Meeting 49 on 2 November have been issued.

10 November 2004 - The Search and Site Map features had not been registering changes made to the web site since June, due to an error in the set-up. This has now been fixed. These features will now return up-to-date results.

3 November 2004 - New look for the Home Page, a new date for the annual SHS dinner in the Diary and several links added to the table on the Our Needs page

26 October 2004 - October Newsletter - No. 33

23 October 2004 - The following additions:

30 September 2004 - Newsletter 32 (September) has been issued.

29 September 2004 - Addition to the Monumental Inscriptions of St Lauds: a plan of the churchyard giving a key to the grave locations. Also, a new email service for requesting a copy of the detailed incription and a photo for a particular grave has been introduced.

26 September 2004 - Newsletters 29, 30 and 31 added. Meeting minutes 44, 45, 46, 47 and AGM2 added. Corrections to Minutes 14 and 16, and to the layout of a few others. Additional monumental inscription - Line family - grave no. 63Ac.

1 August 2004 - Three photos added to the Church Tour - sedilia and two chests. One additional monumental inscription - Edgelow.

27 June 2004 - A few minor corrections to various pages

5 June 2004 - Links on What's New Page, several extra archive photos and the following new pages:

30 May 2004 - A substantial amount of new information including:

30 May 2004 - Other changes include:

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