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HTC Hitchin

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St Mark's Church, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue
Hitchin, Hertfordshire SG5 1UR United Kingdom Get Directions

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  • Edward Thompson, Wartime CME

    HTC Hitchin St Mark's Church, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation. Presenter: Simon Martin "I have much to do, gentlemen, and little time in which to do it". These words are attributed to Edward Thompson and have been taken in the past as meaning little time in which to enact change, specifically to the work of his predecessor,…

  • The Corris Railway – Past, Present & Future

    HTC Hitchin St Mark's Church, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation. THIS IS A CHANGE FROM THE PUBLISHED PROGRAMME Presenter: Chris Jones. Chris is stepping in at very short notice, as Richard Allen is unfortunately unable to attend. Doors open 19:00

  • A Decade of Home and Away

    HTC Hitchin St Mark's Church, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    A Hitchin and Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation. Presenter: David Jackman In "A Decade of Home and Away" David Jackman will illustrate some of the things that have changed, as well as some that haven't, on the railway over the last decade or so, starting in the UK and then moving to Europe. In the…

  • Five Go To Swansea (Part 1)

    HTC Hitchin St Mark's Church, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation. Presenter - Chris Jones This presentation is about the seven railway termini in Swansea and the five railway companies that were involved. This is if you count The Mumbles train as a Railway- It did carry freight. The stations will be looked at, as far as possible,…

  • Steam in the 1960’s

    HTC Hitchin St Mark's Church, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Chris Wright. Chris Wright, a native of Gorleston-on-Sea, spent many school holidays 1959-1965 spotting in Hitchin. In a two-part presentation, the first Tuesday 10th October, the second Tuesday May 14th 2024, he will talk about his early spotting ventures in Norfolk; the end of steam in…

  • The Last Four Years of Steam

    HTC Hitchin St Mark's Church, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation by George Howe. An introduction by George: 1964 saw me making a change from black and white prints, to colour slides. This just happened to be four years before the end of steam on British Railways, hence the title, The last 4 years of Steam. I travelled…

  • Re-Creating the Past

    HTC Hitchin St Mark's Church, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Des Shepherd. Doors open 19:00. Details to follow.

  • A 10th Colour Rail Journey

    HTC Hitchin St Mark's Church, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation by Paul Chancellor. Paul tells us that this presentation covers all regions and motive power from 1955 to the present day using over 300 colour and black and white images exploring how different photographers approached the subject of recording the daily railway scene. Whilst running Colour-Rail Paul…