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ZOOM talks as well as personal appearances. Talks & Walks by Christoph Bull, BA (Hons), MCLIP, ALA |
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Illustrated Talks * Who’s who in Hoo – a journey through the Hoo peninsula”
* “The only one that got away” – the story of
a German POW escape from Kent in 1915 and the amazing adventure which took him
from China via America to Gravesend. Gravesend the day before yesterday (the town’s transformation over the last 70 years) Northfleet the day before yesterday (the town’s transformation over the last 70 years) Dartford the day before yesterday (the town’s transformation over the last 70 years) The Griffin, horse & harp – the Earls of Darnley at Cobham Hall & their Irish connection. Myths & Legends of Gravesham & Dartford Dartford Rural Rides: Darent valley delights Dartford Rural Rides: West Kingsdown to Southfleet |
Guided Walks Cobham Village. Guided Walk Northfleet – historical tour and eye opening experience.
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2022
Thursday 11th August 2022
10.30am (performance by Time Will Tell Theatre of “Ten Pound Poms” play)
The
tour will cover some of the many interesting stories of
Gravesend’s riverside, Guide: Christoph Bull Meet: 10.30am at General Gordon statue, Gordon Memorial Park (opposite Chantry School in Ordnance Road and near Promenade Café) Catch 12 noon ferry to Tilbury-the performance is in the Port Building close to the ferry landing stage. Performance at 1pm-to finish by 2pm. Cost: Free-including the ferry crossing and performance-any donations welcome. No need to book, just turn up. Information: Christoph Bull 07702287147 Come and find out about Gravesend’s great maritime history and enjoy a performance afterwards at Tilbury. Event is part of Essex Cultural Diversity Project working in partnership with Christoph Bull (Local Historian).
Friday 2nd September 2022 7.15pm Speaker: David Leal Begins: 7.15pm At: Swanscombe Church Centre, Swanscombe Street, Swanscombe Cost: £5 to non Swanscombe & Greenhithe History Group members-pay on the door-no need to book, just turn up. Includes light refreshments. All welcomed.
Saturday 17th September 2022 2pm Guide: Christoph Bull Meet: 2pm at St George’s church, Church Street, Gravesend Cost: £10-includes refreshments afterwards. Booking essential: Rev Jim Fletcher 01474 532505 A rare chance to see the interior-and hear some great local history stories.
Sunday 18th
September 2022 9.30am Begins: 9.30am for Northfleet Civic Service-the Mayor of Gravesham, Councillor Peter Scollard, will be wearing the Northfleet chain, followed by a guided tour with Christoph Bull (Local Historian), followed by a buffet lunch. The event is free—but lunches are £5 - donations are also welcome Booking advised for catering purposes 07732 653358
Come and explore, enjoy and celebrate
the great historic town of Northfleet whose identity is being
celebrated and promoted.
Wednesday 28th September 2022 6.15 pm (Gravesend Library’s birthday) Some of Gravesend’s forgotten figures– an illustrated talk to celebrate 90 years of he Gravesend Pudden Club
Speaker: Christoph Bull (Local
Historian-former Gravesend Librarian)
Meet: 6.15pm-parking is free in Gravesend Council car parks after 6pm. Cost: £5 to non-members of the Pudden Club - the event is open to all.
Booking essential: pay at Gravesend
Library
Come and find out about some of
Gravesham’s lesser known figures-all of whom were important in
their times. An event celebrating 90 years of Gravesend Pudden
Club (1932) Friday 7th October 2022 7.15 pm Swanscombe’s “War” of Independence (illustrated talk) Speaker: Christoph Bull Meet: 7.15pm at Church Centre, Swanscombe Street opposite St Peter and Paul’s church. Cost: £5-includes light refreshments No need to book, just turn up-pay on the door What is the story of how Swanscombe (with Greenhithe) won and lost their independence as a separate council? It is a tale of paper battles fought and arguments given, that show how Swanscombe and Greenhithe viewed themselves in the past – and indeed today-as something special from their neighbours.
Saturday 31st December 2022 10.30am
Meet: 10.30am outside former George &
Dragon public house, Galley Hill, The event is free-but donations welcome-no need to book, just turn up. Parking in The Grove car park, Swanscombe. Gravesend Historical Society Footpaths walk in association with Swanscombe & Greenhithe Local History Group. It is open to everybody-sensible footwear needed, the walk will last about 2.5 hours.
All the events below at Reliance begin at 6pm for a fish and chip supper (drinks not included), followed by the illustrated talk.
Monday 17th October 2022
6pm
Monday 7th
November 2022 6pm
Monday 5th
December 2022 6pm All the events begin at 6pm for a fish and chip supper (drinks not included), followed by the illustrated talk. Booking Essential – Reliance Restaurant on 01474 533593. Only £18 for a stimulating and tasty evening.
All the above are subject to the vagaries of Covid- if there are severe restrictions imposed by the government, then events cannot happen.
This website was updated 30th July 2022
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Comments Dear Christoph,
It was lovely to meet you again after so long. Hi Christoph, Thank you for the talk on Thursday evening. It was very well received by a much larger audience than we have been getting recently. You both educated and entertained us in your usual unique style and we learned lots of new facts about Dartford. I don’t know how you managed A to Z, you certainly used your lockdown time well! Also, thanks for helping us out and standing in at the last minute, it was much appreciated. Best wishes, David, SLHG Secretary. Dear Christoph, Thank you so much for your talk “Gravesend the day before yesterday” which you gave to the group last Thursday. It was very well received and as usual you both entertained and educated us in equal measure. I was at school in Gravesend in the 1950s and can recall something of what it was like then. As your talk demonstrated many of the changes have not been for the better! Anyway, thank you once again for an enjoyable and provocative evening, and as Secretary I hope we can rely on you to return with another talk next year. David Johnson Shorne Local History Group. November 2021
Dear Christoph, Once again, it is my pleasure on
behalf of the members and committee of SouthAra to thank you for
your talk at last Thursday meeting (On Libraries in Kent).
Your presentation was not only interesting in its content, but as
always was delivered with enthusiasm and humour which made an
enjoyable afternoon for all present. Geoff Till, I think that your reputation as a speaker proceeded you and I’m sure that helped us to get our largest audience to date. I’ve also heard members saying how much they enjoyed your talk with your enthusiastic, humorous delivery and of course that array of different voices/accents!Gravesend & Northfleet U3A.via Zoom, March 2021 Dear Christoph
I have been meaning to write and thank you for your talk on 14
December 2020 and apologise for being so late in fulfilling the
intention. It was very informative and entertaining. In the
circumstances, you went above and beyond. We certainly have
enjoyed all the talks we have heard and the guided walks around
Gravesend, there is always something new to learn about the area and
we particularly like the way you mix facts with humour. Excellent
evenings. Dear Christoph, Thank you for coming to share with us at The Friendship Club a couple of weeks ago. We thoroughly enjoyed your visit to our group. My colleague, Penny, delivered a quiz based on your talk last week which they enjoyed. Dartford YMCA Jan 2020 Thank you very for
last night's presentation. Again, a fascinating and enthusiastic
talk that "Thanking you for the wonderful talk on Pocahontas which the members thoroughly enjoyed”. Rainham Historical Society, Dec 2019 “Thank you for visiting us on 27th November 2019 to talk about Gravesend & important buildings. Thank you for your time in answering all of our questions and we hope you will come back in the near future”. Ifield School 6th Form students, North Kent College, Chalk, Dec 2019. Thanks and Frohe Weihnachten – Craciun Fericit – Happy Christmas.
"Soon we
arrived in Gravesend to be met by Christoph Bull, our guide. His
knowledge is astounding, and he gave us a comprehensive background
to the various sites we visited, all without notes, and corrected
any misconceptions we had on the origin of the name Gravesend."
"Thank you so much for your brilliant talk last evening (on Stone
the shrinking parish), you brought back so many memories for me,
some I have to admit I’d forgotten about!! "
"Thank
you so much Christoph for another enjoyable and informative
presentation and your jokes too! So sorry the microphone
was playing up .......just as well you do not need it!!
We always know we can rely on you to make our meetings go well
Many thanks Christina"
We've had some lovely feedback about your
talk. Our ladies found it very interesting.
“Christoph Bull gave an excellent, highly amusing, well-illustrated
and well-prepared talk on ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’, to a
packed meeting of members of the Tonbridge Civic Society, on Tuesday
16th October 2018. Many members later said how much they
had enjoyed the talk.” “Another interesting and informative evening delivered with the usual enthusiasm and humour that always accompany these talks”. Paul Gay, Sept 2018 commenting on a talk about Northfleet. We hired Christoph’s services for the evening, to present and give a guided tour around Gravesend’s historic town centre. Being a locally renowned estate agents, it provided a different approach to our community and charity activities. 60 or so guests booked into the walk and it proved to be extremely successful. Christoph’s grasp of local history is second to none. It gave both clients and staff a real insight into the history that lies about us that often we dismiss on a daily basis. Christoph is funny, authoritative and very engaging. For a taster I would recommend that anyone joins his walking tours and talks and in the future – because of the fantastic feedback we got from the event we ran – we will be holding further history walks in the future under Christoph’s excellent leadership. Michael Alan Sears, Managing Director, Sealeys Estate Agents Ltd On behalf of our committee and members, thank you so much for your absorbing presentation, so entertainingly delivered, last Tuesday evening. There certainly was something for everyone and I personally want to go out and explore some of the places you mentioned - some very close to Swanley but not really widely known. Our great attendance was I am sure because of your fame as an excellent speaker! (Swanley History Group, March 2018) On behalf of the committee and members of SouthAra, I wish to express our thanks to you for yet another excellent presentation at yesterday meeting. As always, your talk contained interesting and in many cases not so obvious factual information on the principle Churches in and around the area we live; all of which was relayed with a sprinkling of humour for the enjoyment of the audience. Geoff Till, Feb 2018
“We all really enjoyed your very spirited and informative Gravesend
lecture”.
Talk Title: Our Thames: Dartford to the Grain
Saturday, 6 January 2018
Thank you for a thoroughly good talk enjoyed by all our members.
So much information brought to life the Thames side locally, and
with your good humour! We are looking forward to your
next talk. Personally I have a much loved copy of "Liquid History -
The Thames Through Time" by Stephen Croad so I enjoyed your talk
even more. Thank you once again for a very entertaining
talk. Best wishes
Hello Christoph
Hi Christoph - As I mentioned to you at the time, I got some very good comments from members as they left, and I hope you enjoyed talking to George and Margaret (our Africa correspondents) afterwards as much as they enjoyed chatting to you. Thank you again for an entertaining and informative evening on the amusing stories from Kent’s public libraries. Kind regards Mike Hyde, programme organiser of Oddfellows, Tunbridge Wells District. 9 November 2017.
We so much appreciated your coming to talk to us today. All you
had to say about the Kaiser's War was fascinating and it sounded
as though it was a subject close to your heart [and your family]
Comments from some of the audience afterwards showed that it
caused many of us to think about the War from a different angle
which I am sure is what you were hoping for.
Dear Christoph,
Thank you for coming to talk to Leytara on’ Dirty Dartford’ last
week, everyone I have spoken to said how much they had enjoyed
the subject and the way it was delivered. "We so much enjoyed your talk about Pocahontas. As I am sure you realised we found it entertaining and thought-provoking especially as it exploded so many of the myths that have grown up around her. Thank you very much for coming and I hope that some of us will be making our way to Gravesend to join one of your tours. Medway U3A Sept 2015 "Hi Christoph, thank you so much for the talk you gave yesterday. It was really interesting and entertaining. Our audience really seemed to enjoy it and everyone that I have spoken to was very complimentary". Dartford U3a, June 2015 "Hi Christoph I am sorry I should have been in touch before. I would like to thank you for your presentation that although we rushed, you came over in a very professional way on the 31st March 2015. We had a committee meeting yesterday and went through the feedback sheets. Everyone had a great day and thoroughly enjoyed your presentation". Dot Marshall Gravesham 50+ Forum “I am writing to thank you for a most interesting and informative talk at Loose last evening when many of us would have learned things we never knew before (about Germany in World War One). Your research is obviously extensive and your enthusiasm for the subject was clearly evident.” David Priestley, Chairman of Loose Area History Society Nov 2014. "Thank you for a wonderful presentation today, thoroughly enjoyed it. Can’t wait for the next one". Gravesham 50Plus Forum.
"Thank you so much for coming along to our
AGM and doing your history presentation on Northfleet. You were
brilliant with loads of great feedback from the audience". "Many thanks for a great tour of Gravesend. The children and us adults enjoyed it very much, and everyone liked you very much". BH Education, Harmer Street, Gravesend. Hi Chris. Just been to Strood Library to hear you give your talk on libraries. We both thought you presented your subject with superb wit and knowledge. You made the afternoon so interesting and we would like to be made aware of any future talks on any different subjects that you may offer. Thank you and hope to see you at Chalk Church sometime . Roy and Margaret Davis. Hi Chris, Thanks for your excellent talk at Strood last Saturday. It was very well received, and about as entertaining as the best comedian in the land! Norma Crowe, Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre, Strood. Had a brilliant morning with Sue’s English group and Derek and Lisa Baldwin and Andrea Dodd at the Mayor's parlour . Thanks to mayor and mayoress Derek and Pam Sales for tea and description of duties of the job. Extra special thanks to the entertaining and excellent Mace carrier Christoph Bull he made all the history fun to listen to. Eileen Baldwin, Gravesend |
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