This Day in History: 2019-03-16
This Year Marks the 50th Anniversary of The Harwich Society.
In 1968 two events took place which were responsible for the foundation of the Harwich Society: an exhibition of muniments at the Town Hall arranged by Len Weaver together with a display of photographs and prints of yachts by Frank Hussey, historian of the Royal Yacht Club, and a collection of old prints and photographs of Harwich by Winifred Cooper, and the other, the appearance on Anglia Television of Bob Wellings and Winifred Cooper on the Redoubt, which developers wished to demolish for the erection of flats, but in the nick of time it was listed as an Ancient Monument and the idea abandoned.
