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Maldon District Council Conservation Officer Tim Howson and local historian and map expert John Smith present the last in a series of Winter Heritage Talks. The Council hosts five Heritage Winter Talks each year which are free to the public and are hugely popular. Each talk focuses on an aspect of local heritage or history.

This talk is titled: Recent Discoveries at 18 and 20 High Street, Maldon. Dating from the 14th century, number 20 High Street, at the top of the street and until recently occupied by Bairstow Eves, is one of Maldon's oldest timber-framed buildings. It is part only of a larger house which formerly extended over the site of 18 High Street, and for several centuries, until 1735, was an inn, the Saracen's Head. The talk will discuss aspects of the building's documentary history from the fifteenth century, including its role in the town's economy, and will set out and explain the results of recent structural investigation.

Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start. Each talk lasts approx.1.5 hours. There is no need to pre book, just turn up and enjoy.