Location.
Colchester, North Essex.
The Colchester Historical Enactment Society (C.H.E.S.) was founded in a pub in Colchester in 1988 as a Dark Ages group.
However, in 2002 after a long search for a new period of history to portray, the Colchester Historical Enactment Society took to Piracy!
As pirates, Ches portray the period
between the 1680's and the 1720's, an era known as the "Golden
Age of
Piracy". Ches is a relatively small society, based (as the name suggests,) in
the town of Colchester in Essex. Our Pirate display consists of a "Careening
Camp", an encampment used by pirates when they were forced ashore by the need to
remove debris from the hull of their ship, But we have also held events in
historic buildings and on Ship replicas. We demonstrate a number of crafts and
activities, as diverse as cooking, and the casting of musket balls, and display
the dried and salted food available to mariners at the beginning of the 18th
Century, and combat using the cutlass, and other period weapons.
Although we are not currently set up for Black powder displays, We intend to get an operating cannon before the end of 2007.
In our events, Ches endeavour to be as authentic as possible, but we also are happy to put on shows in the frivolous vein of Hollywood.
In addition to Early 18th Century Pirates, Ches also stage other presentations based on the activites of both the Navy, and of Essex Smugglers during the same era, as well as Navy of Nelsons era, and Saxons at the time of the Norman Conquest.
Ches meet every Wednesday evening at the Odd-One-Out pub in Colchester, and when we are not at events, we hold combat training sessions on Sunday mornings.
To Contact The Colchester Historical Enactment Society, (C.H.E.S)
Contact Paul Adams
Email ches@ches.me.uk
Website www.ches.me.uk
