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A Potted History of EH3

Danbury H3 were created on Sunday 14th October 1984... .not by George Orwell but by Bruce Giddings. Their inaugural run at The Admirals Arms in Danbury even got a mention in the Essex Chronicle.

They were quickly superceded by Essex H3 at the 1st AGPU held on 02/12/1984 when they duly elected the 1st EH3 mismanagement committee. There are only so many times you can run the footpaths of Danbury!!

Essex's numbers have gone up & down as many times as we've trailed up & down "One Tree Hill" but are currently around 30 Hashers per trail, with an active list of around 70.

Run fees were £1 per run or £5 per quarter in the first few years at a time when beer was around 90p per pint. In 1991/92 (when beer went up to around £1.50 per pint) the Committee made the decision to increase fee's to £1.50!!! Yep... and what great value it still is today.

By then EH3 had had their 100th run at North Weald, 200th run at Thurrock Rugby Club (since revisited for our 1000th, possibly the best Hash event ever!) and had a camp over in Colchester for their 300th.
Hashers are like your Great Auntie Alice, they turn up when you're least expecting them. Records show that Gorbachov & Frogman set the 8th trail for EH3 back in 1984 and they turned up out of the blue a few weeks ago. A little greyer & thicker around the waist and maybe a little slower but great to see them.

EH3 hosted their last one day event with St Georges Day 1993. A fantastic day! Playaway stayed sober & drove visiting Hashers back & forth to the station for his sins. There was a great band and Fergie danced all afternoon but for me the most memorable event was Big Leg & Dolittle singing a duet back in the pub in Chelmsford, whilst Vicky fell asleep and succeeded in pushing 3 old dears off the window seat they were occupying.

Weather (or should I say seasons) paid a great part in choosing to celebrate our 555th in May '96 at The White Bear at Passingford Bridge. General consensus (who ever he is, he needs shooting) was that the climate would be great for camping by then. It was freezing!! Hypothermic Hashers were strewn all over the field. With the aid of V Vomits gas ring we were nursing Hashers back to life for a couple of hours until the pub opened for breakfast. We learnt by our mistakes and celebrated our next few events in what were hopefully the warmer months of June & July.
Meetings were held for many years on Thursdays at The Ship in West Hanningfield where Playaway's relationship with the Landlord, Terry, allowed us to drink to our hearts content, write a cheque (even when we signed it with our Hash Names and the Bank honoured it) have a food fight and then leave us to sleep it off in the bar until the next morning. The "core" of the committee was based in Chelmsford at this time but having now moved to the south east of the county, the meetings have moved to the Old Dog in Herongate on the 1st Wednesday of the month.

EH3 continue to set weekly trails around Essex, however EH3's most travelled Hasher is probably Windsock (and Tops), who do their best to get us to travel with them, in fact around 30 of us joined another 4000 Hashers and went to Cardiff Interhash in 2004, and some ventured to Chang Mai (Thailand) for Interhash 2006. Long may Hashing reign as the best thing to do on a Monday evening and may the knitting circle cast on new stitches when bones become too crumbly to get you round the full trail in time to get to the bar!!