Summer meeting at Send and Ripley

hosted by the Send & Ripley History Society

Programme

11.00     Coffee at the Manor House, Send Marsh Green

11.30     Guided tour around Send Marsh Green

A training excavation on the site of Alexander Raby's mill at the 18th century ironworking site at Cobham Park. If there is time, the dig will also examine the site of two crofts in an adjacent field.

 Places are limited, so booking is essential. Contact Richard Savage for details (richard.savage@btinternet.com)

A training excavation on the site of Alexander Raby's mill at the 18th century ironworking site at Cobham Park. If there is time, the dig will also examine the site of two crofts in an adjacent field.

 Places are limited, so booking is essential. Contact Richard Savage for details (richard.savage@btinternet.com)

A training excavation on the site of Alexander Raby's mill at the 18th century ironworking site at Cobham Park. If there is time, the dig will also examine the site of two crofts in an adjacent field.

 Places are limited, so booking is essential. Contact Richard Savage for details (richard.savage@btinternet.com)

A training excavation on the site of Alexander Raby's mill at the 18th century ironworking site at Cobham Park. If there is time, the dig will also examine the site of two crofts in an adjacent field.

 Places are limited, so booking is essential. Contact Richard Savage for details (richard.savage@btinternet.com)

A training excavation on the site of Alexander Raby's mill at the 18th century ironworking site at Cobham Park. If there is time, the dig will also examine the site of two crofts in an adjacent field.

 Places are limited, so booking is essential. Contact Richard Savage for details (richard.savage@btinternet.com)

A training excavation on the site of Alexander Raby's mill at the 18th century ironworking site at Cobham Park. If there is time, the dig will also examine the site of two crofts in an adjacent field.

 Places are limited, so booking is essential. Contact Richard Savage for details (richard.savage@btinternet.com)

A training excavation on the site of Alexander Raby's mill at the 18th century ironworking site at Cobham Park. If there is time, the dig will also examine the site of two crofts in an adjacent field.

 Places are limited, so booking is essential. Contact Richard Savage for details (richard.savage@btinternet.com)

A training excavation on the site of Alexander Raby's mill at the 18th century ironworking site at Cobham Park. If there is time, the dig will also examine the site of two crofts in an adjacent field.

 Places are limited, so booking is essential. Contact Richard Savage for details (richard.savage@btinternet.com)

A training excavation on the site of Alexander Raby's mill at the 18th century ironworking site at Cobham Park. If there is time, the dig will also examine the site of two crofts in an adjacent field.

 Places are limited, so booking is essential. Contact Richard Savage for details (richard.savage@btinternet.com)

10.30am          Tea and Coffee available

10.50am          Welcome & Introduction

11.00am          Isabel Sullivan:  ‘An Introduction to Manorial Documents'.  Isabel is an archivist with an interest in Latin working at the History Centre

                       Matthew Piggott:  ‘Manorial Documents: their survival and how to locate them.'  Matthew is also an archivist at the Centre and will demonstrate the use of the online Manorial Document Register

An illustrated talk by Julia Elton, Past-President of the Newcomen Society

To be held in Lecture Theatre F, University of Surrey, Guildford

This lecture is open to all - £5 per person, payable at the door

An illustrated talk by Martin Watts, millwright and mill historian

 To be held in Lecture Theatre F, University of Surrey, Guildford

Lecture open to all - £5 per person, payable at the door

10.00 a.m.           Coffee. Exhibits ready for viewing

10.25 a.m.           Morning Session. Chair Alan Crocker (Chair SLHC)

10.30 a.m.           Jane Furlong (United Kingdom National Inventory of War Memorials, Imperial War Museum): How we Remember - Commemoration in the UK and the work of the United Kingdom National Inventory of War Memorials

11.30 a.m.           Carol Brown (Guildford Museum): Women in Wartime

An illustrated talk by Peter Reese, Author

To be held in Lecture Theatre F, University of Surrey, Guildford

Lecture open to all - £5 per person, payable at the door

The Historic Buildings Committee has organised a visit to the Brooking Home Study Collection of Architectural Detail at Cranleigh.

An illustrated talk by Dr Peter Stanier, Author and Industrial Archaeologist

To be held in Lecture Theatre F, University of Surrey, Guildford

Open to all - £5 per person, payable at the door

By popular request, the autumn meeting of the Forum this year will be devoted to Surrey's medieval towns, beginning to carry forward the thinking in Martin O'Connell's 'Historic Towns in Surrey' in 1977 (SyAS Research Volume 5), Dennis Turner's contribution on towns in the 1984 'Archaeology of Surrey to 1540' and the contributions by Phil Andrews and John Schofield in the 2004 'Aspects' volume.

Programme

10.15am          Tea and coffee available