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Sawmills: a slice through time

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:48:53 +0100

Start: 14 Oct 2008 - 19:30

End: 14 Oct 2008 - 21:30

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

Surrey and the First World War

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:20:02 +0100

Start: 25 Oct 2008 - 10:00

End: 25 Oct 2008 - 17:30

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

Samuel Cody: Air Pioneer

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:49:45 +0100

Start: 28 Oct 2008 - 19:30

End: 28 Oct 2008 - 21:30

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

Prehistoric Group AGM and Lecture

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:10:22 +0100

Start: 28 Oct 2008 - 19:30

End: 28 Oct 2008 - 21:30

The Prehistoric Group AGM will be held in the Dorking Christian Centre (Upper Lounge) at 7.30pm. The meeting will be followed by a talk by Jon Cotton on "Towards a New Stone Age - the Neolithic in Surrey", starting at 8.15pm.

Visit to the Brooking Collection of Architectural Detail, Cranleigh

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:53:20 +0100

Start: 1 Nov 2008 - 10:30

End: 1 Nov 2008 - 12:30

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

Cornwall's Mining Heritage

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:50:29 +0100

Start: 11 Nov 2008 - 19:30

End: 11 Nov 2008 - 21:30

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

Surrey's Medieval Towns

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:18:37 +0100

Start: 15 Nov 2008 - 10:15

End: 15 Nov 2008 - 16:30

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

Visit to Lullingstone Roman villa

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:10:20 +0100

Start: 16 Nov 2008 - 10:00

End: 16 Nov 2008 - 15:00

A visit is being arranged to the villa by the Roman Studies Group. Further details will be posted here in due course

Early Wireless

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:51:18 +0100

Start: 25 Nov 2008 - 19:30

End: 25 Nov 2008 - 21:30

An illustrated talk by Ken Tythacott, Member of the British Vintage Wireless Society

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

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

Banknote Papermaking at Laverstoke and St Petersburg

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:52:06 +0100

Start: 6 Jan 2009 - 19:30

End: 6 Jan 2009 - 21:30

An illustrated talk by Prof Alan Crocker, President of Surrey Industrial History Group

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

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

Channel Islands Concrete, from WW2 to today

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:39:21 +0100

Start: 20 Jan 2009 - 19:30

End: 20 Jan 2009 - 21:30

An illustrated talk by Chris Shw, Consultant

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

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

Villages Study Group meeting

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:13:12 +0100

Start: 31 Jan 2009 - 10:45

End: 31 Jan 2009 - 16:00

The Group held a very successful meeting on 20 September 2008 with the morning devoted to presentations on Manorial Records by Isabel Sullivan and Matthew Piggott, both of Surrey History Centre. During the afternoon we heard fascinating updates on the studies at Cranleigh and Hambledon, with a most interesting first presentation on the studies now in progress at Esher. We are grateful to the staff at Surrey History Centre for not only hosting this meeting but also for setting up a display of many original manorial documents with appropriate transcriptions.

Watches in England, the first hundred years, 1580-1680

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:41:30 +0100

Start: 3 Feb 2009 - 19:30

End: 3 Feb 2009 - 21:30

An illustrated talk by David Thompson, Curator of Horology at the British Museum

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

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