Synonymous with tour.
We take a close look at the lives of the great medieval kings and their times and try and discover if they were good, bad or just plain sad!
Cost £5 per child. Contact: David Brooks, Bourne Hall Museum, Spring Street, Ewell, Surrey, KT17 1UF. Tel 020 8394 1734.
A Gentleman Usher from Henry VIII’s Palace of Nonsuch pays a visit to the village looking for workers. He needs a gong (shit) farmer, a food taster, a spit boy, a groom of the stool, and a wool dyer. If you really want to get ahead, become an executioner! Come along and see if you fancy a change of job and a short life!
Cost £5 per child. Contact: David Brooks, Bourne Hall Museum, Spring Street, Ewell, Surrey, KT17 1UF. Tel 020 8394 1734.
Peter Guest, Senior Lecturer in Roman Archaeology at Cardiff University and Dig Director, will guide us around the Roman fortress of Caerleon in the morning (amphitheatre, Prysg Field Barracks, Fortress baths and the Roman Legionary museum) and Caerwent in the afternoon (forum-basilica, Pound Lane, Courtyard House, Temple and South Walls).
Charge: £10.00 per head
Max. no. 25
This is an opportunity to hear Emma Corke talk about the Roman tile kiln found in Reigate in 2004. She will be joined by Peter Burgess who will explain how it was rebuilt. After these talks, there will be a chance to visit Reigate caves.
Charge: none. Please put a donation in the box.
Max. no 15
If you are interested please e-mail Irene Goring at irene@greenhayes.plus.com
To complement David Bird’s “ Reading Roman Inscriptions” workshop on 2 September, there will be a visit to the British Museum. Dirk Booms, Curator in the Department of Greece and Rome, will walk us round 2 galleries for about an hour to help us appreciate and translate the inscriptions there. He will explain the abbreviations and the different facts that can be interpreted from inscriptions in general.
Instructions and timings will be distributed closer to the time.
Charge: None. Please make a donation to the BM
Max. no. 15
This visit offers the opportunity to see two Sussex excavations in progress. In the morning David Rudling, Academic Director of the Sussex School of Archaeology, will take us around Plumpton Roman Villa, a winged corridor house, and tell us about the three years of excavations there. In the afternoon, either Rob Wallace or David Millum, Dig Directors, will guide us around Bridge Farm - a Romano British settlement - where excavations have been in progress since 2013. There will be a pub lunch between the two visits.
A programme of summer walks around Epsom and Ewell is planned from 25th July to 29th August. The attached pdf has full details of the walks with dates and times.
Walks cost £5 per person and places are limited to 25 people per walk.
Places must be booked in advance with David Brooks at Bourne Hall Museum. Tel: 020 8394 1734 or e-mail: dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk
A Serjeant-at-Arms from the Tower of London visits Ewell to tell you how you become a Knight. Sent away from home at the age of 7 to the castle of a wealthy Lord, you will begin your training as a Page learning combat skills and horsemanship until you are 14. Between then and 21 you become a squire, capable of engaging in battle and if you fight bravely you may be made a Knight.
Our visitor will bring weapons for you to master and teach you how to defend and attack a castle.
Surrey Industrial History Group AGM
and 2017 Conservation Award Presentation
to the Rural Life Centre
for the removal and reconstruction of
Deek’s Cycle Workshop, which came from Frimley Green.
Norman Emblow, the volunteer leader of the project, will give us a talk on the venture.
We shall then visit the Cycle Workshop.
Richmond Archaeological Society is organising a summer outing to the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum. Members/non-members welcome. For more details of itinerary and cost please contact: www.richmondarchaeology.org.uk
