House building virtually ceased during WW1, the major exception being houses for munition workers. The first of these was at Well End for the Woolwich Arsenal, built in 1915. Because of the lack of both bricks and bricklayers many of these houses were constructed using non-traditional
The talk is about the passenger and passenger cargo liners seen in UK ports during the author's boyhood in the 1950s, the ship owners, their origins and the trades which they served.
This talk explores gap between the early experiments of Faraday and the provision of electrical power that we enjoy in our homes. Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction, the principle behind the electric transformer and generator
This illustrated talk traces the history of how local news, particularly in Surrey, has been brought to its readers, and focuses on the changes in technology from hot-metal printing to the modern computer era.
A look at human factors in aircraft accidents, good and bad. Are we becoming too complacent with new technology?
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'Damnable inventions' were the words used by William Cobbett, when he visited the Tillingbourne valley in Surrey in 1822, to describe: the industries of Chilworth and Albury - the manufacture of gunpowder and of paper for printing banknotes.
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A mill is known to have existed on the site Downside Mills, Cobham, River Mole, from as early as 1331 and in the eighteenth century it operated both as a corn and a paper mill prior to becoming an iron Mill.
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Between Leith Hill and Abinger Bottom is a house called "The Old Observatory" which together with the land in which it stands formed an important outpost of the Royal Greenwich Observatory from 1924 until 1957.
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In this little pleasant Valley, the Springs serve not only to water the Grounds, but for the driving of 18 Powder Mills, 5 whereof were blown up in a little more than halfe a Years Time. 'Tis a little Commonwealth of Powdermakers, who are as black as Africans.
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The Borough of Waverley in south-west Surrey was formed under the re-organisation of local government in 1974 and named after Waverley Abbey, the first Cistercian house in England which was founded in 1128. It was created from the Borough of Godalming, the Urban Districts of Farnham and Haslemere, and Hambledon Rural District and its four main centres of population are the towns of Godalming. Farnham and Haslemere and the village of Cranleigh.
