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NOTE: this talk is on a Tuesday, due to speaker's unavailability most Thursdays
And now for something completely different - some maritime industrial archaeology.
Today's speaker Geoff has been a railway enthusiast since his schooldays. At 15, he left school and started his career as an engine cleaner, working in the boilersmith’s shop and eventually becoming a top-link fireman based at Guildford Motive Power Depot. This gave him a privileged opportunity to work with a diverse group of drivers and locomotives until the final day of steam on the Southern Region, Sunday 9th July 1967.
Surrey Local History Committee invites you to attend this day conference on 'Surrey Photographers' at Surrey History Centre. A pdf of the programme with booking details is attached.
9.30 Registration
9.55 Welcome by Gerry Moss Chairman of Surrey Local History Committee
10.00 Keith Harding, 'Victorian Dorking in photographs by Walter Rose & John Chaplin'
10.40 Coffee or tea
11.10 Nigel Balchin, 'Picture postcards and local history'
The Rural Life Living Museum at Tilford GU10 2DL https://rural-life.org.uk/ is about 3 miles to the south of Farnham. It has a collection of life as it was in Surrey up until the end of the 1950s as seen through Preserved Buildings, Shops, Transport, Tradesmen and their Tools as well as other displays.
The Prehistoric Group has arranged a free Zoom talk by Paul Garwood of Birmingham University (Senior Lecturer in Prehistory) discussing the role of Neolithic pottery in south-east England. Online booking has been arranged to enable the Zoom link to be sent closer to the event.
The full title is: One thousand years of solitude? Social lives and transformation in the Middle and Late Neolithic of south-east England, 3500-2500 BC
In 1846, a patent was awarded to a new type of corn-mill - it triggered a series of court cases which ran for more than 20 years. This talk tells the story of the invention and how the court cases provide examples of what makes an invention patentable in the UK today.
Our January e-newsletter is out and contains information on upcoming events and news for the new year, including the programme and booking info for our Annual Symposium and upcoming Medieval Houses study day. For past e-newsletters, visit the webpage, or email info@surreyarchaeology.org.uk to be added to the mailing list.
