The River Thames Society and the River Thames
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Talk by Peter Finch, Chairman RTS
The R101 Disaster and the Broken Elevator Cable
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The R101 Disaster and the Broken Elevator Cable
Talk by Dr Bryan Lawton, Newcomen Society
The Loseley Chapel Restored
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A lecture by Dr Catherine Ferguson and a chance to visit the newly restored Chapel attached to St Nicolas’ Church, Guildford
Tuesday 23 May 2017, 7:30pm, St Nicolas’ Church Community Centre, Bury Street, Guildford.
Suggested donation £5
Richmond Arch Soc : Summer Outing
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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
Items Acquired by the Library in April 2017
New Items Acquired by the Library
April 2017
(Classification in Bold at the end)
Books
Revealing Cumbria’s Past: 150 years of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, edited by Michael Winstanley, Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, 2016 E1
From Blackfriars to Bankside: medieval and later riverfront archaeology along the route of Thameslink, Central London, edited by Elizabeth Stafford and Steven Teague, Thameslink Monograph No. 4, OAPCA, 2016 F34
Heritage Open Day
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The Abinger Research Centre will be open to all for a Heritage Open Day event.
The librarian will be on hand to help with any research queries. Members of AARG and the Medieval Pottery Research Group will display and discuss aspects of their work. If it is a dry day then environmental processing will take place in the grounds.
Details about access are on our Library webpage and will be published in the Mole Valley Heritage Open Days booklet during the summer.
Strange tales and dodgy Derbys
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Look beneath Epsom’s respectable surface whilst you stroll around its ancient town centre. Discover dark deeds, wrong doings and ghosts who won’t rest in peace. Hear tales of Epsom’s own highwayman and the life of the evil Lord Rochester, together with the wicked Lord Lyttleton. Relive the time when Epsom’s spa was the height of fashion but the behaviour of some visitors was not as elevated as their pedigree such as Lord Baltimore.
Echoes of the Past
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Children under 12 FREE adults £5
Discover life in World War 2 in the field of combat and on the Home Front.
Make a Mayan dream catcher
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The Mayans believed that the night air is filled with dreams, both good and bad. It became impossible for The Gods to protect all the children from bad dreams that creep into their minds at night. Mothers and grandmothers wanted to save their children from worry and fear, so they began to weave magical webs, later known as Dream Catchers, which would filter out all bad dreams and only allow good thoughts to enter their heads. The purpose of these Dream Catchers was to catch bad dreams in the net that would disappear at daylight.
Meet a Roman Soldier
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The Legions of Rome march into Ewell - enforcing the rule of the Empire. Discover what it was like to be a Roman soldier, having to serve for 25 years before receiving your generous pension - if you survived! Learn about the weapons and tactics that made the Legions so effective and so feared.
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