As the sandbags were piled high, barrage balloons filled the air and the children were evacuated, Britain made ready to do battle on the Home Front. Find out how people defended their families, community and town during the dark days of WW2.
£5 per child plus 1 accompanying adult.
More details from: dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk
Or from the website: www.epsomandewellhistoryexplorer.org.uk
Trial trenching in fields at Frensham Manor in 2001 located a Roman occupation site which survives below plough soil level and would appear to represent the remains of a small farmstead dating from the late 1st to the 3rd centuries AD.
The West Lodge building(s) is to the east side of Blacksmith Lane at the west (main) entrance to the Chilworth Gunpowder Mills Middle Works site originally serving as an entry control point.
In 1997 Waverley Borough Council, the landowner, commissioned a preliminary survey into the historical and archaeological background of the land that forms the New or Little Park (now Farnham Park), just to the north east of the town of Farnham, in Surrey. The Park, which is a public open space, has been the site of a number of finds of important antiquities in recent years.
ICOMOS-UK hold an annual Christmas Lecture each year in December, bringing together our membership and others interested in cultural heritage for a festive evening of wine, mince pies and a talk from an expert speaker. This year, they are pleased to be celebrating the 2016 inscription of the UK’s latest World Heritage Site, Gorham’s Cave Complex, the Neanderthal cave site in Gibraltar, with a talk from Professor Clive Finlayson, Director of the Gibraltar Museum and of Gorham’s Cave Complex.
Talk by Dr Michael Bailey, President of the Stephenson Locomotive Society.
Part of the 41st Series of Industrial Archaeology Lectures in Guildford (SIHG Map
Talk by Bob Redman, Secretary Elstree Screen Heritage,
Part of the 41st Series of Industrial Archaeology Lectures in Guildford (SIHG Map
Talk by Trevor Williams, Farnham U3A.
Talk by Richard Mellor, ex Union Castle Lines and P&O.
