This meeting starts our winter series of lectures which run from October 2016 to March 2017. The dates for these lectures are as follows: 11th October, 8th November, 6th December, 3rd January, 7th February and 7th March.
Please note that the October and November meetings are taking place on the 2nd Tuesday of the month rather than the usual 1st Tuesday.
VISIT TO FISHBOURNE ROMAN PALACE ON 23 JULY
CHEDWORTH ROMAN VILLA ON 1 OCTOBER
The Surrey Industrial History Group AGM will be followed by the presentation of the 2016 Conservation Award to
Painshill Park.
The first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916, claimed 57,540 British and Commonwealth casualties; 2 for every yard of the battle front. Just 141 days later, when the offensive ended, a huge total of 420,000 Allied men had been killed or wounded, including 70 men from Epsom and Ewell.
Learn about one of the darkest days for the British Army and discover why the human cost was so high. See the weapons and equipment that the troops used to live and fight .
A pdf with full information is attached.
Excavations at Bridge Farm will run this season from Monday 27th June till Sunday 21st August. They are seeking more diggers: there is an awful lot of work to do, and it is a fascinating site. Would those interested either contact David Millum or go onto the Culver Archaeological Project website and book on.
Plumpton Roman Villa: this summer another programme of research and training excavations will take place, starting Saturday 18th June and ending on Saturday 30th July. Project director: David Rudling. Volunteer excavation opportunities are available Monday-Friday throughout the digging season, 9.30am-5pm.
Surrey Archaeological Society Research Volumes are archived with the Archaeology Data Service. The Society is grateful to the trustees of the Marc Fitch Fund for a generous grant towards the cost of digitising the Research Volumes and depositing them with the Archaeology Data Service.
The Library holds a wide variety of archives, in the form of documents, prints, drawings, parish documents and maps. These are not held at Abinger, but are located in a variety of storage locations. The files below are scans of documents held by the Library containing detailed listings of these holdings. These PDF files are indexed and can be searched, although the variable nature of the original documents means that not all keywords will be found by a search. The documents are also listed individually in the Library catalogue. It is hoped to publish digitised scans of some of the collection on this website in due course.
