Society AGM on ZOOM

Agenda for the Annual General Meeting

 

This meeting will be held on Zoom only - codes for this will be emailed and published a few days before the meeting.

 

  1. Apologies for absence.

  2. To receive and, if approved, sign as correct the minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on November 21,2020.

Damnable Inventions: Chilworth Gunpowder and Paper Mills of the Tillingbourne

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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.

2000

Alexander Raby, Ironmaster

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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.

1998

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