Surrey Archaeological Society

The industrial revolution created both winners and losers. In this talk, we’ll hear about  on three men who clawed  their way to success during the industrial revolution - while their workers in both mills and mines endured lives of extraordinary hardship

This is your chance to come on a 3-mile escorted walk in beautiful Surrey

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* Please note that this talk is on a WEDNESDAY evening.*

A talk describing the importance of the Dockyard to the Royal Navy and its recognition as one of the centres of the Industrial Revolution.

In the summer of 1888, fourteen hundred young women and girls, walked out of an East End match factory and into the history books. Their actions continue to exert a powerful hold over the public imagination to this day, and this talk captures every element of their struggle.

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A joint talk with Dorking Local History Group

In 1939 Tom and Angela Rolt set out to explore the canals of England in the narrow boat ‘Cressy’. The account of their cruise was a book called “Narrow Boat” and this inspired the national movement to preserve and cherish our inland waterways. Eighty years later Alastair Clark set out on a bike to follow the part of their voyage which followed the Trent and Mersey canal.