Surrey Archaeological Society

NOTE: this talk is on a Tuesday, due to speaker's unavailability most Thursdays

And now for something completely different - some maritime industrial archaeology.

Today's speaker Geoff has been a railway enthusiast since his schooldays.  At 15, he left school and started his career as an engine cleaner, working in the boilersmith’s shop and eventually becoming a top-link fireman based at Guildford Motive Power Depot. This gave him a privileged opportunity to work with a diverse group of drivers and locomotives until the final day of steam on the Southern Region, Sunday 9th July 1967.

Surrey Local History Committee invites you to attend this day conference on 'Surrey Photographers' at Surrey History Centre.  A pdf of the programme with booking details is attached.

9.30 Registration

9.55 Welcome by Gerry Moss Chairman of Surrey Local History Committee

10.00 Keith Harding, 'Victorian Dorking in photographs by Walter Rose & John Chaplin'

10.40 Coffee or tea

11.10 Nigel Balchin, 'Picture postcards and local history'

Come and join Richard Shenton on a visit to the Rural Life Living Museum at Tilford, near Farnham in Surrey.  There is a lot to see and enjoy at this museum which specializes in the Industrial history of Surrey.  Features include Buildings that have been saved from demolition, Old Shops and Trades, Farm Machinery, Old Vehicles, Fire Engines, a Passenger carrying Railway System (operating as advertised), a Timber Yard and many more items of interest.

The Prehistoric Group has arranged a free Zoom talk by Paul Garwood of Birmingham University (Senior Lecturer in Prehistory) discussing the role of Neolithic pottery in south-east England. Online booking has been arranged to enable the Zoom link to be sent closer to the event.

The full title is: One thousand years of solitude? Social lives and transformation in the Middle and Late Neolithic of south-east England, 3500-2500 BC

In 1846, a patent was awarded to a new type of corn-mill - it triggered a series of court cases which ran for more than 20 years.  This talk tells the story of the invention and how the court cases provide examples of what makes an invention patentable in the UK today.