About us
This meetup advertises events in Surrey about history. It promotes meetings of its own and of local history groups, some online, some physical and some hybrid (both online and physical). During the Corona virus crisis we organised the Lockdown Lectures, a series of online talks delivered via Zoom.
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Local History Book Sale (by post)
·OnlineOnlineThis isn't rally an "event", just a promotion of a book sale by Surrey Industrial History Group. Here's what SIHG are selling:
Guide to Chilworth Powder Mills £1.00
Industrial History of Elmbridge £2.50
Industrial History of Epsom & Ewell £2.50
Industrial History of Waverley £2.50
Industrial History of Reigate & Banstead £2.50
Industrial History of Surrey Heath £2.50
The Brilliant Ray: how the Electric Light was brought to Godalming in 1881 £1.00
Abinger and the Royal Greenwich Observatory £4.00
*** All above, please add £1.00 post and packing ***
Damnable Inventions: Chilworth Gunpowder & Paper Mills of the Tillingbourne £2.50
Diaries of James Simmons, Papermaker of Haslemere £5.00
Alexander Raby, Ironmaster £2.00
The Godalming Water Turbine £1.00
Surrey and the Motor £5.00
*** For these above, please add £2.50 post and packing *****
We can reduce post and packing for bulk orders: do please ask. Please email publications@sihg.org.uk with your orders/queries1 attendee
Talk: “A Romany Lifestyle in Surrey” by David Rose & Geoff Burch
Crossways Community Baptist Church Dorking, Junction Road, Dorking, GBMany Gypsies, travelers and itinerant workers called Surrey their home in days gone by. We’ll hear about where they made their camps, the work they did on farms and market gardens, hop picking and their ways and traditions. The talk will include vintage pictures from David’s vast collection and personal family details from Geoff, whose mother was born into a Gypsy family in Old Woking
Doors 7PM. Please come along! £2 for non-members.
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More on David at https://dlhg.org.uk/speakers-from-surrey/4 attendees
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