Talks
Talks start at 8pm either on Zoom or else at Woking High School, Morton Road, Horsell, GU21 4TJ
Visitors are welcome at the Woking High School talks for a fee of £3. We don't yet have the facility to offer our Zoom talks to non-members.
Talks 2024
Jan 8 - on Zoom
Nick Barratt: 1216 and all that - the story of Magna Carta
Feb 5 - on Zoom
Julian Pooley: SHC – Gertrude Jekyll
Mar 4 - on Zoom
Kathy Atherton: Suffragettes and Socialists in Surrey
Apr 8
Paul Whittle: the Venetian Connection
May 13 - on Zoom
Alan Ruston: Theatre and Music hall over the Centuries
June 3
John Ashworth: Leith Hill Place (home of Ralph Vaughan Williams)
July 1
Visit to Shah Jahan Mosque
Sept 2
Patricia Fletcher: Nurseries in Woking
Oct 7
Dr Simon Brown: Development of film making in Walton-on-Thames
Nov 4 - on Zoom
Charles O’Brien: Revision of Pevsner’s Buildings of Surrey
Dec 2 - on Zoom
AGM and Emma Warren: short talk on Barrow Hills
Previous Talks
2023
Nick Barratt - Tracing your ancestral home
Elizabeth Norton - Margaret Beaufort
Jill Hyams and Jane Lewis - Portrait of a Surrey town between the wars: the photographic archive of Sidney Francis
Sarah Slater - Kirtles and corsets
Paul Whittle - The Venetian connection
David Rose and Geoff Burch - Gypsies
Patrick Yarnold - Whitaker Wright: the Witley fraudster
Helen Gristwood and Dick Carpenter - Update on the 1911 census
Paul McCue - Wanborough Manor: a school for secret agents
2022
Tony Painter - Place Names
David Taylor - The life and loves of Ada Lovelace
Siobhan Clarke - A Christmas Carol
Juliet Hills on Growing up in Horsell in the 1950s
Visitors are welcome at the Woking High School talks for a fee of £3. We don't yet have the facility to offer our Zoom talks to non-members.
Talks 2024
Jan 8 - on Zoom
Nick Barratt: 1216 and all that - the story of Magna Carta
Feb 5 - on Zoom
Julian Pooley: SHC – Gertrude Jekyll
Mar 4 - on Zoom
Kathy Atherton: Suffragettes and Socialists in Surrey
Apr 8
Paul Whittle: the Venetian Connection
May 13 - on Zoom
Alan Ruston: Theatre and Music hall over the Centuries
June 3
John Ashworth: Leith Hill Place (home of Ralph Vaughan Williams)
July 1
Visit to Shah Jahan Mosque
Sept 2
Patricia Fletcher: Nurseries in Woking
Oct 7
Dr Simon Brown: Development of film making in Walton-on-Thames
Nov 4 - on Zoom
Charles O’Brien: Revision of Pevsner’s Buildings of Surrey
Dec 2 - on Zoom
AGM and Emma Warren: short talk on Barrow Hills
Previous Talks
2023
Nick Barratt - Tracing your ancestral home
Elizabeth Norton - Margaret Beaufort
Jill Hyams and Jane Lewis - Portrait of a Surrey town between the wars: the photographic archive of Sidney Francis
Sarah Slater - Kirtles and corsets
Paul Whittle - The Venetian connection
David Rose and Geoff Burch - Gypsies
Patrick Yarnold - Whitaker Wright: the Witley fraudster
Helen Gristwood and Dick Carpenter - Update on the 1911 census
Paul McCue - Wanborough Manor: a school for secret agents
2022
Tony Painter - Place Names
David Taylor - The life and loves of Ada Lovelace
Siobhan Clarke - A Christmas Carol
Juliet Hills on Growing up in Horsell in the 1950s