Tuesday, 20th September 2022
Polly Bagnall - Fergusson's Gang
'Ferguson's Gang' was a group of eccentric women who hid their identities by adopting bizarre pseudonyms and disguises, whilst raising large sums of money for the National Trust. In the 1930s they met in secret at Shalford Mill. Polly grew up at the mill and has pieced together their story.
Tuesday, 18th October 2022
Tuesday 18 October 2022
David Rose & Geoff Burch -
A Romany Lifestyle
We welcome David for a return visit, this time to talk about the gypsies, travellers and itinerant workers who lived in Surrey. He will be joined by Geoff Burch, whose mother was born into a Romany family.
Tuesday, 15th November 2022
Tuesday 15 November 2022
Michael Miller – Postal services in Cranleigh and Ewhurst
The post office was once at the centre of the community. Michael's talk will trace how local postal services developed in Cranleigh and Ewhurst.Tuesday, 13th December 2022
Tuesday 13 December 2022
NB- this is the 2nd Tuesday, not the 3rd
Christmas Meeting and Members’ Evening
four of our members will be telling us stories from their family's history
Followed by mulled wine and mince pies.
Tuesday, 21st February 2023
21 February 2023
Sylvia Wright - John Clavell, 1601-43, Highwayman, Author, Lawyer, Doctor
Sylvia will be telling us about her notorious ancestor John Clavell, author of the poem "A Recantation of an Ill Led Life".
Tuesday, 21st March 2023
Tuesday 21 March 2023
Janet Balchin - England’s Vermeer - Leonard Campbell Taylor
Leonard Campbell Taylor was a local artist, whose serene paintings of interiors have led him to be compared to Vermeer. Janet will look at his life and work from a local perspective.Tuesday, 18th April 2023
Tuesday 18 April 2023
Jo Gosney - The Empress Eugénie -The Bonaparte connection
Jo will be telling us about the life-in-exile of The Empress Eugénie, the last Empress-Consort of France. She was the wife of Napoleon III and bought the Farnborough Hill estate in 1880, after the death of her husband and the collapse of the Second Empire.
Tuesday, 16th May 2023
Tuesday 16 May 2023
Chris Gibson - Roman Ewhurst
Chris, from Surrey Archaeological Society, aided and abetted by some of our members, has been leading surveys and excavations into the course of the Roman road through Ewhurst over the last year.
Come and hear about what we discovered.