Talks
Talks start at 8pm and talk place 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.
Forthcoming talks
2 Sep 2024
Patricia Fletcher: Nurseries in Woking
7 October 2024
Dr Simon Brown: Development of film making in Walton-on-Thames
4 November 2024 - on Zoom
Charles O’Brien: Revision of Pevsner’s Buildings of Surrey
2 December 2024 - on Zoom
AGM and Emma Warren: short talk on Barrow Hills
6 January 2025 - on Zoom
Nick Barratt - Lost Voices of the Titanic
3 February 2025 - on Zoom
Trevor Howard - History of the Hermitage, Woking
3 March 2025 - on Zoom
Guy Blythman - History of Windmills
7 April 2025
Ian Porter - The Theatre in Shakespeare's London
12 May 2025
Steve Welch - Woking in Pictures Old and New
2 June 2025
Alice Naylor - Kenwood Kitchen Appliances
7 July 2025
Outing to The Spike in Guildford
1 September 2025
David Rose - The Wey Navigations
6 October 2025
Anthony Poulton-Smith - The Call of Nature: The History of the Toilet
3 November 2025 - On Zoom
Simon Fowler - Christmas Food and Drink
1 December 2025 - On Zoom
TBC
Previous Talks
2024
July 2 - Visit to Shah Jahan Mosque
June 3 - John Ashworth: Leith Hill Place (home of Ralph Vaughan Williams)
May 13 - Alan Ruston: Theatre and Music hall over the Centuries (Zoom talk)
Apr 8 - Paul Whittle: the Venetian Connection
Mar 4 - Kathy Atherton: Suffragettes and Socialists in Surrey (Zoom talk)
Feb 5 - Julian Pooley: SHC – Gertrude Jekyll (Zoom talk)
Jan 8 - Nick Barratt: 1216 and all that - the story of Magna Carta (Zoom talk)
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.
Forthcoming talks
2 Sep 2024
Patricia Fletcher: Nurseries in Woking
7 October 2024
Dr Simon Brown: Development of film making in Walton-on-Thames
4 November 2024 - on Zoom
Charles O’Brien: Revision of Pevsner’s Buildings of Surrey
2 December 2024 - on Zoom
AGM and Emma Warren: short talk on Barrow Hills
6 January 2025 - on Zoom
Nick Barratt - Lost Voices of the Titanic
3 February 2025 - on Zoom
Trevor Howard - History of the Hermitage, Woking
3 March 2025 - on Zoom
Guy Blythman - History of Windmills
7 April 2025
Ian Porter - The Theatre in Shakespeare's London
12 May 2025
Steve Welch - Woking in Pictures Old and New
2 June 2025
Alice Naylor - Kenwood Kitchen Appliances
7 July 2025
Outing to The Spike in Guildford
1 September 2025
David Rose - The Wey Navigations
6 October 2025
Anthony Poulton-Smith - The Call of Nature: The History of the Toilet
3 November 2025 - On Zoom
Simon Fowler - Christmas Food and Drink
1 December 2025 - On Zoom
TBC
Previous Talks
2024
July 2 - Visit to Shah Jahan Mosque
June 3 - John Ashworth: Leith Hill Place (home of Ralph Vaughan Williams)
May 13 - Alan Ruston: Theatre and Music hall over the Centuries (Zoom talk)
Apr 8 - Paul Whittle: the Venetian Connection
Mar 4 - Kathy Atherton: Suffragettes and Socialists in Surrey (Zoom talk)
Feb 5 - Julian Pooley: SHC – Gertrude Jekyll (Zoom talk)
Jan 8 - Nick Barratt: 1216 and all that - the story of Magna Carta (Zoom talk)
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
