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  • Membership
  • Talks
  • A history of Woking
  • publications
  • Contact

Talks

Talks start at 8pm and talk place either on Zoom or else at Woking High School, Morton Road, Horsell, GU21 4TJ
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​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 
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2 December 2024 - on Zoom
AGM and Emma Warren: short talk on Barrow Hills
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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
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