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Covid Considerations, 2022

The spread of the Omicron variant is a bit worrying. We are keeping an eye on the figures and will decide whether January’s talk on “Dorking Music Hall” by Brian O’Gorman (Official Historian of the British Music Hall Society) will be live at Junction Road church or by Zoom before the end of 2021

More Events, 2021 & 2022!

We’ve got a bonus Zoom talk on November 8th this year – “Remembering the heroes from all over the Commonwealth: BlackPoppyRose Campaign” by Selena Carty, on the important contribution made by black servicemen from the Caribbean, Africa & elsewhere in WW1, WW2 & other wars fought by Britain

We are planning another organised walk or 2 in Guildford in 2023 – probably one on Lewis Carol and one on Alan Turing. Both will cost around £7pp. More news in the next few months

And we plan to do our first club coach trip for a few years, probably to the Weald & Downland Living Museum, near Chichester. Cost probably £20-25 per person. More news on this soon

Lastly we may also offer a daytime talk in Reigate (probably April/May), “Terror in the Night: the 1953 Floods”, in conjunction with a Reigate U3A group. There may be a small charge for this talk.

Walk around Godalming

On 10th Nov 2021, 15 DLHG members enjoyed an guided walk around Godalming following the story of Jack Phillips, chief radio operator of the Titanic, and a true local hero.

See “Some DLHG Event Pictures” (under “More” on the main menu) for some pix

2022 Programme

We are very pleased to tell you that the talks programme for the first half of 2022 is complete now. And we’ve got some new speakers on board to present on a wide range of topics.

Among other things, we look forward to a talk on Quakers at War (some in Dorking) by Dr Frances Hurd; a talk on Dorking Music Hall by Brian O’Gorman, the official Historian of the British Music Hall Society; a talk on Anglo-Saxon Surrey by William Aeres; a talk on the amazing women of the Temperance Movement – mostly from Surrey – by Ros Black.
Those of you interested in theatre/film and/or World War One will enjoy a talk by Pete Allen on the life of RC Sherrif, who wrote “Journey’s End” (a famous play about World War One), was an officer in the East Surrey Regiment in the Great war. and was a successful film scriptwriter (e.g. for “The Dam Busters”).
And the ever-popular Kathy Atherton returns, to speak on Suffragettes and Socialists in Surrey, and we’ll have a members’ evening in February.

And there’s lots more – see the club programme pages

DLHG 2022 AGM Date

Our next Annual General Meeting will be held at 7:30PM on Monday 4th April 2022 at Dorking Baptist church, Junction Road, Dorking, before a talk on “Death in Tudor and Stuart Dorking: plague and other mortality crises” by local Historian Sue Jones.