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After an excellent Zoom talk, “The 1940 anti-invasion defences between Guildford & Dorking” by Paul Ferris yesterday evening, we’re having a break from Zooming until September 16th, when we have a talk on “Surrey, Suffrage and the Arts pre WW1” by  Dr Lucy Ella Rose. See you then?
We still have one more talk at Dorking before our summer break, however, it’s “The Battle of Dorking: an Influential Book“ by Nick Cook on 1st July – please come along.

We’ve revised our links page, which now includes links to number of other local history groups, local museums and more – please have a look at https://dlhg.org.uk/revised-links/
Any comments/suggestions?

We’ve just updated our event photos gallery to show some highlights from our 22-24 days out – please have a look at https://dlhg.org.uk/2022-event-photos/

Yes, we plan ahead! Please have a look at https://dlhg.org.uk/current-programme/#2025Events

The Brooklands Museum visit is now full, but we have another event in May: our old friend David Rose will lead a ‘WW2 Remains in Guildford’ walk for us. It will be led by on Sunday 19th May at 2:00pm.

It starts/ends at Spectrum leisure centre (free parking) on Parkway in Stoke Park. It’s only 2 miles or so, on easy ground. Max 25 people, well behaved dogs welcome, £6 per person. Email garrypaulbrooks@gmail.com if you are interested

The tour will take 60 to 90 minutes, after which you will be free to investigate the many exhibits at Brooklands at your leisure – see https://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/ for what’s on offer. And there’s a good café there for lunch.
The tour will cost £19 per person (discounted group rate), plus an additional £6 if you want to do the “Concorde Experience”. Please note that a maximum of 12 places are available for Concorde – it’ll be first come, first served!
If you have any disabilities, please note that this is a walking tour, but the museum has a number of mobility scooters and wheelchairs that can be borrowed. The site is fully accessible apart from Concorde which can only be reached via a set of stairs. If in doubt, please call the museum before booking.
If you’d like to come along please email garrypaulbrooks@gmail.com stating the number of tickets required. Garry will reply with payment details. Once you’ve paid, he’ll send you full details of arrangements for the days.
Please note that you will have to make your own way to the starting point of this event. Garry will try to help organise lift sharing for those without cars, but this will depend on others offering lifts. For those wishing to come by train, Weybridge Station is about a mile away from the museum.”

Unfortunately we’ve had to cancel the New Year’s walk on January 2nd as Darren Jhuboo, the walk leader, is unavailable due to unforeseen circumstances. It may be rescheduled for a later date – we’ll let you know

We’re finalising details of three days out for 2024: a guided tour of Brooklands Museum with optional “Concorde experience” in March; a boat trip on the Wey and Arun Canal (from Loxwood) in April or May and a tour of Christ’s Hospital – “A School Like No Other” near Horsham later in the year. More news on these soon.

We are very pleased with our 2024 programme, which has 19 very varied talks, topics include industrial history, social history, arts and crafts, military history, cricket history(!), museums, archaeology, and more. 11 talks are at Dorking & 8 are by zoom. and we’ll be adding a few days trips to the programme.

All dates are now confirmed! Please see https://dlhg.org.uk/2024-summary/

our old friend Simon Ritchie will be giving us a bonus pre-Xmas Zoom talk, please see https://dlhg.org.uk/our-2023-programme/#Tea