If you are a Vaughan Williams fan you might like to consider buying Dorking Museum’s book “Vaughan Williams in Dorking” by Celia Newbury, see https://dlhg.org.uk/history-group-publications/ https://dlhg.org.uk/history-group-publications
We have two great talks in January. The first “The Surrey farmland girls 1939-1950″ is on Monday 5th, the speaker is Neil Mach, who gave us a terrific talk on “Rocking Surrey” in January 2025. by Neil Mach; the second is a Zoom on the 19th, “Ralph Vaughan Williams & Lucy Broadwood – Musical Friends and Neighbours” “by Graham Muncy. For more on both talks, see https://dlhg.org.uk/current-programme/.
We have scheduled our first half-day out for 2026, a 2.5 mile walk ““How Railways Killed a Canal” on Saturday 30th May 10:30AM. See Current Programme – DLHG
Our 2026 programme is filling up nicely. We have added talks on “Elizabeth Barton – The Maid of Kent”, “Chilworth’s Mills”, “Brookwood Cemetery and The London Necropolis Railway” and “Restoring the Art Deco Richmond Station” in May to July, and “The Medieval Wool Trade in Guildford” & “Vickers at Brooklands” in September. See https://dlhg.org.uk/current-programme
New links! 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, please let us know.
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