DLHG member Julian Wormsley has written a new book “‘When John Aubrey visited Dorking” – please see https://dlhg.org.uk/history-group-publications/.
And watch this space for details of the book launch.
We’ve confirmed the date for our “Brookwood Cemetery and The London Necropolis Railway” Zoom talk by Nick Richmond – it will be on Monday 15th June. See you there!
Our guided walk “How Railways Killed a Canal” (Saturday 30th May, meet at Shalford 10:15AM) is now over half full. £5 cash on the day, BOOKING ESSENTIAL! Please email meetings@sihg.org.uk to secure your place. (It’s a joint SIHG/DLHG event)
Details at https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/content/sihg-guided-walk-how-railways-killed-a-canal-starts-at-shalford
We were disappointed that Geoff Burch couldn’t join David Rose to give us a talk on “A Romany Life in Surrey” on 30th March, but David gave us a good solo talk instead, AND David & Geoff will be with us on March 1st 2027 to do their “Romany Life” talk.
We’ve booked talks on “John Logie Baird and the Magic Lantern” (there IS a Dorking Connection) and “Medieval graffiti in Kent & Surrey churches” and should book one on Brooklands shortly. More to come soon.
See https://dlhg.org.uk/current-programme/#2027
Our 2026 talks programme is now compete . We’ve recently added talks including “Vickers at Brooklands”, “The Leatherhead Stationmaster’s House”, “Canal Mania! The Story of an Interactive Map” and “Merton Abbey’s Mills”. See https://dlhg.org.uk/current-programme
Dorking Museum and Heritage Centre are looking for a secretary to join their Trustee Board. If you are interested, please contact Jean Ward, Chair of the Trustees at jeanpward@gmail.com.
More details at https://dorkingmuseum.org.uk/about/volunteer-opportunities/
We are planning a tour of Eel Pie Island Museum (near Twickenham) on Sunday 19th May AM. It has a lot of great rock music history, a boatyard and more. See event details at www.dlhg.org.uk/current-programme/#EelPie
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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