St Catherine’s School, Bramley
Evaluation by L Capon of AOC revealed post-medieval garden features and two early 20th century bottle dump pits, but no evidence for medieval or earlier activity was noted.
20th century
1901-2000
St Mary’s church, Chiddingfold
Osteological analysis of human remains removed during excavation works, by L Sibun of ASE. The material was found to be in a poor state of preservation and highly fragmented. The minimum number of individuals represented was calculated as nine. No pathological lesions were noted, although only one skeleton was anything approached completeness. All the remains were estimated to date from the 19th--20th centuries.
Oakwood House, Charleshill
Historic building recording on a Type DFW3/28 variant pillbox, carried out by K Bower of PCA prior to partial demolition. A number of original fixtures and fittings were recorded
Rowly Drive, Rowly
Watching brief by T Munnery of SCAU during the excavations for a water pipeline. No finds or features of archaeological interest were revealed. A metal detector survey carried out simultaneously along the pipeline route recovered fragments of metalwork associated with the site of a German Junkers 88 aircraft, which was shot down and crashed nearby in April 1941. The actual site of the crash was, however, some distance from the pipeline route.
Mead Lane, Farnham
Evaluation by B Whitehead of SoAS revealed only modern features, although a single unstratified broken flint blade was recovered. SoAS
Silverblades, Brooklands Business Park, Weybridge
Watching brief by P Guarino of AOC during the excavation of a trench close to the Scheduled racetrack revealed a layer of sand used to make up the level of the ground for the track and evidence of extensive modern truncation.
The 1918 Flu Pandemic
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The 1918 flu pandemic was a lethal outbreak of influenza which infected 500 million people around the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100 million (three to five percent of the world's population) making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history. It killed the young and not the old, and was spread around the world by troops returning home after the First World War.
WW2 - A Children's War
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Be prepared with gas mask training and air raid drill, learn what happened after a bomb fell, discover how to put out one of the fire bombs that were dropped in their tens of thousands on Epsom during the war. Try to play fag cards like wartime children, discover the size of the sweet ration, and master a paper puzzle to find the hidden pig! Write a postcard home after being evacuated.
Cost £5 per child. Contact David Brookes, Bourne Hall Museum, Spring Street, Ewell.
Tel: 020 8394 1734
e-mail: dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk
Changing Role of Women - Surrey Local History Symposium
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Surrey Local History Committee
A Committee of Surrey Archaeological Society Registered Charily 272098
ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
The Changing Role of Women
Saturday 21 April 2018 9.30am to 4.00 pm
at Surrey History Centre 130, Goldsworth Road, Woking, Surrey, GU21 6ND
9.30 Registration
9.55 Chairman’s introductory remarks
10.00 Ros Black, local author and speaker . Duxhurst, Lady Henry Somerset’s farm colony for inebriate women
10.40 Coffee and tea
Shieldhall, thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund
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Talk by Graham Mackenzie, Chief Engineer of SS Shieldhall
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