A Bourne Hall Museum Club event commemorating D Day. Discover what happened on the longest day, 75 years ago.

Cost £5 per child

Contact: dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk

Surrey Industrial History Group Annual General Meeting and Conservation Award Ceremony, 
Bluebird Room, Brooklands Museum.
The AGM will be followed by refreshmnets and a chance to visit the restored Aircraft Factory. 
Please contact Bob Bryson, 01483 577809 or meetings@sihg.org.uk, if you wish to attend, and he will provide further details.

To celebrate Armed Forces Day, Brookwood Military Cemetery near Woking will be holding two Open Days in partnership with the American Battle Monuments Commission and Brookwood Civilian Cemetery. These Open Days will be an opportunity to see the work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and the UK's largest CWGC cemetery.

There will be multiple attractions, from historic guided tours and expert talks, to stalls from heritage organisations and a lifesize Spitfire exhibition. Entertainment will also be provided by a band and vintage singer.

Three walks have been arranged to trace the events of 17th June 1919 when a mob attacked Epsom Police Station. Walks will begin at the Rifleman in East Street and finish in Ashley Road. Places have to booked with dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk, cost by a donation to Police Care UK. More details are on the attached pdf. 

Talk by Martin Adams, Emeritus Professor of Microbiology at the University of Surrey
to the Surrey Industrial History Group.
Map of Surrey Research Park.

A Special Meeting - Alan Crocker Memorial Lecture
The History of Paper Making, with Particular Reference to Alan’s Research
by Phil Crockett, British Association of Paper Historians

Map of Surrey Research Park

On the night of 17th June 1919 a knock came on the door of 92 Lower Court Road. The messenger spoke and left. Thomas Green, Station Sergeant, Epsom Police Station, hurriedly put on his coat and when his daughter Lily asked where he was going, he explained he had just been told that Canadian soldiers were about to attack the police station. She told him to be careful and to be sure to wear his helmet, but he replied that he would go in his own clothes as that would be safer going through the streets. He put on his cap and left the house, never to return alive.

Working with both the National Trust team at Hindhead and Liss Archaeology, this two-day course will provide training in walkover survey and metal-detecting whilst undertaking an initial component of an on-going research project at Gibbet Hill, the Devil’s Punchbowl, Hindhead to locate the site of the former RAF tower masts, one of which was sadly responsible for the crash of the US Air Force Curtis 46D in June 1945.  

Be prepared with gas mask training and air raid drill, learn what happened after a bomb fell. Could you deliver a message in an air raid during the blackout?

Cost: £5 per child, one adult per child free.

Details attached as a pdf or contact dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk

The development of tanks in World War I was a response to the stalemate that had developed on the Western Front. In Great Britain a prototype was developed in 1915. Learn about this early tank and make your own to take home.

There are two sessions on this day with limited places so booking is essential.

Contact: dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk

A poster is attached as a pdf