Our monthly meetings usually take place on the second Wednesday of each month except August, starting at 2.30pm. After any business is conducted a guest speaker will give a talk.
Our current venue is St Joseph’s Church Hall, 2 Falkland Grove, Dorking RH4 3DL.
Members’ guests and other visitors are welcome for up to two meetings, after which they are invited to become members. Admission for members and guests is free.
Click on the talk title for more details:
- The Tolpuddle Martyrs
10 April 2.30pm – St Joseph's Church Hall
Actor and speaker Simon Waterfield assumes the character of one of the protagonists to bring alive great historical events as seen from an ordinary person’s point of view. Let George Loveless, the ‘spokesman’ of the farm labourers who were transported to the Antipodes for trying to earn a fair wage, tell of their heart-breaking story and... - Where novelists get their ideas
8 May 2.30pm – St Joseph's Church Hall
Speaker Bobbie Darbyshire’s latest book is The Third Bus, in which an unappreciated man walks out of his dispiriting 42-year marriage with no destination in mind. At Victoria coach station on the spur of the moment he boards a coach to Norwich. It is described as a late-life coming-of-age story, mixing humour and sorrow, hope and... - Fashion on a Ration
12 June 2.30pm – St Joseph's Church Hall
During and after the Second World War commodities and raw materials were in short supply. Available resources had to be used for the war effort first. This led to rationing of food, clothing and household items. Rationing needed to be acceptable to the public as well as fulfilling its purpose of reducing consumption. In the... - The Lumberjills
10 July 2.30pm – St Joseph's Church Hall
On the eve of the Second World War, with only seven months’ supply of timber stockpiled, Britain was in trouble. Timber was critical to the war effort: it was needed for everything from aircraft and shipbuilding to communications and coal mining. Lacking in both men and timber, the government reluctantly opened lumber work for women...