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September 19th 2008
40th Anniversary of 1968 Floods. Members and visitors packed Mole Hall for an audio-visual evening commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the 1968 Floods. The programme included BBC newsreels, amateur film footage, eye-witness accounts from some of those living in Molesey at the time, and a host of photographs.
June 18th 2008
Thames Riverbank Walk,
followed by a talk by Tony Osborne at Molesey Boat Club.
A leisurely stroll
on a fine evening along the riverbank from Hampton Court Station to
Molesey Boat Club was followed by a dip into Tony Osborne’s history
box with revelations about the Thames Canal Scheme of 1805 and the
proposed Molesey Boulevard of 1918, both of which were abandoned
following objections from local residents. Plus ça change!
May 21st 2008
Talk on the Hampton
Court Fire in 1986 by Dennis Ashbourne.
Another good turn out for our second visit to the
Clore Centre at Hampton Court Palace. With the aid of wonderful
photographs Dennis Ashbourne described the drama of the fire which
gutted the State Apartments of William and Mary. He then took us on
the painstaking journey from the damp and smouldering remains to the
complete restoration of the South Wing which was re-opened in 1992.
April 24th 2008
AGM, followed by a talk on ‘The Thames and Riverside Houses from
Hampton Court to Hampton’ by John Sheaf.
The Society’s first AGM, held at St. Lawrence Junior School,
attracted a good crowd and the formal business of the meeting was
completed without incident. John Sheaf then gave an illustrated and
well researched talk on the history of The Thames and its
environment from Platt’s Eyot to Hampton Court, a distance of only
one and a half miles, but packed with historical interest.
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March 6th 2008
Talk by Dr. Ken Brown on ‘History of
Hospitals and the NHS in Molesey’
Over one hundred members and visitors came
to the Molesey Youth Centre to hear Dr. Ken Brown give a
fascinating illustrated talk about medicine in Molesey. The
first part of his talk was about the cottage hospitals, of
which there have been three. Dr. Brown then went on to give
an engaging personal account of the NHS in Molesey in 1960,
when he first came down from Scotland to join a practice in
Molesey.
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January/February 2008
Visit to Surrey History Centre
During January and February two groups from
the Society visited the Surrey History Centre to take a tour
behind the scenes. The History Centre, which is in Goldsworth
Road Woking, was opened in 1999. The building was purpose built
to provide the best possible conditions for the preservation of
the historic documents stored there and for public access to
these documents.
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January 15th 2008
Members’ Evening
Despite the wind and rain, there was a good
turnout of members at St Paul’s Church for a social evening and
to hear reports from our Research Groups. There were displays
around the Church of photos, maps and other memorabilia, and
many members brought along items from their own collections.
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November 13th 2007
Family History Talk ‘Relative Connections:
Sources for Family History at Surrey History Centre’
About 60 members and visitors came to Vine
Hall to hear a talk by Jill Hyams from the Surrey History Centre
about family history sources at Surrey History Centre.
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September 7th 2007
History of the 1st Molesey Scout Group
Molesey was one of the first Scout groups
to be set up after the founder Lord Baden-Powell had the
idea to run groups to teach boys how to be good citizens in
1907. The evening, held during 1st Molesey’s Centenary
celebrations, consisted of short talks coupled with displays
of memorabilia and photos collected by the 1st Molesey Scout
Group over many years.
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July 30th 2007
Visit to Royal Holloway College
In the last years of his life, between 1881
and 1883, Thomas Holloway, a self-made multi-millionaire whose
fortune had been made in patent medicines, paid well over
£80,000 (equivalent to more than 6 million pounds in today's
terms) for the seventy seven paintings which make up the Royal
Holloway Collection. Visitors were given a tour of the Chapel
and Quads, a talk on the picture collection and a visit to the
College archives.
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June 27th 2007
Historic Molesey Walk
On a rather wet Wednesday at the end of June,
a large number of members turned out to hear Tony Osborne give a
short talk based around a walk in the Conservation area of East
Molesey Old Village. He showed a number of maps, illustrating
how the area had changed since the days of King Henry VIII, and
where remnants of boundary walls, buildings and roads could
still be seen today, and also displayed photographs of buildings
which unfortunately are no longer standing. Having heard the
talk, the braver souls walked the walk. The rest of us went to
the historic pub – The Bell.
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May 27th 2007
Talk by Ian Franklin on ‘Grace and Favour Apartments at Hampton
Court’
The first event of the Molesey Local History
Society took place, appropriately, in the grand surroundings of
Hampton Court Palace. More than 100 members met at the Clore
Centre, the new education facility at Hampton Court, for
refreshments and a brief talk by Rita Ashbourne about the
centre. We then moved across the courtyard into the Barrack
Block, where Ian Franklin gave us an informative and amusing
illustrated talk about the Grace and Favour apartments. Ian has
been associated with the Palace as a local historian for 25
years, and has been a State Apartment Warder for ten years.
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