Clik here to view.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
Picture of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from Wikimedia Creator of fictional detective Sherlock Holmes Doyle was born in Edinburgh, to an Irish Catholic family. In 1876, he began studies at the University of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Surrey Boundaries!
Last year I was working away in the History Centre when a lovely American couple pitched up in reception with that excited and keen look on their faces which any family historian will recognise – yes,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Golf Course in Surrey’s Historic Landscape – Part 1
In July 2017 the Ordnance Survey released an open dataset comprising the land coverage of green spaces and their uses in Great Britain. In Surrey, golf courses were found to cover 2.65% of the county’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lockdown Records on the Surrey HER
Five new things added to the Surrey HER in recent months. Since lockdown measures were introduced by the UK Government on 23 March 2020, much of the normal working life of the country ground to a halt....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Boxing in Georgian Surrey: A Heroic Scene
Hen. (or Henry) Pearce (Champion), “The Game Chicken.” From a Drawing by Reeves, of Bristol, 1805. Published in Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing by Henry Downes Miles, 1906. Courtesy of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Second Boer War (1899 – 1902)
The Second Boer War (11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, Anglo-Boer War, or South African War, was fought between the British Empire and two independent Boer states, the South...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hoo, What, Where? Surrey’s 7th-century and 21st-century connections to the...
Friday 29th January 2021 saw the release on Netflix of The Dig, a film about the 1938-39 archaeological excavations at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk that resulted in the discovery of an unprecedented early...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Never Where you Think They Are!
It’s an odd thing but often the most difficult thing for family historians is to find where our ancestors are buried. This seems to be primarily because our ancestors (well, mine at least) didn’t seem...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mary Sophia Johnston (1875-1955): a passion for geology and photography
Mary Johnston in later life (courtesy of the Geologists’ Association) Mary Sophia Johnston was a talented amateur geologist and photographer whose contribution to the Surrey Photographic Survey and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
St Anne’s School, Redhill
St Anne’s School in Redhill, opened in 1885 and closed in 1919. However, the site has a complex history, with confusing name changes and different organisations occupying the buildings for a variety of...
View Article
