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This meetup advertises events in Surrey about history. It promotes meetings of its own and of local history groups, some online, some physical and some hybrid (both online and physical). During the Corona virus crisis we organised the Lockdown Lectures, a series of online talks delivered via Zoom.
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Talk: “The Real Dad’s Army” by Steven Bird
Crossways Community Baptist Church Dorking, Junction Road, Dorking, GBMost of us love “Dad’s Army” – that’s why it’s repeated so often – but our speaker Steve can give us some idea what the Home Guard was really like, as he’s researched original documents for a single Home Guard battalion in Kent, the only one for which complete records remain.
£2 entrance fee for non-members
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•OnlineTalk:"Salt of the Earth: the salt industry of the Adur valley" (Zoom) by Janet P
OnlineThis talk uncovers a lost industry of the Adur valley – the making of salt. Rents were sometimes paid in salt, as it was such a valuable commodity. The farmers of the Adur valley would have known all about it.
The French undercut our local produce in 14thC with their far superior ‘Fleur de Sel’, which we imported through the port of New Shoreham. French salt was produced by sun evaporation in southern Brittany, but the Adur valley salt, known locally as ‘brown salt’ was made in a very different way, by boiling
This talk will explain how the salt industry flourished in the Adur Valley, then faded.
So, don’t take all this with a pinch of salt, discover it for yourself!
The speaker, Dr Janet Pennington, is an author, a past chairman of the West Sussex Archives Society, a life member of the Sussex Archaeological Society, an active member of the Wealden Buildings Study Group and Hon. President of the Brighton & Hove Archaeological Society. She has been giving live & Zoom talks for many years.
Please register at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/9U0F1ZjiQ_ychzrlM6m7Ng8 attendees
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