Woking Centre

Woking Methodist Church Hall, Brewery Road, Woking, GU21 4LH

Co-ordinator Chris Leech

Email: woking@wsfhs.org
Second Thursday in month
Doors Open at 7.15pm. Meeting starts at 7.50pm.

2021

Date		Time	Title	Speaker
Thu	10 Jun	7.50 pm for 8.20 pm	The Plant Nurseries of Woking Now Zoom meeting	David Rose
Thu	9 Sep	7.50 pm for 8.20 pm	Moving Forward How to bring your research up to date and find those elusive living relatives	Antony Marr
Thu	14 Oct	7.50 pm for 8.20 pm	Childhood Memories	Informal Meeting
Thu	11 Nov	7.50 pm for 8.20 pm	Research and records using CGWC Archives	CWGC Speaker
Thu	9 Dec	7.50 pm for 8.20 pm	Christmas Food and Drink through the Ages	Simon Fowler and Sylvia Levi

2022

Date		Time	Title	Speaker
Thu	13 Jan	7.50 pm for 8.20 pm	Getting Organised	Les Mitchinson
Thu	10 Feb	7.50 pm for 8.20 pm	Researching the History of Houses	Philip and Sally Gorton
Thu	10 Mar	7.50 pm for 8.20 pm	Hit a brick wall? Where do you go next?	Elizabeth Owen
Thu	14 Apr	7.50 pm for 8.20 pm	My recent research	Informal Meeting
Thu	12 May	7.50 pm for 8.20 pm	Land of my Father's Father. Welsh Research	Jane Lewis
Thu	9 Jun	7.50 pm for 8.20 pm	Sarah Wells, the worst housekeeper.	Bob France

Forthcoming Meetings

June 10 2021

David Rose - The Plant Nurseries of Woking Now Zoom meeting
David Rose is a local historian and writer who specialises in this history of Woking, Guildford and surrounding villages, mainly from Victorian times up to the present day. He has a large collection of vintage photographs on the subject and also collects related items such as old bottles and pots, tins, packaging and advertising items.
His illustrated talk, The Plant Nurseries of Woking, focuses on a selection of the garden horticultural nurseries that were established in the area and which flourished for many years. Specialising in varieties that grew well on the sandy soils of the area, such as rhododendrons, azaleas, roses and clematis, these family run firms included the Waterers, Slococks, Cobbetts, Jackmans, and others.

September 9

Antony Marr - Moving Forward How to bring your research up to date and find those elusive living relatives
Looking at moving your existing family research forward through the C20th, finding lost family and missing relatives through the use of the records of civil registration, probate, electoral registers and other on-line searches. The talk will look at methods of research and also the ethical and practical issues you may encounter in this sensitive area.

October 14

Informal Meeting - Childhood Memories
Come and share your memories with the other members of the group - use a memory stick, a photograph album, a sheaf of papers - or just talk about them.

November 11

CWGC Speaker - Research and records using CGWC Archives
To be added

December 9

Simon Fowler and Sylvia Levi - Christmas Food and Drink through the Ages
Join us as we explore what Surrey's residents rich and poor would have eaten and drunk over the Christmas period. Would they have eaten turkey and furmity? Or drunk Smoking Bishop. And would the paupers in local workhouses been allowed a pint of beer? All will be revealed. Then, if we are meeting in person, enjoy some eighteenth century mince pies.

January 13 2022

Les Mitchinson - Getting Organised
To be added

February 10

Philip and Sally Gorton - Researching the History of Houses
To be added

March 10

Elizabeth Owen - Hit a brick wall? Where do you go next?
To be added

April 14

Informal Meeting - My recent research
The last couple of years have been strange ones. Did you have more time for your research? Come and share your discoveries with other members of the group.

May 12

Jane Lewis - Land of my Father's Father. Welsh Research
To be added

June 9

Bob France - Sarah Wells, the worst housekeeper.
To be added

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