Meeting Calendar.

May 24th. Our speaker will be Ian Currie, full-time amateur meteorologist and weather forecaster, whose talk on Thursday  is titled: Droughts, Deluges and Dust-Devils.

June 28th. Our speaker will be Rosemary Hooker, on the subject of recent archaeological survey work on Reigate Heath, looking at the barrows there.

July 26th. Pete Crawford, manager of Gatwick Greenspace Partnership, has offered to lead us around Langshott  Thursday evening 26 July commencing at 7.00pm.  The walk will be for about one and a half hours; no stiles are on the route but good footwear is recommended.  We should meet in the Marketing Suite car park of The Acres new housing development, located on Brookfield Drive off Orchard Drive.  Orchard Drive is the first left turn along Langshott, travelling from Ladbroke Road eastwards under the railway bridge towards The Farmhouse pub.  There is limited free car parking at the Marketing Suite; The Acres estate does tend to fill up with residents' cars in the evenings, so car sharing would be ideal (assuming it's beyond walking distance from peoples' homes).

Strawson Hall, Albert Road, Horley. Surrey.  7.30 pm. for 8.00 pm.

(Except the July walk.)

The HORLEY LOCAL HISTORY CENTRE
In Horley Library


This Centre has existed since February 1995 and is run entirely by volunteers from the Horley Local History Society in co-operation with the Surrey County Council Library Services. It is open twice weekly (each Tuesday from 3 to 5 pm and each Saturday from 11 am to 1 pm) for members of the public and enquirers via the Society's website (www.horleyhistory.org.uk), seeking information about Horley local and family history.

The Centre holds large scale maps (25 inches to the mile) of Horley's original Parish from 1870 to 1935 and many others including a copy of the map of the land purchased when Christ Hospital of London bought most of Horley in 1602. It also holds an extensive library of local and county books on history topics as well as all the books and history notes on a whole range of local subjects, written and published by the History Society.

It is also a Centre to receive information from all sources to add to the Society's archives much of which can be used by others researching subjects that are likely to be published later for the benefit of the public and add to our local historical knowledge.