https://www.holmwoodhistory.co.uk/home daily 1.0 2024-01-18 https://www.holmwoodhistory.co.uk/contact-us daily 0.75 2020-06-10 https://www.holmwoodhistory.co.uk/about-4 daily 0.75 2020-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591804784036-AOTCATPXDBR79I86X882/cockerel%2Bpress%2BLogo%2B%25283%2529.jpg Suffragettes, Suffragists & Antis: the fight for the vote in the Surrey Hills - Book available now from The Cockerel Press £10 ISBN 978-1-909871-11-3 216 pages, 160 illustrations Available from Dorking Museum online OR order and pay now via the online store OR order via kathy.history@gmail.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591803721221-I3PQPHENQDGHOISRL5ZK/9781909871113.png Suffragettes, Suffragists & Antis: the fight for the vote in the Surrey Hills - Suffragettes, Suffragists and Antis - the fight for the vote in the Surrey Hills by Kathy Atherton The women of the Surrey Hills were particularly active in the militant 'suffragette' campaign. Many of its most colourful characters were drawn from the villages around Leith Hill and the Pankhursts planned campaigns from the village of Holmwood which became known as the country headquarters of the WSPU. The village, and the town of Dorking, came to national attention in 1912 when the suffragettes staged a 6 week long protest campaign in the area, leading to shopkeepers fearing for their windows. At the centre of this campaign were Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, without whose wealth, skills, courage and determination we might never have heard of the 'suffragettes'. At their home in Holmwood they gathered around them an extraordinary circle of people who changed their communities and their world, fighting not just for the vote for women, but for peace, freedom and equality across the world. But the area was also home to non-militant campaigners, and to those who opposed the vote for women. This book tells the story of a community and its involvement in the national debate on women's freedom and equality from the 1860s to the 1950s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591806995493-OV6TOLX7BIXMMB7AA5X7/3+%282%29.jpg Suffragettes, Suffragists & Antis: the fight for the vote in the Surrey Hills https://www.holmwoodhistory.co.uk/about-1 daily 0.75 2024-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591806380878-I0R388NCOIC0K63NEOLG/Suffragette+Banner.jpg Suffragette Planners and Plotters - the Pankhust, Pethick-Lawrence story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591806543897-BEUJ76QLVX2FUTLHR8YA/18.jpg Suffragette Planners and Plotters - the Pankhust, Pethick-Lawrence story Published 2018 by Pen & Sword History ISBN 978-1-52672-2-966 hardback ISBN 978 978-1-52675-1-683 paperback 152 pages, 36 illustrations £10 Available through Amazon and bookshops OR from Dorking Museum online OR order and pay now via the online store Order from the publisher https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Suffragette-Planners-and-Plotters-Paperback/p/16542 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1590975658449-CVCA9VJKB3VUPE3F4R9F/20190204_102449.jpg Suffragette Planners and Plotters - the Pankhust, Pethick-Lawrence story - Suffragette Planners and Plotters - the Pankhurst, Pethick-Lawrence story by Kathryn Atherton In 2018 a blue plaque was unveiled at the Dutch House in South Holmwood in recognition of the part that Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence played in national political life. Fred and Emmeline were an extraordinary couple and theirs is an extraordinary political and personal story. Emmeline was treasurer of Mrs Pankhurst's militant Women's Social and Political Union. Fred was the only man to achieve leadership status in the organization. Without their wealth, determination and skills we might never have heard of the 'suffragettes'. Emmeline was always at Mrs Pankhurst's side whilst Fred was the 'Godfather' who stood bail for a thousand women. Both were imprisoned and forcibly-fed. They provided the militant movement with its colours, its home, and much of its vision, and it was their associates who initiated the hunger strike and who brought force-feeding to national attention. But in 1912 the couple were dramatically ousted from the organization by the Pankhursts in a move that has often been misrepresented. This recent book paints a portrait of the couple and their relationship with the Pankhursts, and of their inspirational fight, not just for the vote for women, but for freedom and equality across the world. The Pethick-Lawrences were once as well known as the Pankhursts. But they have been neglected by history. This is the first book to give them the recognition that their part in the fight for the vote deserves, shedding new light on the development of the militant campaign. It is also the first to address in detail the complexities of the dramatic split with the Pankhursts which has been misunderstood for a hundred years. https://www.holmwoodhistory.co.uk/the-lost-villages-1 daily 0.75 2020-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591801463699-7UIX8FHBY2YQSQXBBI4S/9780956076632.jpg The Lost Villages - a history of the Holmwoods - The Lost Villages: A history of the Holmwoods by Kathy Atherton From Stone-age hunter, medieval farmer, smuggler, horse-thief, rioting labourer and Victorian bar-fighter to modern-day porn queen: the Lost Villages tells the story of the villages and villagers of the Holmwood. Meet the victims of runaway wagons and out-of-control horse-buses, the mystery skeleton and the Great Train Robbers. Encounter the coach-driving millionaire, the Prince Regent's divorce lawyer and Queen Victoria's favourite sculptor. And discover the 'Holmwood Campaign' of 1912 when Holmwood hit the headlines and businesses feared for their windows on an invasion of suffragettes.The Lost Villages traces the history of Holmwood's Common from manorial 'waste' to the National Trust and of the road from turnpike to dual carriageway. It examines the development of the landscape that we see today and follows the changing fortunes of the houses, farms and communities of Blackbrook, North, South and Mid Holmwood and of the farms and mansions running down towards Beare Green and up the slopes of Leith Hill. Specially prepared maps and drawings are accompanied by scores of archive photographs, portraits and paintings never before seen in print. ISBN 978-0-9560766-0-1 Published 2008 112 pages; 145 illustrations (50 in colour) £10 - Available now from Dorking Museum online OR - order and pay now via the online store OR - order via kathy.history@gmail.com https://www.holmwoodhistory.co.uk/about-2 daily 0.75 2020-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591816162511-RIRSYBG2ZNN2DWF43Q2Z/4a.jpg Suffragettes in the Surrey Hills Every weekend between 1906 and 1912 the leaders of the 'suffragette' campaign came down by train to Holmwood. The Mascot (the Dutch House), home of social campaigner Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (1867-1954) and her husband, Frederick (1871-1961), was the country home of Mrs Pankhurst's Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). Women recovered there from forcible feeding and campaigns were planned there. In 1912 the house became the focus of anti -government protest. Emmeline led the WSPU with Mrs Pankhurst. She devised its purple, white and green colours; and, with Fred she edited 'Votes for Women' magazine. It was her fundraising and organisational skills, and Fred's wealth, that enabled the WSPU to make the impact that it did. In 1912 Fred, Emmeline and Mrs Pankhurst were convicted of conspiracy to incite persons to commit malicious damage after a window-smashing raid in London. All were sentenced to 9 months and Fred and Emmeline were both forcibly fed while on hunger strike. (It was one of 6 spells of imprisonment for Emmeline.) When Fred refused to pay the costs of their prosecution the government put the bailiffs into The Mascot and auctioned the contents. For 6 weeks the WSPU conducted a campaign in Dorking and Holmwood to embarrass the government. They held rallies in Holmwood, Ockley, Westcott, Bookham and, nightly, in Dorking where organiser Charlotte Marsh assured worried tradesmen that there would be no window breaking spree. On 31st October 1912 3-400 people gathered for the auction of the contents of The Mascot, many coming down by train in suffragette colours. Most of the couple's possessions were bought back by supporters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591816699373-RY73K3OH2Z9M8N8CV18N/8.jpg Suffragettes in the Surrey Hills Their wealth now a liability to the increasingly militant Pankhursts, the Pethick-Lawrences were forced to leave the organisation that they had built up alongside Mrs Pankhurst. They spent the rest of their lives campaigning for peace, freedom and equality, for the rights of women and the welfare of children. Entering Parliament as a Labour MP in 1924, Fred was created 1st Baron Lawrence of Peaslake in 1946 when he became Clement Attlee's secretary of state for India. See Publications for books about the fight for the vote in the Surrey Hills and the Pethick-Lawrences of Holmwood, the National Trust Holmwood Common web page, and Dorking Museum’s web pages on Emmeline Pethick Lawrence and the fight for the vote, her activities in 1914 and throughout the First World War. https://www.holmwoodhistory.co.uk/about-4-1 daily 0.75 2020-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1590976526814-DMZMBEC2DK0L8M76MR0C/smmbookcover.jpg A History of St Mary Magdalene A short guide to St Mary Magdalene, The Holmwood, its history, graves and memorials by Kathy Atherton Until the early 19th century there was no church in Holmwood as the area was isolated and sparsely populated. St Mary Magdalene was built in 1838, at the instigation of the wealthy Heath and Larpent families who had moved into the area. The Holmwood was transformed in the later 19th century by wealthy incomers and the church was repeatedly enlarged as farms, farm buildings and squatters' cottages were aggrandized or torn down and rebuilt as substantial family homes. In 1867 the arrival of a railway station increased the volume of building and the population expanded greatly. The church of St John the Evangelist at North Holmwood was established in 1874. For a small country church St Mary Magdalene, the Holmwood, has a number of striking memorials. Francis Seymour Larpent, the Prince Regent's divorce lawyer, the Victorian admiral Sir Leopold Heath, George Rennie, the engineer of London's bridges, William Money Hardinge 'the Balliol Bugger', and the 1970s porn star Mary Millington are just some of those who have left their mark on the church and churchyard. A short guide to St Mary Magdalene, illustrated in colour, with archive photographs, is available in pdf. If you would like a copy please email kathy.history@gmail.com. https://www.holmwoodhistory.co.uk/about-5 daily 0.75 2020-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591813250285-YKBQR1MYUMDPFZWK1R0O/DorkingMuseum_BookCover_1A_ASTP-page-001.jpg The Museum Guide to Dorking - The Museum Guide to Dorking by Kathy Atherton The history of Holmwood is inextricably linked to that of Dorking. Those with an interest in Holmwood history may be interested in the following publication. Discover the familiar: Box Hill, Deepdene, the Dorking Cockerel, EM Forster and Vaughan Williams. Be surprised by the unexpected: rioters, suffragettes, innovators, campaigners and radical thinkers. The Museum Guide to Dorking combines text from the panels of Dorking Museum's permanent exhibition with reproductions of paintings, posters, photographs and artefacts from its collections, many not on display and most never published before. This quirky, thought provoking and beautifully illustrated book provides the reader with a unique insight into the history of Dorking, its people, and the surrounding countryside and villages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591813423699-3B2H8MH8YBFNORYVXF0P/cockerel+press+Logo+%283%29.jpg The Museum Guide to Dorking Published in 2013 by The Cockerel Press ISBN 978-1-909871-00-7 88 pages; 152 illustrations (98 in colour) £10 - Available from Dorking Museum online OR - order and pay now via the online store OR - order via kathy.history@gmail.com https://www.holmwoodhistory.co.uk/about-4-2 daily 0.75 2024-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591815261719-BJT3IRNYZVPK213ITLTT/5.jpg Dorking in the Great War - See Dorking Museum’s web page on Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence’s activities in the First World War here and the impact of the war on women’s lives here. Biographies of all the men listed on North Holmwood’s war memorial can be found here. Biographies of all the men listed on South Holmwood memorials can be found here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591355938205-X4OJAJRXONDW61YIATQG/front%2Bcover.jpg Dorking in the Great War Dorking in the Great War by Kathryn Atherton Dorking in the Great War is the story of life on the home front in a typical English market town and its surrounding villages. It follows the people of Dorking from the run up to war in 1913/14, enjoying their village shows, garden parties and women's suffrage debates, through recruitment and enlistment parades, to the installation of memorials in churches, schools and on village greens. It tells the stories of individuals who played a significant part in the war, or who were in themselves significant - like the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, the millionaire Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, and the boy soldier, Valentine 'Joe' Strudwick - and of the experiences of those left behind, the women working in gunpowder factories and at railway stations, the teachers struggling to run schools in the face of freezing conditions and mass sickness, and children out picking conkers for the war effort, as well as of the outsiders who found themselves in a small Surrey town: Belgian refugees, billeted troops and East End refugees from zeppelin raids. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591814820323-NMY9G6KOAX39HBJUMGL8/4.jpg Dorking in the Great War Published in 2014 by Pen & Sword ISBN 978-1-47382-552-9 192 pages; fully illustrated; £10 - Available now from Dorking Museum online OR - order and pay now via the online store OR - order via kathy.history@gmail.com - Order from the publisher https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Dorking-in-the-Great-War-Paperback/p/7919 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591815325355-MUHDBWJWX35OAPKTLSXI/19b.jpg Dorking in the Great War It was a time of loss, shortage, hunger and hardship; of communities working together to preserve their traditional way of life in the face of threatened invasion. But it was also a time of great change. Influxes of refugees and troops brought contact with new people and new ideas. Social attitudes changed as women stepped into more public roles. The influence of the great estates that surrounded the town declined as their wealthy owners lost their heirs as well as their staff. Some refused coercion to enlist; others, like the Pethick-Lawrences of Holmwood, questioned the war and campaigned for peace. The book follows the stories of the people of Dorking and the villages as they went to the front, contributed to the war effort, campaigned for peace, or simply struggled to survive these momentous years. Fully illustrated with pictures, newspaper cuttings, adverts and memorabilia from the years 1914-1919 and beyond and based on original research in parish, council, and school records, newspapers and society logs, diaries and letters. https://www.holmwoodhistory.co.uk/general-2 daily 0.75 2020-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591362667132-RSPZOXW3LSGPQ5Y1889W/anstiegrangejjhce.jpg Holmwood's notable buildings Anstie Grange The mansion was built in the 1860s by Admiral Sir Leopold Heath. It served as a military hospital for officers during the First World War, when it was owned by the insurance magnate, Cuthbert Heath. It is now split into apartments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591362697513-FB9F8FSVWK7AQSCXSA5T/anstiebury+farmhouse+drawing+1.jpg Holmwood's notable buildings Anstiebury Farmhouse This farmhouse retains some 15th century features, with later extensions. There has been a dwelling on the site since before the Norman Conquest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591362724081-PLHYIQYR6LSBGNKPS78F/betchets+green+cottage+drawing1.jpg Holmwood's notable buildings Betchets Green Cottage Built in the 1590s, the cottage was; the subject of the book 'A Commoner's Cottage' by Frances Mountford https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591362816038-Y1C4NV0Z6K85F6C6MDUL/holmwood+park+farm+biscombe+gardner.jpg Holmwood's notable buildings Holmwood Park Built by Francis Seymour Larpent and once home to the antiquarian John Gough Nichols, the mansion of Holmwood Park was partially destroyed by incendiary bombing during the Second World War. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591362787000-CD479G5NM6IEUKZ8HALY/Large+JPG-20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Holmwood's notable buildings Cinders Cottage Part of Holmwood Park, off Mill Road, this 16th century cottage was restyled as a lodge to Holmwood Park in the 19th century https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591362760687-APOBFBN6RNKYH6AVGZWH/cherry+tree+cottage+drawing1.jpg Holmwood's notable buildings Cherry Tree Cottage Situated on Betchets Green, this mid 18th century cottage has a 19th century bakehouse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591362931858-3FR9XC2MWIPKPHRPAFIN/moorhurst+drawing1.jpg Holmwood's notable buildings Moorhurst Two 16th century dwellings have been subsumed into the structure of this 19th century gentleman's residence which is situated on Moorhurst Lane. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591362867093-X1DNVK1W6YUQ90FT1YYV/Copy+of+folly+farm.jpg Holmwood's notable buildings Folly Farm house Situated off Folly Lane the farmhouse is a fine 18th century stone gentleman's residence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591362898132-G07XZ9CQ5CQE0BY1BAT3/old+dissenting+chapel+drawing1.jpg Holmwood's notable buildings Holmwood Independent Chapel On the Horsham Road, this emall early 19th century dissenting chapel is now in residential use https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591362988642-VT684FJ7GLKPRISB3MRB/priory+cottage+drawing+3.jpg Holmwood's notable buildings Priory Cottage On the Horsham Road at Mid Holmwod, this late 18th century cottage is adjacent to the Old Nag's Head,, once a lonely roadside inn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591363016058-5KLC8JILVPXHDSAH8HIB/redlands+farm+drawing1.jpg Holmwood's notable buildings Redlands Farm house On Redlands Lane at Mid Holmwood, this late 16th century farmhouse also has a 16th century granary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591362965991-28AIHWFIQD7PR899OJYJ/Nutcracker+cottage+drawing1.jpg Holmwood's notable buildings Nutcracker Cottage Situated on Spook Hill, North Holmwood, this late 17th century cottage was once part of a cluster known as Little Egypt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591363083200-WBWXHIRNC1L31V3YYV26/st+mary+magdalene+4.jpg Holmwood's notable buildings St Mary Magdalene, South Holmwood The Holmwood’s first parish church was built in 1838. It was designed by John Burges Watson and has later extensions by James William Wild, 'Mr St Aubyn' and others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591363053437-J9TFHY8QZW8EJ39TANKB/south+lodge+drawing1.jpg Holmwood's notable buildings South Lodge On Holmwood Common, this late 18th century estate cottage became a lodge to Holmwood Park in the 19th century, and was once a temporary school-house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591363117754-APRWTL7MDR6R1J8T9ACN/north+holmwood+church+dm.jpg Holmwood's notable buildings St John the Evangelist, North Holmwood Holmwood’s second parish church was built in 1874 to the design of Major Rohde Hawkins, a designer of schools who lived in South South Holmwood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591363174284-NEIE4MN40LJ6D82A3Z02/Stumbleholt+drawing1.jpg Holmwood's notable buildings Stumbleholt On the Blackbrook Road, this house retains some 17th century features. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591363144095-8E974C4TZTX602HKK040/stoneheal+drawing1.jpg Holmwood's notable buildings Stoneheal, This 17th century cottage in South Holmwood retains many of its original features and was once owned by the parish’s overseer of the poor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591363202629-V6NGCFNPR54FV64KEPBO/dutch+house+sue+goodwin.jpg Holmwood's notable buildings The Dutch House On the Horsham Road at South Holmwood, the Dutch House was built in 1897 to the design of Sir Edwin Lutyens. It was the home of Emmeline and Frederick Pethick Lawrence, leaders of the ‘suffragette’ campaign. See the Dorking & Holmwood campaign of 1912 page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591363267320-TPYD5SBG4NAO7LF4CPIS/old+nags+head+cottage+drawing1.jpg Holmwood's notable buildings The Old Nag's Head and September Cottages Thes late 17th century cottages are situated off the Horsham Road at Mid Holmwood.. The Old Nag's Head was converted into an inn in the late 18th century to service the turnpike road (1755) but ceased business on the diversion of the turnpike in the 1820s; it is now in residential use. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591363235310-66LF2JLMXRHKG5N0MBWH/norfolk+and+holmesdale+house+fox.jpg Holmwood's notable buildings The Norfolk Arms on the Horsham Road at Mid Holmwood, this inn was c1830 and extended and re-modelled in 1908. It ceased trading as a public house in 1969 and is now in residential use https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591363297059-BHTUKY69RFYY9YH6ERXT/south+holmwood+school4.jpg Holmwood's notable buildings The Old School House On the Horsham Road at South Holmwood, the school was designed by James Park Harrison and built in 1844. It is now in residential use. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591363367910-LP19QURZCE6S2TM71RTJ/Boehms+studio.jpg Holmwood's notable buildings The Studio On Spook Hill at North Holmwood this house was once the studio of Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, sculptor to Queen Victoria. Boehm’s mansion, Bentsbrook, stood opposite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591363396465-JUPWVYMACKK7YFV2RHX4/vigo1.jpg Holmwood's notable buildings Vigo Situated at South Holmwood, this is a 19th century gentelman’s farmhouse, but 17th century features have been subsumed within its structure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591363337316-37Y769SIB82HHGSMW877/the+sundial+card1.png Holmwood's notable buildings The Sundial On the Horsham Road at South Holmwood, this cottage was built in 1903 by the Pethick Lawrences as a holiday home for impoverished mothers and their children. It was designed by Arnold Dunbar Smith and later occupied by John Langdon Davies who founded the charity PLAN. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591363421648-YNY2XBN3E95MDD5YFK1S/waterland+farm+drawing1.jpg Holmwood's notable buildings Waterlands Farm Off the Blackbrook Road, this timber framed farmhouse was built in circa 1590. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591363448427-053R7U3W6JDT0HF2KCGJ/wymbletons+drawing1.jpg Holmwood's notable buildings Wymbletons Off the Blackbrook Road near Four Wents pond, this house is early 19th century/late Georgian-style and is one of Holmwood’s first gentlemen’s residences. https://www.holmwoodhistory.co.uk/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2020-11-13 https://www.holmwoodhistory.co.uk/about-1-1 daily 0.75 2024-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1590977818242-1W20JIBPHZXESDN8AAEO/_EM10257.jpg Talks & Walks - Talks Kathy Atherton has researched and written history in Holmwood and Dorking for many years as well as leading battlefield tours in France and Belgium. Responsible for permanent and temporary exhibitions at Dorking Museum & Heritage Centre, she also runs the Museum's guided walks team which offers guided walks in Dorking, on the Deepdene Trail and at Betchworth Castle. She recently campaigned for the installation of two blue plaques in Dorking and Holmwood to mark the area's contribution to the campaign for the vote for women and speaks regularly at events and on radio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591821680261-UKWC2ZX6LVQLK86RMKVO/20190915_142024_2.jpg Talks & Walks On Dorking: The History of Dorking and the surrounding hills 'The Big Society in Action' - the Dorking Museum Project 'Keeping it Going' - the impact of the First World War on Dorking and the villages of Mole Valley Life in the Manor of Dorking before the 19th century On local and national events: 'Suffragettes and Socialists' - the Pethick-Lawrences of the Dutch House and their circle in the villages around Dorking 'Militants, Suffragists and Antis' - Votes for Women in the villages of the Surrey Hills 'From the Prince Regent's divorce to the local Porn Star' - some Holmwood Scandals 'Keeping it Going' - the impact of the First World War on Dorking and the villages of Mole Valley Literary Mole Valley - Local writers and Mole Valley in fiction: Jane Austen, EM Forster, Fanny Burney, John Evelyn, Daniel Defoe and Charles Dickens The Money Behind the Militant Movement - the Pethick-Lawrences and the Pankhursts What the suffragettes did next - local campaigners after the vote was won The Girl Guides, youth movements and Votes for Women Suffrage campaigners and the First World War Remembering and Forgetting - the development of war memorials after the First World War Mary Neal and the suffragettes who saved Morris dancing The art of the suffrage movement The Weaver, the Shoemaker and the Mother of a Nation: Dorking’s Mayflower Pilgrims To book a talk for your group or society please call 07803 009479 or by email on kathy.history@gmail.com or use the contact form https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591821435965-Z619780NLC0QQGOHV9OJ/_EM10983.jpg Talks & Walks Kathy regularly speaks to youth and adult groups on the history of Dorking, Holmwood, on the campaign for the vote for women and on the First World War and related subjects including: On Holmwood: The History of Holmwood and its Villages The History of South Holmwood The History of North Holmwood The History of St Mary Magdalene, South Holmwood Secrets of the churchyard Holmwood in the Great War The History of Holmwood Common - uses and abuses over a millennium https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591821839202-UMT3KT59NFC99B3GHETZ/20190915_144855.jpg Talks & Walks - Guided Walks The walks team at Dorking Museum is able to offer guided walks in Dorking, (including historic pub walks, words and music walks, suffrage themed walks and Dorking at the time of the Mayflower), on the Deepdene Trail, on Box Hill (literary themed), at Betchworth Castle and at North and South Holmwood looking at historical features in the landscape, historic sites and buildings. A range of walks for individuals is scheduled throughout the year. To book please visit the Walks page of the Museum website: www.dorkingmuseum.org.uk. For more information on a group walk for your group please enquire on admin@dorkingmuseum.org.uk https://www.holmwoodhistory.co.uk/research daily 0.75 2020-11-13 https://www.holmwoodhistory.co.uk/new-page-2 daily 0.75 2020-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1605139209834-TAMXF3LU1EIAK6DXDIEE/DorkingMayflowerPilgrims_Cover+%284%29-page-001.jpg The Weaver, the Shoemaker and the Mother of a Nation: Dorking's Mayflower Pilgrims The Weaver, the Shoemaker and the Mother of a Nation: The story of Dorking’s Mayflower Pilgrims by Kathy Atherton and Susannah Horne The home of shoemaker William Mullins on Dorking’s West Street is the only home of a ‘Pilgrim Father’ known to have survived into the 21st century. But Mullins was just one of six residents of this small Surrey town to travel to the New World on the Mayflower in 1620. Who were the others and what were their lives in Dorking like? Why did they leave the place of their birth on a perilous journey to an uncertain future? How did they fare in the precarious new colony? The Weaver, the Shoemaker and the Mother of a Nation tells the story of those who risked everything, leaving friends and family to find a new future. It also provides insight into day to day life in the town they left behind. Fully illustrated, with maps and photographs to enable readers to identify buildings that would have been known to Dorking’s Mayflower pilgrims and which survive today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1605139310909-GF2EK4UP1N1Y5G7492NR/cockerel+press+Logo+%283%29.jpg The Weaver, the Shoemaker and the Mother of a Nation: Dorking's Mayflower Pilgrims - Published 2020 by the Cockerel Press ISBN 978-1-909871-18-2 88 pages; 43 illustrations (33 in colour) £8 Available now from Dorking Museum online OR order and pay now via the online store OR order via kathy.history@gmail.com https://www.holmwoodhistory.co.uk/new-page-3 daily 0.75 2020-11-13 https://www.holmwoodhistory.co.uk/mary-neal-and-the-suffragettes-who-saved-morris-dancing daily 0.75 2024-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/41549380-5933-43df-800f-174fa8d9a90a/MARY+NEAL+AND+THE+SUFFRAGETTES+WHO+SAVE+MORRIS+DANCING+front+cover.jpg https://www.holmwoodhistory.co.uk/store daily 0.75 2020-11-11 https://www.holmwoodhistory.co.uk/store/p/spring-bowl-sph37 monthly 0.5 2020-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591363901503-RZMHLOUJFOHO1DARUVUM/DORKING+WWI+CVR-PAGE-001.jpg store - Dorking in the Great War https://www.holmwoodhistory.co.uk/store/p/golden-mist-cup-ygjy7 monthly 0.5 2020-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591364063078-ZSDLENVPZ0IQT0L5TMHJ/this.jpg store - The Museum Guide to Dorking https://www.holmwoodhistory.co.uk/store/p/earth-sky-planter-69bxd monthly 0.5 2020-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591364123593-3I1ZTQFYWX5B6J1TXSZS/20190204_102449%281%29.jpg store - Suffragette Planners and Potters https://www.holmwoodhistory.co.uk/store/p/milk-dip-cup-5c646 monthly 0.5 2020-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591363661261-7IMBCM87LDR9E0TUTBAC/9781909871113%281%29.jpg store - Suffragettes, Suffragists & Antis https://www.holmwoodhistory.co.uk/store/p/country-feast-set-97w93 monthly 0.5 2020-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1591363561304-8DGZZQ7LRMO9NMS44OKL/9780956076632%281%29.jpg store - The Lost Villages: a history of the Holmwoods https://www.holmwoodhistory.co.uk/store/p/v6krezi2ve084c5lzyullyu42s3to8 monthly 0.5 2024-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1605113308949-949A50UU1V3HODMQNC7D/DorkingMayflowerPilgrims_Cover+%284%29-page-001.jpg store - The Weaver, the Shoemaker and the Mother of a Nation https://www.holmwoodhistory.co.uk/store/p/mary-neal-and-the-suffragettes-who-saved-morris-dancing monthly 0.5 2024-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ed235d1a763213deeeba573/1705581609917-4YB9HU72VZXQMU7HR94C/MARY+NEAL+AND+THE+SUFFRAGETTES+WHO+SAVE+MORRIS+DANCING+front+cover.jpg store - Mary Neal and the suffragettes who saved Morris dancing