Out & About 2026
{where to meet the ESFHS}
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Saturday |
22 August |
Merton Heritage Discovery Day Morden Library, Merton Civic Centre, London Road, Morden SM4 5DX |
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Saturday |
3 October |
Family History Show, London Kempton Park Racecourse, Staines Road, Sunbury-on-Thames TW16 5AQ |
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Saturday |
24 October |
Oxfordshire Family History Society Fair The Cherwell School, Marston Road, Oxford OX2 7EE |
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Saturday |
7 November |
West Surrey Family History Society Fair Woking Leisure Centre, Kingfield Road, Woking GU22 9BA |
ESFHS will be at the events listed above so please come and visit us. We will have our bookstall and help desk so will look forward to seeing you.
Lingfield
Peter Connelly, Curator
East Surrey Museum has been collecting items that illustrate life in the local area for many years and now has a huge collection of artefacts. Peter will bring a collection of everyday items from the 1950s and 1960s not seen today and that many of us will have forgotten about.
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Lingfield
At this meeting, we invite everyone to bring along a personal item that others might find interesting—an old photograph, a family heirloom, a vintage tool, a letter, or any object with a story behind it. These meaningful pieces from your own life can spark fascinating conversations, uncover shared connections, and help us see our community’s past through new eyes.
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July: Monday 13, 10.00 am
Richard Marks
The Industrial Revolution was not just a story of machines and inventions — it was a profound transformation of everyday life. This talk traces the journey from cottage industries and rural handcrafts to the rise of factories, steam power, and bustling industrial towns. We’ll explore how these changes affected the work our ancestors did, the homes they lived in, and the communities they built. Drawing on vivid examples from textiles, railways, and local trades, the session will show how industrialisation created new opportunities but also new challenges, from child labour and urban overcrowding to migration and social mobility. Alongside the big picture, we’ll highlight the human dimension: how ordinary men, women, and children navigated this upheaval, leaving behind records in census returns, parish registers, and family stories. By connecting economic history with genealogical sources, the talk will help family historians see the Industrial Revolution not as distant history, but as a living context for their own ancestors’ experiences — a time when the rhythms of work, home, and community were reshaped forever.
You are invited to the Zoom meetings.
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