Welcome to the BYFLEET HERITAGE SOCIETY
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Welcome
to the BYFLEET HERITAGE SOCIETY
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Our Silver Jubilee 1996 - 2021
Our
Next Meeting is on:
Thursday 17th October.
Our
next Drop in is on:
Saturday 2nd November.
See
below for details of our NEW BOOK
The Newsletter Archive has
been greatly expanded - see the Newsletter menu below, and more
Byfleet Calendars have been added.
See
our diary dates below for details of forthcoming meetings.
Our
monthly 'drop-in' mornings take place in our Heritage Room at Byfleet
Community Library on the first Saturday of each month (except
January) between 10.30am and 12.30pm. No pre-booking is required.
QUEEN'S
BIRTHDAY HONOURS, 2018
We are pleased to advise you that our
Chairman, Jim Allen, has been awarded the British Empire Medal
(B.E.M.) for Services to the Community in Byfleet.
Tessa
Westlake, Secretary
Congratulations
Jim from us all, richly deserved. Thank you for a lifetime of service
to Byfleet.
Our
Next Meeting is on:
Thursday 17th
October.
David
Rose: The Story of Guildford Cathedral.
Our
next Saturday Morning Drop In at
the Heritage Room to view artefacts, documents and photographs that
are not normally on display
will be on Saturday
2nd
November
and
there will be an opportunity to see Bill Squirrel's models
of
our fire station and of shops in the High Road as seen in 1965, with
thanks to his family for donating these
to
us.
New
Books
Byfleet
- A Village of England
We
are pleased to announce that, after a long period out of print, we
have republished
L
R Stevens's book, 'Byfleet - A Village of England'.
The
revised second edition of this standard reference work on Byfleet's
history follows a review of the contents, correction of some errors,
and a complete reworking of the index.
Copies are £7 each,
available from Byfleet Community Library, High Road, Byfleet, KT14
7QN. Copies can be posted within the UK for an additional £4 postage
and packing. Posting to other countries may be possible - please send
enquiries to info@ByfleetHeritage.org.uk
Byfleet
and the Great War
See
below for full details of the greatly enlarged second edition.
The
Byfleet Heritage Society St. Mary's Churchyard project.
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St.
Mary's Church from the air.
With
the Rector's permission Andy Lambert has made a high quality drone
video camera survey of the church and churchyard. This was done
shortly before the leaves came out on the trees and also features a
re-creation of the 1932 aerial photo from the BHS archives and the
only known photo of the Vickers Warwick which forced-landed in the
adjacent Three Acre Field in 1945.
Click
here to see the video.
The
new book, Byfleet and The Great War (Second Edition), by Jim Allen,
is now on sale.
This is a fully revised edition to mark the
Armistice. It is about 200 pages in length with photographs and
packed full of information.
Costing £7.00, copies are
available in the Library and at Heritage Society meetings and
drop-ins until they run out,
or by post (UK P&P £4.60 1st
class, £4.10 2nd class)- email .
We
are trying to put together a list of all known paintings by renowned
local artist, John BRANGWYN.
Please email if you know of any.
The
Society is interested in researching, recording and disseminating the
history of Byfleet.
We have a Heritage
Room within Byfleet Community Library. Subject to occasional
meetings, this is open at the same time as the Library, i.e.-
Monday
- Closed; Tuesday 10am-4pm; Wednesday 4pm - 6pm; Thursday 3pm - 5pm;
Friday 10am - 4pm; Saturday 10.00am - 4pm; Sunday 2pm - 4pm.
We
have included a number of links to some related sites here, and will
gradually add more - suggestions very welcome.
Please contact us at if you would like further information.
©2001, 2015 Jeff Sechiari
