Welcome
to the BYFLEET HERITAGE SOCIETY
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Our Silver Jubilee 1996 - 2021
Our
Next Meeting is on:
Thursday 21st March.
Our
next Drop in is on:
Saturday 6th April.
Our
new 2024 calendar is now available
See below.
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
21st
March.
Ian
Whittle: Sit back, relax and have a good fright.
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
6th
April and
there will be an opportunity to see Bill Squirrel's model of our fire
station, with thanks to his family for donating it to us.
2024
CALENDARS
Our 2024 calendar featuring paintings of local scenes by members of the Byfleet Art Group will be on sale at our Monthly meetings and Saturday morning drop in sessions, and is also available in the library, at St Mary's Centre for the Community and at the Queens Head.
... Byfleet Community
Library, High Road during its normal opening hours from Tuesday to
Sunday.
... St Mary's Centre for the Community (and its
Arts Cafe), Stream Close.
... The Queen's Head public
house, Parvis Road during normal opening hours.
Alternatively
you may email , stating how many copies you would like to order at
£5.00 each, and we will arrange delivery to your home address or to
a mutually-convenient point. Please state whether you require a free
envelope for each calendar.
Copies can also be posted please
add £2.50 for (UK) postage and packing.
Payment can be
left at 8 Brewery Lane, Byfleet, KT14 7PQ.
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