Dorking and Surrey Local History

#tonight we have a FREE Zoom talk on “Elizabeth Barton – The Maid of Kent” - if you'd like to come along, please log in between 7:15 and 7:30PM at us06web.zoom.us/j/85848548518 dlhg.org.uk @TheAttagirls @BWOHistory #SocialHistory #WomensHistory

Tuesday Quiz Day. Last we asked if Mitcham Station building was part of the Surrey Iron Railway. The answer was False. The building was built nearly ten years after the Iron Railway had closed. This week do you know when our building was built and for what purpose?

@GermanSimply_ As it should be!

𝟵. 𝘍𝘦𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘦𝘯𝘥 is sacred. The moment work ends in Germany – it ends. Emails after hours are not expected. Weekend calls are unusual. The boundary between work and personal life is not a guideline. It is a cultural institution.

Everyone tells you about Germany's efficiency. The punctuality. The engineering. The order. Nobody warns you about the other things. The things you only discover after you've already moved there. 10 of them. Right here. 🧵🇩🇪

@createstreets Looks great - where is this?

Until we go back to being able to assume as normal that new buildings will make old places better, we will never build enough of them. Nor will we grow sustainably without sprawling expensively all over the countryside. Here is a lovely Dutch example via the indefatigable @michael_diamant

@Gartsherrie @theanalyst Or "Ted Lord" as he's known in Derbyshire

@theanalyst Lord Ted

This man would have been 91 today. His influence on cricket is still everywhere. Have a read substack.com/profile/363954…

@CharmOfCulture Stockholm's a fine city, but that's widely known so I wouldn't call it underrated. Two very underrated European cities, at least to British people, are Antwerp and Strasbourg. But there re many more.

This is the most underrated city in all of Europe.

@alfiesteam @VinnieSull1van @Lost___London @PubHistoryTours May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the armpits of whoever was responsible for that modern monstrosity!

@VinnieSull1van @Lost___London @PubHistoryTours In Wakefield we have one similar to the one on the Left. Also

The architectural decline of London: The Victorian Mappin & Webb building, a Grade II listed neo-Gothic structure at 1-2 Poultry near Bank station designed by John Belcher in 1870 was demolished in 1994 following a lengthy legal battle to make way for the Postmodernist "No 1 Poultry" building. It wasn't falling down, it hadn't been hit by bombs, it was simply in the way of those who wanted it gone.

@AndrewMackeyUK What a great pic.

@TwtrMinstrel @ClarkeMicah @johnstretch Beeching only produced a report - Ernest Marples , the rather corrupt Minister of Transport, actually did the chopping. For more on him, see Wikipedia on youtube.com/watch?v=SfJd_f…

@ClarkeMicah @johnstretch Mrs Marples? Wasn't it Beeching, are you confusing him with a fictional auld wifey TV Detective, undercover as a sex worker in an old folks home.

.@johnstretch Trams are railways. And perhaps you are unaware of the dense network of railways which covered this country until the Marples vandalism of the 1960s.

@benmoores2 Thank you Ben

@Dorking_History Berlin But dresden better for a military angle.

A thread on the seven worst military museums and seven best military museums around the world. Buckle in for a dark to entertaining ride. Starting with the worst....

@benmoores2 Where is this museum?

1/ German History museum. If every museum could tackle difficult history as this museum does the world would be in a much better place. Unflinching and unemotional in its approach it perfectly catalogues the crimes of the Nazi regime and its enablers.

Free Zoom 7:30 Thursday evening , ""Wheels of Industry: Langley Mill" by Robert Mee. Register at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… #edutwitter #twitterstorians #historyteacher

Sunday 10 May, 12.00: Illustrated industrial heritage walk around Colliers Wood taking in the mills, Wandle Park, Wandle Bank, site of the Morris Works, Liberty Print Works and more. Option of visit to Merton Priory Chapter House. Booking via email to john.sheridan08@gmail.com

@Sebby2067 @TheMiddleStump @BumbleCricket Essex played JPL games at Leyton & Harlow too back in the 70s. I'm sure you are right about John Arlott commentating - usually after a wine or five with his lunch - but I don't remember dour Yorkie Jim being there for Sunday League games

@TheMiddleStump @BumbleCricket Sunday league cricket was great back in the day games played across the country at the smaller festival grounds in front of packed crowds great entertainment Essex played at Ilford Southend & Colchester loved it if memory serves John Arlott used to commentate with Jim Laker on TV

My pal Mark Sands has brought this bit of brilliance out about the John Player League. The JPL was my gateway drug to cricketing addiction. I got involved a little, along with a brilliant foreword from @BumbleCricket. Well done Mark and love it so far!

@nejafeja @C20Society @Farrells @FarrellCentre I rather like it.

@C20Society @Farrells @FarrellCentre its such a strange building

NEWS: C20 Society has recommended Grade II* listing for Sir Terry Farrell's Embankment Place (1986-91) in a consultation with Historic England, following a COI (Certificate of Immunity from listing) application from the building owner. Conceived as a Postmodern 'Palace on the River', Embankment Place was Farrell's breakthrough project and the most important of his three large-scale London commissions of the 1980s and 90s - Alban Gate in the City of London and the SIS Building at Vauxhall Cross being the other two. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/c20-recom…

This should be good. John's one of our favourite speakers. #edutwitter #twitterstorians #historyteacher

@TrenchTrotter He was brilliantly portrayed by Ian McDiarmid in the BBC drama "37 days"

"The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time”. One of a few spotted yesterday on my London walk. Near Queen Anne’s Gate, Westminster. Powerful words uttered on the outbreak of WW1 by Sir Edward.

@hoyer_kat Hope the food was better than the pun!

Arrived in Weimar where the Weimar Republic was founded. Gave an interview at the White Swan where parliamentarians met in 1919 to discuss the future of Germany. Weimar was also the capital of Thuringia, famous for Thuringian sausages. So also discussed the wurst kind of research

@nick_lloy A must-read for any #WW1 enthusiast

I've started a Substack! Was There a ‘Learning Curve’ on the Eastern Front (1914-1917)? open.substack.com/pub/nlloyd/p/w…

@IanCastleRaids Agreed! Highly recommended

If you haven't read it, but you've got an urge to learn more about the culmination of Germany's First World War air raids on Britain, then this is the book for you.