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HERITAGE OPEN DAYS EDIBLE ENGLAND EVENT GUIDE MOLE VALLEY / 10-19 SEPTEMBER 2021 INDEX HERITAGE OPEN DAYS OPEN DAYS HERITAGE OPEN DAYS HERITAGE TALKS Saint Michael’s Church, Mickleham �������������������������������12 Keymer Handmade Clay Roof Tiles & Sweet Tooth: An Edible History of Art �������������������������� 5 Wienerberger Factory Tour, Walliswood ������������������13 Leatherhead Food Research Association when Mullins House & Coffee Shop, Dorking ���������������������13 in Leatherhead������������������������������������������������������������������������������5 Polesden Lacey ���������������������������������������������������������������������������13 The Art of Fine Chocolate Making���������������������������������� 5 Downs Solicitors, Dorking 13 ������������������������������������������������� | | Leatherhead Parish Church 6 SUMMER 2021 EVENT GUIDE ������������������������������������������������� St Martin’s Shared Church, Dorking �����������������������������15 SUMMER 2021 EVENT GUIDE Ashtead’s Forgotten Celebrity; Beverley Nichols’ St Teresa’s School, Effingham ���������������������������������������������15 life and times in Ashtead �������������������������������������������������������� 6 St Mary’s Church, Fetcham �������������������������������������������������15 Dining With History 6 ����������������������������������������������������������������� The Newdigate Local History Society Mole Valley Edible England Fun presents Edible Newdigate �������������������������������������������������16 Zoom Quiz �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������6 Fetcham Park�������������������������������������������������������������������������������16 Lowfield Heath Windmill, Charlwood �������������������������17 WALKS Effingham Golf Club (formerly Effingham House) ����������������������������������������������17 Sale of the Century – A Gentle Walk Around INTRODUCTION St Nicholas’ Church, Charlwood ������������������������������������17 INDEX Brockham Village �������������������������������������������������������������������������8 All Saints’ Church, Little Bookham �������������������������������19 Ashtead Rye Meadows Wetlands ������������������������������������ 8 Charlwood Providence Chapel ���������������������������������������19 WELCOME TO Dorking Museum - Betchworth Castle Walk ����������� 8 Bookham Food Festival ��������������������������������������������������������19 Dorking Museum - Hidden Dorking Walk ����������������� 8 Effingham Methodist Chapel ���������������������������������������������20 Dorking Museum: Deepdene Trail Walk����������������������� 9 Impressions of Mole Valley, MOLE VALLEY HERITAGE OPEN DAYS 2021 Dorking Museum: Mayflower 400 - Letherhead Institute ���������������������������������������������������������������20 Dorking in the time of William Mullins Walk ���������� 9 Manor Farm Tithe Barn, Little Bookham �������������������20 Manor House School Centenary Heritage articipants in this year’s Heritage of Art’, sets the tone. There are many PROPERTIES & EVENTS Picnic, Little Bookham �����������������������������������������������������������21 Open Days programme welcome its further explorations of the theme in the St Lawrence Church, Effingham ���������������������������������������21 St Giles’ Church and Graveyard, Ashtead �����������������11 twenty-seventh year in a mood of various events, such as the talk on Beverley St Mary and St Nicholas Church, Buckland Windmill 11 Pchallenge and optimism. The programme Nichols, Ashtead resident and popular ������������������������������������������������������������������� Leatherhead ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������21 St Nicolas Church, Great Bookham 11 celebrates the exciting characteristics of journalist, who gave legendary dinner ����������������������������� Starmakerz Theatre School, Leatherhead �����������������21 Dorking Brewery, Capel 12 the various regions within England, and parties. He was also a frequent visitor to ������������������������������������������������������� The Grange Centre, Little Bookham ���������������������������22 Slyfield House, Stoke D’Abernon 12 unites local people, places and institutions Polesden Lacey, where still more lavish ����������������������������������� St Barnabas Church, Ranmore �����������������������������������������22 with thousands of volunteers. feasts occurred! Dorking Museum & Heritage Centre ��������������������������12 The past months have been difficult, and While the chosen theme is well explored in it was a remarkable achievement that our programme, there are also many new such a series of events was produced so and familiar aspects reflecting the broader successfully last year. While the pandemic’s richness of our local heritage. As ever we Event Information consequences remain apparent, hopefully feel sure that Mole Valley residents and the All Heritage Open Days events are free to attend. Pre-booking isn’t required unless stated. All information is subject to there is a mood of potential liberation many visitors to the area will have some change without notice, please see the Heritage Open Days website for the latest information for each event. Accessibility: Due to their historic nature, some properties are only partly accessible. Please check the individual in the air. This is reflected in this year’s fascinating activities to enjoy over the property listing for further information or contact the property owner directly. cheerful theme ‘Edible England’. Mole Heritage Open Days 2021 period. Covid-19: All events will be run in accordance with national and local guidelines in place at the time. We ask that you Valley’s launch event, a talk by Tasha Marks respect other participants and organisers during your visits. entitled ‘Sweet Tooth: An Edible History The Mole Valley Heritage Open Days Committee More information and booking details for all events can be found at www.heritageopendays.org.uk 2 3 Make bigger Sweet Tooth: An HERITAGE OPEN DAYS OPEN DAYS HERITAGE Edible History of Art OPEN DAYS HERITAGE PRE-BOOKING REQUIRED ONLINE EVENT Friday 10 September: 7.30pm Launch event for Mole Valley Heritage Open Days Festival 2021 – hosted by The Arts Society East Surrey Area | | SUMMER 2021 EVENT GUIDE SUMMER 2021 EVENT GUIDE Sweet Tooth: An Edible History of Art is a whistle- stop tour of the history of food as artistic medium, starting with 16th century sugar Topics covered include the origins of dessert, sculpture and venturing all the way up to 3D sugar as artistic medium, the bittersweet dessert printing and beyond. Hosted by Food histories of sugar, edible architecture, Historian Tasha Marks, this lecture is a treat Renaissance banqueting houses, the spectacle for those with a sweet tooth, as Tasha feels the of sugar and the future of food. subject of food and art through the ages is most exciting in the realms of the dessert. TALKS Leatherhead Food Research Depending on restrictions this talk will either Association when in Leatherhead - be on-line OR in the Abraham Dixon Hall at Chips with everything: the Letherhead Institute. WALKS Bill Whitman PRE-BOOKING REQUIRED TALKS Friday 17 September: 7.30pm PROPERTIES & EVENTS PROPERTIES Leatherhead Food Research Association was in Randalls Road, Leatherhead. This non-technical The Art of Fine Chocolate talk is on their time there - what it did, how it Making grew here, and how it very successfully met the PRE-BOOKING REQUIRED need for finding and disseminating information. Friday 17 September: 2pm at the Letherhead Institute The British Food Manufacturing Industries Research Association moved into its Randalls No celebration of Edible England would be Road laboratories in 1950. BFMIRA became complete without a celebration of chocolate. Leatherhead Food Research Association. Reviving the heritage of chocolate-making at its It conducted research into all types of best is Surrey based chocolatier and founder manufactured foods not covered by other of Aubel Chocolate, Natasha Sutton, research associations and built up a leading who works out of her chocolate workshop library and information service. Though no in Ashtead. Gain an insight into how artisan longer in Leatherhead it continues to be active. chocolates are made and the art and heritage of chocolate making. Bill Whitman was latterly a Consultant with them in Leatherhead. His talk will be on their time here. In a non technical way he will tell us what it did, how it grew here, and how it very successfully met the need for finding the right information & the skills to disseminate it. 4 5 Leatherhead Parish Church Dining With History Talk: Thomas Hope and the worlds PRE-BOOKING REQUIRED HERITAGE OPEN DAYS OPEN DAYS HERITAGE of the Grand Tour and the Regency Wednesday 15 September: 7.30pm at OPEN DAYS HERITAGE Dorking Halls PRE-BOOKING REQUIRED Friday 17 September: 7.30pm Join Jessica Thurtell to discover meals through the ages. From the Anglo-Saxons to Visit Leatherhead Parish Church for the Second World War, Jessica investigates the this copiously illustrated lecture by way English eating has changed. See how you’d Paul Pickering focussing on Thomas Hope get on at banquets and grand dinners, and learn and the worlds of the Grand Tour and the the proper etiquette to accompany them. But | | Regency, in which he and successive members it’s not all wealth and feasting: we’ll join peasant SUMMER 2021 EVENT GUIDE SUMMER 2021 EVENT GUIDE of the family lived and moved. meals of pottage and working