News from Abinger from 131 years ago. Thank you once again to Melissa Schaupp for her reporting. Complaint against the Parish Churches Bill, stating that it preferentially benefits the clergy and snubs churchwardens. The Central London Underground Railway is proposed, to the opposition of many rate payers. Details of the ‘interesting’ ceremony of the Glanville […]
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More news from Abinger from 131 years ago. Thank you once again to Melissa Schaupp for her reporting. Amusing correspondence continued between the Choirmaster and Estate owner Mr. Evelyn. The Choirmaster asks that Mr Evelyn allow the members of the choir under his employment to return to their post after Mr Evelyn purportedly asked them
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More news from Abinger from 131 years ago. Thank you once again to Melissa Schaupp for her reporting. Abinger schools are caught up in the Rectors misdeeds, where the Rector misleadingly implies the schools’ land is privately owned by him and thus can charity gift it to win support for as a candidate for Poor-Law
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More news from Abinger from 131 years ago. Thank you once again to Melissa Schaupp for her reporting. Unseasonably warm weather. Roses flowering in November. Local artist Frank Walton exhibits three paintings in the London Institute of Painters in Oil Colour. During the Museum’s WW1 War Memorial research, we discovered that Frank’s son Geoffrey was
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More news from Abinger from 131 years ago. Thank you once again to Melissa Schaupp for her reporting. Details of Abinger Lower and Upper school inspection, there are complaints that infant school children have to ‘learn in a very cold room’. Surrey Union Hunt Foxhounds met at Abinger Hatch on 29 Oct 1889. The hunt
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More news from Abinger from 131 years ago. Thank you once again to Melissa Schaupp for her reporting. Cottage gardening is discussed as a male dominated practice attended to after work. Gardens were prided over allotments, for convenience and protect from ‘depredators’. We are far from disparaging allotments, but…. The amalgamation of Council services is
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More news from Abinger from 131 years ago. Thank you once again to Melissa Schaupp for her reporting. The parish awaits the decision on the Glebe land sale, the author indignantly suggests that the ‘Commissioners have practically decided to grant the Rector’s application’. The Glebe land debate spans all the Abinger Records and correlates with
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We recently unearthed a stack of magazines from Abinger that we thought we’d take a closer look at. We were looking for any information that we could link to our collections or archives. Museum volunteer Melissa Schaupp read through each edition for us. Alongside the reports of local Cricket and Football matches and village outings,
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We have been publishing the Abinger Monthly Records for a few issues now. We came across this walk, from the October 1889 edition, which Jackie and Mick Rance from the Museum walks team have plotted out for the website. The original walk would have followed the tracks over Leith Hill, which are now roads. To
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Click on each link for details of the walk. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) Dorking Trail Walk from Okewood Hill to Abinger Common from the Abinger Monthly Record Edition of October 1889 Due to circumstances beyond Dorking Museum’s control – we were unable to set the following walks up in the way we wanted to. So
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