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We are pleased to announce that the Museum just acquired this wonderful watercolour of The White Horse in Dorking painted by George Scharf the Elder. The artist was born in Bavaria in 1788 and died in London in 1860. He painted this in 1823.  Former President of The United Society of Artists from 2005 – 2008, member of The […]

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

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

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,

Walking in Dorking Logo We’ve got ourselves a new logo for our walks team (when we start our walks again!) Thank you to Zebra Creative. Pilgrim Suit Our child’s Pilgrim suit is looking good. Volunteer Jackie Rance says “It needs the buttons attaching and a wee bit of finishing off (as well as the trousers!).

Museum volunteer, Jackie Rance, has used her lockdown time to create new costumes for the Museum. This is a tiny suit for a Pilgrim – which will go on display in the Museum when the Mayflower exhibition reopens in 2021. Continuing with the Mayflower theme – these boats have popped up all over Dorking, and

Dorking Local History Group Talk On Monday 1st June at 7.15pm – Dorking Local History Group present their monthly talk – which this month is “The Vanishing River of Box Hill” by Peter Brown. It will be live on Zoom – and can be accessed through Surrey Meet Up. You’ll need to request membership in

Local saddle maker Julia Forsyth is creating the interior of William Mullins shop for our upcoming Mayflower exhibition. The exhibition is due to open on the 10th September. We are not sure whether it will open on time – or will be delayed. Whenever it opens – it’s going to look fantastic!

By Peter Brown and Jane le CluseAuthor of The Vanishing River of Box Hill + developing the forthcoming Dorking Museum children’s book, and Museum Archivist Dorking Museum’s Cockerel Press and the Museum archive are appealing for images of local children, photos taken by children and art created by children to illustrate the Covid-19 crisis for a children’s action book which

Saturday 2nd May was Surrey Day. The Museum had planned to open the caves and had several walks organised – but we had to cancel all that. BBC Surrey celebrated the day by holding a celebration on the Radio. They invited the Museum’s Kathy Atherton to talk about the Dorking Chicken. Listen to the interview