Surbiton Bird Club’s monthly meeting features a talk by Nick Martin on the subject The Wildlife of My Garden. New members welcome.  

Surbiton Probus Club meets monthly for lunch and to listen to a speaker at Glenmore House in The Crescent. June’s talk is entitled Mrs Thatcher and Me, with Tim Flesher the guest speaker. He served as a Private Secretary to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from 1982 to 1986. Probus is a lunch club, with membership

Genevieve Marenghi’s novel, No Oil Painting, is an art heist book with, as its centrepiece, Ham House, where Genevieve worked for many years as a National Trust guide… constructing the

A talk on Richard III and his Surrey connections. Mike Page is guest speaker at the monthly meeting of Surbiton Historical Society at the cornerHOUSE. Meeting starts at 7.30pm, bar

Surbiton Probus Club meets monthly for lunch and to listen to a speaker at Glenmore House in The Crescent. July’s talk is entitled The Libyan Embassy Siege & Yvonne Fletcher,

Historian Sarah Quail gives the regular BookBox talk at St Mary’s community hall, Church Road, Long Ditton. She read history at university, later qualifying as an archivist. She finished her

Historian Sarah Quail gives the regular BookBox talk at St Mary’s community hall, Church Road, Long Ditton. She read history at university, later qualifying as an archivist. She finished her

Historian Sarah Quail, a former mayor of Chichester, is the guest speaker at the St Mary’s community hall BookBox talk for July. She will discuss her work in local government,

The intriguing title for July’s monthly meeting of the Surbiton Bird Club is How Birds Work. Delivering the talk is John Buckingham. New members always welcome.

Jayne Emerson talks on My Life in Textiles. “It’s a journey through my creative life, including studying textiles at Central St Martins, having my own upcycled fashion label, writing six

Rosemarie Swinfield gives a Shakespearean talk to Surbiton & District Historical Society. Shakespeare was a country boy from a comfortably off family in Stratford-on-Avon who travelled to the City of

With the Bayeux Tapestry in London on display, here’s a topical illustrated talk to members of (and visitors to) the Surbiton & District Historical Society. Local historian Matthew Bowman will

Paul McCue is the guest speaker at the monthly Surbiton Probus Club lunch. His topic? Wanborough Manor, the Surrey School for Spies. Probus is a lunch club, with membership open

Surbiton historian David Kennedy gives a talk on The History of Seething Wells to Surbiton & District Historical Society in the cornerHOUSE, Douglas Road. Last year Dr Kennedy's talk about

Robin Hutchinson, figurehead of the Surbiton-based Community Brain, will give a talk to the Friends of Kingston Museum about a recent project – celebrating 60 years of award-winning fashion at

Do you worry about the climate emergency? The rising air pollution? Food security? Flooding? The cost of living? A People’s Emergency Briefing is being staged at the cornerHOUSE arts centre

John Caddick delivers a talk entitled Birds of the Horn of Africa to the Surbiton Bird Club for its September meeting. This bird, a Meyer’s parrot, is one example. New members always welcome.

Arthur Hook addresses the monthly Surbiton Probus Club lunch, speaking about Raising Awareness of Parkinson’s. Probus is a lunch club, with membership open to anyone who has retired or partly retired and who has worked in a profession or in business (hence pro-bus). Membership info from: secretarysurbitonpc@gmail.com

Surbiton’s beautiful Hogsmill river is the topic for borough biodiversity officer Dr Georgina Fauconier’s talk to the Kingston Society. She’ll talk about the wildlife and the work taking place to protect and restore the natural environment. Dr Fauconier has a scientific background in aquatic ecology and river systems and previously worked with the South East

The Daily Mail calls it ‘the most devastating royal biography ever written’, and few would disagree. A sell-out crowd is expected when Andrew Lownie, author of Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York (published by Collins, and available at Surbiton’s Regency bookshop) is guest speaker at the St Mary’s BookBox, discussing the

Prolific author and historian Dr Jonathan Oates gives a talk to Surbiton & District Historical Society on Agatha Christie and True Crime. Many of Agatha Christie’s best-selling detective stories had

Published under the pen-name Tim Flower, lawyer-turned-writer Tim Burton, a Surbiton resident for over 50 years, has now published his second novel… and is being interviewed at the cornerHOUSE by

Surbiton Historical Society’s Tim Harrison gives a talk entitled Good to Know you Dora at the art gallery above Kingston Museum. Dora built – and worked from – Dorich House