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In 1987 Normandy Parish Council expressed its concern that knowledge and memories of past village life would be irretrievably lost with the demise of elderly residents, known to have been born or to have lived most of their life in Normandy. The Council together with a small group of residents who were keen to form a Local History Group met to consider how to alleviate the Council’s concern.
The group launched the project to form a Society at a special Parish Meeting held in Normandy Village Hall on 18 May 1987. About 150 parishioners attended and they decided that a society be formed with terms of reference ‘to record and publish the last 100 years history of Normandy in a form acceptable to the Parish Council and for the Council to assist financially in the project’. The inaugural meeting of the Society (known as NORMANDY HISTORIANS) was held in July 1987 when a management team was elected. A formal Constitution was adopted at the Annual General Meeting held in October 1989.
The logo of the Society, now affectionately known as ‘Norman’, was first used for the Wanborough Station centenary celebration held in September 1991. ‘Norman’ is a much-admired addition to the Society’s title on its letter heading and literature. He is a caricature of a warrior symbolic of all local study groups, in that he is the Defender of the past and Herald of the future. The principal object of the Society, to publish the history of the village, was achieved in July 2000 when a book was launched at an exhibition of material from the Society's archives and on-loan memorabilia. The book at a discounted price was financed by grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Normandy Parish Council and Guildford Borough Council and the initial print run was soon sold out.
Society members have since written and published books on the prominent local houses at Normandy Park, Westwood Manor and Henley Park.
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- CALENDAR OF EVENTS
- Meetings are held on the third Tuesday of the month in the small hall of Normandy Village Hall
- Manor Fruit Farm, Glaziers Lane, Normandy, Guildford GU3 2DD
- and to start at 8pm Map
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- Tuesday 21st May 2019
- Mel Rees
- The Hogs Back Brewery
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- Tuesday 17th September 2019
- Alan Norris
- Normandy - a village history
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- Tuesday 15th October 2019
- Mary Clayton
- Charlotte Walker - an 18th century prostitute
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- Tuesday 19th November 2019
- Eileen Wicks
- The National Archives
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- Tuesday 17th December 2019
- “Christmas Social evening for Members”
 "A Century of Normandy in Surrey"
- Digital
Book
- Out now the digital version of the
Normandy book "A Century of Normandy in Surrey".
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- This is a CD-Rom in PDF format and updated
to "errata 7" and is available from Normandy Historians at only
£7.50 plus p&p (£1.50 UK) or at our meetings.
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"A History of Normandy Park in
Surrey"
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History of Normandy Park in Surrey is presented as an attractive, glossy
soft-back book with cover photo, composed of 114 pages of text, 25 figures
and 63 black & white photos featuring Normandy Park house, neighbouring
houses and the people who helped to shape that area of Normandy including
the author's family.
Jack Kinder, the author demonstrates a unique and succinct style of
writing, which coupled with his skill as a draughtsman, so ably demonstrated
in the copious figures in the book, will not disappoint the reader.
Notwithstanding the excellence of his work, A History of Normandy Park
in Surrey is a veritable tome of reference for family history researchers
and for those who have an interest in the transformation and development
of a village as its large fruit farms and nurseries disappeared from the
rural scene in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.
Available from Normandy Historians at only
£9.50 plus p&p (£3.50 UK) or at our meetings.
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 "Henley Park in Surrey"
The History of a Royal Manor
Henley Park's long history spans over a thousand years from Saxon
settlement through royal ownership and more than one stately mansion to
a wartime factory and its last-minute rescue from ruin and collapse. New
research has revealed the much-debated location of the medieval royal complex
as well as a long-forgotten Jacobean-style mansion that predates the Georgian-style
mansion that we know today. This history is described in a readable and
informative style in our new publication: Henley Park in Surrey, the History
of a Royal Manor, by John Squier.
John is an amateur historian who has lived in Normandy for 38 years
and was a founder member of Normandy Historians. He has spent many years
researching Henley Park since he discovered that his house was briefly
part of its extensive estates.
An updated history of Henley Park has long been overdue and with nearly
200 pages of text and 123 illustrations, many in colour, we believe that
this is a book worthy of the long and fascinating history of Normandy's
most prestigious estate.
Available from Normandy Historians at only
£10 plus p&p (£4.00 UK) or at our meetings.
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