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As part of the History of Thursley Society's Wedding Belles exhibition held in 2007, this list of marriages that took place in St Michael's and All Angels was compiled. For ease of research a complete file of the marriages from 1613 to 2007 can be found at the end of this post. Marriages from 2008 onwards will be added at a later date. Overall, the most popular month to be married is October and March the least: THURSLEY MARRIAGES 1613 – 2007   1613 February 28th John Stilwell & Mary Heath   1614 February 12th Richard Boxall & Alice Stoner September 5th John Balchin & Joan Denier September 27th John Trunnell & Elizabeth Heath   1615 September 20th Philip Foorie & Joan Denier September 23rd Henry Boxall & Joan Patfold October 26th Robert Yalden & Elizabeth Luffe   1616 February 24th Thomas Chambers & Elizabeth Eliote June 30th Richard Tamblin & Elizabeth Stilwell September 22nd John Biddendeane & Agnes Coomes November 3rd Thomas Denier & Margaret Peto November 6th Alexander Forrey & Elizabeth Collins November 17th Henry West & Mary Vickary   1617 February 11th John Inwood & Dorothy Heath September 6th Richard Duffel & Catherine Winchester October 26th Thomas Swaine & Mary Denier   1618 January 25th William Grevet & Margaret Newland January 31st John Denier & Elizabeth Dell October 18th Richard Whiller & Sarah Parkhurst November 19th William Finch & Mary Woodhatch   1619 September 8th Anthony Turner & Joan Gander October 14th Thomas Karle & Joan Haynes   1620 February 12th Henry Denier & Agnes Petoe October 2nd John Grevet & Elizabeth Patfold October 22nd Thomas Matchik & Elizabeth Boxall November 14th Thomas Patfold & Joan Mare   1621 July 18TH John Berry & Joan Steele   1622 October 16th Henry Peyto & Alice Brooker   1623 January 15th Roger Eames & Jane Gad January 22nd John Boxall & Mary Hewshare   1624 January 17th Thomas Swane & Jane Fostar July 6th Thomas Smith & Elizabeth Weller   1625 February 6th Robert Newman & Mary West   1627 February 25th Richard Boxall & Elizabeth Eldridge September 19th John Eldridge & Mary Baker October 14th William Gander & Alice Bradfold October 29th Richard Stilwell & Jane Shudd December 16th John Jewer & Elizabeth Smither   1628 May 25th William Figg & Agnes Moorer   1631 January 26th John Haynes & Elizabeth Welch May 2nd Charles Hill & Margaret Elliot September 16th Nicholas Holloway & Alice Ayres November 21st Richard Aslet & Elizabeth Wellis   1632 February 11th Thomas Denier & Joan Holloway   1633 January 30th John Woods & Jane Booker September 4th Thomas Entnapp & Mary Michinall   1634 February 2nd John Stent & Mary Yalden November 2nd Richard Edwards & Agnes Hiller   1635 November 11th Charles Cover & Alice Aslet   1636 January 23rd Francis Smith & Joan Patfold February 7th John Randill & Magdalen Wells November 15th Thomas Holoway & Joan Morley November 22nd John Winter & Agnes Ede   1637 May 9th Richard Tickner & Joan Wells June 26th Richard Chandler & Elizabeth Boxall November 27th Edward Holoway &Joan Haynes November 28th James Lunn & Alice Parke   1638 May 26th Christopher Beale & Ann Boxall May 28th Robert Hollowaye & Joan Dawson July 25th Richard Burll & Magdalen Payne July 25th Thomas Chandler & Margaret Booker September 29th John Stoneall & Marie Broadbrige December 3rd John Shudd & Elizabeth Boxall   1639 February 2nd John Morrall & Ann Farrall   1640 January 13th John Lunn & Elizabeth Holloway January 18th John Newman & Ann Bate April 16th James Hurst & Susanna Peto October 29th Richard Burle & Elizabeth Boxall   1641 August 11th John Balchin & Mary Haman October 8th Edward Waker & Ann Snatchell October 19th John Woods & Elizabeth Chaundler November 3rd Richard Leeny & Mary Boxall   1646 June 11th Thomas Fludder & Sarah Patfold September 16th Richard Denyer & Jane Childs   1647 April 21st John Chitty & Margery Jackman July 26th Edmund Yalden & Mary Stilwell   1648 January 8th John Winter & Elizabeth Pacy June 1st Henry Peto & Alice Boxall   1649 November 13th George Shudd & Ann Yalden   1650 January 15th Richard Kirner & Ann Foster June 19th William Boxall & Mary Boxall   1651 February 19th William Boxall & Ann Boxall March 31st Richard Chitty & Joan Betsworth April 2nd Humphrey Browne & Elizabeth Comes April 14th John Denier & Jane Stovall   1652 February 24th Nicholas Yalden & Ann Upton March 2nd Robert Figge & Elizabeth Turner July 1st Thomas Magwicke & Mary Boxall November 30th John Foory & Elizabeth Glazier December 8th William Woods & Sarah Michenall   1653 May 24th Mathew Remnant & Agnes Clearke June 8th William Welch & Catherine Lunn September 12th Thomas Grivet & Jane Duffild September 26th Robert Juer & Joan Juer   1654 May 15th William Newman & Alice Bedford June 14th Richard Remnant & Jane Payne September 25th Edward Boxall & Charity Peto December 19th John Edsul & Joan Burle   1655 January 14th Henry Stovall & Margaret Woodier March 7th Thomas Stacy & Mary Denier March 12th John Magicke & Grace Chintin May 11th John Peto & Dorothy Peto June 18th Charles Hills & Ann Betsworth August 7th Benjamin Chaundler & Mary Smith August 31st Richard White & Joan Pavy (alais Foo) October 22nd John Smith & Joan Peto December 10th Richard Burle & Agnes Stent   1656 April 9th Robert Snelling & Dorothy Greens May 4th William Marlin & Alice Warndell May 4th Walter Hedger & Joan Boxall August 6th John Varnden & Ann Burle September 3rd Richard Marchant & Mary Burle October 13th Robert Hushar & Ann Stacy October 28th Francis Jackman & Mary Osborne December 11th Henry Martin & Joan Stilwell   1657 May 4th Richard Harding & Alice Peto August 31st Henry Nitingale & Jane Moon December 1st John Newman & Elizabeth Chintin   1659 John Bradfold & (none) March 1st Wiliam Chaundler & Jane Patfold May 23rd Richard Woods & Ann Goodier June 1st Thomas Chaulkwright & Margaret Peto July 1st Robert Booker & Margaret Ailing September 6th Richard Parker & Joan Ven September 20th John Giles & Ann Summer October 24th Thomas Flaxmore & Mary Gallant November 14th Nicholas Figge & Joan Turner November 29th  Thomas Moore & Elizabeth Arnold   1660 May 30th John Stilwell & Joan Shudd June 18th Robert Stovall & Mary Stone July 6th Humphrey Linam & Elizabeth Taylor September 27th Francis Denier & Ann Stilwell October 4th Christopher Venn & Dorothy Edwards October 10th Richard Betsworth & Elizabeth Snelling October 18th Peter Betsworth & Jane Stilwell   1661 May 1st Exull (unfinished entry) May 19th Lawrence Chitty & Rose Carter July 11th Abraham Jelly & Alice Hayler    1662 March 29th Henry ? & Mary Roaker April 8th ? ? & Mrs. Holney April 14th James ? & Joan ? April 17th John Hoe & Mary Bide August 4th William Hounsome & Elizabeth Reackstrawe December 17th John Figge & Widow Bath   1663 April 11th Robert Carpenter & Elizabeth Hoan July 2nd Anthony Stilwell & Mary Tribe   1664 January 9th Edmund Russell & Elizabeth Chaundler October 17th Henry Stovall & Jane Scidmore   1665 March 19th James Purden & Elizabeth Coleman March 27th Richard Randall & Elizabeth Vanner April 11th William Chitty & Jane Stilwell June 8th “The miller” & ? Rapley June 9th John Manninge & Elizabeth Rooke June 15th White Titchburne & Mrs. Elizabeth Shudd September 21st Thomas Wakeford & Margaret Smith October 23rd William Betsworth & Joan Burle November 16th Robert Keenes & Joan Boxall   1666 May 23rd Robert Payne & Joan Purse   1667 January 14th Nicholas Bolden & Elizabeth Russel January 28th John Newman & Jane Welch   1668 October 7th William Green & Joan Harding November 16th William Heither & Catherine Colpice November 18th William Forster & Dorothy Gander   1669 September 6th George Matchwick & Elizabeth Elyott December 9th John Shotter & Elizabeth Stilwell   1670 April 21st John Edwards & Elizabeth West   1671 May 5th Francis Greafat & Elizabeth Steel July 7th Arthur Wancklin & Margaret Coltman August 18th William Vanner & Ann Murrall October 30th William Dedman & Grace Stapler   1673 January 21st Robert Stoner & Joan Smith September 23rd Richard Denyer & Mary Peto November 6th Thomas Tupper & Mary Moone   1675 May 13th Richard Haddington & Mary Ockly   1679 October 7th John Coudery & Jane Denyer   1680 December 10th William Roker & Bridget Catorick   1682 November 7th Henry Wakford & Mary Smith   1683 May 3rd Richard Ayling & Joan Stilwell   1685 January 28th John Woods & Lettice Chitty October 19th John Denyer & Amy Hadingtun   1687 June 23rd John Yalden & Joan Stilwell July 7th Richard Didlsfold & Mary Trouer   1688 April 13th Thomas Fallick & Joan Jarret   1689 February 27th James Larby & Mary Grevat June 20th George Cunstable & Elizabeth Coline   1690 February 12th John Smith & Mary Smither   1692 November 24th Henry Haloway & Elizabeth Dufell   1693 June 29th Philip Hoad & Jean Smith August 24th John Wells & Sarah Cox November 16th John Burll & Elizabeth Smith   1695 April 29th William Numan & Margaret Franks October 14th Abraham Mills & Ann Grevat   1699 October 28th Edward Faychon & Elizabeth Elyat

As part of the History of Thursley Society's Wedding Belles exhibition held in 2007, this list of marriages that took place in St Michael's and All Angels was compiled. For ease of research a complete file of the marriages from 1613 to date can be found at the end of this post. Overall, the most popular month to be married is October and March the least: 1700 February 24th John Callingham & Joan Searl February 27th John Penfold & Jean Ginner October 10th Henry Coapper & Elizabeth Searl   1705 September 21st Francis Steer & ?   1706 June 25TH  John Chandeler & Elizabeth Chitty   1708 December 9th Henry Sharp & Ann Mills   1709 May 12th Edmund Upton & Mary Habbins November 10th John Denyer & Ann Callingham   1710 October 1st Noah Brumell & Elizabeth Boxall   1711 February 26th Henry Hunt & Mary Allen   1713 October 23rd William Hall & Sarah Bedford   1715 February 14th Henry Vinch & Alice Welland October 25th Samuel Bajent & Elizabeth Bridger   1716 October 7th William Keens & Joan Carpender   1719 February 9th John Luff & Elizabeth Berry   1720 June 2nd John Stovold & Elizabeth Stilwell August 1st John Wackford & Elizabeth Perkiss   1721 December 7th Joseph Page & Jean Manfield   1722 June 7th John Lee & Mary Stovold   1723 September 19th Richard Mitchall & Elizabeth Court November 16th Thomas Stovold & Mary Philps   1724 April 7th Richard Searll & Ann Tuper May 28th William Edwards & Margaret Oliver September 28th James Older & Jean Ockly   1725 June 17th William Phillips & Mary Balchin   1727 February 25th George Bicknell & Sarah Courtness March 13th Joshua Pearcey & Mary Treyer May 4th George Manfield & Lucy Terry July 16th John Gunner & Jane Franciss   1730 April 9th John Hode & Elizabeth Childs   1732 October 3rd John Remnant & Ann Far   1735 March 4th James Simmons & Catherine Penfold   1736 December 27th John Morrise & Mary Hunt   1737 June 20th William Webster & Joan Faux August 27th John Clerk & Ann Halloway   1738 May 1st Thomas Fluter & Ann Yates November 30th John Spencer & Elizabeth West   1739 February 14th John Combs & Jane Freeland June 2nd Robert Earll & Joan Cooper June 14th Robert Bennet & Mary Bennifold October 2nd James Hooker & Sarah Fluter   1740 April 7th James Lampold & Esther Stovold May 22nd John Daviss & Sarah Halloway June 29th Richard Souter & Sarah Balchin   1741 March 1st Peter Bennet & Ann Stedman September 20th Harry Numan & Mary Souter   1742 October 12th John Buckmaster & Sarah Smith   1743 October 2nd William Steer & Elizabeth Ethrington December 22nd Edmund Moon & Mary Stovold   1744 March 29th John D           enyer & Sarah Snelling November 20th William Martin & Sarah Souter   1746 December 2nd John Souter & Ann Court   1747 January 9th Richard Searll & Martha Triming May 10th Peter Snelling & Jane Burges October 2nd Thomas Larby & Elizabeth Hone November 27th William Carter & Elizabeth Worsfold   1748 May 1st John Stent & Jean Numan June 30th Edmund Woods & Ann Yalden October 30th        James Denyer & Sarah May   1750 January 31st John Hawkins & Mary Stilwell February 17th Thomas Mitchall & Mary Mitchall May 13th John Lee & Mary Hockly June 4th William Numan & Sarah Chalcraft   1751 September 29th William Luff & Sarah Beatcher   1753 September 9th James Hooker & Ann Fluter   1755 April 7th Thomas Pink & Elizabeth Johns April 7th John May & Sarah Hone   1756 May 29th Thomas Stredwick & Mary Johns   1757 March 8th John Franks & Ann Remnant April 17th Richard Marshall & Elizabeth Ford April 18th William White & Ann Holloway May 30th John Woods & Ann Francis September 18th William Stilwell & Mary Carpenter October 15th James Wheeler & Ann Welland December 22nd Nathaniel Moon & Elizabeth Stovold   1758 January 23rd Edmund Holloway & Elizabeth Sturt April 9th William Austen & Elizabeth Walker April 16th John Standish & Mary Kinggett   1759 July 12th Thomas Court & Elizabeth Pound August 1st John Mitchell & Elizabeth Stilwell October 1st Charles Naish & Catherine Holloway October 7th James Budd & Elizabeth Stovould November 4th John Bridger & Ann Bicknell November 18th John Sewart & Ann Baldwin December 1st Robert Cover & Sarah Inwood December 23rd Thomas Dedman & Elizabeth Webb   1760 February 18th James Stilwell & Lucy Penfold October 7th James Lewer & Sarah Upfold December 4th Richard Holloway & Mary Holloway   1761 April 15th Thomas Hall & Elizabeth Parsons May 21st William Smith & Elizabeth Mitchell October 4th John Weekes & Mary White October 12th John Flutter & Ann Crafter November 19th William Cover & Phillis Hurst December 29th Edward Freshwater & Sarah Austen   1762 September 4th Edward Warner & Elizabeth Austen September 26th George May & Hannah Farley October 25th Daniel Budd & Mary Remnant November 28th John Colpiece & Sarah Dedman   1763 August 28th Thomas Mitchall & Ann Hoan October 1st Thomas Boxall & Ann Edwards October 16th Edward Goldring Hows & Mary Percy October 30th Joshua Percy & Elizabeth Dedman   1764 February 14th George Snelling & Mary Gunter March 5th Nathaniel Moon & Ann Dedman March 19th Richard Franks & Mary Kern November 4th William Trowell & Mary Austen   1765 May 14th Thomas Court & Honour Stevens May 21st James Mitchell & Mary Mills December 8th John Morley & Mary Hedger December 16th John Bowler & Elizabeth Palmer   1766 January 5th Thomas Pudwick & Mary Hardy June 3rd John Gibson & Joan Lunn June 8th Henry Hillyer & Joan Hurst September 29th Robert Karn & Sarah Monger October 11th Thomas Hall & Mary Dedman   1767 January 1st John Budd & Sarah Holloway January 10th John Hoan & Sarah Butcher January 29th Henry Kinshot & Mary Walker November 27th Francis Bromham & Sarah Franks   1768 May 23rd Henry Holliss & Elizabeth Pink October 20th Jesse Smith & Ann Souter October 31st Charles Gammon & Hannah Wossom November 6th James Hampton & Elizabeth Wheeler   1769 January 10th William Grist & Elizabeth Percy July 25th Richard Stenning & Sarah Lambert November 24th George Mitchell & Mary Stilwell December 24th John Lawes & Elizabeth Coleman   1770 January 14th William Burchett & Mary Hardy February John Kern & Jane Stacy February 21st Thomas Pink & Sarah Cooper June 27th Richard Triggs & Sarah Boswell July 29th Richard Horsell & Elizabeth Johnson September 1st John Mathews & Hannah Pink   1771 January 31st John Cooper & Martha Compton July 15th John Fish & Elizabeth Wheeler August 8th Richard Etherington & Sarah Freshwater October 3rd David Underwood & Sarah Denyer October 17th Robert Luxford & Sarah Stent   1772 January 1st Isaac Holloway & Jemima Holloway January 1st John Austen & Sarah Seems June 14th Samuel Clues & Susanna Grace October 12th Henry Meers & Hannah Bridger October 18th Daniel Harris & Mary Randle October 20th William Mulford & Elizabeth Mitchell November 3rd Thomas Beaumont & Mary Richbell November 20th Robert Sparks & Mary Smithers   1773 January 2nd Henry Smither & Ann Knight February 22nd John Dedman & Elizabeth Colyer October 3rd Edmund Wheeler & Elizabeth Millton October 3rd William Newman & Ann Newell   1774 Edward Goldring & Mary Coulton February 9th John Souter & Mary Courtenage June 4th Richard West & Elizabeth Souter July 10th James Denyer & Ann Etherington July 27th Robert Boxall & Ann Burgess September 4th William Chitty & Mary Murrell October 1st Richard Kealle & Hannah Bowler   1775 February 27th Samuel Holloway & Ann Edwards May 24th John Farr & Lydia Jennings October 16th John Goodeve & Hannah Cook October 26th John Mitchell & Elizabeth Larby November 3rd Robert Walker & Catherine Keern   1776 January 30th John Hoad & Ann Lickfold November 18th Richard Bennett & Elizabeth Walker December 29th Richard Lunn & Elizabeth Soal December 29th John Kern & Elizabeth Snilling   1777 January 19th Henry Kern & Sarah Kingshott January 23rd Noah Greenfield & Ann Austen October 10th John Morrey & Mary Goodchild   1778 April 21st Thomas Cole & Ann Lampard May 17th William Hammon & Ann Boxall May 22nd John Castle & Mary Lea September 22nd Charles Winkworth & Elizabeth Lampard   1779 May 6th William Hammond & Ann Boxall May 9th James Morey & Elizabeth Finden May 16th Thomas Milton & Susan Forster June 13th John Randle & Elizabeth Courtenage July 25th Edward Colyer & Ann Larby November 11th John Faithfull & Mary Carpenter   1780 January 7th Thomas Bowler & Ann Wheeler January 22nd Edward Eede & Martha Goodchild February 7th Henry Smither & Sarah Souter June 24th James Windebank & Ann Diggins November 13th Edward Smith & Ann Goodchild November 22nd William Lewer & Mary Keen December 4th James Stilwell & Mary Woods   1781 April 30th Whitley Martin & Elizabeth Woods May 14th James Wheeler & Jane Punter July 8th Joseph Jennings & Mary Upfold July 10th George Edmead & Ann Haslett July 11th Edmund Hitchcock & Hannah Holloway August 25th Edward Walker & Elizabeth Austen August 26th John Boxall & Hannah Naish   1782 January 7th John Hill & Ann Valler October 13th Henry Morrey & Hannah Smith October 28th James Philips & Sarah Randall   1783 May 13th William Austin & Grace Elsley   1784 March 23rd John Strudwick & Ann Randall June 22nd John Blackman & Jane Auslett   1785 January 24th Daniel Milton & Sarah Wheeler October 3rd Henry Hilliar & Mary Bartholomew   1786 January 2nd Edmund Austin & Ann Berry February 13th James Holloway & Hannah Mitchell February 28th William Lasham & Sarah Rapley June 20th Francis Faulkner & Hannah Denyer August 20th Benjamin White & Mary Yalden September 7th John Souter & Sarah Mills September 14th George Woods & Elizabeth Diggins   1787 January 11th Richard Franks & Sarah Picket February 8th Anthony Stilwell & Hannah Rygate April 12th Robert Higgs & Elizabeth Martin June 29th John Hardy & Deborah Boxal July 3rd James Denyer & Ann Smith November 3rd William Manning & Sarah Cowderry December 17th John Sayers & Sarah Franks   1788 January 2nd James Heather & Elizabeth Ellis January 31st John Jackman & Hannah Combs February 20th James Budd & Leah Foster March 24th James Withal & Jane Courtnege April 1st Charles Berry & Elizabeth Varnell Souter May 26th Stephen Keen & Elizabeth Wheeler   1789 May 27th John Kearn & Elizabeth Higgs June 2nd Thomas Courtnege & Sarah Lewer October 15th Henry Streater Gill & Mary Hawkins October 18th Samuel Denyer & Mary Cover December 28th James Combes & Hannah Keene   1790 February 15th James Mayer & Hannah Forey February 15th Richard Seale & Elizabeth Flutter   1791 October 23rd Thomas West & Mary Tillbury   1792 October 22nd James Hone & Sarah May November 20th George Naish & Elizabeth Smith December 16th Thomas Court & Lucy Boxall   1793 July 7th George Stovold & Grace Baxter September 7th Samuel Holloway & Sarah Constable September 22nd James Pryor & Sarah Sowter October 13th Richard Lewry & Nanny Yandell October 25th George Copus & Elizabeth Christmas October 27th James Kearn & Elizabeth Dedman   1794 February 18th John Underwood & Mary Elliott April 19th John Gale & Ann Hardy April 23rd John Denyer & Phillis Cover August 21st John Lemon & Elizabeth Stilwell October 10th John Walker & Mary Blunt October 19th James Wheeler & Ann Franks   1795 April 8th George Snelling & Catherine Walker April 11th John Walker & Sarah Mitchell October 13th John Hone & Elizabeth Paul December 1st Thomas Walker & Sarah Hone   1796 January 26th James Dalgress & Mary Pound April 7th James Mills & Sarah Souter April 14th George Stovold & Elizabeth Lewer June 13th John Hall & Mary Cornish July 4th William Stening & Elizabeth Hawker August 3rd William Cover & Ann Newman   1797 June 5th James Valler & Susanna Smith August 3rd William Lambart & Elizabeth Lunn September 27th Thomas Winter & Lydia Hall October 15th William Shepherd & Mary Hayes November 13th Thomas Mitchell & Charlotte Radford   1798 February 25th William Southon & Elizabeth Standish April 2nd David Underwood & Ann Franks June 20th Abraham Bicknell & Elizabeth Tribe July 12th Jacob Hogsflesh & Sarah Souter November 6th William Snelling & Ann Walker   1799 January 30th George Mitchell & Mary Berry May 25th William Berry & Sarah Owen December 9th William Craft & Elizabeth Wheeler

The coin was discovered by a metal detectorist in the vicinity of Punch Bowl Farm. It is an Elizabethan sixpence dated 1584. The coin shows the date and the Tudor shield and on the opposite side you can just make out the profile of Elizabeth I and to the left of the bush is the Tudor rose denoting that it is a sixpence. Around the outside of the coin the edges have been 'clipped'. This was common practice amongst forgers who took the clippings of the silver edges to forge new coins. The punishment was execution! As it has been 'clipped', not all of the legend can be easily read.

All in one article written by Jackie Rickenberg for the Parish Magazine in August 2023 Whilst rummaging through the archives the other day, I came across a couple of amusing little articles, which piqued my interest. The first one is an article from The Farnham Herald, date unknown but by deduction the year is 1967. “Pink Floyd Man in Flying Visit. On a flying visit to his native land last week, was Nicky Mason of the Pink Floyd Pop Group (sic), who has been staying with the Rutter family at Millhanger, Thursley. Lindy Rutter has won praise for her choreography of the Farnham Youth Theatre production “Double Take” and for her solo dance which opens the show. She is to teach at Frensham Heights and will also be taking movement classes at RADA. Nicky has just made an LP with the Pink Floyd, “The Saucerful of Secrets” which is number nine on the LP charts. The group has also recently ended a tour of the USA where they are becoming very popular. The trip took them from New York, through Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle etc, etc and but for the election rumpus in Chicago, they would have made a return trip there. Nicky spoke to Youth in Action on Friday, the day before he flew to Belgium to take part in a music festival. A busy life and rather different from what he imagined it would be like when a student of architecture at Regent Street Polytechnic, where the Pink Floyd originated three years ago. The group has been professional for about 18 months”. A quick Google search has since revealed that “Nicky” as he is called here, but now known as Nick Mason, and Lindy were married the following year, 1968, and had two children, before divorcing 20 years later. She is an accomplished flutist. He is the only remaining original member of the famous band. Note how the journalist refers to them as The Pink Floyd! Of course, they are known today as simply Pink Floyd. Another strange twist is that Millhanger was, of course, latterly purchased by Roger Taylor of Queen, who lived there until around 10 years ago. And the following article, date and publication unknown, will be of particular interest to the cricketers of Bowlhead Green. “Bowlers or Bowlhead. Controversy has long proceeded, following the right name of what the Ordinance Map calls Bowlers Green, the signpost, Bowlhead Green, and some of the older inhabitants, Bowler (as Boughler) Green. To settle the point Mr J C Squire wrote to Professor Allen Mawer, secretary of the English Place-Name Society. Professor Mawer replied: - “I gather you would like a note upon the relative merits of Bowlhead and Bowlers. There is no doubt that the former is correct. Mr Gover, who is working for us, draws my attention to thirteenth and fourteenth century forms Bouelithe, often misprinted Bonelithe, which are clearly to be identified with Bowlhead and are the source of the name. Bowlith by a process of popular etymology has clearly been corrupted to Bowlhead. The name means “above the slope” and is derived from Old English, bufan hlithe. Other similar names are Boveridge and Bucknowl for Boveknowl in Devon”. Mr Squire adds :- “That seems to decide the matter, though it may be argued that if the name can change from bufan hlithe to Bowlhead, it may equally be allowed to change from the meaningless Bowlhead to Bowlers, which has a pleasant smell of cricket”. It is rather amusing , and a warning to those who assume that English place-names mean what they appear to mean, that the name, as it were, has been turned round. The “head” part really refers to the slope, and the “bowl” to the top.”

As part of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, individuals and organisations were invited to lead the nation's tribute to Her Majesty the Queen by lighting beacons at 9.45pm on 2 June 2022. Thursley lit their tribute at the Three Horseshoes. Photographs and video by Andrew Kaplanovsky

On Saturday, 1st June 2024, more than 50 villagers turned up at the village hall to witness the launch of the Thursley History Society website. The site was designed by Helena Traill, a daughter of the village and founder of Nooh Studios, and the content was populated by David Young from a variety of sources. In recognising the rich source of material available to him, David mentioned Tim Walsh in particular, the society's former digital archivist, who had done such diligent work over the past many years. Photographic sources came from three photographers the village is lucky to have: Valérie Ferris; Jill Fry; Sean Edwards. Before the site was demonstrated by Helena and David, villagers were entertained on the village hall's new big screen by scrolling photographs which were part of the digital archive and put together by Alie Hanbury. Jackie Rickenberg had, with help from other members of the committee, made some superb crudites, and Thursley badges, produced by Peter Rickenberg and Gillian Duke, were sold alongside copies of Thursley Remembered. Leon Flavell welcomed everyone and introduced the two presenters, Helena Traill and David Young: David praised Helena for producing such a well-designed and easy to use site and then proceeded to demonstrate some of its attributes: And a good time was had by all:

Surprising as it may seem to us in 2024, the existential crisis that preoccupied Thursley villagers in the early 1980's was the threat of Nuclear War. As can be seen from the Government documents below, and the extraordinary plans put together by Michael Williams, this was a threat taken seriously not only by the Government but also Waverley District Council and in Thursley village. The pdf below shoes a leaflet that was widely distributed in the 1980s The pdfs below constitute a whole booklet, Thursley Nuclear Survival Plan, created by Michael Williams and dated September 1981. Two of the individuals who had responsibilities delineated in this document - Michael O'Brien and Tim Wakeley - confirmed that they had a meeting or meetings about these plans. One anecdote was that Michael Williams wanted to place a sub-machine gun post on the lawn of the Vicarage as it held a view up and down Dye House road and thus could defend the village from incursions by refugees coming from London and Elstead. The vicar of the day, The Reverend John Stephens, dismissed the request saying that it was 'The most un-Christian request he had ever encountered'! The two pdfs below are of correspondence from and to Michael Williams The following provide further context: Civil Defence in the 1980s https://www.subbrit.org.uk/features/civil-defence-in-the-1980s/#:~:text=There%20was%20no%20requirement%20for,the%20Protect%20and%20Survive%20booklet. The strange death of UK civil defence education in the 1980s https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0046760X.2014.979253 Protect and Survive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protect_and_Survive As an aside, while researching this blog, I came across this article about a BBC programme made in 1984 about this issue:\\https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190925-was-threads-the-scariest-tv-show-ever-made#:~:text=Threads%20was%20born%20out%20of,fend%20off%20a%20nuclear%20attack. When the Wind Blows, which is a 1982 graphic novel, created by British artist Raymond Briggs, commonly known for its critiques against government issued preparations for nuclear war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Wind_Blows_(comics) All of the above relates to the 1980s but concerns were being expressed in the village in 1956: For the launch of this website on 1st June, 2024, an interview, hosted by Sally Scheffers with Michael and Marion O'Brien and Tim Wakeley, was filmed about their recollections of being part of Thursley's preparations for Nuclear War...

This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in June 2020 As we missed our planned VE Day celebration in the village hall on May 8th, we thought we would stick with the theme for a few months more for our peep into the archives. We have such interesting records of past and present Thursley residents’ recollections from this time, that it’s worth reminiscing and trying to imagine just how they felt when the announcement was made and the war was finally over. We start with “Cocker” Keen, who very sadly recently passed away. Here is his story: Recollections by “Cocker” Keen “I’ve lived in Thursley all of my life and in this house in Homefield since 1937. At the start of the war I was at school in what is now the Village Hall. I left when I was 14 and started work for Reg Cottle at the Red Lion Garage (still there today but now called X). I stayed there until I was called up into the army between VE and VJ Days. I already had some military experience having served in Thursley’s Home Guard. I joined the Home Guard in 1942 when I was 16. There were 28 of us in it when it started, 6 of us on duty every night. You had 2 hours on duty and 4 hours off through the night and then you were back to your regular job the next morning. We would meet at the servant’s quarters at Foldsdown; the servants had gone to war and so their wooden annexe building at the back of the main house had been vacated. After D-Day, the night duties ended and we just played around; attacking the RAF pylon up at Gibbet Hill and practising firing live ammunition on the rifle range at Longmoor. In the village at this time was also the AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service), based in the studio of Red Lodge and the Air Raid Wardens who were based at the Village Institute (now Prospect Cottage). During the war the village was always full of troops. The Tank Corps were here when they came out of Dunkirk and were camped up in the trees in Dye House, the Canadians were at Tweedsmuir and the Free French were up at Rodborough. As a result, the pubs were always short of beer! Mr Fosberry, the landlord of the Three Horseshoes, kept the villagers happy by closing the pub but allowing the regulars round the back door and into the kitchen where they could enjoy their cherished pint! I remember once, a German bomber was being chased and jettisoned his bombs. One landed in the Hall’s barn field where the dairy cows were, killing all of them. A bomb also landed in the folly, the valley below Hedge Farm. Another couple fell on the fields of Upper Highfield Farm but it was only the Halls’ who lost their animals. They reckoned the bombs had been destined for the Armoured Corp, who were up in the woods with the troops. The Canadians used to drive their Sherman tanks up to the Punch Bowl and it became a desert from all the tank activity up there. They also blew up the remains of George May’s farm, Highcombe Farm, down in the Punch Bowl. Mr Gorringe from Upper Ridgeway Farm cleared up the rubble and used it to convert the barn into the cottage where Malcolm Cole now lives. We would go down to the Moat when the troops were water-proofing their vehicles and watch them drive through. They’d give us a ride; those Canadians didn’t care! The Canadians were good fun and once the war was over, we had to get back to the quiet life of a rural community. For me, that meant that some of my neighbours had been killed and my sister was married (to a Canadian soldier) and living across the Atlantic. The Parker’s lived at Foldsdown and their son was killed in Holland. His name is inscribed on his parents’ headstone in the churchyard. A neighbour from Homefield, Ronald Francis, was killed in a Bren Gun carrier (a light machine gun armament) out in France and Bob Sharland who lived at Number 7 Homefield was also killed”. Fascinating to see the war from a youngster’s perspective. The trauma and horror of the reality, only latterly impacting on the excitement and enthusiasm of a teenage boy. More recollections next month. Cocker Keen's Obituary: Alfred Frank Keen or “Cocker” born to Agnes and Frank Keen on 8th September 1926 at their home The Cabin (now The Well House) next door to the pub. Cocker was the 3rd child of 6 with older sisters Dorothy and Jean and younger brothers John and Don and youngest sister Hazel, ‘plenty to have a fight with’ he would joke! Cocker enjoyed what he described recently as ‘a good childhood with plenty of room to run about’ and displayed early signs of his mischievous character by tying the door handles of cottages together! He attended school just across the road in what is now the village hall. In 1936 aged 9 the family moved up to Homefields where he was to live the rest of his life. Cocker’s first paid work came at the age of 13 in the form of delivering milk to Cosford House before he left school and became a garden boy at Milhanger. At age 16, Cocker joined Mr Cottle at Red Lion Garage, now Mathwall, where he would work during the war and learn his skills as a mechanic. Village life during the war was tough and Cocker and his younger brothers John and Don used to catch rabbits and poach pheasants, the only time meat was served at home, and every inch of ground would be dug to grow vegetables. After the war in 1947 Cocker was posted to Catterick Garrison in North Yorkshire to serve his 2 years National Service in the army before returning to Thursley. On returning to Thursley Cocker worked at Pitlands farm (now Punchbowl Farm) and Upper Highfield Farm. He enjoyed playing cricket for Thursley and became a very accomplished vegetable gardener. After farming he moved into livestock transportation with a firm named Keen (no relation) in Witley. It was following this move that Cocker saw the opportunity to become an owner/operator, he bought his own livestock lorry, parked it at Hill Farm Barns and started to transport livestock all over Surrey and beyond. We met Cocker in 1990 when we bought the barns and that was to be the beginning of a near 30 year friendship. Around this time he retired and seemed to spend all his spare time helping us. He tirelessly worked with us to establish the garden we have today and in doing so became a big part of our family’s life here in Thursley. During his retirement Cocker looked after his mother, who he lived with in Homefields, and spent much of his time helping others around the village. Cocker will be remembered by his family, friends and all those who he helped in the village. He is irreplaceable and as one villager said to me ‘they don’t make’em like that anymore’. The end of an era. The eulogy for Cocker Keen written and delivered by Mike Spencer Alfred Frank Keen or “Cocker” born to Agnes and Frank Keen on 8th September 1926 at their home The Cabin (now The Well House) next door to the pub. Cocker was the 3rd child of 6 with older sisters Dorothy and Jean and younger brothers John and Don and youngest sister Hazel, ‘plenty to have a fight with’ he would joke! Cocker enjoyed what he described recently as ‘a good childhood with plenty of room to run about’ and displayed early signs of his mischievous character by tying the door handles of cottages together! He attended school just across the road in what is now the village hall. In 1936 aged 9 the family moved up to Homefields where he was to live the rest of his life. Cocker’s first paid work came at the age of 13 in the form of delivering milk to Cosford House before he left school and became a garden boy at Milhanger. At age 16, Cocker joined Mr Cottle at Red Lion Garage, now Mathwall, where he would work during the war and learn his skills as a mechanic. Village life during the war was tough and Cocker and his younger brothers John and Don used to catch rabbits and poach pheasants, the only time meat was served at home, and every inch of the garden would be dug to grow vegetables. After the war in 1947 Cocker was posted to Catterick Garrison in North Yorkshire to serve his 2 years National Service in the army before returning to Thursley. On returning to Thursley Cocker worked at Pitlands farm (now Punchbowl Farm) and Upper Highfield Farm. He enjoyed playing cricket for Thursley and became an accomplished vegetable gardener. After farming he moved into livestock transportation with a firm named Keen in Witley. It was following this move that Cocker saw the opportunity to become an owner/operator, he bought his own livestock lorry, parked it at Hill Farm Barns and started to transport livestock all over Surrey and beyond. Debbie and I met Cocker in 1990 when we bought the barns in Thursley where he parked his lorry.He was always mysterious about his age saying he was ‘as old as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth’ but he had reached retirement and seemed to spend all his spare time helping us.That was to be the beginning of a near 30 year friendship.Aged 30 and naive we had embarked on a huge project to convert the barns to a home and we really couldn’t have done it without him.He was endlessly resourceful, always had the right tool for the job, strong as an ox and worked tirelessly.Cocker was many things to usA good friendA kind of grandfather to our boysHe was always looking out for us even when we weren’t around. And he was a teacher: Yes, he was a teacher He taught me everything I know about gardening:When we first moved to Thursley we had nothing but a tumbled down building and 6 foot high weeds and even before we did the renovation and moved in - cocker had established a beautiful veg garden for us. We probably had the worst house in Thursley at that time but the best vegetable garden, we didn’t have a proper kitchen but we ate the best new potatoes ever!Every spring come rain or shine he would come and help plant the potatoes and start off the beans on the bean poles he’d made - and after a couple of years he gave me the flattering title of Head Gardener but clearly I was still the novice and he was the font of all horticultural knowledge. Cocker would say Mike was the labourer who wasn’t much good at digging as the ‘ground was too low’...He had a great sense of humour he liked to tease me - like when the clocks changed in the spring and autumn he would say he’d been busy climbing the church spire to change the sundial. And he would say I should garden at night to prevent weeds and used to say he whoever can grow parsley wears the trousers so I got a new title- Petticoat Government.So when spring comes next year I will think of Cocker as I double dig the veg plot the way he taught me , I’ll sow the potatoes over the Easter weekend, I will plant green beans and courgettes in May , I will be trimming the box hedges on Derby day never before and late summer when I harvest the tomatoes and dig up the potatoes I’ll hope I’ll hear his voice saying- im not doing badly for a Head Gardener!We’ll miss you Cocker but you’ll always be with me in the garden.

This Grade II listed building (9th March, 1960) was once an extension to Boxalls to which it remains attached. Vine Cottage, The Street, c1925 Harry and Mary Seaford, 1977

A Thursley History Society outing, 5th October 2019 Advertisement for the walk Report on the Hammer Pond Walk On Saturday 5th October, 2019, the Thursley History Society led a walk on Thursley Common to look at the Hammer Ponds and talk about the history of the iron industry on the Commons.  More than 30 people (and lots of well-behaved dogs) took part and everyone had a very interesting and happy afternoon, culminating in a delicious tea. Thanks go to Sarah Grillo for the cakes and Lisa Berezovsky for lending her field for parking.

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens was an English architect who designed many war memorials, English country houses and public buildings in the UK and abroad The article below was written in two parts in November and December 2022 for the Parish Magazine by Jackie Rickenberg Sir Edwin Lutyens. The architectural historian Gavin Stamp described Lutyebns as "surely the greatest British architect of the twentieth (or of any other) century". He was the designer of many, many grand Arts and Crafts houses, war memorials and public buildings, both in the UK and overseas. From his humble beginnings in Thursley (Prospect Cottage in The Street being an early example), Lutyens’ career famously culminated in his design of The Cenotaph in Whitehall. On 11th of this month, The Cenotaph will celebrate the centenary of it’s unveiling in its current form. Previously it was a wooden structure, commissioned by David Lloyd George as a temporary structure to be the centrepiece of the Allied Victory Parade in 1919. After an outpouring of national sentiment, it was replaced in 1920 by a permanent structure. Lloyd George proposed a catafalque, a low empty platform, but it was Lutyens' idea for the taller monument. An annual Service of Remembrance is held at the site on Remembrance Sunday, the closest Sunday to 11th November (Armistice Day) each year. Lutyens' cenotaph design has been reproduced elsewhere in the UK and in other countries of historical British allegiance including, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Bermuda and Hong Kong. In 2015 a memorial to Lutyens by the sculptor Stephen Cox was erected in Apple Tree Yard, Mayfair, London, adjacent to the studio where Lutyens prepared the designs for The Cenotaph. The following is the story of Lutyens’ early life in Thursley, to be continued next month with more about his career and buildings. The Young Lutyens and his Thursley Houses Contrary to some local belief, Sir Edwin Lutyens was not born in Thursley, but in London. His parents were living at 16 Onslow Square when Edwin, their tenth child, was born in March 1869 and they didn’t move to Thursley until some seven years later. Lutyens’ father, Charles, had been an ambitious artillery officer: he had invented an instrument for judging distances called a Stadiometer which was used by the Army for nearly forty years. However, early in his career, he found that he preferred painting to being a soldier and he retired from the Army in 1859 when he was only 28. Three years later the first of his paintings was accepted by the Royal Academy and he exhibited there regularly until 1903. The house Charles Lutyens leased in Thursley was called The Cottage (now Street House); it was built for the Knowles family in Regency times. Although The Cottage was a fairly substantial house with a large garden, it was not, as claimed by Mary Lutyens in the biography of her father, “by far the largest house in the village”. Charles Lutyens did much of his painting from his Thursley home. His principal subjects were racehorses and portraits but he also produced a number of small watercolours of putti (the plural of putto, Italian for the figure of a child, especially a cherub or cupid-like one usually used in connection with Renaissance paintings) possibly as pot-boilers, for his financial state deteriorated as the years went by and his eyesight weakened. Several of his paintings can be seen at Goddards, the house at Abinger Common built by Frederick Mirilees as a rest home for “ladies of small means” and now the headquarters of the Lutyens Trust. Charles died in 1915 but the Lutyens family continued to rent The Cottage for many years and until fairly recently a couple of village inhabitants still remembered Miss Lutyens. She was Aileen, one of Charles’ numerous daughters who, amongst other things, ran a sort of youth club to keep the young boys of the village occupied in their spare time. She was of the opinion that girls, with their domestic duties and their sewing, were well able to look after themselves, but that boys, unless suitably guided, developed into hopeless drifters! Enough said. Aileen Lutyens died in 1926 and the house was then let for a while to various tenants, including Army officers from Aldershot. It was afterwards sold, first of all to a Mrs Patricia Peto, a widow, who soon re-married and, in 1956 it came into the possession of Captain R. C. Tosswill RN. By then it was popularly known as Lutyens House as it was thought that the former name was inappropriate. In 1970 the house was bought by Mr and Mrs Nicholas Charrington who were then living at The Dye House. The Charrington’s added an additional wing substantially increasing the size of the house. Nicholas Charrington was not, however, a lover of Lutyens work, so he gave the house the rather more mainstream name of Street House. As most of us will know, the house is currently undergoing a further sympathetic refurbishment and we look forward to seeing the house finished and looking splendid again. Edwin Lutyens, always known to his family as Ned, was a delicate boy and deemed not sufficiently robust to go to boarding school with his brothers. Instead, most of the time he shared his sister’s governesses and supplemented his education by meandering through the Surrey countryside on a bicycle, looking at old buildings and comparing them to the new ones going up. He is said to have carried with him a small pane of glass and, with a slither of soap, drawn the outline of any building he found interesting. He also spent hours in the carpenter’s shop, then owned by “Old Tickner” of Milford, watching him at his craft and questioning him on why he did things in a certain way. By the time he was fifteen it was clear, both to himself and to his father, that architecture was to be his profession. Sir Edwin Lutyens and his latter life and career In 1885, Edwin was sent to the South Kensington School of Art to study architecture. He did not finish the course as he felt he had learnt all that the school could teach him, and left after two years. He became an apprentice in the practice of Ernest George and worked at night on his own designs. It was presumably during a visit home to his parents in Thursley that he succeeded in interesting Edmund Gray, then living at The Corner, the house opposite his family home, into commissioning him for a major extension. Young Ned, still only nineteen years old, designed a drawing room for The Corner, with two bedrooms above it. Originally, it was two small cottages, built around 1700, one of which had once contained the village shop. The Gray’s were obviously satisfied with it as, in 1895, Ned was asked to draw up plans for a morning room and a bedroom above to be built on the southern side of the house, and for four smaller rooms to be added to the western side. These extensions were grandly described as “two additional wings”. They were duly completed about 1896 and until recently, apart from a narrow bay being added to the drawing room, there had been no changes to the exterior of the house. Most of us know that the house has recently been given a lot of sympathetic tender loving care by the recent new owner. Lutyens’ only other building in the actual village is what is now known as Prospect Cottage. It was originally built as a working men’s club, the land and building work costs donated by Captain Rushbrooke of Cosford House. Lutyens designed it seven years after the much grander and more flamboyant nearby Tilford Village Institute, and some say it was a reflection of his more simplified style – or perhaps it was just they had very differing briefs! In Thursley churchyard, not far from the grave of the poet John Freeman (another month, another article!), is a cross designed by Sir Edwin, bearing the names of his parents and his sister Aileen. Nearby is Edwin’s memorial stone to his nephew, Derek Lutyens, who was killed in 1918 whilst serving in the Royal Air Force. Aside from the buildings in Thursley village already described, on the outskirts of the parish Lutyens designed two lakeside boathouses for Whitaker Wright in Witley Park. In 1901 he built the cottages at Warren Lodge and in 1909 he planned alterations to the main house there. Many of his more famous houses in the neighbourhood; Munstead Wood (1896) and Tighbourne Court, Witley (1899). In later years of course, Lutyens achieved great fame, particularly with his designs for the Viceroy’s House and other impressive government and palatial private buildings in New Delhi and for The Cenotaph in Whitehall (covered in last month’s article). Only the crypt was completed of what he considered his finest design, the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King in Liverpool. This crypt is now part of the present cathedral, a magnificent fragment of what might have been. He worked, on and off, on this dream for fourteen years (1929 – 1943) before his death in 1944. He died believing that this grandiose Romanesque super-structure, which was to house the largest organ in the world, would be built when the war had ended. Tragically, it became cost prohibitive and never was. Thank you to Jane Ridley for her kind permission to reprint this wonderful photograph. If anyone would like more information on Lutyens, The Lutyens Trust can be contacted on general@lutyenstrust.org.uk.

From Thursley Parish Magazine September 2019 This article was written by Rosemary Stockdale with material from Thursley History Society archives (including an article by D.Q Watson), Lutyens Trust, of which Thursley History Society are members, and Godalming Museum. This year is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944), one of Britain’s most celebrated architects.  He is renowned for the houses he designed at the turn of the 20th century, for his work in New Delhi on the Viceroy’s House and after WW1 for his creation, as one of three architects appointed by the Imperial War Graves Commission, of many monuments to commemorate the dead including the Whitehall Cenotaph. Not so much is known about his long connection with Thursley. Contrary to some local beliefs Lutyens was not born here, but in Onslow Square, London, where his parents were living, in March 1869, their 10th child. His association with Thursley began some seven years later, in 1876, when his father, Charles Lutyens, leased ‘The Cottage’, owned by the Knowles family – now known as Street House. Edwin, known as Ned, was quite a sickly boy and was not allowed to go to boarding school, so shared his sisters governesses and supplemented his education by meandering through the Surrey countryside on a bicycle looking at old buildings and comparing them with new ones going up. It is rumoured that he carried with him a slither of soap and a pane of glass so that he could draw the outline of any building he found of interest. His association with Thursley began some seven years later, in 1876, when his father, Charles Lutyens, leased ‘The Cottage’, owned by the Knowles family – now known as Street House. Edwin, known as Ned, was quite a sickly boy and was not allowed to go to boarding school, so shared his sisters governesses and supplemented his education by meandering through the Surrey countryside on a bicycle looking at old buildings and comparing them with new ones going up. It is rumoured that he carried with him a slither of soap and a pane of glass so that he could draw the outline of any building he found of interest. He also spent hours in a carpenter’s shop owned by ‘Old Tickner’ of Milford watching and questioning his craft. It became obvious from these early years in and around Thursley that architecture would be his profession! Hence in 1887 he started his apprentice in London with Ernest George, whilst at night he would work on his own Designs. He still visited his parents in Thursley at weekends and during one such visit he interested Edmund Gray, living in The Corner to commission ‘Ned’ to design an extension – a Drawing Room and two bedrooms above it. This extension (opposite) has features typical of his architectural style – rounded arch next to the added chimney, wide sweeps of hanging tiles and distinctive chimney tops. Gray was obviously pleased as a further extension was commissioned in 1895, a morning room to the south with a bedroom above. Lutyens only other commission in Thursley was what is currently called Prospect Cottage. His original commission was to design a working men’s club. The Parish Register states ‘ the site for the institute was given by Captain H Rushbrooke, the architect was Mr E. L. Lutyens, the builder Mr W. K Fosberry. The building was formally opened and given to the Parish Council on February 11th 1901’. The institute comprised a reading room, a billiards and games room and accommodation for a caretaker. It was during Lutyens regular visits to Thursley that he met Gertrude Jekyll in 1889. The owners of Milford House (Robert and Barbara Webb) befriended the then shy architect and introduced ‘Ned’ to Gertrude.  Their work together, as a result of this introduction, is extremely well chronicled with over 100 plans, Lutyens designing the houses and Jeckyll the gardens, although there is no  known collaboration between them in Thursley. Lutyens became a ‘protégé’ of Barbara Webb who introduced him to society and also to Emily Lytton who he married in August 1897. Emily’s mother Lady Lytton was a lady in waiting to Queen Victoria and as Lutyens put  in a letter, Feb 3 1897, to Mrs Streatfield (Fulbrook, Elstead) announcing his engagement ‘I was dying to tell you the other day but was not allowed as Lady Lytton said she had to tell the Queen …..This part of it is too funny ….and … a dreadful bore. Because you aren’t well I will draw you a picture, but please tear it up’. This delightful illustration reflects his strong sense of humour. Lutyens Local Country Houses Many of Lutyens more famous houses are in the Thursley neighbourhood including Fulbrook (1896-99) Elstead, Munstead Wood (1896) and Tighbourne Court, Witley (1899). Lutyens Sketch Books and his Sketches for Fulbrook (1896) Lutyens original sketchbook for Fulbrook is housed now at Godalming Museum. Detailed drawings for the house can be found on the various pages within the book. The  drawing opposite also shows Lutyens lighter side with the additional illustration of the man with dog and gun. Lutyens Letters Lutyens, also, wrote very detailed letters to his clients often including drawings to highlight the design ideas he was discussing with them. All illustrating his extraordinary talent.