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Hambledon And Its People – Save the date March 19th for village Heritage Society AGM and Presentation

This year, Hambledon Heritage Society has invited a long-standing villager to deliver the presentation that follows the brief official business of its AGM.

Stewart Payne and his wife Mary Burrows arrived in Hambledon during the Great Storm of 1987. The village was cut off for days and had no power for weeks. A tree had crashed down beside their new home, just missing the house. Welcome to life in a small rural village.

His talk will embrace the almost 40 years they have lived at Hydestile and have been involved in community life across Hambledon parish, recalling the people and events that have made life so colourful and rewarding. It will be illustrated with film footage and a wealth of photographs. You may even be in it!

Make a note of the date – Thursday March 19th, 2026.

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Heritage Society Talk 2024

King George V Hospital and St. Thomas’ Hospital History

Here is a recording of the illustrated talk at this year’s Hambledon Heritage Society AGM.
It is 1 hour long and was presented to a packed village hall on the 14th March 2024. You will find more information about the hospitals and their history in the main menu under History/Hospital Histories.

Hour long presentation March 2024, Hambledon Village Hall
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Hambledon Parish Assembly – Join us this Thursday 27th April, from 7.30pm

On Thursday 27th April, from 7.30pm, the 2023 Parish Assembly will be held in the village hall. This informal annual meeting is open to all and a fantastic way to find out about and celebrate all the different organisations in the village.

Hambledon Parish Council hosts, and the meeting will be opened by Chairman Stewart Payne at 8pm. It will start with a short account of the council’s activities over the last 12 months. This year we will also be saying thank you to two outgoing councillors, Philip Underwood and Mary Grove. Representatives of each of the many different organisations will then give a short report on their last 12 months.

Doors open at 7.30pm to allow for drinks and a chat with all attendees and the meeting starts at 8pm.

 

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Norman Gravestock on Oakhurst History

With the news that Oakhurst Cottage will soon be re-opening it is perhaps timely that we can re-publish the excellent talk by Norman Gravestock – Curator of Oakhurst Cottage of the National Trust. Norman gave an illustrated talk at the Hambledon Heritage Society AGM back in 2015. The audio recording of Norman’s presentation is here, as well as a text copy. This has been added to the Heritage Society’s Hambledon Oral History Project archive.

Norman Gravestock explaining to visitors at Oakhurst Hambledon

Transcription of Norman’s presentation:

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Heritage Society AGM and a presentation by Stephen Dean

The village hall committee is looking forward to the Heritage Society AGM this evening and Stephen Dean’s talk.

We are expecting attendance to be very good so will be arranging chairs differently from usual in order to create some degree of distancing. There will be a limited amount of fully distanced seats at the back of the hall.

As some of our community will be more vulnerable to Covid than others, we would like to suggest that people wear face coverings, where possible.

7:30pm for an 8pm start. All welcome. Free entry. Refreshments and light snacks. Donations appreciated.

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Julie Llewelyn Steps Down – and Up

Julie Llewelyn is stepping down from her role as co-ordinator of the Hambledon Community Fund to become High Sheriff of Surrey for 2021-22.

Her installation ceremony takes place tomorrow (Thurs April 29th), when she becomes the legal representative of Her Majesty the Queen in Surrey for the next 12 months. In this capacity, Julie will have a busy calendar of events, attending a range of functions and supporting charitable causes throughout the county.

Under normal circumstances the ceremony would have taken place at Guildford Cathedral, but current Coronavirus restrictions prevent such a gathering. Instead, her installation will be streamed at 7pm tomorrow evening on the High Sheriff of Surrey website and will be shown live and remain available to be watched later.

A link to this can be found on the opening page: https://www.highsheriffofsurrey.com/

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Community Foundation for Surrey Corona Virus Response Fund reaches milestone

The generosity of local donors, businesses and the National Emergencies Trust has accumulated £1 million figure into the CFS Response Fund. This includes £326,700 from the National Emergencies Trust Coronavirus Appeal, and more than £717,000 in donations from local donors and partners.

This concerted effort has ensured the Foundation has been able to quickly award emergency funding to 122 community groups reaching more than 350,000 beneficiaries across Surrey.

Locally our own Hambledon Community Fund has played its part in this success. The Merry Harriers, Hambledon’s village pub,  launched a fund which will offer up to £2,000 a month for those struggling to pay food and general provisions bills, most likely through loss of pay or employment, during the current COVID-19 pandemic. The local Village Spirit Collective, makers of Vann Lane Gin, ran a raffle in support of the Community Foundation for Surrey and raised over £1000.

More details of the Hambledon Community Fund here.

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Training offered in Hambledon for use of life-saving defibrillators

Training in the use of defibrillators (AEDs) is being offered to residents following the installation of one inside the former telephone kiosk at the Hydestile Crossroads.

This takes the number of defibrillators in the village area to five; outside the village shop, on the exterior wall of the Merry Harriers, at St Peter’s Church, at Hambledon Football Club’s ground at Badger Park, and now at Hydestile.

Alison Martin, a Busbridge Parish councillor who helped arrange for the AED (automated external defibrillator) to be installed in the traditional red kiosk – which has also undergone renovation in the process – has arranged for a training session to be held in the meeting room at St Peter’s Church, Church Lane, Hambledon, on Saturday September 28th.

The training will be given by an expert from the London-based Barts City Life Saver organisation, a charity that teaches life saving skills and originated from St Bartholomew’s Hospital. The session begins at 11am with basic life saving training, then AED training at 2pm followed by baby and child resuscitation at 3pm. Participants can opt to attend the whole session, or part.

AED’s are used on people suffering from sudden cardiac arrest and, along with Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation, can greatly increase survival rates.

Training will be free to the Hydestile volunteers on the Busbridge Parish Council-sponsored rota, but to all others there will be a nominal cost of £20 per person to cover the costs of the trainer travelling to and from London and a donation to the charity’s work.

Anyone in the village can register to attend. Please contact Alison Martin at email [email protected] or by phone on 01483 893619.

If you would like to know more about the work of the charity please visit www.bartscitylifesaver.org