Holmesdale Natural History Club
The Museum
14 Croydon Road
Reigate
Surrey RH2 0PG
Events
2024 Programme
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Wednesday 15 January 2025 8.00pm Lecture at the Museum: How can we get to net zero and still have all the electricity we will then want? by Lester Hicks
Wednesday 19 February 8.00pm Lecture at the Museum: The Woodland Trust by Alan Aylward
Wednesday 19 March 8.00pm Lecture at the Museum: River Mole Watch by Simon Collins
Wednesday 9 April 8.00pm Lecture at the Museum: East Surrey Badger Protection Society by Ian Tilbury
Saturday 10 May 2.30 pm Nature walk at SWT Newdigate Brickworks Nature Reserve Led by Paul Collins
Meet at the Museum at 2.00pm to arrange car sharing
Wednesday 21 May 8.00pm Lecture at the Museum: The Round Barrows on Reigate Heath by Paula McInnes
Saturday 14 June 2.00 Social: Founders' Day social at the Museum
Wednesday 18 June 8.00pm Lecture at the Museum: Brooklands Museum by Andrew Gillies
Wednesday 16 July 8.00pm Lecture at the Museum: History of Surrey Fire Brigade by Paul Measday
No lecture in August
Saturday 20 September 10.00 am to 4.00 pm Heritage Open Days The Museum will be open to the public from 10.00 to 16.00 - free admission, all are welcome
Wednesday 17 September 8.00pm Lecture at the Museum: Who do you think they were? Discovering the lives and experiences of our ancestors by Julian Pooley
Wednesday 15 October 8.00pm AGM followed by Lecture: National and Local Bird Censuses and Surveys and my modest involvement by John Austin
Wednesday 19 November 8.00pm Lecture at the Museum: Pubs of Redhill by Peter Lloyd
Wednesday 11 December 8.00pm Members' talks and Social
Wednesday 21 January 2026 8.00pm Lecture at the Museum: More than Weeds: Botany in the Built-over Environment by Caroline Bateman
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See our 2022 Heritage Open Days video
Holmesdale Natural History Club
Founded 1857
Acting President: Andy Sandford
The Holmesdale Natural History Club is a charity (Registered No. 273602), which exists to promote the study of natural history, local history, archaeology and geology in the vicinity of Reigate.
It has extensive museum collections (with some specimens collected in the eighteenth century) which include a large collection of stuffed birds, herbarium specimens (including material collected by James Brewer for the first Flora of Surrey which was published by the Club in 1863), local history and archaeological collections.
Lectures given by visiting speakers or Club members are arranged on the third Wednesday of the month (except December and August) in the museum lecture room. Later in the month there is usually some other activity such as a walk, excursion or social event.
Members receive a Bulletin three times a year with details of the programme, news, and notes on items of interest to the Club.
Annual membership fees (from January to December) are £18 per person; £25 for two people living at the same address, and £30 for a family membership covering two adults plus children. Fee for life membership for those over 21 is at the rate of ten years of the appropriate subscription. A bankers order form will be sent on request. Please apply to the Membership Secretary, The Museum 14 Croydon Road, Reigate, Surrey, RH2 0PG. Click here for a membership form.