Talk on 'Famous Kingstonian - Eadweard Muybridge'
by Ms Seoyoung Kim, Curator at Kingston Museum.
Hosted by Surbiton Historical Society
Tea & coffee at 1.45pm. Talk starts at 2pm.
Society members - free
Visitors welcome - £2 entry

Tuesday, 15 January 2019 from 13:45-15:00
Venue: Surbiton Library Hall, Ewell Road, Surbiton

The exhibition is open from 2 pm until 5pm on Saturday 27th May. On the Tuesday, Thursday and Friday it is open from 11 am until 5pm. On Saturday 3rd June the exhibition is open from 11 am until 4pm.

There will be a large selection of paintings and greetings cards for sale.

Work has begun to transform all of Kingston’s seven libraries as part of a £500,000 upgrade to install self-service technology and create 'flexible community spaces'.

Join Amy Graham, Local History Officer for the Royal Borough, to learn more about the history of Surbiton, Queen of the Suburbs. This free talk will be held at Surbiton Library on Tuesday 16th August at 7pm.

Booking essential on 020 547 5006 or surbiton.library@kingston.gov.uk. Refreshments available £1.50 per head.

An informative, but light-hearted look at Christmas from it's origins as a pre-Christian festival right up to the modern day commercialised celebration. Illustrated with pictures, readings and carols.

£3 - Places are limited so please book in advance. Refreshments will be available. Please pop into the branch or, alternatively;

Telephone 0208 547 5006
Email: surbiton.library@kingston.gov.uk

Booking Now for a wizard evening with sorting hat ceremony, badge making, crafts, quidditch and quiz. Wizard dress encouraged, there’s a prize!

£1.50

Age 7+ Under 12’s need to be accompanied by an adult

Join storyteller Mike Treacy, as he tells stories from around the world
Free

Have a coffee with the Leader of the Council and find out.

Costs: Free for first evening; £50 for all evenings.

Subjects covered are to include Network South East; the Mid Hampshire Steam Railway and railways throughout Britain from the Isle of Wight to Scotlands' famous Waverley Route

Contact: David Blackmore
Telephone: 0208 391 1116

Dr Christopher French will give an illustrated talk on "Housing the Middle Classes in Edwardian Surbiton"

Contribution £2 welcome.

In honour of one of our founder members, Tony Cawley, the lecture tonight will be "Kill or Cure - Being Ill in the 19th Century".
The speaker is Lady Teviot one of the contributors to BBC TV's "Heir Hunters".

Costs: Contribution £2 welcome.

Mr Mike Brown returns with another of his fascinating talks, this time it is "Entertainment in Wartime Britain”

Contribution £2 welcome.

Get lost in a book this summer and join Mythical Maze, Kingston Libraries, annual Summer Reading Challenge.

In honour of one of our founder members, Mr Philip Grevatt, Mr John Davis will give an illustrated talk on "The Bletchley Park Codebreakers"

Costs: Contribution £2 welcome

e-mail: lenandmarilyn@virginmedia.com

Costs: Visitors £4, please bring your own materials.

Additional Information:
'Fractured Art' by Tiffany Budd

*This event has been listed well in advance of the date, so details may have changed. please confirm before setting-out.

Using skills taught in schools 1914-1918, using a 'Make do and mend' philosphy, we wil be creating knitting, bunting & cross-stitch projects.

To mark the 100th anniversary of the 1st World War.

Costs: Free, all matereals provided

e-mail: childrenslibrarians@rbk.kingston.gov.uk

A month of ancestry workshops begins at Kingston library next week.

Costs: Visitors £4, please bring your own materials.

*This event has been listed well in advance of the date, so details may have changed. please confirm before setting-out.

An afternoon meeting - Mr Paul Whittle gives an illustrated lecture about Florence Nightingale - The Lady with the lamp.

Costs: Visitors welcome, contribution £2 appreciated

The award winning Mum2mum market pop up sales have returned to Surbiton!!

We bring together mums with lightly used baby and children's goods and mums looking for preloved quality brands at a fraction of the high street price.

BUY top quality preloved baby and children’s goods at a fraction of the high street price- all great brands in top condition. At a mum2mum market you can buy just about anything for babies and children (0-6) from cots to cardigans and toys to travel systems.

Entry is £2 on the door (children are free).

The stalls for this sale have already sold out!!

An indoor one-to-one consultation session.

An indoor one-to-one consultation session.

Dr Tony Williams from the University of Buckingham gives a talk.

Visitors welcome, Contribution of £2 appreciated

Surbiton Arts Group Workshop: portraits & figures

Costs: Visitors welcome £4

Website: www.surbiton-arts-group.org.uk

An indoor one-to-one consultation session.

An outdoor meeting that any member of the public can attend held outdoors.

Celebrate storytelling and Chinese New Year. Come and listen and join in with our story telling of the Lion Dance before making your own Chinese Dance waver.

An indoor one-to-one consultation session.

Ms Julie F Chandler will give an illustrated talk on “History of the City of London Livery Companies”.

Visitors welcome. Contribution of £2 appreciated.

Mr Peter Gillman from the National Trust will give an illustrated talk on “Knole and the Sackvilles”

Costs:  Visitors welcome. Contribution of £2 appreciated.

National Bookstart Day Party Themed Rhymetime

Price: Free
Age: Under Fives

A concerned councillor is rallying residents to join a protest in opposition to a potential plan to sell off a library and learning difficulties drop in centre.

There are alarming reports in the Surrey Comet and elsewhere that there is some kind of threat to the future of Surbiton Library. Most worrying is the seeming unwillingness of prominent Administration members like Cllr. Liz ...

A chance to discuss London's Cityread for 2012 - Oliver Twist - with fellow readers, before enjoying a lively illustrated talk at 7:15pm given by Jane Jordan, Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth Century Literature at Kingston University.

Local children will have the opportunity to attend an event with the hugely popular children’s writer and local resident.

A chance for you to have your say about local policing issues

Christmas Craft Fun at the library

Residents and businesses can have their say about a planning application that has been submitted to Kingston Council for the development of the Surbiton Filter Beds site on Portsmouth Road.

Surbiton Library Hall, Ewell Road, Surbiton Surrey KT6 6AG

Wednesday 17 August 2011

9.40am to 11.15am

£5 minimum donation for the 1st child and £10 for 2 - 4 children.

Suitable for age 0-5 years but all siblings welcome.
1 hour and 40 minutes of fun to help raise money for the famine crisis in Somalia.

45 minute music session followed by 50 minutes of social time including toys, games, stories, snack and drinks for all even tea and coffee for adults!

100% of donations will go to UNICEF

There will be a limit for health and safety so book beforehand if you can.

Weekly classes held during school terms times on Friday mornings

Yo Baby is a music and movement class for preschool children. I introduce the children to music and percussion instruments from around the world including traditional songs. Using colourful props, beautiful songs and lots of opportunities to move and express yourself, Yo Baby is lots of fun and beneficial to children in many ways such as developing their social skills.

9.40am: 6mths - just walking
10.30am: Walking to four years

Free Taster Session
You can sign up to a half term £5.50 each

Visitors welcome. come and find out more about our society and perhaps become a member. Refreshments.

Dress up as your favourite Christmas character and come and sing your favourite seasonal tunes. Free event for children.

Hogarth and his Times. A talk by Daphne Jefferis. Visitors welcome.

Christmas Social meeting. Raffle, wall quiz and a local quiz devised by David Bowell. Visitors welcome.

The exhibition will be opened by The Worship the Mayor of Kingston.

A chance for you to have your say about local policing issues

NHS Kingston and Kingston Council have been working with GPs, patients and residents to bring a new lease of life to the Surbiton Hospital site, as part of a programme of improvements to deliver better care closer to home.

http://www.kingstonpct.nhs.uk/have-your-say/Care-closer-to-home.htm