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Now rescheduled for Saturday June 24th 6.30pm in the Reading Room

The Stanborough Chorus have kindly invited KLHS members to a talk on The History and Architecture of the Alhambra Palace, Granada, Spain. The talk will be given by Professor Llewellyn who is the chairman of the National Heritage Science Forum, having been a lecturer in Art at the University of Sussex becoming Dean and Vice-Chancellor of the University. In 2007 he moved to the Tate where he established the research department of the gallery (think Mass Spectrometry etc.)  Prof. Llewellyn is a top academic and his talk will hopefully be very well-attended.

Admission is free, with wine and nibbles provided. On leaving, a modest discretionary donation to go to the choir, would be appreciated

KLHS researcher Carol Beard has been collecting artefacts, documents and memorabilia associated with the Coronations of British monarchs since the time of Edward 7th. The collection will be on display in Kingston Church on Sunday 7th May from 11.00 am to 5.30 pm.

On March 23rd 2023 the writer was stripping wallpaper at 1 Rock Cottages.. As the soggy wood-chip peeled away, there appeared a pencil inscription written at eye level on the old plaster. Spookily, it was written exactly 150 years before to the day – March 23rd 1873 ! That part of the cottage is thought to date from around 1872, when the two adjoining cottages, numbers 2 and 3 were added by owner George Pearce. The first name appears to be Leonard. Can anyone recognise the second name I wonder ?