Woking History
Society aims to make an annual award, the Atherstone Cup, for a piece
of original research on an historic aspect of the Woking area. This is for an essay of no more than 5,000 words. It should be referenced, and any illustrations must have correct copyright. It should not have been published previously and it will be published in the Society's Newsletter.
It must be submitted electronically to the Society by October 31st and the award will be presented at the AGM in December.
Judging is dome by an independent adjudicator.
In the absence of any entries, the committee might ask an adjudicator to select the best article appearing in the Newsletter during the previous year. The author of that article will receive the award.
It must be submitted electronically to the Society by October 31st and the award will be presented at the AGM in December.
Judging is dome by an independent adjudicator.
In the absence of any entries, the committee might ask an adjudicator to select the best article appearing in the Newsletter during the previous year. The author of that article will receive the award.
Previous entries
Previous entrants
have taken an aspect of local history in which they are interested
and the cup competition has given them the encouragement to do a
little research to expand on their subject. Researching
these days does not have to be onerous or time consuming as we are
lucky to have the Surrey History Centre in our Borough and there is
always the internet.
Over the years, entries have covered a
wide variety of subjects such as
The Bisley tramway
The residents of Sutton and where they
lived in 1851
Timber trade in Woking
Martinsyde Ltd
Early history of Brookwood Cemetery
Sir Samuel Morton Peto
Birch Farm, Horsell
Wheatsheaf Close,
Horsell
Development of East Horsell
Reliance: the working life of a Wey
Navigation barge
The Darwin/Wedgwood Woking connection
A small plot of land in Horsell. The History of Horsell Wharf.
Old Woking - a History through Documents
Puerperal Insanity in Brookwood Asylum 1867-1900
The Horsell War Memorial
A small plot of land in Horsell. The History of Horsell Wharf.
Old Woking - a History through Documents
Puerperal Insanity in Brookwood Asylum 1867-1900
The Horsell War Memorial
Raynham the Unlucky
The origins of the award
The Cup was first awarded in 1989 when
George Atherstone, our then Treasurer, presented it in memory of his
wife, Irene, who had been one of the founder committee members of the
Society. George and Irene came to Mayford about 1962 and
as soon as the Society was founded she took an enthusiastic part in
excavations, running the Society’s library, measuring buildings for
the Society and the Domestic Buildings Research Group. Her
recording of Birch Cottage, Horsell, appeared in our newsletter in
the month after her death in Jan 1988. She was also an
enthusiastic member of Surrey Archaeological Society from 1972, being
finds supervisor for the nine years of the training excavation at
Sutton Park and distributing that society’s newsletter.
George arrived in
Southampton from Port Elizabeth, South Africa, on 3 Dec 1939 as a
young man keen to help the war effort and became a pilot in the RAF,
being awarded an MBE for bringing home a crippled Wellington bomber
on one engine. He continued flying after the war as a
pilot with British Airways and some time before 1950, when he arrived
in Southampton again from South Africa he had married Irene. The
Mayford History Society has often been a family affair, and by 1976
George had become Hon Treasurer, serving in that role until 1990,
even though he and Irene had moved to Abinger in
1984. After being widowed he moved first
to Holmbury St Mary, and for the last ten years
of his life to Cornwall, where he enjoyed sailing until his last
years, before his death in Feb 2003.
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