The Queen’s Promenade Bandstand, Surbiton
The Queen’s Promenade Bandstand, Surbiton, and a glimpse of the local musical band movement, 1893-1910.
Surbiton
PRIESTS OF ST. RAPHAEL’S CHURCH, 1850-1907. BEHIND THE NAMES
A fundraising Lenten talk in support of “The Bread of Life” charity of the Sons of Divine Providence.
Charles Luck of Surbiton, the architect, the man
This is a PowerPoint presentation with notes of a talk entitled “Charles Lock Luck of Surbiton. The architect & the man”.
CHARLES LOCK LUCK, 1833-1890, A SURBITON ARCHITECT
Charles Lock Luck an architect, born in 1833 at the Paragon, Blackheath, lived in Surbiton from 1860-1890.
An Interesting Couple
The grave of John Robert and Gertrude Pannell is in Surbiton Cemetery [Section IV, Grave 58]…
BEHIND THE NAMES…
BEHIND THE NAMES. THE MEMORIAL TO THE PARISH DEAD OF THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1919, AT ST. RAPHAEL’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, KINGSTON UPON THAMES
TURIN SHROUD AND ST. RAPHAEL’S CHURCH
…attached to documents, dated July 1874, in the Church archives, were pieces of cloth stated to have been cut from the covering of the Turin Shroud…
ALEXANDER RAPHAEL – A MAN WITH TWO BURIAL PLACES
In 1816 Alexander Raphael commissioned a sarcophagus for himself in the church of the Armenian Monastery….
A QUEST FOR SPEED. NOEL BADDOW POPE, 1909-1971. SURBITON’S FORGOTTEN RECORD BREAKER.
Noel Baddow Pope was born in Toxteth, a sub-district of Liverpool, on Christmas Eve, 1909. He moved with his widowed mother to Surbiton before 1926.
CATHOLIC MISSIONS IN KINGSTON UPON THAMES, 1850-1856
The first mission in Kingston upon Thames, mentioned in the Catholic Directory, was St. Raphael’s Church, in Surbiton.
