Posts Tagged ‘ Surrey ’

The vineyards have announced the special launch weekend to celebrate the formation of a new English wine region – ‘Vineyards of the Surrey Hills’.

Apart from a wedding this week, it was the 75th anniversary of the Dambuster raid, Club 18-30 may be for sale and Grenada wants us to holiday there in summer!

Just About Travel tells you what’s hot in the travel world this month …

Starting with a prize holiday for two to Nashville, Adrian rounds up the smaller stories of the week for you.

Little animals with big, appealing eyes always seem to score well for day trippers. But there are opportunities to get close to animals in the wild and one such place where you can do that is at the British Wildlife Centre near Lingfield in Surrey.

The Kent Marshes and a Berkshire stately home star alongside Helena Bonham Carter in Great Expectations, due for release on 30 November 2012. This is just one of a series of star turns for England

About as far removed from the story earlier this week about the four short listed museums who are vying for the £100,000 Art Fund prize comes a lowlier idea for a museum.
In the Surrey village of Leigh, the parish council has paid £1 to buy the red, traditional telephone box that is on the green. According to the Leatherhead Advertiser, it appears the locals bought the kiosk and then decided what to do with it. The idea is now to turn it into a mini-museum. The Leigh History Group is considering what should go into their mini but shelving has already been agreed to better display the contents.
Is this anything more than a gimmick? Isn’t it really just the preservation of a telephone box?