Hugh Baker and Michael Herbert of Fetcham
U3A Industrial Heritage Group will outline their research on the house’s
utility services in Mrs Greville’s day. Together these helped to make ‘Polesden
Lacey fit for a maharajah’.
They will be describing how reliable sources of water and electricity were produced and the internal communication system installed which culminated in telephones connecting to the outside world.
Talk 8pm, Friday 19 October 2018
Letherhead Institute, High Street
Leatherhead
Coffee at 7.30pm. Entrance £2
Non-members welcome