Redhill URC

In view of current restrictions it is with regret that we have decided not to do the Venturers Postbox this Christmas.

Marion

You may recall your committee agreed we would decide in September to examine the possibility of starting meetings of the Literary Society in January 2021 to cover the three months to March 2021. Several ideas have been discussed by the committee. However its is with regret that the majority off the committee have agreed to cancel the res […]

As we marked the 80th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Britain in September, I thought it would be interesting to recall how the Aerodrome in Kings Mill Lane, Nutfield was involved and became RAF Redhill during WW2.

The airstrip first became in use in the 1930’s for private and commercial aircraft, as an alternative for Imp […]

How many of you watch Songs of Praise on Sunday the 13th? The BBC programme has been broadcast for decades; it was first broadcast in October 1961 and is the longest running series of its genre on television anywhere in the world. I haven’t seen it in a while but I did catch last Sunday’s as it was focussed on the 400th anniversary o […]

The other week when Bill Potter and I were at the church doing the weekly checks,  Anita Clinton (Philip Bennett’s elder daughter) turned up and offered us the framed picture of her father Philip. It shows him at the top of the church tower in front of the weathervane, probably at the time when the work was done on the tower. We a […]