If you have a local history question, we will try to answer it or tell you how to get the answer.
Please mail us at BH local history enquiry. We usually acknowledge emails within 24 hours.

We may be able to help with specific members of your family if they were known in Banstead.

If you are after family history information from our area we will always try and assist.

Banstead History membership stands at around forty, and full members attend ten meetings a year. The main purpose of the group is to undertake research and collate information on local history.

Members contribute in many different ways, for example by looking through old documents at the Surrey History Centre or helping to catalogue our ever-increasing archive collections. These might be books, maps, letters, research documents, old invoices, photographs/postcards, minutes of meetings etc.

Other members contribute by writing articles and newsletters, organising events and exhibitions or running stalls at local fairs. If your specific interest is postcard collection we have two members who have a collections of over 600 Banstead postcards dating from the early 1900s to the present time. Many have been included on this website or our Photographic Archive.

If you feel you can make a contribution, however small, we would love to hear from you.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, your contribution could be a wealth of knowledge. You may have lived in Banstead and the local area all your life and know much about local people and events including accounts of experiences during WWII. This will be invaluable to the group so please contact us.

Full membership costs just £15 (couples £22.50) per year and associate membersip even less at £10 (couples £15).

For more details about joining Banstead History please mail the BHRG Membership Secretary.

Have a browse through our Publications site which lists all the books that Banstead History (previously the Banstead History Research Group) has published. In addition to our normal books, we now have a new Heritage series.

If you have a question about any of our publications, or are looking to select a good one as a gift please mail our Publications secretary at Banstead History books.

You can usually obtain our publications locally from the Banstead Library in the Horseshoe or from the various fairs held outside All Saints Church during the summer. You can order coppies by post and, if you are local, one of our members may drop a copy round to you.

From the Summer of 2022 we started publishing a quarterly newsletter and back copies can be found on our Newsletters page.