Peter Stewart

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Friday the 6th of September, 12.30 to 2 at the Home Cottage there on Redstone Hill. Come and practice your German conversation skills over a coffee or a drink or a sandwich in the pub and relax and support everyone else that's...

talking German essentially it's a meetup event for anyone with at least a basic conversational level of German maybe you did some German at school perhaps you've been learning German by self-study or like to go to German-speaking countries for holidays and want to get further confidence in a supportive conversation group if so that event is for you or maybe you're a German native speaker

who'd like to practice your English, yeah, the other which way around, and want to socialise in your native language. So that could be for you as well. And in which case, if you're a native German speaker, you get in free of charge. Everybody else, it's £5 contribution. What German do I know? Um... Not an awful lot, apart from Ja and Nein.

Aschenbecker, I seem to remember, from my school German days, which I think is an ashtray. And also, I had one of those trivia books as a youngster, which claimed the world's longest swear word was in German. Um... I don't think I can say it, can I? Because I don't know what it means. But it was, as German words tend to be, a very, very long word.

I did have it checked out with a German speaker more recently, and they said, well, that's not a swear word at all. It's just...

it's just a bit cheeky it's just a bit bit naughty you know but but it's not shall i say it no if you want to know what it is then you have to stop me when when you when you see me and i'll i'll pass it on to you starts off him or her got cruise um i can't remember the rest of it isn't it funny what you can remember from your school days ask me what i ate for supper last night i couldn't tell you

And also, just before we tell you about the Heritage Open weekend, let me also tell you about Saturday the 7th of September, 10 till 4, celebrating the grand opening of a brand new shop in the Belfry in Red Hill. Yeah, our friends over there have let out another unit.

It's for Cosmic Comics, and characters including Thor, the Penguin, Black Cat, Rogue from the X-Men, and many more characters will be there as well. Something a bit special that I wanted to tell you about which is happening next weekend and in fact for the whole week between the 6th and the 15th of September.

Various events, various times, various dates all happening in fact across the country because every September thousands of volunteers across England organise events to celebrate our fantastic history and culture and of course we've got a wealth of it locally here haven't we. It's your chance to see hidden places and try out new experiences, all of which are free to explore.

We're talking about the Heritage Open Days. Now, you can find out some more information at heritageopendays.org.uk. But I wanted to draw your attention, kind of whet your appetite a little bit about some of the events that are happening locally. Now, some of these are already sold out. I'll let you know if I know already if they're already fully booked. But here's a few to whet your appetite.

First of all, I want to bring a special mention to the event which has been organised by Anne, who wrote to me. She said, Hi Peter, I'm one of the staff team at St Matthew's Church in Redhill. We're opening up the building as part of the National Heritage Open Day scheme on Saturday 7th September 10-4pm.

It will be a chance to explore our Victorian church and the connection between church, town and railway. Anne says we got a number of connections to the railway and the growth of Redhill itself with the coming of the trains.

Yeah, we mentioned this very briefly in episode one of our pre-launch episodes, T-3, that you'll be able to hear on your favourite podcast app or go to theplanetrigatepodcast.com and scroll down there and you'll be able to see a link to that.

and says also there'll be a chance to take a self-guided tour around our stained glass windows, children's activities, plans for a modern railway installation and refreshments as well. And the local history society will also be bringing along a display of some of the pictures and information they've got regarding the connection between Redhill and the railways.

So you can tease yourself by listening to episode T-3 of the Planet Reigate podcast. And also you can learn a bit more by going along to St. Matthew's Church in Redhill, their open day on 7th of September. So Saturday week, obviously depending on when you're listening to this podcast, between 10 and 4. Now that's one event which is happening locally.

Let's take a look at some of the other events which are happening across the Planet Reigate area as well. There's going to be an historic vehicle display tunnel road in Reigate on the 14th. No booking required. Yeah, this is a display of historic vehicles by the Surrey Vintage Vehicle Society. And we spoke to them in episode five of the Planet Reigate podcast.

So maybe listen to that and then go along and see some of those vehicles up close yourself. Heath Church in Reigate, that's on Flanchford Road. They're going to be open on the 7th of September. It's the daughter church of St Mary Magdalene Church in Reigate, put up in 1907. So as I say, they've got an open day on the 7th. The Cranston Library.

Well, the aforementioned St Mary's on Chart Lane is where that is. No booking required. They're going to be open on the 7th. Discover a tiny, exquisite parish library founded in the early 18th century. And it's thought to be the oldest slash first public library in the entire world. A forerunner, if you like, of today's public libraries.

Find out about the history and the story of its remarkable founder today. Andrew Cranston. So that's the Cranston Library at St Mary's on the 7th. On the 8th, the medieval Undercroft, 16 West Street in Reigate. You've probably passed it. Did you know it was there?