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Old Bill And Friary Brewery Connection Solved

by David Rose The link between Guildford’s former Friary Brewery and the First World War cartoon character Old Bill has now been solved. At the end of January I…

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Scaffolding Goes Up Around Castle Ruins

Scaffolding was this morning being put up around the ruined walls of Guildford Castle ahead of maintenance work. Features within the Castle Grounds that will have work on them include…

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Guildford Views

Three beautiful Guildford views. Why not send in and share your best shots?…

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GBC Approve First Step For Museum Revamp Project

An application for Lottery Heritage Fund money to help pay for a multi-million pound revamp of Guildford Museum was approved by the Executive of Guildford Borough Council this evening. A…

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Riff Raff Diary for February 2012

by Robert Craig Riverbank tales from our local St Catherine’s Lengthsman/Weir-keeper February proved to be another very dry month during which I made only three adjustments to my weirs. With…

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Can You Identify These Locations? (29)

by David Rose It’s fair to say that the most regular respondents to these mystery photos correctly identified last week’s images – namely Jon Plowman, Bernard Parke and the Baileys.…

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Running London Marathon for Guildford YMCA

Guildford YMCA has innovative plans to remodel and extend the basement level of its Bridge Street building to provide new and better facilities for its work with young people. Needing…

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Private Health Care for Council Employees Is Not Fair

From Bernard Parke Hon Alderman Shortly the new increased council tax demands will drop through letterboxes despite the advice of the present coalition government. Is it fair? The anti –…

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