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Life On The Wey Navigations

David Rose takes a look at the history of the waterway than runs through St Catherine’s. The Godalming Navigation of the River Wey that runs through St Catherine’s was once…

When Buffalo Bill Roamed Shalford Park

by David Rose While cows graze the town meadow next to Shalford Park today, it was Buffalo Bill who had the run of the fields there just over 100 years…

Advertising Signs Of The Times

by David Rose In the days when St Catherine’s Village had its own local shops, the outside walls of the buildings were liberally plastered with advertising signs. You can see…

Olympic Fever In Guildford Back In 1948

by Bernard Parke Photos from David Rose With Olympic fever growing by the month, and the recent news that the flame for the 2012 London Games will be passing through…

Never Absent, Never Late

by David Rose Although attending school was compulsory by the 1900s, truancy was often rife. However, schemes were introduced to reward children for good school attendance by presenting them with…

Please Return Me To My Home

by David Rose Litter louts were just as much a nuisance over one hundred years ago as they are today – and that includes places such as St Catherine’s Hill…

A Drop Of The Hard And The Soft Stuff

Local historian and bottle collector David Rose writes about the history of brewing and mineral water making in Bury Street, Guildford.  For just over 100 years, the plot of land…

Nothing New Under The Sun?

Is the old adage ‘there’s nothing new under the sun’ really true when it comes to telling the news? Yes, partly…. Stories, pictures, opinions and facts continue to be gathered,…

Riff Raff Diary for January 2012

by Robert Craig Riverbank tales from our local St Catherine’s Lengthsman/Weir-keeper Well a busy start to January with some twenty adjustments made to the weirs between the first of the…

Witnesses Sought To Aircraft Collision Over Guildford

By David Rose Can anyone remember the event in 1952 when two military aircraft collided in mid air over Guildford? One crashed near Blackwell Farm, Wood Street, and the other…