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A Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year To All Our Readers
We wish all our readers, contributors, writers, copy editors and supporters a very merry Christmas…..…
Where Is This? No.240
By David Rose Perhaps a glimpse of the Royal Grammar School that I included in the cropped vintage picture last week was a give away to the location – the shop being…
Steaming To Sherborne For Christmas Carols
Our local railway enthusiast Bob McShee writes about his latest excursion on a steam train that had a distinct Christmas theme I went to a carol service at Sherborne in Dorset last week organised by…
Anglo-Saxon Burial Find Is Re-interred At Wanborough Churchyard
Human bones thought to be part of an Anglo-Saxon burial have been re-interred in the churchyard of St Bartholomew’s in Wanborough, thanks to co-operation between the local community and Guildford…
Chilworth’s West Lodge Reveals Its Wartime Secrets – Hopes It Will Now Be Preserved
By Gavin Morgan New research backed up by English Heritage has unearthed the wartime role of West Lodge, part of the Chilworth Gunpowder works. It appears to have been built…
Carols On The Green At Wood Street Village
By Bob McShee Carols were sung around the Maypole on Wood Street Village Green last Saturday night (December 18). The Maypole had been lit up with approximately 6,000 LED lights falling in the…
Christmas At Sandfield School in 1948 And Other Childhood Memories
Who has fond memories of their schooldays, particularly at Christmas time? Dragon reader Ivan Dally was a pupil at Guildford’s Sandfield School in the late 1940s and has sent in this photo…
Claire’s Column – Green Brexit
In this regular column – a must-read for all those interested in Guildford business – Claire Dee focuses on the greener issues of Brexit. Brexit. Like selfie, a modern word…
Birdwatcher’s Diary No.125
By Malcolm Fincham Occasionally I am encouraged to get involved in a more serious and advanced side to birdwatching. Although not usually my style (mainly due to lethargy), I was…
What Guildford’s GPO Home Guard Unit Did During The Second World War
Based on a photo of men from Guildford Post Office who formed a Home Guard unit during the Second World War, historian Frank Phillipson writes about it and the duties the…
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Next stop, Debt Chasm! (See: We Should All Be Outraged About the Failure to Deal with Legacy Debt)
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