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It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas In Guildford Town Centre

By Melanie De Campos The annual Christmas lights switch-on ceremony on Thursday (November 19), the most popular free event in the town, saw visitors young and old getting into the festive…

Where Is This? No.185

By David Rose No problems with those responding to last week’s mystery vintage picture as it showing the early stages of the construction of the first multi-storey car park in Sydenham…

Notice: Friary Guildford Brass Band Christmas Concert

Notice: Friary Guildford Brass Band Christmas Concert

The Friary Guildford Brass Band will be pulling out all the stops when they play at a fabulous Christmas concert raising funds for the British Heart Foundation. It takes place on…

Guildford’s 20th Century House-Building Boom And Clarke Gammon Was There At The Start

By David Rose Soon after the First World War house building picked up in the Guildford area. The borough desperately needed new homes: for young men who had returned from the…

Oak Tree Planted Alongside Waterway In Memory Of A First World War Soldier

An oak tree has been planted beside the Wey Navigation at Papercouret Lock near Send in memory of a First World War soldier whose family had close ties with the waterway. The…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.97

By Malcolm Fincham With daylight hours drawing in, inclement weather with fog and rain greeted us during the first week of November. And with Autumn Watch being (at the time of writing…

All Set For Switching On Guildford’s Christmas Lights

Guildford’s Christmas lights will be switched on this coming Thursday, November 19. There will be lots going on in the town centre as the countdown to the festive seasons begins.…

Notice: History Of The Queen’s Regiment: Talk On November 14

Were You There? No.1

By David Rose Here’s the first of a new occasional series that features old photos of events and things going on in Guildford, and which your memories of and details would be…

Where Is This? No.184

By David Rose The doorway for women was at the Labour Exchange in Chertsey Street, as pictured last week for the vintage photo. The stone with ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ inscribed on…