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Updated: Covid Testing Rolled Out Across Guildford Education Partnership Schools

This story was updated on Monday, January 11, 2021, with extra information supplied and a correction to the original press release issued By David Rose Staff and those pupils currently…

New First-Team Manager For Guildford City

Guildford City Football Club has appointed its new first-team manager. He is Paul Barnes who joins the club from Staines Town, the club he joined as manager in February 2020.…

Scrapbook History No.3

By David Rose Here are some more newspaper and magazine cuttings people long ago pasted into scrapbooks. From the 1920s onwards it was a popular thing to do to keep…

Birdwatcher’s Diary No.222

By Malcolm Fincham Mentally drained by work, feeling hemmed in and shackled by the confusion of the rampant pandemic, little did I know that restrictions were to become even more…

Rare Photos Of Guildford’s Floods In January 1928

Rare Photos Of Guildford’s Floods In January 1928

By David Rose There was a white Christmas in Guildford in 1927. But the snow soon thawed and by the new year the River Way had burst its banks and…

Children’s Nativity Tableau’s Spectacular Backdrop For Church’s Christmas Family Services

When All Saints’ Church at Ockham thought many families might not be able to gather in the church for Christmas, a great deal of thought was put into how some…

Pupils’ Artwork Inspired By Christmas Truce Of 1914

The unofficial Christmas truce of 1914 during the First World War, when British and German troops put down their weapons and greeted each other in No-man’s Land on the Western…

Hidden History Of Surrey’s Travelling People Revealed

Book review by David Rose Surrey Census of  Nomads, 1913, edited by Alan Wright. Published by the Surrey Record Society, hardback £20. Just over 100 years ago Surrey was a…

Wey & Arun Canal Hedge-layers Keep Ancient Craft Alive

A small band of volunteers with the Wey & Arun Canal Trust are keeping an ancient country craft alive, while providing a valuable habitat for wildlife. Its hedge-laying team has…

Salvation Army Food Bank Thanks Rotarians For Their Support

Guildford’s three Rotary clubs have been supporting the town’s Salvation Army food bank with cash donations and food parcels. Collectively, Guildford, Guildford District and Guildford Chantries Rotary clubs, donated £3,000…