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Get Rid of Your Christmas Tree and Help a Worthy Charity
If you’re already sweeping up the pine needles, you may have started to think about how you’re going to dispose of your Christmas tree. One way to avoid having to…
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…
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…
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…
Kings College Students Raise Cash for Children’s Hospice
Students from Kings College in Park Barn have raised £5,800 in a sponsored 5k run. They voted for the money to be split between Shooting Star Children’s Hospices and sustainability…
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…
Stage Dragon: GSC’s Online A Christmas Carol Has Plenty of Seasonal Magic
By Alice Fowler With Tier 4 just announced, my seasonal spirits were in danger of slipping. Could the Guildford Shakespeare Company, with their new online production of A Christmas Carol,…
Mystery Flight of Scarecrow Angel from Village Church is Solved
By Chris Dick The mysterious flight of a rather matronly scarecrow angel from Effingham’s St Lawrence Church only to land in an undignified heap 200 metres up Church Street near…
See: Tumbling Bay Footbridge: National Trust Says It Is ‘Committed to Finding a Resolution’
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