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Still Time To Enjoy a Stroll or Ramble with Guildford Walkfest
This year’s Guildford Walkfest is now in full swing, with a variety of free walks on offer until the end of September. Here are details of some you might like…
Ripley Museum Exhibition In The Footsteps Of The Priors
In the Footsteps of The Priors is the latest exhibition at Ripley Museum. It features places of worship that existed, and in some cases still exist, in Send and Ripley.…
Hop Growing Ends at Puttenham – And a History of its Cultivation in Farnham Area
By David Reading with David Rose After this year’s poor harvest, the Hampton Estate at Puttenham will stop growing hops – bringing to a close a chapter that has been…
Guildford Library Shut During Modernisation Programme – Register Office To Move In
By David Reading and David Rose An extensive refurbishment and improvement programme is taking place at Guildford Library, with all services having been put on hold since August 20. The…
New Book Shines Further Light of the Rabbit Woman of Godalming’s Hoax
The often repeated 18th-century tale of Mary Toffs from Godalming, who falsely claimed she had given birth to 17 rabbits, has been revisited and retold. This time there are more…
Renovation Work To Be Put on Public Show
By Chris Caulfield local democracy reporter One of Surrey’s most important buildings, and the UK’s ‘first and only’ craft museum, is to host a special event to show off the…
The Spectacular Collapse of Worplesdon’s Owen Stone Company
By Mark Coxhead with David Rose The Owen Stone Company was established in 1897 close to Worplesdon railway station, producing artificial stone that was compared to the best Portland stone.…
Haslemere’s Signal Box Now Open as a Museum
The conversion of Haslemere signal box to a community museum is complete. South Western Railway (SWR) and Network Rail Wessex have formally handed over the keys of the signal box…
Nurses’ Turn to Throw Dice in Traditional Ceremony
This year’s centuries-old Guildford tradition of throwing dice to receive money from two charitable funds featured two nurses from the Royal Surrey Hospital. Anne Hope, the hospital’s cancer care lead…
Discover Ripley’s Shops – Past and Present
Ripley Museum’s latest exhibition is titled Shops Past and Present. And it isn’t confined to the museum, as there are 10 QR codes around the village showing pictures of the…
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