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Take Advantage of Guildford’s Heritage Open Days

The borough council is encouraging residents to discover the beautiful architecture of our historic High Street. Tour Guildford Museum’s remarkable buildings dating back to 1256. Explore the magnificent, Jacobean, Grade…

Farnham Museum Repairs Approved

By Chris Caulfield local democracy reporter Work to stop a “nationally important” Grade I listed building from decaying away and being lost forever has finally been agreed in a million…

Walking Along The Wey at Godalming with David Rose

By David Rose In 1764 the Godalming Navigation opened… finally linking the town to England’s main canal network. Yes finally, as the River Wey Navigation from Guildford to Weybridge had…

Lottery Grant for Farnham Museum

By Chris Caulfield local democracy reporter Urgent work to stop one of Surrey’s “most important buildings” decaying away has received a quarter of a million-pound grant from the National Lottery.…

Fancy a Dip Into the Story of Britain’s Open-Air Swimming Pools?

By David Rose Here’s another topical and timely “silly season” (term for not much news around) history tale – a look at Britain’s open-air swimming pools. I wrote this for…

It’s the ‘Silly Season’ So Here Are Some Old Picture Postcards – Boring or What?

By David Rose The month of August has long been known as the “silly season” by those who gather and report news. Why? Because it was a time in the…

My Memories of John Mayall at a Ground-breaking Gig in Guildford Nearly Six Decades Ago

Blues legend John Mayall, who has died aged 90, played a trailblazing set with Eric Clapton at a Guildford nightclub 58 years ago. Dragon reporter David Reading was there in…

The Worplesdon Witness July 2024

Jan Messinger with her round up of news from the parish of Worplesdon Long-serving parish clerk honoured for 25 years in post Worplesdon Parish Council’s clerk, Gaynor White, has been…

Photo Feature: Summer Has Arrived at the Castle Grounds

Sumer Is Icumen is the opening words of an old English song, meaning “summer has come” or “summer has arrived” – and that now seems to be true of Guildford…

D-Day Before and Beyond on the Home Front in and Around Guildford

By David Rose Eighty years ago today (June 6, 1944) saw the greatest amphibious military operation in history as Allied forces landed in Normandy, France – the start of liberating…