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Notice: A Walk Over Perry Hill Zoom History Talk, April 8
Geoff Burch and David Rose are giving their illustrated talk, A Walk Over Perry Hill, on Thursday, April 8, at 7.30pm, via Zoom. It takes a journey along the A322…
Guildford Museum Appeals for Mementoes of Your Pandemic Year
Do you have any items which could help the museum to document life in Guildford during the Covid-19 pandemic? The council’s Museum and Heritage Services team want items including diaries,…
Is Alan Turing Now Guildford’s Best Known Briton?
By David Rose The Bank of England’s announcement of the design for its new £50 banknote featuring computer scientist and wartime codebreaker Alan Turing must add more credence to proclaiming…
West and East Surrey Meet to Preserve Historic Library
The West Horsley Place Trust charity is working with The Arts Society East Surrey Area to care for the 10,000 books in the historic house’s library. The Trust, established to…
Scrapbook History No.5
By David Rose Further newspaper and magazine cuttings people long ago pasted into scrapbooks. Most of these are likely to have been published in the Guildford City Outlook magazine and date…
Notice: Zoom In For History Talk – Dave Salmon A Man And His Camera
Join local historians and writers Geoff Burch and David Rose when they give their illustrated talk Dave Salmon A Man And His Camera, this time online via Zoom on Monday,…
Mystery of St Catherine’s Hill Continues, Cave Talk Reveals Sparse New Evidence
By Dr Mary Alexander Highlight of the Surrey Archaeological Society’s annual symposium on recent excavations was about the mysterious cave on St Catherine’s Hill, found by Network Rail last year…
Opinion: When Guildford Really Was A Dirty Old Town!
By David Rose It’s easy to look at old photographs and say “wasn’t it so much nicer back then”, and “what a shame they pulled those lovely buildings down”. Having…
Quest To Find ‘The Guildford Three’ And Their Families
A call goes out to trace members of a Guildford family by the name of Parker and in particular three sisters – Julia, Christine and Angela. David and Pauline Huckle would…
Vintage Guildford Views That Had A Touch Of Colour
By David Rose The picture postcard boom from the early 1900s onwards, that soon saw millions of cards being issued of street scenes and other views, was at a time…
See: Tumbling Bay Footbridge: National Trust Says It Is ‘Committed to Finding a Resolution’
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