- Stay Connected
Socialize
Abraham Lincoln
If given the truth, the people can be depended upon to meet any national crisis...
Guildford news...
for Guildford people, brought to you by Guildford reporters - Guildford's own news service
History Is In The Post As Letter Box Is Replaced
By Martin Giles and David Rose Our nearest letterbox, even in this computer age, is still a familiar object, something we still use for those times when email won’t do.…
Scrapbook History No.6
By David Rose Another look at long-ago newspaper and magazine stories people cut out and pasted into scrapbooks. Most of these are likely to have been published in the Guildford…
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…
I'm living well for nothing at all! (See: No Trifling Matter: Magpie Trapped in Godalming Sainsbury’s)
Next stop, Debt Chasm! (See: We Should All Be Outraged About the Failure to Deal with Legacy Debt)
Recent Comments