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Two Museums With Exhibitions Worth Visiting
Guildford Museum has a new exhibition, while Send & Ripley History Society’s Museum has reopened with visitors by appointment. Town Take Over it the title of the exhibition at the…
Worplesdon’s Sime Gallery Is Putting Its Artist In The Spotlight Once More
Worplesdon’s hidden gem must surely be the Sime Gallery at the Memorial Hall in Perry Hill. Sidney Sime was an artist whose talents are slowly but surely being recognised once…
First Phase Of Restoration Work At Chilworth Gunpowder Mills Completed
Restoration work has been completed at Chilworth Gunpowder Mills, improving access for visitors at this important heritage site. It coincides with the 100th anniversary of the closing of the mills…
Guildford’s Heritage Weekend Pulls Out the Stops to Keep Show on the Road
By Gavin Morgan Guildford Heritage Forum Any fears that this year’s Heritage weekend would be a damp squib were put to rest as people across the town pulled out all…
It’s Time For Heritage Open Days This Weekend!
By David Rose Guildford’s culture and architecture takes centre stage once again this weekend during Heritage Open Days. The number of buildings waiting to be discovered and events taking place…
The Brooklands Air Raid, September 4, 1940, 80th Anniversary
By Frank Phillipson September 4, this year (2020) marks the 80th anniversary of the daring German 1940 daylight raid on the Vickers Armstrong aircraft factory at Brooklands, Weybridge. It was…
Inheritance Turned Into A Hobby And A Collection
By Hugh Coakley “It was an inheritance that started me repairing pocket watches.” said Mike Stokes. “My wife, Rosemary, had a load of clocks and watches from her aunt and…
Scrapbook History No.2
By David Rose Here is the second in our series of Guildford newspaper and magazine cuttings people long ago pasted into scrapbooks. In the 1920s and 30s there appears to have…
Brooklands Museum Welcomes Back Visitors
Brooklands Museum at Weybridge, home to stunning collections of motor-racing and aviation history, is open again. BOB McSHEE has visited and reports on what’s on offer. On entering the museum…
Guildford Museum Reopens With End Of Second World War Exhibition
Guildford Museum has reopened after being closed for a year for essential repairs to the building on Quarry Street. These, the museum list as: structural repairs, damp proofing, roof repairs,…
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