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Did You Work For The Getty Family When They Lived At Sutton Place?
BBC 1’s The One Show is keen to talk to people who worked for billionaire J Paul Getty and his family at Sutton Place when they lived there between the…
Series Of Free Lectures Focusing On Holy Trinity Church
Three fascinating lectures are taking place focusing on Guildford’s Holy Trinity Church in the High Street. All are free to attend, and first takes place on Monday, February 12, at the…
Where is This? No.282
By David Rose Many readers who replied to the previous post correctly identified the vintage view as looking down from The Mount with Farnham Road in the middle foreground with…
Christmas Gifts And Tipples For Guildfordians Over 100 Years Ago
By David Rose Guildfordians in 1906 were certainly being tempted by local traders from which to buy gifts and drinks for the Christmas festivities. Advertisements that were published in the…
Where Is This? No.281
By David Rose The replies to the previous mysteries correctly identified the vintage picture as being what became St Luke’s Hospital and what had been Guildford’s Union Workhouse, and during…
Were You There? – Surrey Union Hunt Meeting
Fox hunting is a controversial subject. But here are two photos of the Surrey Union Hunt moving down the Upper High Street past the Royal Grammar School in, we suspect,…
Merrow Woman’s Memories Of The Horrific Lewisham Train Crash 60 Years Ago
Sixty years ago today (December 4 1957), during thick fog, the 4.56pm Cannon Street to Ramsgate express collided with the stationary 5.18pm Charing Cross to Hayes passenger train at St…
Where is This? No.280
By David Rose Opinions from those who replied differed as to where the photographer was standing when taking the now vintage picture featured in the previous post. The view looks…
Where is This? No.279
By David Rose The cafe at Newlands Corner was the vintage picture featured last time. Past names of it have included The Barn and Squirrel Hill, according to some of…
Hitting The Guildford Music Scene In The Sixties With Blues Band The Crow Janes
Dave Reading, former full-time journalist and a life-long lover of the guitar, recalls some early experiences at the birth of Guildford’s thriving Sixties music scene It was Hank Marvin who…
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