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Chilworth’s West Lodge Reveals Its Wartime Secrets – Hopes It Will Now Be Preserved
By Gavin Morgan New research backed up by English Heritage has unearthed the wartime role of West Lodge, part of the Chilworth Gunpowder works. It appears to have been built…
Christmas At Sandfield School in 1948 And Other Childhood Memories
Who has fond memories of their schooldays, particularly at Christmas time? Dragon reader Ivan Dally was a pupil at Guildford’s Sandfield School in the late 1940s and has sent in this photo…
What Guildford’s GPO Home Guard Unit Did During The Second World War
Based on a photo of men from Guildford Post Office who formed a Home Guard unit during the Second World War, historian Frank Phillipson writes about it and the duties the…
Where Is This? No.239
By David Rose The house with the name Pentholme on the gate was always going to be a tricky one to identify, but we have the answer. Reader and historian…
Fascinating Pictures and Details of an Aussie Soldier Convalescing in Guildford During First World War
By David Rose During the First World War, Guildford’s workhouse in Warren Road was taken over as a military war hospital. The historians at today’s Spike heritage centre on the site…
Letter: Anyone Out There Related To Stoughton Barracks Soldier ‘Chuck’ Sheffield?
From Dave Middleton Following on from David Rose’s Where is This? column in the Dragon on November 11, I was inspired to try to find out more about the long-serving Private Frederick “Chuck” Sheffield, of…
Effingham Holds World War One Exhibition
By Liz Hogger Over 200 visitors attended an exhibition held last Saturday (December 3) on the subject of Effingham during World War One. The exhibition covered the activities of Effingham people…
Where is This? No.238
By David Rose The building shown as last week’s mystery vintage picture can be found in London Road in Burpham. Previously a Primitive Methodist chapel, it is now occupied by…
Focus on Heritage: Watts Gallery Shows the Way to Guildford Museum
Gavin Morgan, creator of the Guildford Heritage Forum, and campaigner and supporter of the planned Guildford Museum improvements, here starts a monthly column sharing his observations and expressing his opinion…
Winged Warrior Angel War Memorial Receives Grade II Listing
By Mary Alexander The striking memorial to Major Geoffrey Parnell in Guildford’s Holy Trinity Churchyard has been Grade II listed by Heritage England (once English Heritage) as part of its programme…
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