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Learn All About Guildford’s History With Matthew Alexander
Twenty classes exploring the history of Guildford presented by Matthew Alexander (the borough’s honorary remembrancer and former museum curator) are taking place this autumn running through to March. Each week…
Lifting The Victorian Pot Lid At Museum’s Ten Minute Tales
Local historian and Guildford Dragon NEWS writer David Rose will be taking part in Guildford Museum’s Ten Minute Tales programme, in which an object from its collection is given a…
Where Is This? No.272
By David Rose Many thanks to all who replied to last week’s mystery images. The vintage picture postcard view was of Epsom Road with Down Road on the corner with…
Where Is This? No.271
By David Rose Several readers correctly identified last week’s vintage picture as showing the official opening of Guildford’s Town Bridge in 1902 after the previous one had been destroyed in…
Story Behind A Classic Jimi Hendrix Song And A Young Music Fan’s Obsession With It
Former Guildford journalist Dave Reading looks at the complex background to a song that became a rock ’n’ roll legend The oddly-named Cafe Wha? in the heart of Greenwich Village,…
Where is This? No.270
By David Rose Many readers who replied to last week’s mysteries appear to remember the Vintners Arms, that was in North Street. The building is now occupied by coffee shop Harris…
Where Is This? No.269
By David Rose Nearly everyone who replied to last week’s mysteries gave the correct answers. The vintage picture showed a view looking along Chertsey Street, Guildford, from North Street. As…
Where Is This? No.268
By David Rose Some good answers to last week’s mysteries – the vintage picture being of Peaslake and the Hurtwood Inn, while the quirky photo featured the sign to the…
Steam Trains Galore Basking In A Glorious July!
By David Rose Who would have thought in 1967 when steam locos were withdrawn from the Southern Region of British Railways that exactly 50 years on there would be so…
Where Is This? No.267
By David Rose The view that was last week’s vintage picture was looking towards St Martha’s Church on the hill and was was taken in Chilworth. The photographer had his…
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)
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