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Where Is This? No.141
By David Rose Calling all mystery picture addicts…. We’re back again after a slightly longer duration than usual for your replies. Christmas festivities, that included lots of food and drink and…
Guildford All Lit Up For Christmas – Then And Now
By David Rose Taking some photographs of Guildford’s Christmas lights in the High Street this year, I wondered in which year the town was first lit up for the festive…
Dad’s Christmas Letter Mentions Historic First Aerial Bombing Raid On Mainland Britain
By David Rose, a Christmas tale from 100 years ago. Guildford resident Roger Atkinson has a letter written by his father exactly 100 years ago on Christmas Eve 1914 that mentions the…
Updated: Remembering Guildford Footballers Who Were Killed In The Great War
By David Rose Much is being made this year about the 1914 Christmas truce between armies on the Western Front during the First World War, and the impromptu football match…
Can Anyone Solve Wartime Air Mail Mystery?
Bob Hind, whose memories of working in a Guildford butcher’s shop and his later career on the railways featured here recently, wonders if any Guildford Dragon NEWS readers can provide…
Where Is This? No.140
By David Rose Eleven good replies to last week’s mysteries – and many, many more readers viewed the page. The vintage picture showed a view from St Catherine’s Hill across…
Where Is This? No.139
By David Rose A view of the building on the corner of High Street and Quarry Street was last week’s mystery vintage photo and a number of readers correctly identified…
Guildford In WWI Talk And Book Signing By David Rose
Local historian and Guildford Dragon NEWS contributor David Rose is giving an illustrated talk about his new book Great War Britain Guildford Remembering 1914-18, this coming Saturday afternoon (December 13). He…
Where Is This? No.138
By David Rose No problems for all those who replied in correctly identifying last week’s mystery pictures. St Catherine’s Chapel was the mystery vintage photo and a part of Guildford…
When Bob’s Drumming Kept The Beat At Local Venues
This is the third instalment of Bob Hind’s memories – this time about his time playing local bands and the history stories he now writes his local newspaper the Portsmouth News. The…
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