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Wartime Guildford Was Full Of Christmas Spirit

Even though life on the home front during the Second World War was at best difficult, the people of Guildford do not seem to have had their Christmas spirits dampened.…

Where Is This? No.38

By David Rose The mystery house “Highlands”, featured last week, has been identified. Ann and David Bailey and Chris Townsend left posts saying it is in Sydney Road, that’s off…

Brooking’s Architectural Rescue – First Of A New Series

Introducing the first in a series of articles by Charles Brooking on buildings in the Guildford area and their architectural detail. For many years Charles Brooking has rescued architectural features…

Through Time: Recalling The Days of Cooke’s Coaches

By David Rose Courtesy of Brian Holt (a regular reader of this website), I recently added some great photos of vehicles used by Cooke’s Coaches of Stoughton and some of its…

Where Is This? No.37

By David Rose I thought last week’s mystery old photo was a tricky one – I didn’t recognise the view at all when I bought the picture postcard. The actual…

Where Is This? No.36

By David Rose There were a good number of replies to last week’s mystery pictures – some spot on, while others not quite right. Click here to see all the…

Founder of Computer Science Alan Turing’s Stargazing in Guildford

Local historian Stan Newman has been looking into the time spent in Guildford by Alan Turing when he was schoolboy. There is a blue plaque on the wall of 22…

Can You Help Solve Mystery Of Admiral’s Lost Bones?

Can you help solve a mystery that links Guildford and Western Australia? The Guildford Dragon News has been contacted by Aussie Sid Breeden who is painstakingly trying to pinpoint where…

Where Is This? No.35

By David Rose Seems like all the regular readers know their local pubs rather well, as all who replied to last week’s mystery photo correctly recognised it as featuring the Royal Oak…

Book Launch Unites Former Railwaymen For Plenty of Chat

A number of former railwaymen were among those who popped into Guildford Museum for the launch of a new book about life on the railways in the days of steam…