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.…
December 21, 2012 / 1 Comment / Read MoreBy 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…
December 17, 2012 / 6 Comments / Read MoreIntroducing 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…
December 17, 2012 / 1 Comment / Read MoreBy 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…
December 12, 2012 / 3 Comments / Read MoreBy 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…
December 10, 2012 / 4 Comments / Read MoreBy 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…
December 3, 2012 / 3 Comments / Read MoreLocal 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…
November 29, 2012 / 2 Comments / Read MoreCan 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…
November 28, 2012 / 5 Comments / Read MoreBy 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…
November 26, 2012 / 11 Comments / Read MoreA 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…
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