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Men’s Group Will Launch With Afternoon Of Local Nostalgia Hosted by David Rose

Local historian and Guildford Dragon NEWS writer David Rose is helping to launch a social group for men in and around the Westborough and Park Barn area, with an afternoon…

Where Is This? No.60

By David Rose Last week’s vintage picture was always going to be a tough one – but several did correctly identify it as being Merrow Grange. And the piece of…

Parke’s People No 21. The Rev’d Kenneth Stevenson

In the latest of an occasional series about people who have a connection with Guildford in one way or another, Bernard Parke recalls the former rector of Holy Trinity Church, the Rev’d Kenneth…

Where Is This? No.59

By David Rose To begin with, the answers to last week’s posers. The vintage picture featuring John Perring’s store was at the foot of North Street, and the sculpture can…

King George V’s Success At Agricultural Show, Guildford, 1922

By David Rose This coming bank holiday Monday sees the Surrey County Show at Stoke Park, Guildford. It has been held there since 1954, but other agricultural shows visited Guildford…

Where Is This? No.58

By David Rose Many readers correctly identified last week’s mystery vintage photo as being the site beside the River Wey at Millmead while the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre was being built.…

New Pictures And Facts About Ludlow Road School

By David Rose We have received some good information following the appeal here a couple of week’s ago about mysteries surrounding two former Guildford schools. Regular Guildford Dragon NEWS reader…

Photographer Gets Chance to Experience What It Was Like To Be A Dambuster

Exactly 70 years ago on May 16-17 1943 aircraft of the RAF’s 617 Squadron undertook Operation Chastise – a daring World War II raid breaching the German Möhne and Edersee Dams, causing catastrophic…

Where Is This? No.57

By David Rose The view of St Catherine’s Lock on the Godalming Navigation didn’t pose a problem to all of you who replied to last week’s mystery photograph. I think…

Do You Recall Days Of Godalming’s Gin Mill Club?

Did you go and watch rock and blues bands play at the Gin Mill Club in Godalming back in the late 1960s? If so, can you remember exactly where it…