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Can You Identify These Locations? (30)

by David Rose All those who responded to last week’s two mystery photos had no trouble correctly identifying them. Click here to see their comments. Do you recognise this lodge house? Yes,…

Old Bill And Friary Brewery Connection Solved

  by David Rose The link between Guildford’s former Friary Brewery and the First World War cartoon character Old Bill has now been solved. At the end of January I…

Can You Identify These Locations? (29)

by David Rose It’s fair to say that the most regular respondents to these mystery photos correctly identified last week’s images – namely Jon Plowman, Bernard Parke and the Baileys.…

Rioting Guys Were In Other Surrey Towns

Retired Surrey firefighter Ron Shettle has researched and written extensively on the history of fire fighting. Here he adds some interesting facts about the rowdy and often violent behaviour that…

Witnesses Sought To Aircraft Collision Over Guildford

By David Rose Can anyone remember the event in 1952 when two military aircraft collided in mid air over Guildford? One crashed near Blackwell Farm, Wood Street, and the other…

Can You Identify These Locations? (28)

 by David Rose Well done to all those who recognised the locations featured last week.  The ‘ghost sign’ is on a wall opposite St Mary’s Church in Quarry Street, and…

Mystery House Location Solved

edited by David Rose, with story by Mike Bennett This website’s popular weekly section titled Can You Identify These Locations? offered up a picture of mystery house a while ago.…

Can You Identify These Locations? (27)

by David Rose Well done to all those who correctly identified last week’s mystery picture locations. The first photo was an early 1900s view of the Upper High Street. See…

German Airship Over Guildford In 1932

by David Rose People in Guildford would have been stopped in their tracks when the huge German airship, Graf Zeppelin, appeared over the town in July 1932. The Graf Zeppelin over…

Can You Identify These Locations? (26)

by David Rose A number of readers kindly left a reply to last week’s mystery photo locations – see their comments if you click back to Locations 25. Can you…