By David Rose Back in the 1960s there was a narrowboat that gave pleasure trips along the River Wey Navigations and further afield too. (The story was published on June…
August 10, 2022 / 3 Comments / Read MoreThe picture seen here, taken in about 1960, features the St Francis’ cubs pack from Westborough. The photo was emailed by David Reading who says his late brother Alan, who…
March 19, 2018 / 10 Comments / Read MoreBack in 1959 Guildford railway station and Godalming Goods Yard witnessed a special train to celebrate the centenary of the Portsmouth Direct Route. Were you at either of the locations,…
February 3, 2018 / 4 Comments / Read MoreFox hunting is a controversial subject. But here are two photos of the Surrey Union Hunt moving down the Upper High Street past the Royal Grammar School in, we suspect,…
December 10, 2017 / 2 Comments / Read MoreDragon reader Graham Richings kindly submitted some images from slides taken by his father in the 1960s and 70s. Among them were these two images apparently of some sort of…
November 16, 2017 / 5 Comments / Read MoreToday, Friday, October 21, marks Trafalgar Day, and these pictures show Guildford’s TS Queen Charlotte Sea Cadets providing the guard of honour at the parade in London on that day in 1958. Sent…
October 21, 2016 / 4 Comments / Read MoreReader John Lomas, who now lives in Lancashire, has emailed these pictures that feature pupils who attended schools in Stoughton in the 1950s. He has supplied some details and names. But some…
September 14, 2016 / 37 Comments / Read MoreBy David Rose Here are some photos of Westborough School and nursery school from my collection, mostly dating back to the 1940s and one perhaps into the 1950s. I feature them following two…
August 23, 2016 / 24 Comments / Read MoreBy David Rose Here’s the second of an occasional series that features old photos of events and things going on in Guildford, and which your memories of and extra details would be most welcome.…
December 16, 2015 / 6 Comments / Read MoreBy David Rose Here’s the first of a new occasional series that features old photos of events and things going on in Guildford, and which your memories of and details would be…
November 12, 2015 / 10 Comments / Read More
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