Former Guildford journalist Dave Reading looks at the complex background to a song that became a rock ’n’ roll legend The oddly-named Cafe Wha? in the heart of Greenwich Village,…
July 31, 2017 / No Comment / Read MoreIt was standing room only for a nostalgic evening looking back at Guildford’s music scene in the 1950s and 60s at the Keep pub last night (July 24, 2017). The…
July 25, 2017 / 2 Comments / Read MoreThe latest report from Richard Cant, the Stoke lengthman on the River Wey Navigations Apart from a bit of rain at the start of June, it’s been especially hot and dry for…
July 17, 2017 / No Comment / Read MoreBy David Rose Who would have thought in 1967 when steam locos were withdrawn from the Southern Region of British Railways that exactly 50 years on there would be so…
July 13, 2017 / 4 Comments / Read MoreRiverbank tales from the local St Catherine’s lengthsman and weirkeeper by Robert Craig The hot weather experienced during June meant that it has been a particularly busy time along the…
July 11, 2017 / No Comment / Read MoreFifty years have passed since steam locomotives were withdrawn from the Guildford area and the motive power depot, beside the entrance to the tunnel at the south end of the…
July 5, 2017 / 21 Comments / Read MoreBy Karen Stevens “Save the Hogs Back” campaigner The proposed Blackwell Farm development will change the shape and character of the western side of Guildford forever, transforming it from a…
June 30, 2017 / 7 Comments / Read MoreA regular update from the Wey & Arun Canal Trust (WACT), a charity restoring the waterway which once ran 23 miles from Shalford to Pallingham in West Sussex. The Trust…
June 22, 2017 / No Comment / Read MoreBy Alice Fowler Was Victorian artist G F Watts England’s equivalent to Michelangelo? Certainly, says the prestigious Watts Gallery – whose new exhibition, G.F. Watts: England’s Michelangelo, opens today (June…
June 20, 2017 / No Comment / Read MoreBy Tricia Marcotti I was not familiar with Terence Rattigan’s play The Deep Blue Sea that is playing at the Mill Studio in Guildford until Saturday evening June 17. It is…
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