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Riff Raff Diary for March 2012

by Robert Craig Riverbank tales from our local St Catherine’s Lengthsman/Weir-keeper With the unseasonably warm weather and lack of much needed rain it has meant another month with few adjustments…

Call to Businesses to Help Raise Funds for Guildford YMCA

Local businessman Richard Fox, of The Learning Corporation, has teamed up with Surrey Chambers of Commerce to help Guildford YMCA raise significant funds for a remodelling project from the business…

Riff Raff Diary for February 2012

by Robert Craig Riverbank tales from our local St Catherine’s Lengthsman/Weir-keeper February proved to be another very dry month during which I made only three adjustments to my weirs. With…

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…

Has Rubbish Put Paid to Stoke Lock’s Place In History?

by David Rose Guildford’s Stoke Lock, on the Wey Navigation, should perhaps be better known within the UK’s history of inland waterways.The fact that the area around it has long…

Riff Raff Diary for January 2012

by Robert Craig Riverbank tales from our local St Catherine’s Lengthsman/Weir-keeper Well a busy start to January with some twenty adjustments made to the weirs between the first of the…

Riff Raff Diary for December 2011

by Robert Craig Riverbank tales from our local St Catherine’s Lengthsman/Weir-keeper A Happy New Year to all! We finally saw some activity on the weirs in December after what has…

Riff Raff Diary for November 2011

Riff Raff Diary for December 2011 by Robert Craig Riverbank tales from our local St Catherine’s Lengthsman/Weir-keeper The first few days of November saw me busy operating the weirs after…