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Riff Raff Diary for July 2012
Riverbank tales from our local St Catherine’s Lengthsman/Weirkeeper by Robert Craig With the unsettled weather continuing during July (and a holiday booked in Cornwall) prioritising my tasks was necessary. Prior…
Riff Raff Diary for June 2012
Riverbank tales from our local St Catherine’s Lengthsman/Weirkeeper by Robert Craig It will come as no surprise with the wet weather continuing through June that the main priority for me…
Riff Raff Diary for May 2012
Riverbank tales from our local St Catherine’s Lengthsman/Weirkeeper by Robert Craig On the 2nd of May I saw my first swift of the year and couldn’t help feeling sorry for…
Burpham’s Chelsea Fishmonger is the Catch of The Day
By Gill Perkins When I walk into the Chelsea Fishmongers in Burpham on a wet Tuesday afternoon, Duncan Welton is washing some squid in the sink. Squid doesn’t look appetising…
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…
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