By David Rose In case you didn’t know(!), this weekend sees the 100th anniversary of the sinking of that most famous ship, RMS Titanic, when it hit an iceberg in…
by David Rose The Wheatsheaf pub, once in Mount Street, was at one time the haunt of robbers, conmen and highwaymen. All kinds of crimes took place there, including the…
by David Rose A call goes out to anyone who may know the whereabouts of a box, believed to contain some historic archive material, and a book from Guildford’s Stoke…
By David Rose Does the water from the Surrey Hills contain healing properties? It would certainly seem that over the years people have believed so. The spring at St Catherine’s, beside Ferry…
By David Rose Have you ever wondered about the origin of a particular road name in the Guildford area? Could it be named after a once well-known person, a corruption…
by David Rose Although attending school was compulsory by the 1900s, truancy was often rife. However, schemes were introduced to reward children for good school attendance by presenting them with…
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