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…
Guildford YMCA has innovative plans to remodel and extend the basement level of its Bridge Street building to provide new and better facilities for its work with young people. Needing…
This week citizens speak on a really local issue, road safety in St Catherine’s, following the recent spate of accidents. Do residents think that there is a problem? What can…
edited by David Rose, with story by Mike Bennett This website’s popular weekly section titled Can You Identify These Locations? offered up a picture of mystery house a while ago.…
by David Rose People in Guildford would have been stopped in their tracks when the huge German airship, Graf Zeppelin, appeared over the town in July 1932. The Graf Zeppelin over…
by David Rose A number of readers kindly left a reply to last week’s mystery photo locations – see their comments if you click back to Locations 25. Can you…
by David Rose The Queen on her visit to Guildford in 1957, five years after she had ascended to the throne. Her visit marked the 700th anniversary of the granting…
by David Rose North Street, in front of what today are the public loos and opposite the library, was the spot where the soldiers were gathered in the picture seen…
by David Rose Our regular location spotters, the Baileys and Bernard Parke, had little trouble correctly naming the Drummond Arms in Woodbridge Road, Guildford, and the White Hart in Wood…
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…
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