by Joy Horn This month we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Cranleigh Magazine! And, because the Joy of Cranleigh has featured from the very beginning, ...

by Joy Horn This is the story as it is given by Samuel Mann, one of the directors of David Mann & Sons, who died in 1938, in Cranley in ye Olden Days ...

by Joy Horn Occasionally we hear old stories about Cranleigh that claim to be true but little known. What are we to make of them? One of these is a rather ...

by Joy Horn // Main Photo: The ‘Greyhound’ inn in 1935, on the site of the present post office As the end of the war approached, the Parish Magazine ...

During the 1170 Heritage Day 2024, we were asked by a number of people about St Andrew’s Church, which stood at the far end of the common near the Elmbridge ...

by Joy Horn // Main Photo: Mrs M. Ede, returning from a daily visit to the shops, about 1940 (courtesy of Vera Wilkinson) Cranleigh High Street has ...

by Joy Horn // Main Photo: Shops with long histories, taken in the 1980s: Tyler's Book Shop, Men's Shop, Camera Shop, next to the Onslow Arms. The three ...

by Michael Miller // Main Photo: A Push-Pull loco arriving at Cranleigh railway station before closure © N. Hamshere June 14th this year marks the ...

by Joy Horn Less than two months before the outbreak of the Second World War, on 10 July 1939, a new bank opened on the north side of the High Street in a ...

by Joy Horn // Main Photo - Walter Briggs store (courtesy of Michael Miller) This month’s article is a nostalgic one. It could be called ‘The Demise ...

by Joy Horn (Main Photo - Charles Crick with his apprentice, Charlie Croxford, in 1915) This is the story of Charles Crick, his family and the shoe shop ...

by Joy Horn // Main Photo: The shop at Common House Farm Cranleigh once had many more shops than we have today. Many of them were a mile or more from ...