Continued from our September issue 'Graffiti Hooligans' Unfortunately the first resistance to German occupation was not well organised: there were groups of men and youths often just 16-17 years of age, armed with guns, acting on their own initiative causing more harm than good. Also they harassed farmers for ...
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How did the people of Cranleigh learn the momentous news of November 11th, without television or even radio? The answer is, in a very low-key manner. The announcement was phoned through to the Post Office and a notice was displayed there. Gradually the news was passed through the village by word of mouth, and flags ...
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Loxwood Primary School is looking for enthusiastic individuals who are committed and willing to give up a little of their time to help with the ongoing running and development of their local school. It is a fulfilling and vital role. The school is based in the centre of Loxwood and currently has 177 children ...
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Cranleigh School’s sanatorium, which could not cope with the number of Spanish Flu victims Ruth and Chris Cheesman of Victoria Road received further news from their prisoner-of-war son Joe, who had been suffering from a bad foot for some months. ‘I came out of hospital a week ago, after a month of it,’ he wrote, ...
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The young men, boys really, involved in this unpleasant act above were Ettore and myself, on the 25th of July the year Mussolini was deposed by the Italian King Vittorio Emmanuele the 3rd and general Badoglio was given the job to form another government. We used a lump of chalk from the local builders' yard and wrote ...
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Smithwood Common was a favourite destination for black-berrying. This idealised postcard is post-marked 1916. Does it bear any resemblance to Smithwood Common? It is one of Hildersheimer’s Views of Surrey (courtesy of Vera Wilkinson) The headmaster of the Village School, Henry Hayman, wrote in the school log book ...
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Memories of the fun at Oakland’s: recovering soldiers put on a Pierrot show (with grateful thanks to Mike Rackley) The Oakland’s Red Cross Auxiliary Hospital in Knowle Lane closed this month. Since January 1915, when the hospital opened, a total of 617 soldiers had been cared for, with no death or infectious ...
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Postcard of the Onslow Arms, post-marked 1908 (by kind permission of Roy Pobgee), one of the Cranleigh pubs that may have been flouting DORA’s regulations on ‘treating’ At the Guildford Borough Bench, a bar attendant and the manageress of the Lion Hotel in Guildford were both fined £5 on two counts of buying a ...
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The shop run by the Cheesman children’s aunts, Mercy and Mary Mann, in Dorset House (now Pimm’s Funeral Service) After two agonising months without any news of their son Joe, on June 2nd Chris and Ruth Cheesman of Victoria Road received a letter from him. It had been written on April 18th. The good news was that he ...
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During the week beginning 11th June, we are celebrating 50 years of education at Park Mead. The Infant school opened first with 36 children as the estate was being built and the older pupils transferred to the Junior school to form their first intake of 99 pupils. Over the years, many changes have taken place; ...
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