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 ...

by Joy Horn // Main Photo: John Graham's shop in its early days (courtesy of Michael Miller) The recent sad closing of One Forty, with its stock of ...

On 1st March 2024, Cranleigh Church of England Primary School became part of The Good Shepherd Trust (GST), a dynamic multi-academy trust that includes 24 ...

by Joy Horn Main Image: Mr Frederick Warren (on left, bearded), builder, opening the new bridge in Knowle Lane at Waterland Farm in 1924 How did the ...

by Joy Horn // Main Image - Baptist chapel in 1932: the 'schoolroom' was a detached building at the back At the foot of this advert for Dan Clare’s ...

by Joy Horn Poor Michael Fish, one of the BBC weather presenters in the 1980s, has never been allowed to forget the weather forecast he gave on the evening ...