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Joy of Cranleigh – Why does Cranleigh commemorate Oliver Cromwell? – April 2022
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Cromwell Cottage and Oliver House (Cranleigh Guide, 1994) Cranleigh has shown its appreciation of Oliver Cromwell by commemorating him in the names of a ...

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Joy of Cranleigh – What We Owe To The Saxons – March 2022
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Common Crane (Grus Grus) in full flight Almost all Cranleigh’s road names have been given in the last 150 years. By contrast, many of the nearby farms and ...

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Joy of Cranleigh – Cranleigh’s Oldest Road Names – February 2022
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A 19th-century farrier, painted by the Suffolk artist, Edward Robert Smythe (1810-99) For centuries, Cranleigh did not have road-names, and did not need ...

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Joy of Cranleigh – The Wit of Dr Napper – January 2022
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From Left to Right: Swallow, Nightingale and Lark In 1949, the Cranleigh Women’s Institute produced a scrapbook of Cranleigh, which is now in the care of ...

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Joy of Cranleigh – What was happening in Cranleigh in 1921? – December 2021
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A Valentine’s postcard of the 1920s, with Pond Cottage on the extreme left A few incidents may give a flavour of life here 100 years ago. The Cranleigh ...

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Joy of Cranleigh – Goodbye to Mann’s, October 2nd 2021 – November 2021
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From the days of horse-drawn coaches: Mann’s in the late 19th century People of Cranleigh faced the unimaginable this autumn when David Mann & Sons ...

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Joy of Cranleigh – Peter May’s Wedding, 1959 – October 2021
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The Daily Telegraph's reporting of the wedding Cranleigh is not often able to enjoy a celebrity wedding. So it made the most of the marriage of England and ...

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Reflections and Recollections of Village Life During World War 2 – Don Hilsdon
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This book is not so much a historical evaluation, or analysis, as it is a personal perspective and recollection of village life during the war years in ...

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Joy of Cranleigh – The Funeral of a Lusitania Passenger, May 18th 1915 – September 2021
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The Lusitania at New York in 1907 On May 17th 1915, The Times carried this death notice: ‘On the 7th May, by the sinking of the SS Lusitania, Frank ...

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A Short History of the Church
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1170 was the year in which, on 29 December, Thomas Becket was killed in Canterbury Cathedral. This outrage led to a spate of church building in the country, ...

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Joy of Cranleigh – Two World Records for Cranleigh, 1991 – August 2021
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The lines of neatly-laid coins 'Record Breakers’ was a popular BBC1 television programme from the 1970s to the turn of the century. The McWhirter twins, ...

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Joy of Cranleigh – Last Train on the Horsham to Guildford Line, 1965 – July 2021
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The 1960s were the era of ‘the Beeching cuts’. The brilliant Dr Richard Beeching, physicist and engineer, was seconded from ICI to become chairman of the ...

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