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 ...

A postcard of the Cricket Ground, post-marked 1906 (courtesy of Roy Pobgee) Frank Swinnerton, novelist and literary critic of national standing who lived ...

Around 1900 the biggest employer in Cranleigh was Holden’s timber and building firm. It had been established about 1815, when a young carpenter called George ...

Cranleigh School’s original swimming pool, 1877 (M. Williamson, Cranleigh: 1st 150 years) Swimming as a major sport became increasingly popular during the ...

V-1 on County Infants’ School (C. Budgen, Cranleigh: a History) The Germans first started to launch the V-1 rockets against London on June 13th 1944. This ...

The Village Hall in the 1930s (courtesy of Michael Miller) Cranleigh’s old Village Hall, built in 1891, was proving inadequate in size and facilities by ...

The High Street, outside what is now Burns & Webber. Ironically, the sign on the right is headed ‘Swimming Pool Site’ (Surrey Advertiser) 'Does the ...

The War Memorial unveiling ceremony (photo by Walter Corin, courtesy of Michael Miller) During the previous year – 1919 – controversy raged in Cranleigh ...

School photo 1971, taken in front of the hedge backing on to Bridge Road (courtesy of Old Boy Hugo Simms, then aged 6, the blond boy in the back row, 4th from ...

Cheesman’s workshop and Smallridge’s shop, about 1932 (courtesy of David Cragg) What does a skilled craftsman do, when mechanisation and technological ...

Vine Cottage, before 1885 A newly-married couple came to Cranleigh from Wisborough Green in 1851. Jesse and Sabina Mann moved into Vine Cottage, a dairy ...

George Pirie’s delivery man is setting off on his round, with his basket to carry loaves from the van to his customers’ houses Around 1900 bread formed the ...