Jane Silk - Artist and Ceramicist I was born in 1951, in Beaconsfield and then lived in Oxted (pre-M25 days!), Surrey, for several years. A change of job ...

Norman Doney - Director of CYE I was born in Hounslow, West London where my parents lived.  I have two older brothers and we enjoyed a very happy and ...

Pete Symonds - Landscape Artist I am a Surrey lad, born in 1964 and was brought up in Send, near Woking, in the same house that my mother still lives in. I ...

Andrii Andreiko, Ukrainian Refugee When we lived in Irpin, a suburb to north-west of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, our life had been fairly settled, ...

Terrence Stone, BCAv, retired Engineer and Sea Cadet I was born in 1952, in Chiswick Hospital, Middlesex. My early years were spent in Shepperton, living ...

Rosemary Bridge, retired schoolteacher I was born in 1941 when my parents were living in Colwyn Bay, in Wales.  My family moved there because my ...

Retired Dentist, now aged 96Main photo - Alan and his wife Mary The Whole Tooth and Nothing but the Tooth Mary and I moved to Cranleigh after I retired ...

by The Cranleigh Writers Group The Toy Santa by Brigid Fayers “Careful Amy!”But the squashy Santa slipped, regardless, from the baby girl’s plump grasp. ...

Ewhurst was a great place to grow up. I have many incredible memories of the freedom living in a small village brings; venturing up to the rec’ with my ...

The pictures that follow are a miscellany of the past 70 years, showing regular life in Cranleigh and a few highlights. Coronation procession along ...

The ability to divine the future has eluded the humankind since we began to philosophise about life centuries ago. Had I known then the impact of my ...

The tree - Acrylic and pastel on board The young boy’s creative talent was obvious at an early age and upon seeing his art, a teacher at his school near ...