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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...