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Peter Bavestock, retired businessman and amateur climber I guess I started climbing later in life than perhaps most people do nowadays.  Today, there are numerous indoor climbing walls and every outdoor sports facility seems to have a wall.  If you are in the scouts, guides, ATC, army cadets, ...

Cranleigh’s annual Bonfire & Fireworks celebrations started in the late 1940’s when a group of local teenagers (The Bonfire Boys) who lived in Ewhurst Road, used to build a bonfire on Parkhouse Green, the triangle at the junction of Ewhurst Road and Barhatch Road.  Back then, Park Mead was ...

by Simone Conti Chickpeas & Pumpkin Soup - Serves 4 This heart warming soup includes some of the best vegetables in season for November, it is a real treat on a rainy night. Ingredients:600g pumpkin 100g chard1.5l of chicken stock or vegetable stock 400g chickpeas (tin will do ...

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 chemist’s shop, in small print, is the name of a woman who with her sister made a big contribution to the war effort in Cranleigh during the ...

Recipe: take two small pebbles and hold one in each hand. Now tap one against the other. What you can hopefully hear is very much like the call of the Stonechat.  Out on the Surrey heaths this handsome fella, a little smaller and slimmer than a Robin, is in its element, chatting out stoney ...

by Miki Marks As the deciduous trees shed their leaves in the autumn, some Surrey woods reveal historical secrets.  Have you ever wondered why there are odd ponds, mounds or banks in woods? These are vestiges of past local industries or mark earlier boundaries or enclosures. Surrey is more ...