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by Natasha Lorraine Victor (Main Photo - Jeremy Hunt, chatting with some of the guests) After the public exposure, The Social Heritage Project gained from the People Profile published in this magazine last April, our collaborative team expanded and innovative contributions flourished due to ...

by Trevor Dale With the terrific news that Cranleigh Heritage Trust has been awarded a significant National Lottery Heritage Fund grant of close to £800,000, we have started talking to builders with suitable heritage experience and drawing up the detailed specification with the hope that work ...

On January 24th, 2025, Cranleigh Villages Group hosted a community health and wellbeing event at Cranleigh Baptist Church.  This brought together NHS providers, community groups, local Councillors, and caregivers to explore ways to improve the health and wellbeing of the 33,000 residents of ...

Charles Brooking, Architectural Historian & Consultant Transitional and exciting progress has been made over the last 2 years for both the principal ‘Brooking’ Museum now situated at Whitchurch in Hampshire and in relation to my own teaching gallery here at Cranleigh.  My partner, ...

by Joy Horn // Main Photo: The shop at Common House Farm Cranleigh once had many more shops than we have today. Many of them were a mile or more from the High Street. Some were merely the workshop of a craftsman, the adapted front room of a cottage or a hut in front of it. Others were ...

It’s a late afternoon in January and I’m out in the freezing fields to witness a spectacular show.  The miserable mist and drizzle plaguing us in the early winter has at last vanished and now a waxing moon blazes down from a clear sky as dusk approaches. The stage is set. Lights, camera, ...