Recent Articles

By Sharon Duggan This article is the first in a series of personal perspectives on electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid cars.  This month from an EV owner, to give readers a better understanding of things to consider before purchasing an electric car.   This owner purchased a Nissan Leaf E ...

By Nick Thorogood and Caroline Pearl March is a wonderful and positive time of the year with 20th March being the official first day of spring and the clocks going forwards on the 26th bringing lighter evenings and the promise of brighter and warmer days ahead. It is also the month when we can ...

By Trevor Dale - Chair Cranleigh Heritage Trust CIO The project to revive the disused XVth Century cottage that was the original Cranleigh Cottage Hospital is progressing well. Cranleigh Heritage Trust Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), formed to save the cottage and other heritage ...

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 father was in charge of canning food for the troops during World War 2 and had been seconded to Colwyn Bay for safety reasons.  Once he ...

Main picture: Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) The story so far…last month I reported my progress in trying to see 120 bird species in and around Cranleigh during 2022 - and I paused my story after hitting a century. Number 100 was a Sand Martin near the end of last April and it left me ...

by Joy Horn Main image - Common House Farm, when Edward Brown occupied it, around 1910-13. The pond is occasionally still called 'Brown's pond'. We have all heard that Cranleigh used to be an agricultural village, with most of the population living on farms. We may not realise that we pass ...