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November – fireworks have arrived The boys are back in town! Or village, if that’s what you prefer to call it. And the girls too. I’m talking of Siskins, those tiny finches that brighten many a dull winter day in and around the Surrey Hills.   So far it has been something of a mini ...

Peter Symonds Landscape Artist, Ewhurst. Peter Symonds was born in 1964 in Surrey and continues to live in the countryside of that same county with his wife and two children in Ewhurst. He started painting full time having graduated from Leicester University in 1986. He is self-taught, though in ...

Prep: 5 mins Cook: 10 mins Difficulty: Easy Serves: 4 Ingredients. 4 large field mushrooms 100g gorgonzola or other blue cheese, crumbled 25g walnuts, toasted and roughly chopped 4 thyme sprigs 200g cooked beetroot (not in vinegar), peeled and diced knob butter, cut into small pieces ...

The Cranleigh Community Choir concerts are really popular and entertaining events for all the family, held at Cranleigh Arts Centre. This year's concert will take place on Thursday, 10th December from 8pm. A very special variety event with a high standard of wonderful performances from ...

The Cranleigh Railway line was officially closed in 1965 following ‘The Reshaping of British Railways’ report of 1963. Cranleigh station was later knocked down and replaced by the “Stocklund Square” housing and shopping development. In 2004 part of this development was itself demolished and a ...

Joy Horn brings some anecdotes of 100 years ago What was happening in Cranleigh in November 1915?   The Great War was grinding on, with news coming regularly of young men killed and wounded. It was announced that ‘Oaklands’ in Knowle Lane would shortly be opened as a hospital for ...