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Dirty old Guildford

Posted on February 23, 2022February 23, 2022
Park Street cottages featured on a picture postcard in the early 1900s looking delipidated then. They were eventually demolished in the 1950s, surely unfit for human habitation?

In another of his articles in the Guildford Dragon Online Newspaper, David Rose destroys the myth that old Guildford was a quaint, picturesque place we should get nostalgic about. This is one of the best articles I have read about town in a long time partly because it takes an alternative view. As he says “It’s easy to look at old photographs and say ‘wasn’t it so much nicer back then’ “. Well perhaps it wasn’t

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