The English Devolution White Paper has been in the news but what does it mean for us? It is certainly one of the biggest changes in local government we have ever seen. Soon we will have an elected mayor for the whole of Surrey (or a large section of it). The government says its motivation…
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Heritage Open Days 2023 Festival Review
Festival Review 2023 Posted on 2nd November 2023 by Heritage Open Days This year’s festival began in unexpected Summer heat and ended in Autumn rain, but the odd weather didn’t wilt or dampen festival spirits. Our largest community of local organisers ever set up 5,282 events; ranging from big open days at sites like the BFI National…
Spike Lives Project
Take a Look at the Lives of People Who Were in the Guildford Union Workhouse in 1881 Published on: 1 Nov, 2023Updated on: 1 Nov, 2023 By David Rose The Spike is a fascinating heritage attraction off Warren Road, Guildford. It’s a time capsule that’s a surviving part of the Guildford Union Workhouse where vagrants could get…
July 2023 Exhibitions at museum and Guildford House
The two latest exhibitions at Guildford House and Guildford Museum are well worth visiting if you want to know more about our town’s history. “Town Tales: Guildford’s Iconic Buildings” runs at Guildford House Gallery until the end of October. The atmospheric period rooms of this fine seventeenth house are displayed with paintings from the borough…
Get involved with Guildford’s Heritage Open Days – 12th-21st Sept 2025
Why not get involved in next year’s Heritage Open Days 12-21 Sept 2025 (across borough) and 20th Sept (Guildford Town Centre) Planning is underway for Guildford’s 2025 Heritage Open Days part of the nation Heritage Open Days event, Britain’s largest history festival providing opportunities to visit rarely seen buildings and discover the history of where…
Guildford Heritage: Don’t Sell it, Use it!
Guildford borough Council is thinking about closing and selling off much of it heritage service. Why? Faced with the need to find almost £20 million in Council budget savings by 2027 the Council needs to save money. But will these cuts save much? Will they instead just throw away opportunities future generations will regret? Imagine…
Farnham Museum gets funding for building
Taken from Guildford Dragon. See PDF version While the future of Guildford Museum remains in limbo, one of the “most important buildings” in Farnham is set to receive more than £700,000 from the Arts Council’s Museum Estate and Development Fund for its renovation and repair. The Grade I listed Museum of Farnham’s windfall is part of an…
North Street Development Update
Guildford Borough Council and St Edward Homes, a joint venture company owned by the Berkeley Group and M&G Real Estate, brought forward plans for the regeneration of the five acre North Street site in Guildford town centre. If planning permission was granted then GBC would sell its ownership in part of the site to the…
London Road Cycle Lane – on hold
It would be “madness” to go ahead with a Guildford road improvement scheme in the face of “huge opposition”, according to Surrey County Council’s leader. (source: Guildford Dragon News) The proposed closure of London Road in Burpham was due to start on Monday (January 9) but has been postponed for further consultation and was the…
The Future of Guildford Town Centre
This article follows the debate about the future shape of Guildford. Starting with view of Gavin Morgan it summarises the debate View Point The town is spending millions on a Master Plan but the reality seems to be we have no control over the future of our town. Developers turn up wanting to build enormous…