Category Archives: Surrey

By the way, the lesson to be learnt here is to keep your wits about you and your eyes peeled.  Even strolling up a high street, you never know what you might find.

My notes said, ‘tablet on side of building’, and as Old Oxted consists of pretty much a single street, I reckoned we’d have a decent chance of finding it.  So we parked up, the dog and I made a couple … Continue reading →

My vote for the most uninteresting post in the five years of this site (if you have any other contenders I really don’t want to hear about them!).  And they’ve moved since I took this shot anyway!

Another victim, I think, of the Brooklands bombing.  There’s more information, very recently updated, actually, here, as well as an eye witness account of the raid from one of our readers here.  Cheers Bill. Found it! The grave of Company … Continue reading →

During the Great War a number of army camps were set up on the commons south of Godalming in Surrey.  Tens of thousands of soldiers, many of them Canadian, passed through these camps on their way to the killing fields … Continue reading →

Following our visit to the Surrey Constabulary Roll of Honour at Mount Browne, it seemed a good opportunity to take a look around the nearby cemetery, where a considerable number of military burials from both World Wars are to be … Continue reading →

My friend Duncan* is getting somewhat agitated with me because in recent months, every time he visits this site, the number of posts in the ‘Surrey’ category remains constant at 99.  But no longer.  Finally, this is Surrey post 100. … Continue reading →