During the litter pick, when I went along the perimeter fence of the Common, I saw the following boundary stone:- The initials relate to Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke who owned the land in 1885. One of previous Forum Committee Member, Carole Gale, wrote a history of Pyrford Common, which information about Sir Charles Dilke and […]
The Old House – October 2022
Rowley Bristow – May 2022
The following picture & article was posted by Surrey History centre on Facebook. With their permission I repeat it in this newsletter. “Here’s a music lesson with a difference! Patients playing instruments in the outdoor ward at Rowley Bristow Orthopaedic Hospital in Pyrford in the 1950s. The hospital pioneered research into the treatment of bones […]
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