‘WG Tarrant: Master Builder and Developer’ by Mavis Swenarton. First published as Monograph 24 by the Walton and Weybridge Local History Society. W.G. Tarrant was one of the most influential and prolific builders in Surrey in the first third of the 20th century. Today the term ‘Tarrant-built’ is used widely to describe houses on St. […]
MRS WATERS ?!
PYRFORD COMMON HISTORY
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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