WOKING and the railway are inseparable. The railway has influenced the development of the town and is the reason why many people choose to live here. The railway provides a fast link... Read more »
A RECORDING of a talk on the history of Woking since the 1960s is available free of charge thanks to a local charity that provides audio news services to blind and visually... Read more »
MY FIRST job when I worked in the advertising department of the News & Mail in 1978 was looking after the situations vacant advertisements, the focus for this week’s Peeps into the... Read more »
DOES anyone recall Pullinger’s bakery shop in Chertsey Road, Woking, and its second establishment on Knaphill High Street? John Pullinger has been in contact to say that he has lately become embroiled... Read more »
ONE of the oldest buildings in the Woking area must be Ramwick Cottage, located close to the town centre on Park Road, writes David Rose. Believed to date back to the seventeenth... Read more »
BYFLEET’S derelict Victorian fire station has been saved after a 15-year campaign. The Byfleet Fire Station Trust has announced that the historic building will be sensitively restored and handed back to Byfleet... Read more »
A FEW weeks ago, Peeps into the Past looked at aspects of the lives and good works of Frederick Stoop and his wife Agnes when they lived at West Hall, near Byfleet,... Read more »
DOES anyone recall the bombs that fell on the Woking area during the Second World War? If so, do you have stories or photographs passed down from your family? Surrey History Centre... Read more »
“DOES this old picture show one of Woking’s carnivals?” asked reader Andy Doran, hoping the Peeps into the Past column could shed some light on the black and white image. He emailed... Read more »
WEST Hall is a large house in Parvis Road, between Byfleet and West Byfleet, and the focus of this week’s Peeps into the Past. The house was once the home of the... Read more »