High Street looking east
Historic Godalming - Places and Events
Places
This section contains general historical images of:
the town, Bridge Street, Church Street and High Street
and a more detailed page on the building that has come to symbolise the town, The Pepperpot
The Pepperpot decorated for the Millennium
These old photographs have been linked to give you a tour of the town.
High Street in 1961 shows most of the buildings in the High Street in photographs taken by Peter Quittenton & Lovell Appleyard LRPS, who made a similar surveys of several other local town centres. This is in two parts:
north (Pepperpot) side and south(Museum) side
The index to the photographs of the High Street also shows the numbering of the buildings before it was changed in 1964.
Events
This section also contains pages covering the major events in Godalming for which there are images:
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1881 |
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1887 |
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1892 |
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1897 |
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1914-18 |
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1935 |
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1936 |
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1936 & 1937 |
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1939-45 |
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1952 & 1953 |
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1968 |
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2000 |
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For Godalming's timeline, click here
There are computer screens in the Museum, on the ground floor in the Coffee Shop and on the first floor by the People's Gallery. These computers can be used by visitors and provide a wide range of information about the history of the town and the surrounding area. There are about 2,000 historical images and about the same number of modern images.
The images cover Godalming, Binscombe, Birtley, Bowlhead Green, Brook, Busbridge, Catteshall, Charterhouse, Compton, Eashing, Enton, Farncombe, Hascombe, Hydestile, Loseley, Milford, Mousel, Munstead, Peper Harow, Thursley, Tuesley, Witley, Witley Park and Wormley.