High Street looking east

Images of Godalming

This section contains general historical images of:

the town Bridge Street Church Street 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 south(Museum) side

The index to the photographs also shows the numbering of the buildings before it was changed in 1964.

This section also contains pages covering the major events in Godalming for which there are images:

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.