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County confirms executive

11:22am Friday 9th May 2008

NICK Skellett is to remain leader of Surrey County Council following an executive reshuffle.

Victorian house sale back on

5:37pm Monday 21st April 2008

THE sale of 24 Chart Lane, Reigate, is back on track with the original buyer and is due to complete on Friday, May 2.

Local hero who led England

2:34pm Thursday 9th August 2007

WALTER Read played in 18 Test cricket matches for England, twice as captain.

Famous flame lights up a town

1:44pm Tuesday 17th July 2007

THE 1948 Olympic Games took place in Great Britain and the Olympic flame was carried in July of that year from Mount Olympia in Greece to Wembley Stadium via Redhill and Reigate.

A Lady not partial to a drink

3:27pm Friday 9th March 2007

The owner of Reigate Priory in the 1890s, Lady Henry Somerset, travelled the world as president of the British Women's Temperance League which advocated abstinence from drink.

Gates were too close to a pub!

The Bell Street Entrance created by John Parsons was later removed by Lady Henry Somerset because of its proximity to the Castle Public House

1:21pm Tuesday 23rd January 2007

THE previous article about Reigate Priory detailed its early beginnings and told about some of those who lived there.

Reigate Priory and its owners

Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham

8:57am Wednesday 27th December 2006

DESPITE the fact that Redhill and Reigate are so close together there are many differences between the towns. A major one is that Redhill's history goes back only as far as the mid-1800s while Reigate's stretches back to about 1100.

How pupils kept their cool

The ventilation grille high in the town of St John's School can be seen alongside the clock

3:25pm Wednesday 13th December 2006

An earlier article in this series mentioned that on Sunday, September 12, 2004, the clock of St John's School in Pendleton Road, Redhill, was again set into motion after being stopped for several years.

Happy days climbing Nelson

The southern slope of Redhill Common in days gone by. The path down to St John's School is straight and wide, the view across the Weald in uninterrupted and the common is free of the scrub and trees that cover it today

5:02pm Tuesday 28th November 2006

In a previous article about Redhill Common I mentioned the Common Conservators, a body set up in 1894 to administer Redhill and Earlswood commons.

Horse sense before the car

Horses were used for personal transport as well as for commercial purposes. Here three horses and carts are the only traffic in early1900s London Road, Redhill

4:48pm Tuesday 7th November 2006

Horses gave us the main motive force on our roads and farms until other forms of power such as steam, petrol and diesel engines provided the means of moving people and goods.

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