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Found in a Dunsfold skip
From airbase to film set, all of Dunsfold's history can be found in the skip.
Inside Wanborough Manor
The Queen, a Prime Minister, parties for film stars and pay phones for prostitutes.
The village that was moved
He didn’t want any neighbours, so he demolished their cottages and closed the main road.
Not for the squeamish
The Mytchett museum that documents the grim reality of wartime medicine.
The flat-pack church
The prefabricated tin church that arrived in Surrey by horse and cart.
The astonishing life of Haslemere’s signal box
The Victorian levers and switches still keeping commuters on track.
The eerie wall in the woods
Concrete, steel rods and wire - Hitler's Atlantic Wall lurking in Hankley Common.
The forgotten racecourse
From Grand National to International, the Surrey racecourse that became a runway.
Sealed until the Second Coming
The church at Albury that nobody can visit.
When Shepperton tricked Hitler
Talented special FX artists helped divert German bombers away from British towns.
Ripley’s wonder drug
The pharmacy in Ripley that kept an extraordinary secret before being found out.
Surrey’s emerald invaders
Parakeets are everywhere until you try to spot one.
Waiting beneath Limpsfield Common
The makeshift school classroom that held 50 children.
When bombs rained down on Surrey
The map that shows how close your house came to being bombed during WW2.
Bombed for Hitler’s birthday
The church at Merstham that was destroyed to celebrate the Führer’s birthday.
