The Cranleigh Memory Collector

12/07/2023

If you would like to help the Ukrainian flood-relief, the Baptist church is organising it here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=NV455KCG79EG6

You can contact Oksana Burt for more information here: [email protected]

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29/06/2023

Dasha talks about her brother Dmytro, killed in action fighting the Russians.

12/06/2023

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12/06/2023

12/06/2023

Dasha Mishchenko from Irpin, one of the first villages to be bombed in Ukraine, talks to her life-long friend Oksana Burt, the wife of our Baptist pastor, about her experiences that led to her coming to Cranleigh.

24/04/2023

Nan Thomas remembers daylight bombing raids when she was working in the flower glasshouses at Willingshurst just north of Cranleigh.

24/04/2023

Sunflower amongst the Poppies: A commemoration of Ukrainian soldiers, connected with Cranleigh, who have lost their lives for freedom and democracy.

24/04/2023

Nigel Challis, formerly of Hitherwood, remembers the outbreak of WW2 as a 10-year-old.

19/04/2023

SUNFLOWER AMONGST THE POPPIES
A dedication ceremony is to be held 11am Saturday 22nd April 2023 at the Cranleigh Centenary Garden in honour of Ukrainian soldiers connected to our community who have died in combat.
The first casualty was Dmytro Viktorovych Dubenchak, whose sister Dariia, husband and son are among the 140 Ukrainians who live in Cranleigh. Dymtro died in action on 29th October 2022. He was 38 years old.
A steel sunflower created by the Cranleigh Lions, will be planted amongst the 415 steel poppies that commemorate those from Cranleigh and the surrounding villages of Ewhurst, Shamley Green, Blackheath, Wonersh and Dunsfold, who also lost their lives in conflict over the last 100 years, fighting for freedom and democracy.

28/03/2023

Stella Smith of Mount Road in Cranleigh talks about German prisoners of war.

19/01/2023

Gill & Miki talk about feeding the 5000. Her English grandfather interned in Berlin during WW2

06/01/2023

Dunsfold resident Larry Westland, who founded the global charity 'Music For Youth' chats with his wife Janie, more about being a 4 year-old evacuee.