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JAMES OGLETHORPE
General James Oglethorpe, who lived in Godalming, founded the colony of Georgia in the USA in 1732 with 120 settlers, including many ex-convicts. He lived at Westbrook House (now the Meath Home) in Godalming.
JEKYLL AND LUTYENS
The Godalming area is rightly associated with the extraordinary talents of the gardener Gertrude Jekyll and the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens
Gertrude Jekyll had a profound influence on garden design. Sir Edwin Lutyens is generally regarded as one the great British architects of the 20th Century.
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Puss in Boots by Gertrude Jekyll
unveiled at the Museum on October 12th 2002 |
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TITANIC HERO
Godalming was home for John 'Jack' George Phillips - the heroic chief wireless telegraphist operator who died at his post aboard the Titanic on the night she sank.
Jack Phillips, Chief Telegraphist, continued to send out SOS messages for several hours after the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in 1912.
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WINSTON CHURCHILL
Sir Winston Churchill, Britain's Prime Minister in World War II, spent the summer of 1915 at Hoe Farm, Hascombe. It was here that he began to paint.
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MAP OF THE TOWN
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Click the map for a close up view (55k file),
or download a larger copy (112k) |
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