Castle Arch

Wandered into town at lunchtime... smiling when I spotted a copy of "Eats Shoots & Leaves" displayed under the diet section of books in Oxfam, before popping into the nearby museum for a browse. The museum (to the left and behind the arch shown) was smaller than I remembered it, but featured several items relating to the late local celebrities - Lewis Carroll and Gertude Jekyll.

The following is taken from Wikipedia:

Guildford Museum is located on Quarry Street, Guildford, almost opposite St Marys Church, the oldest surviving building in the town (c1000 years old). The first building the Museum occupied on the site was Castle Arch, which the Museum moved into in 1898 and whose foundations incorporate the gatehouse to Guildford Castle. This building was extended in 1911, when an extension was built in the Castle Arch gardens to house the Gertrude Jekyll collection of 'Old Surrey Life' artefacts. The Museum was again extended in 1927 when the Borough council purchased 48 Quarry Street, a 19th century town house, and offered to convert the building and land adjacent to it into a monument room for the Archaeological Societies records office.

(Note: another terribly belated back-blip...life has been getting in the way - sorry peeps!)