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The chief telegraphist on the Titanic, who kept on sending distress messages until the last possible moment before it sank, came from Farncombe. |
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Sir Winston Churchill first learnt to paint in Hascombe. |
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The man who set up the first colony in Georgia, USA came from Godalming. |
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The Architect of the Cenotaph in London and many official buildings in Britain and India came from Thursley. |
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One of the climbers who died during the final assault of Everest in 1924 taught at Charterhouse. |
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The first time that electricity was sold to the public anywhere in the world was in Godalming in 1881. |
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