Illustrator of eccentric contraptions William Heath Robinson lived in Cranleigh for more than a decade at the start of the 20th century and worked in the garden studio pictured above which he had built at his home, known as The Copse.
You can hear Heath Robinson expert Moira MacQuaide talk briefly about it on a BBC Surrey podcast here and describe how it was very much his domain, a workplace where he was not to be disturbed, although he did also have a long Heath Robinson-esque tube connecting it to the house so he could be told when his dinner was ready.
The garden office had an interesting afterlife when he moved away. The property was bought by a Mary Thornely who bought it for the use of the local Catholic church who used it as a Mass Centre with services held by local Friars and later by priests from a nearby Seminary.
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