Nice sandals!

I never knew Edward Carpenter lived in Guildford just above the station…but here he is in his writing ‘hut’ in the 1920s.

You’d not know that now, and with Guildford not even having a gay bar nowadays his history is pretty much hidden. He died there in 1929.

And sweetly and amazingly not only is his lover George Merill buried with him, the gravestone mentions their 40 years together, how radical is that for 1929?!?