My Memories of Addlestone
Fashion shows with a cup of tea and a biscuit in the Copop on a Saturday. When I was younger the Co-op ran a sports day and we all got a goody box with cream cakes cakes and a suprise of fruit. We shopped at Parrs at the top of the Dukes Head crossroads, I can still remember the smell of the cured bacon. Our order was delivered by a man on a bike. Burges the bakers delivered our bread. We had our shoes repaied at Pigotts in Station Road and I went to both day school and boarding school with Dudly Piggot. Went to school on the bus from the bus garage and stood atop the bridge while the trains ran below and engulfed us in steam from the trains below. Airscrew and Weymonds were the biggest employers. Traylens fun fair came every year, last week in July first in August. We got our meat from Chambers butchers and I remember Alma Chambers as Carnival Queen and went to school with her sister Angela. I was the youngest of four children and my brother Mac played for Addlestone football club, my dad was treasurer and my mum served teas on a match day. Sue Mackender
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RE: RE: My Memories of Addlestone
I remember Parrs very well indeed and the old Post Office, in Church Road, almost next door. I seem to recall there was a Home and Colonial in the High Street as well. There was a lady who sold newspapers for years outside the Dukes Head by the traffic lights. I used to go with my mum and dad on Sunday excursions from Addlestone Garage to the Surrey Hills. I used to go to school with Catherine Garner whose parents ran Garners Bakers, close to the station. I seem to think that Wells the bootmakers had two shops in Addlestone - one next to Bert the barber in High Street and the other in Station Road. I remember there used to be hundreds of bicycles waiting for the level crossing gates to open - all trying to beat the cars when the train had passed. We used to get the 461a bus every Saturday to Walton - at 1.45 from Hare Hill Post Office - it was so busy they sometimes put on a 'relief' at 2pm. Once a month of so we changed at the Bear in Walton to go to Kingston on the red 131 bus. Ah, what memories. John Cull
Comment from John Cull on Tuesday, 22nd March 2011.
RE: RE: My Memories of Addlestone
I also remember Parrs, being sent there regularly by my mum from our house in Brighton Road, also to the nearby Macfisheries or the International in Station Road.
I also remember the paper lady, as a schoolboy I worked for her. She was a slight, dark-haired women, and extremely cheerful; few people would walk past the newsstand without exchanging a word or two with her. I would balance a huge parcel of Evening News and Standards on my bike crossbar and take them up the newsagents opposite The Queen's Arms in Church Road. I would also take a bundle to sell in the flats in the Chertsey Road opposite Chapel Avenue and get paid threepence plus the tips from my customers.
Very happy days.
Comment from Des Hurrion on Monday, 13th June 2011.
RE: RE: My Memories of Addlestone
Went for a walk a walk around Addlestone the other day and so many places have gone. Chapel Avenue Infants, the little schools in School Lane, the Woburn Hotel, Dukes Head and Magnet pubs. There is very little left of my growing up days in Addlestone but I was really pleased to see 'the witches house' in Simplemarsh Road, a white place with really strange shaped roofs, it used to scare the hell out of us as little kids, we would run past it as fast as we could when we had to walk home from school every day. Myself and my sister, now all grown up, decided to knock on the door and ask if we could take some pictures of the house for memory's sake, the lady who now lives there was lovely and the witches house is now called The Folly and is absolutely charming. There was absolutely nothing witchie about it at all!
Comment from Helen Drawwater on Friday, 27th January 2012.