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Albury maps

Historic maps of Albury and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Albury maps

Albury map

Historic map of Albury

Surrey map

Illustrated Victorian map of Surrey

Albury map

Historic Map of any Albury postcode

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Albury books

Displaying 3 of 10 books about Albury and the local area.   View all Albury books

Surrey County Memories
Paperback
$30

Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories
Paperback
$28

Camberley Photographic Memories
Paperback
$26

Albury books
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Memories of Albury

Albury memories
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Living in the Butcher's Shop

Just on the right up a slight hill and only just visible is the butcher's shop. It was part of the Albury Estate but a new butcher could not be found so it was sold out of the estate and my father, Kenneth Parker, bought it. He redesigned the interior, renaming it 'Whitecroft' after the name on an old map indicating... [more]

Shared on 14 July 2009 by Jacqueline Inskip.

Surrey memories

Living in the Squre Shere

Photograph No. 1. I was born in July l940 – Virginia Le Roux. The house on the left of the picture was where I lived until I was nearly 13 with my parents. The long narrow upstairs window was my bedroom. My mother’s mother and brother also lived in the house. My uncle -... [more]

Shared on 18 December 2007 by Virginia Pawlyn.

born and raised there

I was born in Shere in 1942 to the youngest child of George and Margaret Bryant. The Bryants were a well-known Shere family, my father being the eldest of nine children born and raised in the village. I had a very happy childhood in the village, attended the village school as did my older brother and sister and several cousins. I... [more]

Shared on 26 September 2006 by Rosemary Delia.

Pub

My gran owned the pub at Blackheath which was called the Forest King, it was on the edge of the cricket pitch. There was also another pub called the Volunteer on the next road. Does anybody remember them?

Shared on 14 February 2008 by Ian Risbridger.

Memories

It has been almost 50 years since I have seen the inside of this church. My mother; Molly Risbridger) was married in this church to a Canadian soldier Mr. Ken Lloyd Maxted. I am their son Robert Glenn Maxted. Happy Anniversary! 2007

I love you Mom and Dad,

Your Son,
Glenn

Shared on 19 September 2007 by Robert Maxted.

Family shop

My Nan and Grandad often took myself and my twin sister to visit his mother and brother to BlackHeat, Lamb Lane, to their Local Shop. Wow, sweets galore! Lovely smelling cooked meats, it was great! I always remember the walk from the statino near some playing fields, then walking into the shop and seeing my Great Grandmother standing there with her... [more]

Shared on 01 September 2006 by Margaret Young.

First Job

I started my first job at 16 as a trainee food and wine waiter at the Percy Arms in 1960, and I lived in rooms above the hotel, in those days it was a first class restaurant. The head waiter was a guy called Bernard. The owner was a lady and she used to have dogs that would wander around the... [more]

Shared on 15 August 2008 by Mike Gaffikin.

MY CHILDHOOD GARDED - PART IV

If I remember correctly, a white climbing rose grew up one side of the arch and a red on the other. The path continued straight through the archway, and led up the garden to the two wooden sheds at the top of the garden. To the right immediately after the archway, another path led behind the rose-covered trellis, which then turned... [more]

Shared on 15 January 2010 by Patricia Clarke.

Extracts From Albury & Surrey books

Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Albury, inspired by Frith photos.

Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories

The upper of two pools that are fed by chalk springs has been a popular beauty spot since the 19th century. The tale about a lass who drowned here after an encounter with the wicked Prince John has been told to generations of visitors as if it were true. Alas, the Victorian writer Martin Tupper, who lived close by, penned it. The thatched arbour... [more]

This is an extract from Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories.
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Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories

This was indeed once the place where paupers and those down on their luck could seek food and a roof over their head. However, if they were able-bodied they had to do menial tasks to earn their keep. Four years after the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the much larger Guildford Workhouse opened, doing away with this smaller poorhouse.

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Godalming Town and City Memories

Three of Church Street's five pubs are in this photo - the Corn Meter extreme left, the Star centre left, and the Live and Let Live just beyond the archway on the right. The arch led to the rear of the Angel Hotel yard, owned at that time by John Jasper Taylor, who also had a temperance hotel, Deanery House, further down Church Street. ... [more]

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