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Bagshot, High Street c1960
Bagshot, High Street c1960 Ref: b4035
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Bagshot, Church 1906
Ref: 57176
Clipping the hedge at St Annes
My dad, Eric Berry, used to clip this hedge - BY HAND!
When we're little, things always seem bigger than they really are, but my recollections of watching my Dad clip this hedge on the days he did the gardening at St Anne's church, were pretty accurate. It really is as big as I remember!
I also recall going to St Anne's Hall ( a bit further back down the hill?) with my Mum, to collect our ration books. At the bottom of the hill was Fortuna's Ice Cream Parlour - I can still remember the lucious creamy taste! Yum!
Shared on 26 January 2008
Bagshot, the Cricketers c1955
Ref: B4003
1955 & prior - the Cricketers etc
I was born in 1947 (a home birth) in Grove End cottage which was, and still is, located pretty much across the London Road and railway line from the Cricketers pub. Although I've never been inside the pub, I have on occasion as a child, watched cricket with my Dad at the weekends. I notice on the satellite map that the cricket pitches are still there - the photo must have been taken on a day of play as ant-like figures are clearly visible, dotted all around the grounds.
Many things have changed over the years - Grove End was once surrounded by dairy farms run by Arthur Knight and Jack Wooldrige. These farms are now gone - one a golf course, the other an industrial estate. The woods near the railway station which in spring were strewn with blue bells, today play host to a housing development and major roads now criss-cross the old farm landscape.
The Pantiles Tea Rooms which once existed further along the London Road from the Cricketers have long gone together with the attached swimming pool my Mum used to take me to. They were turned into a night club where, in my twenties, I returned with old work colleagues to celebrate a friends wedding.
Next door to the Cricketers is Bagshot Park which of course still remains together with its royal residents. I recall going to a fete either there or Penny Hill Park and winning first prize in the fancy dress - I used the prize money to buy my Mum a set of 3 of those awful flying ducks which she dutifully hung on the wall!
At the age of 8 I moved to Camberley and I've posted childhood and teen memories of my haunts along the London Road between the Blue Pool and Duke of York Hotel. I now live in Australia on North Stradbroke Island off the Queensland coast near Brisbane - we all change and move on! Some things however never change, such as great memories....
Shared on 26 January 2008
As a child growing up in Windlesham village I was frustrated because there was so little to do. I went to the local school which backed onto our house at the bottom of Poplar Avenue which joined Up Down hill. When I had grown up and married I moved back to the village because it provided the tranquil refuge I craved! I knew the 'battling farmer' Glanfield. He fought the authorities for compensation when the electricity pylons were constructed and then, later, when the M3 Motorway was put through his land. He became a nationally famous figure and put Windlesham on the map!
Shared on 20 January 2010
Hello from Canada - My great-grandparents, James Elliott and Ann Collyer, were married in Windlesham on July 8th 1865. It is great to see the photos what with me being so far away. I was hoping there would be a photo of the church. They were C of E. Still it is wonderful to see photos of the town. Thank you.
Best regards.
Barbara
Shared on 10 March 2009
Pinehurst Childrens home, Park Rd Camberley
Memories of Camberley come from my childhood days as an orphan residing at 'Pinehurst', a Surrey County Child Welfare Home 1949-1953. I was put there as a 9-year-old and recall spending a very happy part of my youth there. I attended a primary school, the name of which my memory refuses to recall (Park Road?). Later on I attended France Hill House School, the headmaster being a Mr Steele. 'Pinehurst' Children's Home was on Park Road above the railway crossing. Next door to 'Pinehurst' was Elmhurst Ballet School and I remember the rumour of famous film star John Mills's daughter, Juliet Mills, taking up ballet there. The grounds around the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst was always an interesting place we visited. Our guardians at the orphanage were Jimmy and Robyn Ewart. I kept in touch with them and visited them in their retirement in Bristol with my wife's family in 1983. They have both since passed away. Knocking on the front door at 'Pinehurst' with my wife on our 1983 visit I told the person at the door, a male, of my youth spent there. His reply was "So what," and shut the door in our faces. In 1954 I was fostered out to a family living not far away, now called Maywood, Camberley. They lived at 'Chapel Pines"', an old church converted, and where the Queen apparently learned to drive during the war. In my days Portsmouth Road was the address. Just up the road the Jolly Farmer dissected the London and Portsmouth roads. Gibbet Hill was also an historic road I used a lot. My foster mum was a famed Camberley resident, actress Jean Heywood of 'When the Boats Come In' and many more TV series. I visited Camberley again in 1995. The station was still there and the main High Street just as I remembered it. Nothing had seemed to change. I married a New Zealand lady and have lived in NZ since 1969. 'Pinehurst' and Camberley are a big part of my young life and the memories are ones of happiness. Is there anyone else who recalls any of the names and places mentioned?
Shared on 04 October 2009
