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Historic maps of Betchworth and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Betchworth maps
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Betchworth books
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Surrey County Memories
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Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories
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Camberley Photographic Memories
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Memories of Betchworth
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A school friend at Reigate Grammar was Joe Cheffings; his parents ran the village shop and bakery about midway to the church, on the left of the picture. An elder brother, Tony, helped at home when on holiday from St. Paul's school, and had a penchant for very elderly motorcycles, picked up for nothing from a quarry dump towards Dorking somewhere.... [more]
Shared on 05 September 2008
Surrey memories
The photo was taken from the railway bridge and the new dual carriageway was only a year or two old. Round to the right opposite Deepdene Garage was Fairfield Drive and what a lovely area it was to be growing up in. We lived at no 4, the Parsons at no 6 and the Skiltons at no 8 or 10, the... [more]
Shared on 06 August 2009
Working for British Railway's southern region
My mother, Valerie Evans, worked for British Railways southern region from 1957 -1960 at Deepdene House. She was a shorthand typist and remembers Deepdene House to be a beautiful building with extensive grounds. She has happy memories of friends in the typing pool.
The building hadn't changed much since 1891 although I don't believe there was a conservatory in 1957.... [more]
Shared on 02 March 2007
These two ponies belonged to Dorking Riding School and they were popular characters with gentle dispositions. They retired in 1963 to good homes. Pepsi-Cola is in the foreground. I was a groom at the stables and regularly rode them around the area.
Shared on 08 December 2006
My father, William J Smith (Bill) had a newsagent at 47 Priory Road between 1962 and 1988 which was opposite Ports the Bakers. I remember seeing queues of people coming out of the Bakers on a Saturday morning to get their shopping. My fondest childhood memories were of living above and behind the sweetshop and playing with friends in... [more]
Shared on 25 January 2009
From leaving Bookham I moved to Dorking where I worked for the same family at Dorking High Street, Earlswood Lakes and their Wimpy bar at Box Hill, it was good. I lived over the shop, the tobacconist, and I know and love Dorking.
Shared on 05 September 2009
Formerly St Nicholas School. I attended St Nicholas School from 1952 until 1956. I have a photograph taken in 1955 where at the age of 7 I was on the football team, The sons of the singer Joan Regan attended the school and were my best friends. I contacted Box Hill School a few years ago and apparently they had no... [more]
Shared on 22 November 2007
'The Market' - this was what we used to call the small hotel on the corner of High Street and Tunnel Road. It was the most wonderful time, hippies were in every night, there was a disco and psychadelic light show once a week upstairs. I drove a red Morgan and had a Dutch au-pair girl on my arm, all this... [more]
Shared on 06 August 2009
Extracts From Betchworth & Surrey books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Betchworth, inspired by Frith photos.
Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories
Travellers on the A25 cannot fail to see the scars on the south side of the North Downs that were once the Betchworth quarries. The village itself lies to the south of the main road and is therefore often overlooked. To this day it retains many quiet corners. However, the ruins of a 14th-century castle in Betchworth Park are seen even less; unfortunately there is no public access to them.
This is an extract from Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories.
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Dorking Town and City Memories
Other local churches, claimed to be 'old and steady', are Shere, Leigh, Mickleham, Abinger, Wotten and Betchworth: they have stood for centuries. St Barnabas's on Ranmore sits 700 feet above Dorking on Ranmore Common. Sir Gilbert Scott designed it in 1859 as the estate church for George Cubitt, the first Lord Ashcombe. In the churchyard lie the founder of Denbies Estate, and his three grandsons, Henry, Alick... [more]
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Dorking Town and City Memories
he downs are mostly of chalk, and otherwise of sandstone, and each has its own special flora. The sandstone hills have their highest point in Leith Hill, 965ft above sea level, about five miles south-west of Dorking. From there they fall away in a picturesque series of steps, rising again to the same level as Leith Hill at Hindhead and Black Down. Leith Hill and its tower... [more]
This is an extract from Dorking Town and City Memories.
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