Windsor Road c1955, Chobham
Windsor Road c1955, Chobham Ref: C395006
Memories of Windsor Road c1955, Chobham
On The Way to School
Chobham infant school and Chobham primary were both situated behind the High Street. Many a summer day was spent "paddling" on the way home. This overflow channel ran from the old mill on West End Road and is united with the River Bourn at Seaneys Corner.
Chobham & local memories
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School Days
Having moved from Shropshire in Jan 1962 this was the school where I finished my education, so I was only there for a few months. Our house was just behind the house in Burrow Hill, but the we moved to Lighterwater and I had to catch the coach in from West End. I made a few friends at the school and remember there was a self-contained flat attached to the school where 2 pupils of the same sex could spend the week there and not do any lessons, unfortunately I never got to have a go as I was a late-comer to the school. When I left the school in July of that year, I started work at the FVRDE which was a mile or so up the road and I had turned 15 two days earlier.
The Village Was Small And Beautiful.The Families United.
I was sent to Chobham to stay with my Aunt Dolly Mitchell, and her quiet and kindly daughters. 3 hot weeks. I watched Land Army girls ride on top of a hay rick through Chobham High Street. The girls laughed and sang as they passed by. There was the smell of new mown hay in the air, and the village felt alive. 8.1947 In 1960, I gave birth to my daughter Karen in Chobham, on Nov 1st. The baby was born naturally at home, and it was such a happy time in that lovely village. The midwife came on her bike. ... Read more
Chobham, County Secondary School c1955
The earliest date this can have been taken is 1957/58. I know because as a 17 year old school-leaver I worked as a teaboy/labourer on the site in July 1957 when the school was being built.
Teenagers
I left school when I was fifteen in 1959 and my two brothers Joe and John and I had joined the Chobham brass band . We sometimes played in Woking Park on Sunday afternoons. when I was about seventeen us Chobham girls used to go to the Atalanta in Woking, it was great then, we used to get people like Tom Jones, the Rolling Stones, Screaming Lord Sutch. The Atalanta had a sprung floor and had a coffee bar, no alcohol. I think they were good times but it did annoy me when the girls used to scream, you could not hear anything else.
Childhood Memories
I started at the infants school in 1948 in Chobham St Lawrence and I made my own way in those days, it was safe to then. I remember the headmistress of the infants school was Mrs Gosden, and a teacher, Mrs Hutchinson, also a lady who worked there, Mrs Lovelock, who was very popular with us children. I had two brothers also that attended, John and Joe. There were fields and farms everywhere in those days and when we weren't at school we were out playing. We used to make our own fun then. It was much more fun being a child then. I eventually went into the Brownies and my two brothers went into the Cubs which my mother ran with the help of Mrs Evans, they were good days to look back on.
