Claygate, Surrey

Lawrence and Peggy Berg

My uncle Lawrence married Peggy Smurthwaite in about 1935 and took over the Hinchley Wood Hotel. It was already well-known to him and his brother, Ellis, because he was a partner in the building firm E & L Berg which had developed an estate over the other side of the Kingston Bypass. Though he knew little or nothing of the licenced... [more]

My life on Weston Green

I was born in Weston Green, my parents having lived at Maisonette, Weston Green. My grandfather Charles Dobson was the local baker and lived on the green in the house on its own called The Lodge which was where the cricket was played. I used to watch it from my grandmother's back yard. She had ducks and hens and used to... [more]

Sheath Lane and Goldrings Road

My great-grandfather bought Heathway in Sheath Lane in 1925. We lived there from 1945 to 1953 when my father built Winterbourne in Goldrings Road on Crown Land with a 99-year lease. I went to Oxshott Primary School and St Andrews Sunday School in the old village hall. I can remember the milkman and the rag-and-bone man driving horse-drawn carts... [more]

Conliston

Does anyone know of a house called Conliston in Oxshott.  Built in the 1930s, it  was "one mile from Oxshott Station and Leatherhead Golf Course.  Standing on the brow of a hill, facing full south".  This house was built by my aunt and her husband and sold in the early 1940s for £3,000.  The property was said to be held on... [more]

helper

During the war my uncle was in the army with a man called Bert Sprake.  When they got out of the army Bert opened a butchers shop in the parade almost opposite Plough Road.  I used to go into his shop and help him make the sausages.  I never got paid for it but it was great fun. I lived in... [more]

Happy days

Spent 3 very happy years on the nursing staff, made many friends, who I lost contact with.

Molesey road

Not many cars about, not like now.  What a wonderful happy place to live where everyone said 'Good morning', unlike now where everybody is too busy with life to take time out and smile.  All we do is moan about this and that, smile it will make a difference to everyone. Bring good old Hersham back to being a fun place... [more]