Farncombe, Church 1895
Farncombe, Church 1895 Ref: 36161
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Yes I remember the Chocolate Box sweet shop. I went to the Infants School and my mum worked at the wood yard part time. My grandparents lived at 1 Tottenham Road and I used to go there after school. Sometimes I enviously watched the tap dancing across the road at a community hall. We lived at Binscombe Cresent and Long Gore. There was a bakery as well below the train station.
Shared on 26 June 2009
I thought I would leave a message here also, I was a child at Ivybank Children's Home in Nightingale Lane. Sadly though I don't think it is there any longer. We were an all-girls children's home, with a range of ages from 5 years to 16 years. The home was run by Auntie Bonnie. Ivybank had a massive green front door, and lots of grounds, which ran down literally to the fence by the railway line into Godalming. I remember St. Johns School which I attended, and also the church. Does anyone here remember the Chocolate Box Sweet Shop, or the steam trains, and standing on the iron bridge in Farncombe and holding your breath until the train had passed under...?
I would love to find someone with a photograph of Ivybank.
Shared on 23 June 2009
Farncombe, Farncombe Street 1905
Ref: 53233
Disappointed by a lack of reminiscenses here I, only this evening, asked a man (who turns out to have lived in the white house in the top left of the picture since 1917) if he had any memories. I'm afraid all he came up with was the aggrieved memory that the timber merchant (situated where Jackson & Gocher is now) used to let his horse 'drop his guts' right outside his front door 'every (expletive deleted) day'.
It's a start anyway and I'll try again next time I bump into him!
Shared on 17 June 2008
Godalming, Charterhouse 1922
Ref: 71792A
I lived my early years in Godalming, in a small house opposite the Salvation Army Hall in Mint Street. In the 1930s we moved to Peperharow Road. My father Ernest Covey was the Steward of Brookhall, Charterhouse for a number of years. I went into the Royal Engineers in 1937, as a Boy Soldier. I learned to swim in the Ginny and went to the Bell School. I found since, that Covey folks have lived in Godalming since the 1600s, and around Surrey generations before that. I now live far away in Oregon, USA, but a part of me will always be Godalming. Old friends were 'Champ' Brown, the Kingshots, my Haskell cousins, 'Ticky' Wheeler, Peggy Smith, ('Chunky'), my Uncles Percy, Albert, and Harry. I remember Dr Boyd (who mounted his bicycle from the rear step) and Eddy Leroy and the 'Kings Own' canoe trips up the Wey to Somerset Farm and strawberries and cream. and our meetings in the hall next door to my grandmother's house. I also sang in the choir of St Peter and Paul's Church before I went into the army. I must also mention special people who were very kind to me, Wilfred Noyce, Sir Frank Fletcher, and the Haig-Browns and Mr Mountney of the Charterhouse Museum.
Shared on 28 March 2009
Godalming, Old Boarden Bridge 1906
Ref: 57056
I think it took place in 1818 opposite the church and what is now the Phillips Memorial, on the other side of the river . ( Llamas Lands?) The depression made in a horse shoe shape was where the crowd stood to watch the event! Each year, the Horseshoe, as we called it, flooded and froze and we all gathered to scate and slide on it. Was the Boarden bridge the only one there at that time? Still a ford, I think.
Shared on 12 January 2008
