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Farncombe, Llanaway Cottages 1903
Farncombe, Llanaway Cottages 1903 Ref: 49267
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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, Holloway Hill 1910
Ref: 62245
It was a warm sunny morning and I was lying in bed in Minster Road. I heard a 'doodlebug' putter overhead, I heard the motor stop, silence... and then the explosion. I swear the blast lifted me off the bed - half a mile away! What I did not know was that my father, walking to work, had just reached the area where the trees are in the picture when the bomb exploded. A tree fell on him and he was trapped under it until some Canadian soldiers came and lifted it off him. They took him in their jeep to St Thomas's Hospital at Hyde Style. He had blast injury of the lungs and split eardrums. After a long slow recovery he was finally able to resume work but he suffered from high blood pressure for the rest of his life.
Shared on 15 February 2010
Godalming, Peperharow Road 1907
Ref: 57621
I was born in Peperharrow Road in 1935 and still have two sisters living in the house where I was born. I went to Meadrow Central School. I swam in the Ginny, 'played' and grew up in the Charterhouse grounds and Milton's woods. I was a Junior member of Godalming Angling Society and spent many happy hours, fishing the Wey and Broadwater lake. I met my wife at Puttenham, we were married for 47 years. I have a 'soft spot' for Godalming. Boyhood names that I remember are: Peter Morton, Sheila Milligan, Benny Scavolo, June Dix, Mariane Brockwell, Valerie Jackson (I am still in contact with). Norman & Ivan Marshall, Brian Dunce, Ann Hook, Jean McCue, Dawn Elliot and others. I am philip.123456@tiscali.co.uk
Shared on 15 February 2010
