Frimley Green, Surrey
Frimley Green photos
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Frimley Green maps
Historic maps of Frimley Green and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Frimley Green maps
Frimley Green books
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9 Frimley Green photos appear in 4 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Frimley Green
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Burrow Hill School is now derelict. It closed in 1998 and I have just walked past the boarded-up site this afternoon. Although I have lived in Frimley Green since 1993 and seen one of its main buildings from within a housing estate at the bottom of the hill, I have never known what that building was. Entry into the school is... [more]
Shared on 01 November 2009
I was at Burrow Hill school from 1952 until 1956. I was sent there due to acute asthma and bronchitis. I have lots of fond memories of my time there and remember a boy called Alan Whittaker and a boy called Edward, surname Adrian I think. I also remember Mr and Mrs Reece and Mr and Mrs Cleaver who took over... [more]
Shared on 10 September 2009
My name is Roger Hibbard from Staveley, Derbyshire, I was at Burrow Hill School from Easter 1952 to Easter 1953. I went there because at that time I suffered from severe asthma but I was never ill once during the wonderful year I was there,
I remember the headmaster Dai Reece and his wife Ida, teachers Mr Allen, Mr Stevenson and... [more]
Shared on 23 July 2009
I was there for two terms in the mid 1950s, it is so long ago that I can't be sure of the year. I remember headmaster Mr Rees and his wife, and teachers Mr Bellis, Mr Jarman, Mr Horwell, Mr. Stevenson, Mr Allen and housemothers Miss Rempy and Miss Harwood. The houses were Orchard, Gardens and Woodlands. We watched the Farnborough... [more]
Shared on 22 June 2009
Extracts From Frimley Green & Surrey books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Frimley Green, inspired by Frith photos.
We go along the Frimley Green Road, and arrive at Frimley Green, with Wharf Road to the left of the picture. The shop and the house next door have been replaced by a modern parade of shops.
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This cottage was believed to have been in the Guildford Road, and not demolished until the early part of the 20th century. It was typical of the many older buildings in the area in this largely rural village, which contains some 15th- and 16th-century farmhouses.
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Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories
The Basingstoke Canal, constructed between 1788 and 1794, was supposed to be part of a waterway linking the Thames with both the English and Bristol Channels. However, the dream fizzled out in rural Hampshire, and slowly the canal fell into disuse, although there was still some traffic on its Surrey stretches up until 1949. Here at Frimley and just visible in the distance is... [more]
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