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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 map

Historic map of Frimley Green

Surrey map

Illustrated Victorian map of Surrey

Frimley Green map

Historic Map of any Frimley Green postcode

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Frimley Green books

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Surrey County Memories
Paperback
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Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories
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Camberley Photographic Memories
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Frimley Green books
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Memories of Frimley Green

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Burrow Hill - Today

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 by John Parker.

Woodlands dormitory pranks

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 by Frank Thurlow.

Burrow Hill School

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 by Roger Hibbard.

Burrow Hill School

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 by Maurice Coffey.

Hatches

I remember paddling in the stream and enjoying lazy days of peace and quiet. The hatches were then grazing land with cattle. You then could see the abbey and grounds in the distance, we then watched them dug out and they made way for gravel pits. A little lad drowned in the lakes.

Shared on 10 January 2009

Burrow Hill school

I was at Burrow Hill for 18 months, having been sent there because of poor conditions at home. It was the happiest time of my life. We lived in dorms that were built for wounded GI's during the war. They were built on stilts and had stable type doors. We used torches at night to move from building to building as... [more]

Shared on 12 November 2008 by Peter Savine.

After the War

I lived at 257 Frimley Green Road- where Warrens' garage now stands - 1942 to 1954. There was an air-raid shelter on the Green which we watched being demolished.  Every Nov 5th there was a gigantic bonfire on the Green, fired by paraffin donated by Percy Warren; squaddies would come down from Deepcut and add to the tumult, one year detonating... [more]

Shared on 29 August 2008 by David Kearns.

Frimley Green memories

My Dad was Charles Cheyne, the village chemist in Frimley Green - famous for his cough medicine - the report in the local Camberley News when he died in 1963 reported "It was dark brown in colour and had no name.  Word spread far and wide about Mr Cheyne's cough cure, and soon people were sending for his medicine by post... [more]

Shared on 15 February 2008 by Elizabeth Keleher.

Extracts From Frimley Green & Surrey books

Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Frimley Green, inspired by Frith photos.

Camberley Pocket Album

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.

This is an extract from Camberley Pocket Album.
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Camberley Pocket Album

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.

This is an extract from Camberley Pocket Album.
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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]

This is an extract from Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories.
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