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Julia and Fredrick Creasey lived here, with their family, Fred actually died there and was laid out in the pantry. My father Allan Creasey was born there in 1943.
Surrey memories
East Street - Looks Like The Petworth Road!
The building on the left with the white wooden fence looks like the old Haslemere Police Station in the Petworth Road. (Note from The Frith Memories Archivist - This road was called East Street at the time this photograph was taken; we believe that the name was later changed to Petworth Road.)
Three Counties House.
I seem to recall a family called Brennon living here in the early 1960s. I was at the Haslemere Convent School with one of the daughters (Catherine?). We used to catch the Aldershot & District Bus from Haslemere Station to the stop at Shottermill near to the Rex Cinema. My journey would then continue on to Critchmere Lane. Sometimes, I would have to catch the Hindhead bus that took the higher road beyond the church. This however, involved a longer walk down Critchmere Lane to Manor Close where I lived until 1967. I would be most interested to hear from anyone who could substantiate these memories. Also if anyone has photographs or memories of the lovely old house (now demolished) that was the Convent of Providence school off Derby Road, Haslemere. This was a magnificent (if not slightly spooky to us little ones) building set in grounds with small orchard and shrubberies. A typical, tile-hung Surrey country house with many internal features including original... Read more
9 Months of my Life Spent Here
I was a boy sargeant soldier at Arborfield AAS when I came down with a serious illness and rushed into Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot and when I defied the odds and lived , it was discovered that I had pulmonary TB of the right lung. I was transferred to Connaught Military Sanatorium at Hindhead ,Surrey which I believe is the hospital featured in the photo ref.67886 although I do not recognise the angle it is taken from.
I got to know many of the patients and staff and although the hospital by this time was already condemned I received very good and kind treatment and the male orderlies competence and kindness motivated me into becoming a male qualified nurse. I am now 76yrs.old and am still working as an RGN in old folks homes in Lincolnshire, but I shall never forget those 9 mths months in Connaught Military Hospital ,Hindhead where I was restored to health from near death.
Thanks to any of the... Read more
The Undershaw Hotel
I remember having a very nice meal in the Undershaw sometime in the 1990's - it's a shame that it closed down around 2004. The house was built for Conan Doyle in 1897 and this is where he wrote "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and other Sherlock Holmes novels.
Unfortunately, property developers who bought the house want to turn it into flats or pull it down! The house is Grade II listed and I hope the local council can save it for the nation before it falls down.
Family D'Hondt
My grandparents Paula and Gustave D'Hondt managed this hotel during the latter half of the 1930s till it was requisitioned by the army during the war. They then moved with some of their paying guests to Highdown, Hindhead, a large house nearby. Many of their full time residents were ex colonials. They kept chickens during the war to help with rationing. I know that they had at least 2 people working for them, Nelly and Margaret(whose surnames I don't know)
Paula and Gustave came from Belgium originally and had 12 children. Their eldest daughter Paula lived nearby and their 2 youngest daughters Marie Therese and Patricia at that time lived at home with their parents. Gustave and Paula D'Hondt are buried at St Joseph's RCC Grayshott.
