Nostalgic memories of Great Bookham's local history

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Displaying Memories 31 - 39 of 39 in total

My parents, Rose Marston and Roy Sopp were married in this church! I have the wedding photo of them standing in the side entrance.
I remember this house on the right and think it was called The Grange. CORRRECTION.  It was called The Glade of course - I remember now so thank you for that, Maureen.  I knew it in the 1950s when Mr and Mrs Webb lived there with their son John. Mrs. Webb was the person who first took me riding up at the Carter's stables on the Dorking Road. Later in the 1960s I remember the Martins lived there -  Steve and Tim.
Correction to this original post - Jennifer Hudson's memory has corrected my original post about this photo. The road shown is actually Crabtree Lane. Just on the right is a footpath through to the Dorking Road at the far end of the Recreation Ground - if that still stands and has not been built on !
My grandfather set up this shop on the right.
This shop on the right, was first opened by my Dad's father, Henry Absalom, it was next door to a sweet shop his wife Ethel ran.  Ethel started a little shop from much further down the High Street during the 2nd World War when Henry came down from London to work as an armaments worker at the factory opposite the station - was that Gillets?.  She ran her shop originally from her front room from a tiny house further ...see more
My Dad ran a grocers shop in this parade in the 60's.
I remember Grove Cottages and the families who lived in both No 1 & 2 in 1965.  My parents were friendly with the Davies in No 2 and as a teenager I visited No 1 on many occasions along with all our crowd.  The LeNoble family made us all very welcome and the cellar was a great meeting place for all us youngsters - happy memories. I was born and grew up in Bookham. My extended family owned family grocers shops ...see more
My brother Ray and myself lived at this address, depicted on the right of the photograph, with our parents, Alec and Doris, known as Dot and Davie. During the war a child from 1, Grove Cottages crawled through the fence and was killed on the road outside by a passing coach. Just beyond our house, which used to be a public house called The Saracen & Ring, a flint and brick wall was ...see more
I lived with my parents and brother, Ray, at the top of the High Street at 2, Grove Cottages, Leatherhead Road.  I lived there until I married Jean Rumming from Hersham, Surrey in 1960. This used to be a public house later closed down by Mrs Christie. The Royal Oak public house is on the right. We both belonged to St. Nicholas Church choir at the bottom of the High Street. High Court Judge Tucker lived just beyond the ...see more