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Horton Hospital photos
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Horton Hospital maps
Historic maps of Horton Hospital and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Horton Hospital maps
Horton Hospital area books
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Memories of Horton Hospital
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I arrived at Horton hospital as a young nurse, from Guyana, and was given the best nursing education. I moved to the USA, The education I received at Horton was second to none, and I am eternally grateful.
Happy Days
Spent 3 very happy years on the nursing staff, made many friends, who I lost contact with.
Surrey memories
Saturdays in The Cinema
During the Second World War, as youngsters we would look forward to the Saturday mornig matinee at the Odeon cinema (4th building on the left of photo).
Entrance was thruppence (three pennies). With our pocket money we would lash out on a penny peashooter with a packet of peas, the matinee used to start with a sing-along followed by a cartoon, then two half-hour films, the last being a western serial.
One that I remember well ends with the good guy entering the cabin and then it explodes, next Saturday's serial shows the guy coming out of the back door just before the explosion.
Bad guys always wore the black hats, this was the time for the booing, the good guys wore white hats, this was the time for the cheering.
The noise was so loud the cinema manager would come up on the stage to ask the kids to keep the noise down, I'm sure it could be heard half way down... Read more
The Nell Gwenn
The white building in the forground is the Nell Gwenn public house, a well-known hostelry.
Going to School
The path shown in the picture was my route to the infants school which was then in Church House, down the steps to the right of the tower. Miss Cordell was headmistress, ably supported by Miss Hyde, Mrs Wooding and Mrs Price, whose sons Dominic and Christopher also attended the school.
Waterloo Road
This photo was taken from immediately in front of my Uncle's/Father's (Antiques) shop in Waterloo Road, looking towards the station. Divers, the shop with all the hardware items immediately in the foreground, was next door and I was always being told off as a child for touching/playing with their goods!
Woodcote Pond
My brother and I used to play in the woods on Woodcote Green and build dens. We also used to paddle in the pond in wellies, or walk on the ice in winter.
