Forge Garage,Leigh Surrey.
A Memory of Leigh.
In the Leigh Surrey Website headed "History from Parishioners" is a photo of the Forge, Leigh taken around 1900.
The people in the picture from right to left are; In the doorway Mr Frank Flint who later ran the Petrol station Mr George Flint the village blacksmith who was badly kicked by a shire horse and died of these injuries several months later on Christmas Eve 1909. Mr Salmon who worked for Mr Flint also a blacksmith Mrs G Flint and an unknown on the extreme left.
Before living at the Forge Mr George Flint lived in one of the old cottages in what is now Leigh
church yard.
With regard to the article on the village green shop Mrs Gurney ran it with her daughter
Miss Gurney until just after WW2 when the older lady died and Miss Gurney ran the shop on her own
I think they had a brother who was sadly killed in World War 1.
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