The Burgh Heath Corn Stores

A Memory of Burgh Heath.

Pictured to the right of you Galleon Swimming pool photo and directly opposite was the Burgh Heath Corn Stores. It was sighted on the old Bake House and in the back room were several old brick ovens. I bought all my horse food from there and they also sold guinee pigs, white mice, rabbits and goldfish as well as animal feed. On Thursdays they had a special delivery of home made sausages which were scrumptious. Opposite the corn stores was the Surrey Yeoman public house and the bridleway ran beside it over Miss Deats green. She was a commoner and kept geese. Above the stables of the |Surrey Yeoman was a store where the Corn Stores kept their hay and straw and spare stock. As you progressed over the back common on the bridleway you passed the rear of the Deats store which sold groceries, fireworks and sweats and was the only shop open on a Sunday. You then arrived at the Brighton Rd opposite Cannons Lane, to the left of which was Can Hatch, the back stables of a derelict house which Cyril Mitchel used as a recouperation stables for his race horses. His training yard was facing the main green at Burgh Heath opposite the Surrey Yeoman. He had a white Alsation which when he was riding out followed him everywhere.His daughter's grey Shetland pony was tethered on the green. He trained the winner of the Military Gold Cup with Golden Drop, and the Great Metropolitan with Heavens Bequest. He also trained horses for Peter Osullivan whose little grey mare Chinchilla was sold to India. Hedgelands was also another big winner. His head lad was Gorden Trivett who lived on the estate.
Cannons Lane led to Cannons Farm and then to Perriots Farm and the bridleway continued, branched right through fields and under a railway bridge to The Avenue at Kingswood or left through the woods and the back of Perriots Farm and down to Chipstead Rd. David, the farmer had an accident with a bailer and badly damaged his arm.

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