Frensham, Pond c.1965
Photo ref: F47097
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Photo ref: F47097
Photo of Frensham, Pond c.1965

A Selection of Memories from Frensham

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Frensham

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I worked at LPH between school and tertiary education in the mid 60s. I am horrified to read the comments on this page. For me at the time that I was there, this was a truly happy and joyful place offering holidays to Lithuanian children. We were all so happy. The little German that I remember was through working with these lovely children, playing 'foosbal' and so on . I got to cook lovely meals for them . A local ...see more
My sister and I were sent to this awful place in 1964 or 65 after our mother died I was 5 and my sister was 7 my memories a were not very nice as someone else has stated we had all our clothes taken away from us and had to wear plain shabby dual clothes, we were made to eat food we didn't like and could not leave the table until, everything was eaten even if this had taken us hours my sister and I were not aloud ...see more
This is actually called Tancreds Ford and was on the smuggling trail from the south coast over to Bagshot Heath where booty was divided up and moved on into London.
On 4th March 1946, about fifty children from Dury Falls School, Hornchurch, were taken by coach to Sheephatch School camp. We slept in double bunks in dormitories; did lessons during the day and went for many walks. In the evenings we learned dancing, such as the Gay Gordons; saw films, and even put on a concert. Every evening we had a hot shower in the ablution block. The dormitories held ...see more