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My Childhood In New Haw
Our family moved to New Haw when the new council houses were built at Heathervale. We lived at 26 Park Side. Everybody moved in about the same time so during the fifties there was great community spirit in our street. The residents even managed to build their own social club (Park Side Club). My father Basil Ponting was involved with this, but probably only on the drinking side.
It's still possible for me to remember some of the families that lived in our street, names like Doig, Pacey, Norman, Richards, Burgess, Redmond, Saul and Hill etc. I attended New Haw County Primary School (now demolished) from the age of five until I was sent to a school for the Partially Sighted in Seaford, Sussex.
Heathervale Park was right behind our house but somehow we preferred to play out front, pushing our homemade trolleys around the block. When we did go over to the park there was always a parkie (as we called him) on duty so it... Read more
NEW HAW CHILDHOOD
I have lived in New Haw most of my life. My family moved from Kings Road to Farleigh Road in 1949. One of my first memories was being taken to the New Haw Clinic for day care as my mother worked in London. There I encountered Nurse Lytle whom I met later at West Byfleet and Fullbrook School. We nicknamed her "The Nit Nurse". Pocket money in the 1950s was not very generous - but at the age of 5 I clutched 2d in my hand and made my way to "Hunts" to buy either 4 blackjacks and 4 fruits salads (1d for 4) or a packet of polos. Mr. Hunt first ran the shop solely as a sweet shop but later branched out selling wallpaper, paint and all things DIY - today the shop specialises in nail extensions and manicures. Next to him was the jeweller "Mees" (which is now a hairdressers) - I used to do a lot of window shopping there. Kendals used to sell corn, chicken... Read more
Life And Times of Suzanne Knight in New Haw.
I lived at 5 Manor Drive with my 3 sisters, Kathleen, Elizabeth and Mary. I was born in the house at 1am on a snowy night in 1954 and was delivered by my dad and Dr Poles, while Mary slept and Kathleen and Elizabeth were shipped across the road to spend the night with Stuart Yates. And I lived there until 1972.
In the early years. whilst my sisters were at school, my mum would sit me in my little pillion chair on her bike and she used to ride down the cage walk, up Rowtown Hill and into Liberty Lane to see my Nanny. A warm welcome there: a jam tart and a cup of tea and we'd head home along New Haw Road, past the White Heart Pub, the New Haw lock, Woodham Church and then turn right up Grange Road. She used to sing all the way home: a little Frank, Dean,and songs from My Fair Lady...Thus we had riden in a full circle around New... Read more
New Haw
Woking: Having just read memories of New Haw has sent my mind racing. My name is Joe Kennedy, having lived on the corner of Kings Road and Woodham Lane from 1940, doing Nat Service in 1959. Recognising many names from memories. I also went to New Haw primary then West Byffleet. Mr Bean was headmaster. Having read names Read and Carter, I was friends with Johonny Read (brothers Stan & David) and Terry Carter from Kings Road. I intend to be around New Haw during this summer 2011 on holiday. I am living in Sydney, Australia. I have many memories of growing up in New Haw, and would love to hear from anyone from those days. I knew the Park Side club well (Sport), played cricket and football (New Haw CC in Heathervale Rec in the 1950s), also played football for Chertsey, Woking & Addlestone. Would love to hear from anyone from those days. Cheers Joe. A memory of Woking, shared by Joe Kennedy.
A Happy, Friendly Place For A Boy to Grow up ...
Born in Woking in 1945 I lived in New Haw from 1947 to 1964, firstly at Warren Road and then from 1949 in Braeside.
I remember Mrs Crab at West Byfleet Primary who taught me to read; I remember Mr Bean at Fullbrook who made me a prefect. I recall so many names: Ruddick; Sears; Wade; Read; Mandeville; Sheppard; Crossan; Mullins; Francis and Bint - from Braeside. The Bints had the electricity pylon in their garden: we awoke often to the sound of a fry-up on the air whenever the atmosphere was damp and it made the pylon wires sizzle. Then, I recall Lavender; Bott; Carter, Ayres and McDaid in King's Road. Caldwell in Broomfield. Kelland; Freshwater; Lake; Hurley; Church and Richards in Park Side. And many more besides.
Our childhood NW Surrey playground was vast: Heathervale Recreation ground where we used to build camps in the undergrowth at the edge of the rec. (And where, aged about 5, I sang 'Oh... Read more
My Grandparents The Lock Keepers, Mr And Mrs Denyer
I have very happy memories of my grandparents. My grandad had an enormous beard, and grandma always wore a long flowered apron. Grandad used to sit me on the handle of the lock gate while he slowly opened it to let the water level rise or drop so the water level in the lock was the same as the river and then the barge could go on its way. My mother left New Haw to live in Grimsby, the only time I saw my grandparents then was when we came on holiday. As I got older the barge people would let me sail through the locks into the river and my grandma would get me of the other side. I remember on one visit one of my little sisters had somehow got to the water's edge, nobody dared call her for fear of her falling in, it was a case of creep up and grab.
At the back of the cottage was a waterfall with a footbridge going over it,... Read more
Grange School And Onwards
My name is Andy Pearce and I was born in New Haw in 1952. I went to Grange School in 1957.
Names I remember are Jenkins, Wright, Hatch, Swanton, Gill, Watts. Many more faces than surnames.Was a paperboy at Flanagans on Woodham Road and belonged to the Cubs that met at Grange School and the Scouts that had an old Nissan hut down by the canal, next to the rec. Friends were Richard Jenkins, Olivia Philipson, Mary Rowlands. Great times for kids, biking through the fields to Rowtown, playing along and in the Bourne.
I recall my first day at school, kicking over some skittles in the classroom with another boy, Robert something (also in the cubs). We both got a ruler across our legs from the teacher.
Used to love roller skating down the Grange Road hill, from Manor Road to Job's dairy, which was almost opposite our house. We used to play in their yard in the evenings.
The skating memory reminds me that there was a lovely... Read more
Growing up in New Haw 1970s And 1980s
I was adopted in 1970 and was moved from east London to New Haw. I was brought up in Grange Rd, family name Alexander. I never had much of a home life but it didn't matter because the time was spent fishing on the Bourne and Wey, going to the Carlton for sweets and generally roaming the fields of Grange and Manor Farms. We weren't meant to but I was friends with one of the farmer's kids. I remember the record shop as Round Sound where I bought my first record. A great place to spend a childhood. The surnames I remember are Alderman, Court, Lewis and Taylor. I went to Grange School, New Haw Middle and Fullbrook.
