Church c1960, New Haw
Church c1960, New Haw Ref: N183002
Memories of Church c1960, New Haw
Wedding
I married in this church in March 1974 my maiden name was Whittle in those days. I also attended the youth club in the hall that was behind the church for a few years.
New Haw & local memories
Read and share memories of New Haw and Surrey inspired by Frith photos.
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.
Good Young Memories
At nine years old unfortunately I had to leave the area of my birth to which I had so many good memories. My name is Patrick Alexander, born 1947 and first lived as a baby in Kings Rd opposite my grandparents' house which was No 45, their name was Lapwood.
My mother Edith Lapwood married Bert Alexander, another resident of Kings Rd. We then moved to 5 Park Close where I enjoyed tremendously my younger days. The Rec as I knew it was my playground along with the canal where I would often fish, my favorite spot being the wooden bridge where I was told a big pike used to be. I never did catch it though, but I could always wait awhile and watch the Golden Arrow pass by on the railway lines then make my way home crossing the canal lock gates at the rear of the Rec.
I went to New Haw Primary and used to walk to school along the canal path via the woods,... Read more
New Haw
I well recall New Haw as i lived there from 1960 till 1976 (aged 5-21) . I went to Grange School first and then Fullbrook . I would as a child go to these shops for my mum to get the meat and to the paper shop for my comic. Up the road to the right was the Carlton sweet shop, ow what happy times i had in New Haw as a young boy growing up.
Growing Up
I moved to Farleigh Road, New Haw in 1952. I attended West Byfleet Junior School and then Fullbrook School until I graduated in 1960 (after taking a special "commercial course"). Left New Haw in 1966 and moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada where I still live. Haven't been to New Haw for about 20 years but the shops, the youth club, Woodham Lane, cycling to West Byfleet, Old Byfleet and Woking are some of my clearest memories.
The Black Prince
This pub was at the end of Scotland Bridge Road where I lived all my childhood from 1952 to 1974.
The Butchers at New Haw
I went shopping regularly for my Mum to the butchers called Brightwells that were along this parade. Most Saturdays I had to ask for half a leg of lamb, fillet end for 18/6d for our Sunday Roast.
My Very Happy Childhood In New Haw Road!!!
We originally moved in 1957 when I was 5 from Thornton Heath in Surrey to Burleigh Road in Addlestone because my dad had started working for Peto Scott (TV makers) near Weybridge. Then in December 1957 my parents bought a lovely house with 1/3 acre garden in New Haw Road, number 143. We were a family of 4. Reginald and Rachel Hope were our parents, Rosemary my sister and me, Robin. 143 is just 2 doors north of what is now The Moated Farm Drive. It used to be Bentley's Farm. It's now a golf course. I worked on Bentley's Farm when I was in my teens. I got paid 2 shillings an hour! It was a nice bit of pocket money by the end of the week! I used to love going up to the shops opposite The White Hart Bridge on my little bike. There was Kinch's first, the green grocers, then the Post Office and Wavy Line grocery shop. Then there was another entrance into Bentley's farm (shops there... Read more
School Days
I was moved to New Haw in1941 as a small boy, after my mother and I had been sent to several other locations during the early part of the Second World War, my father working in munitions. We lived in Holly Avenue, and after New Haw primary school, I was transferred to Bentlands primary school in Addleston, where all the pupils were like myself London evacuees. I can remember that Bentlands was a large house and opposite us down the street was St. Paul's primary school with whom we often did battle. Our Headmaster was Mr. Henstritch,and our class teacher was W. P. Allen, a volitile Welshman. Eventually 'passed the scholarship' and went to Woking Grammar School where I completed my education. I don't remember the recreation ground being called Heathervale, just 'The Rec'. It was on the other side of Woodham Lane opposite Grange Road. Is that the one? My friends at this time were Bernie Church, Herbert Keating and John Godfrey. Anyone out there? Michael Isaacs
Rosalind Newton
Does anyone remember Rosalind (Ros) Newton who went to Fullbrook School in the 1960s?
Childhood in New Haw
I lived in Holly Avenue, New Haw from 1941-1951, and I remember a very cold winter in 1944, when everything froze. I went to the Co-op youth club in Scotland Bridge Road, and eventually attended school at Woking County Grammar School. It was very rural then with open fields at the top of my street, and when I visited a few years ago it had changed greatly, but was still very beautiful. Regards, Michael Isaacs
Camping With The Red Cross
Some of my best memories of growing up are the camps I attended at the Red Cross camp site over the field (past the farm) and right on the River Wey at New Haw. I actually lived in Brookwood at the time.
We did hiking, canoeing and swimming in the river; I spent many happy summers there. The best thing compared to the Scouts & Cubs was that the Red Cross had both girls & boys and my first proper girl friend Emma was on the camp as well. It also had a super tuck shop ...
Anyone that remembers or attended these camps I am sure will have fond memories, please contact me andy.t.powell@baesystems.com
I have been trying to contact anyone from those days.
Happy Days in The Late 40s/early 50s
My memories relate to the 1940s and 50s - my Grandmother [Laura Reeves] and Grandfather [William Reeves] lived at 106 New Haw Road. My gran ran a little shop in the front room and I can still remember the smell of cheese, bacon and tobacco together with sundry sweets she sold from huge jars on the shelves. Two aunts and uncles and their families lived across the road at numbers 125 and 127 respectively - Sid and Elsie Reeves at 127 and Dorrie and Percy Alexander at 125 with their son Jim and daughters Eileen and Beryl, though Eileen married and moved to Canada early on in my memory. Uncle Percy worked at Vickers Armstrongs up at Brooklands as a fitter. Next door to them, at 123, lived Mr and Mrs Hayes, a formidable couple who were always telling us off, my cousin Beryl and I, for making a noise when we were playing! A bit further down the road lived Elaine Bristow who, much later on, also went to... Read more
Living in New Haw Until 1968
I was born in Farleigh Road in New Haw in 1945. My dad, John, worked at Vickers Armstrongs as did many other parents and my Mum, Grace, had also worked there during the war before she had children. She and my elder brother, John, were evacuated to Scotland at one time because of the bombing of the factory.
After the war I went to West Byfleet Primary School, as did my three brothers, twins Peter and Paul completed the family. Mrs. Crab was my first teacher and we also had Miss Rose who, I think, went off to India to teach children there. At one time we had an Indian male teacher. I was playing the part of an Indian girl who was being told the story of the nativity by two English children. The Indian teacher helped to dress me in a sari, suitably chaperoned by Miss Hey, the headmistress. We performed the play in St. John's church and afterwards I kept my brown make-up on and walked home... Read more
New Haw
I used to live by West Weybridge station (now Byfleet & New Haw) and presently live in Woodham, near the lock. I have many memories of the New Haw/West Byfleet/Byfleet area especially of the Youth Club at West Byfleet in the 1950's and early 1960's.
I Also Married at This Church
I was married to Colin at this church in 1971. My maiden name was Sadler. We had our reception at the Otter Hotel in Ottershaw.
