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Historic maps of Ockley and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Ockley maps
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Wartime Funeral
My mother died in 1943,when I was still a child. It was strange, terrible time but I remember vividly standing in the peaceful churchyard at the burial. The place is dear to my heart.
Surrey memories
The Royal Alexandra & Albert School
I came here at almost 5 years of age, in September 1949, to commence my schooling with the then newly amalgamated Royal Alexandra and Royal Albert Schools - both being of London orphanage origins from the mid-eighteenth century. The beautiful 250 acre estate, formerly belonging to the late Sir Jeremiah Colman ("The Mustard King") was acquired by the newly-formed RAAS shortly after Sir Jeremiah's demise in 1948, and I was among the very first juvenile occupants in Gatton Hall's new guise as a boarding school. In the 62 years since then, there have been significant developments and additional school buildings; most were completed by 1953, but as the school and it's requirements have expanded, so too have the considerable number of additional buildings and facilities - all sympathetically in keeping with the ambience of the estate, which has much history. In 1086 it was mentioned in the Domesday Book, given parliamentary borough status in 1450 with it's own rudimentary 'Town Hall' (still standing), and was landscaped into parkland in 1766... Read more
Leonard Douglas Martin Born 1892 Gatton Park
My grandfather Leonard Martin was born on the Gatton Park Estate in 1892, where his father George Martin was the 'Head Coachman Domestic'. The family actually occupied four rooms over the stables. He went to school on the estate, and I have a couple of photographs of him there, when he was five years old.
I would love to discover more information about the Gatton Park Estate at that time and whether anyone else has family connections to this place.
My Forest Green Family
I moved to Forest Green when I was 2 but my whole family comes from the area. Christine Dendy (my maternal grandmother) was born in the village. Her parents were a housemaid and a gamekeeper/odd-job man for the Vaughan-Williams estate. My grandmother was born in the row of First World War council houses erected behind the village green and she married the son of a village shopkeeper from Ockley. Their children were my mother and my uncle. My mother married a Londoner she met through her job and I am one of her four children. Two years ago my husband and I upheld four generations of tradition when we married in Forest Green church and were doubly proud to display my grandmother's wedding pics from the same venue! Hopefully at some point we will move back to the area, though sadly the village school at Walliswood which at least four generations of my family attended has been closed.
Capel Cricket
Living in capel before moving to NZ
Lyne House
My husband, daughter & I moved to Capel in 1991 to live in an apartment on the top floors of Lyne House. Lyne was the country house of the Broadwood family who were very famous piano makers. The mansion is a fascinating place to live with an abundance of history. Built in around 1799 it was totally changed from it's Georgian style to Victorian red brick with an extra storey. The communal hall has portraits of the Broadwood ancesters and a grand piano. The Broadwood Morris Men visit Lyne House every May Day and dance on the lawn or even in the hall depending on the weather! They took their Broadwood name because of Lucy Broadwood who was a collector of folk songs and folklore.
We intended staying here for a couple of years when we moved in but 20 years later we are still here although the time has come to move on. We have many wonderful memories of parties,barbecues,weddings and other celebrations with some great neighbours. Capel is... Read more
I Lived in Capel 40 Years
I loved every day there with my mother and father, I went to the school at 5 years till 11 years old.
