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Polesden Lacey maps
Historic maps of Polesden Lacey and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Polesden Lacey maps
Polesden Lacey photos
We have no photos of Polesden Lacey, although we do have photos of these nearby places: Ranmore Common, Effingham, Great Bookham, Bookham, Little Bookham, Ranmore, West Humble, Westcott, Boxhill, East Horsley, Fetcham, Mickleham, Dorking, Wotton, West Horsley, Leatherhead, Abinger, North Holmwood, Abinger Hammer, Downside, Gomshall, Friday Street, Stoke D'abernon, Abinger Common, East Clandon, Ockham, BrockhamPolesden Lacey books
Displaying 3 of 9 books about Polesden Lacey and the local area. View all Polesden Lacey books
Surrey County Memories
Paperback
£15
Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories
Paperback
£14
Camberley Photographic Memories
Paperback
£13
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Memories of Polesden Lacey
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By kind permission of the Lord Ashcombe, the Holy Trinity Junior Boys Club, Wimbledon, camped for four weeks every year on Ranmore Common. Most of us were choirboys, so we augmented St Barnabas's choir for their services twice each Sunday. Lord Ashcombe read the lessons. At that time there was a dairy next to his house, Denbies, and he gave us... [more]
Shared on 04 November 2009
When I was about 11 or 12 in the 50's I used to ride from Bookham over to Ranmore quite often. I would take a packed lunch in a rucksack and off I would go for the day all on my own. When I got to Ranmore, I used to tie my pony to a tree and go in the post... [more]
Shared on 26 January 2007
It's only roughly 1955 because we lived there from 1944 and moved to Little Bookham but I always remember Mum used to go to, as she would say, Absolems, which I remember well. I knew St Nicholas church then, we always went to church. I had friends down the Lower Road where we lived. I went to St Nicholas School. Would... [more]
Shared on 05 September 2009
Interesting to read the memory from Sue Rainer- Copland on Petherbridges greengrocers - my Mum worked there for many years. I can vividly remember long queues outside the door on many, many occasions. Above Camerons and the greengrocers was a ladies hairdressers called Geralds.
Does anyone remember Walker Smiths - grocers on the opposite side of the road?... [more]
Shared on 08 June 2009
Extracts From Polesden Lacey & Surrey books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Polesden Lacey, inspired by Frith photos.
Dorking Town and City Memories
Other local churches, claimed to be 'old and steady', are Shere, Leigh, Mickleham, Abinger, Wotten and Betchworth: they have stood for centuries. St Barnabas's on Ranmore sits 700 feet above Dorking on Ranmore Common. Sir Gilbert Scott designed it in 1859 as the estate church for George Cubitt, the first Lord Ashcombe. In the churchyard lie the founder of Denbies Estate, and his three grandsons, Henry, Alick... [more]
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Dorking Town and City Memories
he downs are mostly of chalk, and otherwise of sandstone, and each has its own special flora. The sandstone hills have their highest point in Leith Hill, 965ft above sea level, about five miles south-west of Dorking. From there they fall away in a picturesque series of steps, rising again to the same level as Leith Hill at Hindhead and Black Down. Leith Hill and its tower... [more]
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Dorking Town and City Memories
t was said by many that 'Dorking lime is undoubtedly one of the finest quality of limestone in the county, if not England', and it was claimed that the chalk burnt into lime at Dorking was sought after by every mason and bricklayer in London. The West India and Wapping Docks were built with Dorking lime. In photograph 79501, right, we can see the white scar of... [more]
This is an extract from Dorking Town and City Memories.
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