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School-Maternity Home-School
During WW2 the pupils were evacuated and the school turned into a temporary Maternity Home.
The Doctor attending the home was only part-time, but always on call.
The Doctor lived a few houses away and at night time he hung a length of string from a bell next to his bed and out of his bedroom window. So a nurse could run to his house to raise him if he was needed.
Such was the case at 2:30am on the 10th of June 1942.
I was born shortly thereafter.
John E. Hutt, now living in Lewiston, NY, USA.
Just Down The Road From us
Our family lived in the village of West Horsley all of my life, I was born in 51, my sister in 49 and my youngest sister 56. We used to bike down to Ripley and Ockham. I went to school at Sir Walter Raleigh, and Howard of Effingham. Mum sadly died in 97, dad moved to Gosport and died 2002, and our house which we had an extension built on, games room and bathroom above garage and utility, was split back into two, and the extension made into a one bed residence that sold for 245.000 amazing!!!! Very fond memories of walking down to the football field and collecting logs for bonfire night, and playing over the fields, up the farm and in the hay barn, ah what fun, the barley mow, the twitten, and blackberries.....ah Loraine nee Soal
Surrey memories
War-Time in Send
In 1939 on the out break of the Second World War my father was sent to London aerodrome, from Cornwall, to repair bombers and fighter planes. I was born in Cornwall, 12 Dec 1940, and my mother wanting to be with her husband took me to Send, where father had managed to get a shared accommodation with another family, called the Gaigens, spelling may be wrong, together in a bungalow in Tannery Lane. I think the bungalow and others have all been pulled down and new houses built there since the war. Father built an underground air raid shelter with bunks in it and every time the siren went off in the village we had to jump out of the bedroom window to get into the shelter. The next door bungalow, about 100 yards down the road had a direct hit with a doodlebug which demolished it, broke all our windows on one side and jammed all the locks.
I started school in Send, mother took me twice and then... Read more
Groves Lock
In my youth (1950s) the lock on the right was know as Groves lock. Mr Groves hired out boats in the summer months and his house was to the right rear of this picture. The river divides here, with the river going of to the left. You used to be able to row a boat down there until you came to a weir. The land in the centre of the picture was owned by Mrs May and her son. Their big house was behind the trees. It still remains.
New Inn Pub
In the '50s this is where I would catch the bus to Woking and on the right, to Guildford, where I travelled to school. My abiding memory is watching the Shire horses being uncoupled from a Barge (to the right rear of the picture) and walked over the bridge and back onto the tow path behind the New Inn, to be re-coupled to the barge. This is because the towpath was on the opposite side of the canal. Horse drawn Barges were still very common then. The land in front of the pub became the car park. This has now been moved to the rear. The door facing you was the entrance to the Off-licence and then the Saloon bar. This is still a beautiful Pub/Restaurant today.
General Stores
To the rear of this picture stands Gladdings Stores. Around this time (1955) it was taken over by Mr Lemon, whose son was my childhood friend. It is now a flashy apartment block.
Even Better Today
I still visit this church, although it is locked much of the time. It looks even better today than it did way back then. The village of 'Send' was supposed to have been built around this church (I am told), however it ended up a couple of miles away. You can still see ruins of cottages along the side of the road if you know were to look. The name 'Send' comes from the word 'Sand', and you can see the effects of quarrying all over 'Send' all the way down to 'Send Marsh'.
