Sandhurst, Berkshire

Living at the Post Office

When I was a teenager I lived at the Post Office that is now a hardware shop, at the eastern end of the village. I was in the church choir and in the bell-ringers. Used to ride my bike down to the cricket field to watch the games. My father, Harry Gardner, was the Postmaster and ran the associated grocery store.... [more]

grounds of the Royal Military Academy

While I was growing up in Sandhurst, the grounds of the College was open to the public and we could walk from the village of Sandhurst through to Camberley. This building with parade ground in front is famous for the white horse which always entered the building up the steps when the passing out parades had finished. In front of this... [more]

childhood memories

This is the street where I was born in 1940, our house is just out of sight, but when I left school in 1955 I worked for a short while in the shop adjoining the post office. Sadly my father, who was in the Army, was posted to Colchester, Essex and so we left Sandhurst in June 1955. But it was... [more]

wedding day

St Michael's Church, where I was christened in 1940, I was married there in June 1960. A beautiful church set in the countryside just out of the village.

Camberley Pocket Album

Once inside the gate, we can see the main building across the boating lake. The land was purchased in 1801 for the grand sum of £8,000 from William Pitt, who had bought the land from one of his nieces.

Southern England

St George’s Chapel is the resting place of kings - Henry VIII and Charles I are buried here. The chapel, one of England’s most impressive ecclesiastical buildings, was begun by Edward IV in 1475 and completed during the reign of Henry VIII.

Berkshire Churches Photographic Memories

This amazing independent brick building is staggering by its sheer size, scale and style. The chapel is almost Byzantine in design, but its transepts are reminiscent of Italian Romanesque rather than Byzantine. In 1922, staff officer Captain A C Martin RE FRIBA conceived the extension; he completed the west end in 1937. Major General Sir Lionel Stopford, former Commandant before the war who returned to the... [more]