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Bramley memories

Eastwood Road Bramley and my family

Bramley, Eastwood Road 1921

My family have been in Eastwood Road Bramley for almost 100 years and some are still there. I grew up in Eastwood road; most of my family have lived there. My Great Great Grandmother,my Great Grand Mother and my Grandmother and my two great Aunts lived in the house on the corner of the picture (73) and that is my two Great Aunts Hilda and Nelly in the picture with (I think) their friend May. Auntie Hilda lived there untill 2006. The house on the other side of the road (No 48) that you can just see in the picture is where my Mother and her brothers and sisters were born. My Auntie and Uncle live next door still and my ...read more here
Contributed by Rachel Major

Bramly church and 'The Jolly'

Bramley, High Street c1955

My parent got married here in 1955 at the church and then they all crossed the road to 'The Jolly' for the reception.
Contributed by Rachel Major

Surrey memories

Bramly church and 'The Jolly'

Bramley, High Street c1955

My parent got married here in 1955 at the church and then they all crossed the road to 'The Jolly' for the reception.
A memory of Bramley contributed by Rachel Major

Eastwood Road Bramley and my family

Bramley, Eastwood Road 1921

My family have been in Eastwood Road Bramley for almost 100 years and some are still there. I grew up in Eastwood road; most of my family have lived there. My Great Great Grandmother,my Great Grand Mother and my Grandmother and my two great Aunts lived in the house on the corner of the picture (73) and that is my two Great Aunts Hilda and Nelly in the picture with (I think) their friend May. Auntie Hilda lived there untill 2006. The house on the other side of the road (No 48) that you can just see in the picture is where my Mother and her brothers and sisters were born. My Auntie and Uncle live next door still and my ...read more here
A memory of Bramley contributed by Rachel Major

Extracts From Bramley & Surrey books

Bramley, High Street 1904

Taken at the western end of the village, this photograph shows the Jolly Farmer pub on the right. It was formerly known as the Wheatsheaf. There is, of course, another Wheatsheaf further along the road; it had once been a pair of cottages, but they were converted to a beer house in the 1880s.
An extract from from"Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories".

Bramley, the School 1906

The village school opened in 1851, but its role has changed several times over the years. In 1904 it became a mixed school of infants, juniors and seniors. From 1949, it was solely a junior school, and then switched to become a first school in 1973. Closure was threatened in 1994, yet it survives to this day with infant pupils as well as a nursery.
An extract from from"Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories".

Bramley, High Street 1929

The five motor vehicles in this picture presage the heavy traffic to come in the decades ahead along this section of the A281 heading into Guildford. Mr and Mrs Wise, along with their son and daughter, ran their teashop on the corner to the left from 1923 to 1973. The Langrish Bramley Stores immediately opposite extended over three shops, and was the enterprise of Mr Langrish, the parish clerk.
An extract from from"Surrey Revisited Photographic Memories".

Bramley, High Street c1955

Bramley stands about four miles south of Guildford on the Horsham Road; it is a long village with a busy crossroads with Station Road (there has been no railway since the 1960s). This view was taken just south of the crossroads, looking down the High Street; the two pubs on the right are the Jolly Farmers and the Wheatsheaf. In the distance there are Victorian buildings - the Bramley Dairy, left of centre, is now a house. At the far left is the high churchyard wall to Holy Trinity church, yet another Surrey medieval church largely replaced in Victorian times.
An extract from from"Surrey Living Memories".

Godalming, Church Street 1906

Three of Church Street’s five pubs are in this photo - the Corn Meter extreme left, the Star centre left, and the Live and Let Live just beyond the archway on the right. The arch led to the rear of the Angel Hotel yard, owned at that time by John Jasper Taylor, who also had a temperance hotel, Deanery House, further down Church Street.
An extract from from"Godalming Town and City Memories".