Leatherhead
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Camberley Town Walk Guide
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Surrey Living Memories
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Trips to the blacksmiths
In the 1950's I used to ride my pony from the Leatherhead Road in Gt. Bookham through Fetcham to Leatherhead to get to the blacksmiths. The blackmsiths was a proper big old forge at Prewetts Dairy off Randals Road. I used to have to lead my pony over this rickety little bridge. It had wobbly planks and there was one missing one time I crossed it. It was probably a 9 mile round trip just to get the pony re-shod. It didn't cost much though, I think it was about 7/6d. The blacksmiths were father and son - I can't remember their names. The old man used to work the bellows mainly and shoe the quieter horses - like my old ...read more here
A memory of Fetcham contributed by Paula Clements nee Absalom
Breakfast at Ashtead
Having breakfast and the sight of a fishing pond with a woman I once loved.
A memory of Ashtead contributed by Phelim Gollogly
Ashtead resident finds herself in 1925 Caterham bus photo
The above photo is the pond which is close to Dorothy Connor's current home in Glebe Road, Ashtead. This area has not changed so very much since the time the Frith photo was taken in 1904.
Interestingly, Dorothy Connor (nee Step) is actually pictured in the Caterham Frith photo ref 78135V accompanied by her late Mother Elizabeth Step (aged 46) and her Sister, Florence Step (aged 21) having alighted from the 159a Bus which brought them from their home in Clerkenwell, London, pictured Outside the Old Surrey Hounds Public House, Croydon Road, Caterham Surrey on a Day Out to Caterham in 1925. They were on their way to the Barracks Hospital to see Dorothy's, Uncle Charlie (her Father's Brother) ...read more here
A memory of Ashtead contributed by Elisabeth Connor
St Nicholas School
Formerly St Nicholas School. I attended St Nicholas School from 1952 until 1956. I have a photograph taken in 1955 where at the age of 7 I was on the football team, The sons of the singer Joan Regan attended the school and were my best friends. I contacted Box Hill School a few years ago and apparently they had no record of St Nicholas School which is a pity. The headmistress's name was Miss T Garrard. It was a gentile co-educational boarding school. I often wonder what happened to the students and when the school closed.
A memory of Mickleham contributed by john wordsworth
Extracts From Leatherhead & Surrey books
The quaint clock-tower has gone in the rebuilding that has overtaken Leatherhead; it used to stand atop the old fire station. This view is looking down Gravel Hill. This is a quiet mid-afternoon picture, deserted save for workmen re-fitting the shopfront to the post office on the left.
An extract from from"Surrey Photographic Memories".
The quaint old clock tower with the fire station in its base, which stood at the foot of Gravel Hill, was an early casualty of the town planners' ruthless remodelling of the town centre. Most of the other buildings depicted here in North Street have also all gone, and no local farmer or carter would now ever contemplate bringing a horse-drawn conveyance into the heart of contemporary Leatherhead.
An extract from from"Surrey Revisited Photographic Memories".
Bridge Street slopes down to the river Mole and the 14-arch bridge of 1782. Beside the bridge on the right of the picture is the Running Horse, a 16th-century inn which features in John Skelton’s ‘Tunning of Elinor Rumming’, a rampant piece of doggerel about an alewife.
An extract from from"Surrey Photographic Memories".
A bowler-hatted gentleman contemplates this tranquil river scene looking towards the gracious arches of the viaduct that carries the railway to Effingham junction. Today the view through the railway arches is one of industrial buildings, with a playing field at the river’s edge.
An extract from from"Surrey Photographic Memories".
New buildings and modern traffic have altered this scene almost beyond recognition. Note on the left Hartshorn the Butcher, purveyor to the Duke of Connaught. Note the fire station and post office also seen in picture 21343.
An extract from from"Surrey Photographic Memories".