Shamley Green
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Shamley Green books (32 available)
Camberley Town Walk Guide
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Redhill to Reigate Photographic Memories
Paperback
Camberley Pocket Album
Paperback
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Bramly church and 'The Jolly'
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
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
Pub
My gran owned the pub at Blackheath which was called the Forest King, it was on the edge of the cricket pitch. There was also another pub called the Volunteer on the next road. Does anybody remember them?
A memory of Blackheath contributed by ian risbridger
Memories
It has been almost 50 years since I have seen the inside of this church. My mother; Molly Risbridger) was married in this church to a Canadian soldier Mr. Ken Lloyd Maxted. I am their son Robert Glenn Maxted. Happy Anniversary! 2007
I love you Mom and Dad,
Your Son,
Glenn
A memory of Blackheath contributed by robert Maxted
Extracts From Shamley Green & Surrey books
The village was once known as Shamble Lea, and Oliver Cromwell granted it a charter to hold an
annual fair. The well-known TV artist Tony Hart lives in Shamley Green, while Alfred Hitchcock once
lived here, and Sir Richard Branson spent part of his childhood here.
An extract from from"Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories".
Once part of Wonersh, and originally called Shamble Lea, this hamlet had a share of the medieval cloth trade, particularly with the Canary Islands. The local industry embarked on a decline during the reign of the first Queen Elizabeth, according to the diarist John Aubrey, because of the merchants' dubious practice of stretching the fabric to increase their profits.
An extract from from"Surrey Revisited Photographic Memories".
A community of Cokelers,
a religious group otherwise
known as the Dependents,
once lived in the village.
Founded in the 1850s, they
established a number of
small religious communities
on the Surrey/Sussex border.
Cokeler women wore black
straw bonnets over their
plaited buns. They had three
religious services every
Sunday with more in the
week; they were extremely
business-like, and very kind
to everyone in need.
An extract from from"Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories".
Moving south-east and still within Wonersh parish, we reach Shamley Green, in
1965 still a remote Surrey hamlet loosely built around its triangular green.
Nowadays it is much smarter and more prosperous. L T Gamblin’s village smithy
with the cycles leaning against it has gone the way of most forges and is now a
shop, Poppy’s Delicatessen, while the post office is now the Beauty Gallery and
has lost its telephone kiosk. Note the bubble car - a real period piece.
An extract from from"Surrey Living Memories".
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".