Stoke D'abernon
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Map of Surrey
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Stoke D'abernon books (32 available)
Camberley Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Redhill to Reigate Photographic Memories
Paperback
Camberley Pocket Album
Paperback
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Happy Motoring
I believe the white building to the centre left in picture is the Thompson & Taylor garage. I worked there briefly (about 1 year), the manager then was a Huw Edwards? I think, but the name of T & T was very well known in motor racing circles & particularly with the nearby Brooklands motor racing circuit. There was a huge old car Napier Railton I think, memory going, which was kept in the showroom & with which the land speed record was won sometime in the 1930's. Stirling Moss was an occasional visitor as he had then just purchased a very special cooper mini, and John Cooper (Cooper Cars) also came & went, and to top all that ...read more here
A memory of Cobham contributed by Vee Williams
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
Lower Road
My parents were married in St Nicholas Church in 1960 - Valmai Daily (my mother) grew up at 234 Lower Road with her brother, Adrian and parents Dot and Drew. My Grandfather was a local electrician who spent all his free time at Effingham Golf Club and my grandmother (having retired from midwifery) was for many years the nurse at The School of Stitchery. I spent many of my early years in Great Bookham and then every school holiday when I went 'to work' with my Grandmother at The School of Stitchery and made many friends there. Names I can remember are Ellen & Ron Young (friends of my grandparents) and children I used to play with in ...read more here
A memory of Great Bookham contributed by Jane Corby
December 24
My parents, Rose Marston and Roy Sopp were married in this church! I have the wedding photo of them standing in the side entrance.
A memory of Great Bookham contributed by Eunice Livingstone
Extracts From Stoke D'abernon & Surrey books
Fully upholstered comfort was provided for the passenger on this splendid early motorised tricycle in the centre of the picture, and it was probably needed on the un-metalled roads of the time. Four carters and waggoners watch its passage with interest from the entrance to The Old Plough. This 17th-century inn, apparently referred to in the Sherlock Holmes adventure The Speckled Band, stands by the junction of Stoke Road and Station Road. The village's name partly derives from the Saxon term for a defendable site, and appeared as 'Stoche' in the Domesday Book; the manorial rights were later bestowed on the knightly d'Abernon, or Daubernoun, family.
An extract from from"Surrey Revisited Photographic Memories".
Owing to 20th century
development, as seen here
in Station Road, Stoke
D’Abernon has merged
into Cobham. However,
the village does have the
county’s oldest church. Part
of the nave and the chancel
at St Mary’s has walls dating
back to Saxon times, and
the walls incorporate many
Roman bricks. It stands
close to the River Mole, and
now looks across the water
meadows to the M25.
An extract from from"Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories".
Although still labelled Dunton’s, the ferry and boat-building business now belongs to the Davy
family. Sailing dinghies were becoming popular, and sailing clubs were established on both sides of
the river. The number of small cruisers moored on the opposite bank indicates the increasing use of
motor boats for pleasure from this time onwards.
An extract from from"Weybridge Town and City Memories".
This shows both sides of the river. The punt crossed the Thames to a slipway to the right of Dunton’s
boathouse, and the fare was 1d. Thence it was a short walk to Shepperton Lock, where one could watch
the progress of craft up and down the Thames to Chertsey or Walton. The beach in the foreground seems
to be a result of inadequate dredging. It provided extra space for spectators when regattas took place.
An extract from from"Weybridge Town and City Memories".
The Eyot (meaning island) is called after Richard D’Oyly Carte; he strengthened the banks of a small
island in the River Thames below Shepperton Lock, and built this large house upon it in 1889. It was
intended that the building would act as an annexe to the Savoy Hotel in London, which D’Oyly Carte
owned; but no licence was granted, so the house came to be used as a private residence.
An extract from from"Weybridge Town and City Memories".