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Well, it's a start
Disappointed by a lack of reminiscenses here I, only this evening, asked a man (who turns out to have lived in the white house in the top left of the picture since 1917) if he had any memories. I'm afraid all he came up with was the aggrieved memory that the timber merchant (situated where Jackson & Gocher is now) used to let his horse 'drop his guts' right outside his front door 'every (expletive deleted) day'.
It's a start anyway and I'll try again next time I bump into him!
A memory of Farncombe contributed by Andrew Fuller
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
Last Public Hanging
I think it took place in 1818 opposite the church and what is now the Phillips Memorial, on the other side of the river . ( Llamas Lands?) The depression made in a horse shoe shape was where the crowd stood to watch the event! Each year, the Horseshoe, as we called it, flooded and froze and we all gathered to scate and slide on it. Was the Boarden bridge the only one there at that time? Still a ford, I think.
A memory of Godalming contributed by Michael George
Extracts From Unstead & Surrey books
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".
In Edwardian days cyclists frequented Godalming, especially at weekends. There was a demand
for teashops, and Church Street had three - one is on the left here. Also very popular was the
sending of picture postcards, which served people much as the telephone does today - Eatons
paper shop, on the left, claimed to have the largest selection.
An extract from from"Godalming Town and City Memories".
During the coaching era the need to re-shoe horses must have
made the blacksmith essential. The forge in Godalming was
situated very centrally, in Pound Lane, where Record Corner is
now. In the 1860s the smith added to his business by opening a
beerhouse, appropriately named the Three Horseshoes, next to the
forge. Also nearby was a whitesmith, Mr H Lewer who was also a
gasfitter and electrician.
An extract from from"Godalming Town and City Memories".
One suspects that Frith’s photos of the river shown on these pages may have been
commissioned by Mr Leroy to sell to his customers - he appears in this one too, in a
Canadian canoe, fashionable at the time. The camping ground was just to the east of the
boathouse. Though camping was already enjoyed, Baden-Powell’s book ‘Scouting for boys’
was published in the same year, and may have increased its popularity.
An extract from from"Godalming Town and City Memories".
A view of the southeast side of Bridge Street. While many of
the buildings on the right remain, several were pulled down in
the 1980s and their sites now form part of a supermarket car
park. On the credit side, however, the car park wall incorpo-
rates excellent modern wrought iron sculptures, and lying as it
does opposite the municipal offices, the car park looks like a
town square.
An extract from from"Godalming Town and City Memories".