Wanborough
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Wanborough books (31 available)
Camberley Town Walk Guide
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Surrey Living Memories
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Gamekeeper's Cottage
I do not know Compton but lived as a child next door to a lady who was daughter of the local gamekeeper. Her maiden name was Churchill, Hilda Churchill, with two sisters Mabel and Alice. I have a watercolour painting of her house at Compton done by H J Sage (a local artist) and would be happy to share this with anyone who may be interested. Also amongst her posessions was a Coronation mug for George V, 1911. She told me that one of these mugs was given to each child in the school and that after they were made, the mould was destroyed. I have this mug and it has her name written on its base.
I would love ...read more here
A memory of Compton contributed by Mike Cowham
My grandfather is Terrence Chalk, son of Leonard Chalk, born and bred in Seale
Ok, I've found out that my grandfather's dad's name was Leonard Chalk and he use to work in the old farmhouse, which has now been coverted into some shops. My grandad Terrence Chalk attended a local school in Seale, which has now been coverted in to a lovely house. He also lived in Seale, and remembers this time when his old friend knocked for him to tell him that a tree up the road was on fire! My granddad still to this day has a piece of that tree in a small box, and when he retired to Seale for a visit 2 years ago he took me, my uncle, my brother and my grandmother with him and we searched for ...read more here
A memory of Seale contributed by iesha mathews
Terry Chalk, born and breed in Seale
My grandad, Terry Chalk, was born in Seale sometime around the early 1940s.
His father lived in Seale, and worked in the farm there. Terry later left and married Jane Mitchell, and now they live in Ramsgate. Kent, he has two children and 3 grandchildren.
I will write back when I have more details but until then please e-mail me if you knew him, or even just lived in Seale, and I shall pass it on to him at: www.ieshamathews@googlemail.com
Thank you, Iesha Mathews (was Chalk)
A memory of Seale contributed by iesha chalk
The Greyhound
This used to be our local pub. Many a night spent throwing money at the jukebox and into the pool table. I was sprung for being 16 but still allowed to buy lager (cheers!!) LOL!!
It's a chain pub now and has some kind of Big Steak restaurant attached. Such a shame.
A memory of Ash contributed by Tracey James
Extracts From Wanborough & 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".