Westcott
Westcott maps (2 available)
Map of Surrey
Beautifully hand-drawn and coloured, dating from around 1840
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Westcott books (31 available)
Camberley Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Camberley Pocket Album
Paperback
Surrey Living Memories
Paperback
- 5 photos on Westcott appear in 4 Frith books - View photos of Westcott
- Read extracts and see photos from these books on Westcott and Surrey
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Working for British Railway's southern region
My mother, Valerie Evans, worked for British Railways southern region from 1957 -1960 at Deepdene House. She was a shorthand typist and remembers Deepdene House to be a beautiful building with extensive grounds. She has happy memories of friends in the typing pool.
The building hadn't changed much since 1891 although I don't believe there was a conservatory in 1957. During her lunch breaks she would play tennis, table tennis and netball or just sit out on the grass and enjoy the scenery.
A memory of Dorking contributed by Sandra Finch
Pepsi-Cola and Merry Legs
These two ponies belonged to Dorking Riding School and they were popular characters with gentle dispositions. They retired in 1963 to good homes. Pepsi-Cola is in the foreground. I was a groom at the stables and regularly rode them around the area.
A memory of Dorking contributed by Ann Hobley
Take a horse to water
When I was about 11 or 12 in the 50's I used to ride from Bookham over to Ranmore quite often. I would take a packed lunch in a rucksack and off I would go for the day all on my own. When I got to Ranmore, I used to tie my pony to a tree and go in the post office and ask the man for a bucket of water for my pony. Then we would stop on the edge of the woods somewhere, I'd sit on a log or on my jumper or coat on the ground and let my pony graze whilst I ate my lunch and read a book.
A memory of Ranmore Common contributed by Paula Clements nee Absalom
childhood
i was born in guildford in 1986 and my parents had just taken over abinger post office and stores this is the house in the middle of the photo with all the ivy (that wasnt there in my time) the window above the shop was my parents room the spare room and the lounge are the rooms to the left. i loved living here and have many great memories of going to abinger village school, fishing in the stream, playing on the green and in the ruffs going to the abinger arms(probably the 1st pub i ever went to) and the tea rooms at the clock house now apparently i have heard that these tea rooms have moved to my old ...read more here
A memory of Abinger Hammer contributed by paul jeacock
Extracts From Westcott & Surrey books
The now-demolished birthplace of the economist Thomas Malthus, who prophesised the huge growth in human population and the need for birth control. His ‘Essay on the Principle of Population’ (1798) was written here. The children seem blissfully unaware.
An extract from from"Surrey Photographic Memories".
Stolid Victorian shops and houses stood here alongside the main A25 road linking Guildford and Dorking. The dovecote on the small triangular green, with its unusual weathervane carrying the letter 'T' signifying north, was erected as a First World War memorial. On the extreme left is the post office, with The Bricklayer's Arms across the way. Beyond is E M Parton's fish shop, and two doors further on, the Westcott Communal Kitchen.
An extract from from"Surrey Revisited Photographic Memories".
Now on the A25, this village lies between the north downs and the Leith Hill sandstone range. This unusual village sign, signpost, direction indicator and dovecote, is situated on the triangular shaped central green.
An extract from from"Surrey Photographic Memories".
With the growth of public motor transport after the First World
War, pubs like the Prince of Wales next to a main road could cash
in on regular passing trade. Judging by the sign (extreme left), it
was hoped that the tea garden would bring in the customers.
An extract from from"Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories".
Yet another vanished Surrey watermill, testimony to a virtually forgotten source of power. This mill stood on the Pippbroook, a tributary of the Mole, but has now been demolished. It was one of six mills on the little Pippbrook alone. The next mill downstream was at Westcott itself.
An extract from from"Surrey Photographic Memories".