Wrecclesham
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Wrecclesham books (32 available)
Camberley Town Walk Guide
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Redhill to Reigate Photographic Memories
Paperback
Camberley Pocket Album
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Good times
I always remember stopping off for a paddle here on my way home from Frensham Junior school. I remember my nan used to give me my bus fare. But I used to prefer to walk along past the pond so I could stop for a quick paddle.
A memory of Frensham contributed by susan white
post office
I remember walking to this post office many a time as I used to live with my nan etc. at Churt House Cottage. The post office was run by a lady of the name Mrs Heaps. I used to go there for the big bottles of Tizer.
A memory of Frensham contributed by susan white
Farnham
My great aunt Carrie (Wills) was born in Farnham and lived at No1 Bratton Villas all her life. Her father worked as a carriage upholsterer and all the children were born in the house, which was a small 2/3 bedroomed terrace. When I was a child we always visited to watch the airshow. She had a range and a scullery and an outside toilet, and also a tin bath that hung on the outside wall. The front room was only used to weddings funerals etc. During the 1970s the council built a car park in front of her house, which I am assuming is the Wagon Yard Car Park. As a child we used to walk along past a big house ...read more here
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Clare Park School
I am Leslie Harlan Bourgoin, and I remember changing at the Farnham train station each morning to board the school coach bound for Clare Park. My sister Mary Lynn and I were American girls who lived in Farnborough in the early 1960's while our father was a USAF exchange officer there. My parents were Gene and Jean Harlan.
We attended Clare Park as day girls and loved to go into Farnham with our parents to visit the shops. I was friends with Wendy Monday who lived in Farnham. Our family friends were Bernard and Marjorie Lawley. I now live in Seattle and will be in the UK in October of 2008. I would love to contact CPark girls.
A memory of Farnham contributed by Leslie Harlan Bourgoin
Extracts From Wrecclesham & Surrey books
As the Alice Holt Forest receded, this area was planted with hop-bines; Wrecclesham helped to supply the breweries and ale-houses of Farnham with their raw materials, while its inhabitants maintained a rather dubious reputation as 'outlaws' as a result of their disregard for the law. Three years prior to the date of this photograph, an Australian visitor claimed that for its six hundred inhabitants there were five licensed premises along two hundred yards of Wrecclesham's main street, and another in a side street, as well as several establishments with grocer's licences. However, this quiet summer scene displays no sign of any licentious behaviour, unless the adult villagers are all indoors sleeping off their hangovers.
An extract from from"Surrey Revisited Photographic Memories".
It is a sunny day in this
quiet village that stands
between the water
meadows of the River
Wey and Alice Holt
Forest. Absolom Harris
set up a pottery in the
village in 1873, using
the local deposit of
blue gault clay. Today,
the pottery buildings
are being restored by
the Farnham Trust as
craft workshops, and
the West Street Potters,
a teaching group,
continues the tradition
of making ceramics.
An extract from from"Villages of Surrey Photographic 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".
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".