Egham
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Camberley Town Walk Guide
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Surrey Living Memories
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- 6 photos on Egham appear in 3 Frith books - View photos of Egham
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Egham memories
Read and share memories of Egham and Surrey inspired by Frith photos
First Day of School
First Day of School
Arriving at Egham Hythe Infants School, aged 5, and being placed in the care of Mrs. Spenser. There I remained for one entire term. Most of the faces in the classroom were new. Some of the names heard for the first time. Rex Aldwinkle, Richard Howard, Christine Addison, Jennifer Shore, Christine Vass. I am amazed that I remember these names as we were only in the same class one term. Mrs. Britton was the Headmistress. Wherever I went she seemed to be there. Was the school really that small? At break I learned about cigarette cards. I am now in my fifty third year of collecting them. I own over one million of them. Brooke Bond had ...read more here
Contributed by Keith O'Brien
Egham
I can remember Mullen's the Chemist, sawdust on the floor in the butchers which I would scoop up in a pile with my feet, the map where you could press a button and it would light up, the steam trains passing as I swung on the swings, Auntie Winnie at the sweet shop, buying second-hand scooters and peddling them home into The Crescent, going to the phone boxes outside the post office, Dr Sam Taylor and his Ford Zephyr - with the blue painted waiting room with just a bench I think (my memory may be playing tricks on me), being lifted to post mail in the letterbox down Grange Road, a plane on fire as I walked home from St ...read more here
Contributed by Deborah Roberts (nee Sellars)
Magna Carta
The text to the Egham photographs calls Egham uninspiring. What it may lack in architectural merit (although there are gems if you look closely, perhaps an architect would care to enlighten the readers) is more than made up for by its place in history as the location for the signing of the Magna Carta by King John in 1215. This took place at Runnymede. There was a major celebration in 1965. This took place on the field just below the American Bar Association Memorial, one of three to be found in Runnymede, the others being the RAF Memorial and the John F Kennedy Memorial. The JFK Memorial was once damaged by the IRA who tried to blow it up. Appropriately the ...read more here
Contributed by Crispin Lancaster
The old cinema
We moved to Egham in about 1955. My father had been born in Medlake Road in 1920. We lived in Oak Avenue, Egham Hythe in a house built in the 1930s. I attended Egham Hythe Infants and Primary and later Magna Carta (on both its sites - Egham Hythe and Manorcrofts - it is now just in the Hythe). In those pre-M25 and M3 days Egham was a much quieter place. The High Street was much as it had been in the early 1900s. There were still some gas lamps which were lit by hand. Green double decker buses ran through Egham linking Staines to High Wycombe (route 441). One red bus service (117) terminated at Egham Station. One major change ...read more here
Contributed by Crispin Lancaster
Extracts From Egham & Surrey books
Egham is not the most inspiring of Surrey towns.
This view is at the east end of the High Street at
the roundabout where it joins the A30, in effect the
northern by-pass. The buildings on the left survive,
as does the church, although now converted to flats
as Winslade House. The Eclipse pub on the right,
built in typical Surrey 1930s road-house vernacular,
is now a Caffe Uno. The site of the Hoover
repairers with the petrol pumps visible beyond has
been replaced by a large BP garage.
An extract from from"Surrey Living Memories".
The building with the rocket-
like spire, seen on the left in
the photograph, was another
of Egham’s fine hotels. Called
the Catherine Wheel, it had
origins dating back to the 16th
century, but was rebuilt in
1898. The Catherine Wheel
no longer exists today.
An extract from from"Windsor Photographic Memories".
This first chapter is a tour from west to east in the parts of
Surrey most affected by London. We start in Egham, a town on
higher ground south of the River Thames. Unlike Staines on the
north bank, the river plays no part in Egham’s townscape. This
view looks east along the High Street. The King’s Head has
gone for a 1960s parade of shops with flats over, Arndale
House, while much on the left has also been rebuilt. The bus
stop site is now the start of the sweeping Church Way inner
relief road running behind the Arndale development.
An extract from from"Surrey Living Memories".
The photograph shows
a view of Egham High
Street, looking east.
The King’s Head Hotel,
seen on the right in the
photograph, dates back
to the early 17th century.
In 1828, nineteen
coaches were reported
to have stopped there in
one day.
An extract from from"Windsor Photographic Memories".
This procession through
Egham is, sadly, a
funeral procession for
Percy Giles, a member
of the Egham Town
Band. The procession
consists of Hussars and
men from the Middlesex
Regiment, many of
whom had just returned
from the Boer War. The
building on the right was
a garden centre.
An extract from from"Windsor Photographic Memories".