Blackheath
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Family shop
My Nan and Grandad often took myself and my twin sister to visit his mother and brother to BlackHeat, Lamb Lane, to their Local Shop. Wow, sweets galore! Lovely smelling cooked meats, it was great! I always remember the walk from the statino near some playing fields, then walking into the shop and seeing my Great Grandmother standing there with her big smile and her pinny. I don't think it's there anymore. My Great Grandmother lived on to be 104 - must have been all that lovely food! We visited in 1959/1969. - Mag.
Contributed by MARGARET YOUNG
Pub
My gran owned the pub at Blackheath which was called the Forest King, it was on the edge of the cricket pitch. There was also another pub called the Volunteer on the next road. Does anybody remember them?
Contributed by ian risbridger
Memories
It has been almost 50 years since I have seen the inside of this church. My mother; Molly Risbridger) was married in this church to a Canadian soldier Mr. Ken Lloyd Maxted. I am their son Robert Glenn Maxted. Happy Anniversary! 2007
I love you Mom and Dad,
Your Son,
Glenn
Contributed by robert Maxted
Surrey memories
Pub
My gran owned the pub at Blackheath which was called the Forest King, it was on the edge of the cricket pitch. There was also another pub called the Volunteer on the next road. Does anybody remember them?
A memory of Blackheath contributed by ian risbridger
Extracts From Blackheath & Surrey books
The village can be
reached from a
number of directions,
but each one is a
minor road, and
consequently it
remains a quiet spot.
The colours of the
heath are indeed dark
in places, certainly
when the heather
is not in flower. The
village war memorial
is situated deep into
the heath, served only
by a footpath.
An extract from from"Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories".
In 1929, the Dublin-born
crime writer Freeman
Wills Crofts came to live in
Blackheath. His books were
once as popular as those of
Agatha Christie, although
nowadays few people
know of him or his work.
Titles such as ‘Murder
at Guildford’ and ‘The
12.30 from Croydon’ were
penned at Blackheath.
He was an accomplished
musician, and played the
organ at St Martin’s Church
(centre right).
An extract from from"Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories".
This small pub on the outskirts of the isolated hamlet of Blackheath, with its shaded canopy and planted tubs, has undergone a name change, and now bears the uninspired title The Villagers. But it still caters readily for thirsty walkers following the numerous paths which criss-cross this lovely stretch of countryside.
An extract from from"Surrey Revisited Photographic Memories".
To the west of Farley Heath
and Blackheath, the hamlet of
Blackheath grew up in
Victorian times. The pub
dates from about 1840, and
used to have a later elaborate
arched canopy, now long
gone. The pub is now called
the Villagers. The Watney’s
barrel over the sign is a period
piece: remember Watney’s
Red Barrel beer? The lane
leads onto Blackheath, which
is popular with walkers.
An extract from from"Surrey Living 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".