Bramley
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- 5 photos on Bramley appear in 4 Frith books - View photos of Bramley
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Eastwood Road Bramley and my family
My family have been in Eastwood Road Bramley for almost 100 years and some are still there. I grew up in Eastwood road; most of my family have lived there. My Great Great Grandmother,my Great Grand Mother and my Grandmother and my two great Aunts lived in the house on the corner of the picture (73) and that is my two Great Aunts Hilda and Nelly in the picture with (I think) their friend May. Auntie Hilda lived there untill 2006. The house on the other side of the road (No 48) that you can just see in the picture is where my Mother and her brothers and sisters were born. My Auntie and Uncle live next door still and my ...read more here
Contributed by Rachel Major
Bramly church and 'The Jolly'
My parent got married here in 1955 at the church and then they all crossed the road to 'The Jolly' for the reception.
Contributed by Rachel Major
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Bramly church and 'The Jolly'
My parent got married here in 1955 at the church and then they all crossed the road to 'The Jolly' for the reception.
A memory of Bramley contributed by Rachel Major
Eastwood Road Bramley and my family
My family have been in Eastwood Road Bramley for almost 100 years and some are still there. I grew up in Eastwood road; most of my family have lived there. My Great Great Grandmother,my Great Grand Mother and my Grandmother and my two great Aunts lived in the house on the corner of the picture (73) and that is my two Great Aunts Hilda and Nelly in the picture with (I think) their friend May. Auntie Hilda lived there untill 2006. The house on the other side of the road (No 48) that you can just see in the picture is where my Mother and her brothers and sisters were born. My Auntie and Uncle live next door still and my ...read more here
A memory of Bramley contributed by Rachel Major
Extracts From Bramley & Surrey books
Taken at the western end of
the village, this photograph
shows the Jolly Farmer pub
on the right. It was formerly
known as the Wheatsheaf.
There is, of course, another
Wheatsheaf further along
the road; it had once been
a pair of cottages, but they
were converted to a beer
house in the 1880s.
An extract from from"Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories".
The village school
opened in 1851, but
its role has changed
several times over
the years. In 1904
it became a mixed
school of infants,
juniors and seniors.
From 1949, it was
solely a junior school,
and then switched to
become a first school
in 1973. Closure was
threatened in 1994,
yet it survives to this
day with infant pupils
as well as a nursery.
An extract from from"Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories".
The five motor vehicles in this picture presage the heavy traffic to come in the decades ahead along this section of the A281 heading into Guildford. Mr and Mrs Wise, along with their son and daughter, ran their teashop on the corner to the left from 1923 to 1973. The Langrish Bramley Stores immediately opposite extended over three shops, and was the enterprise of Mr Langrish, the parish clerk.
An extract from from"Surrey Revisited Photographic Memories".
Bramley stands about four miles south of Guildford on the Horsham Road; it is a long village with a busy crossroads
with Station Road (there has been no railway since the 1960s). This view was taken just south of the crossroads,
looking down the High Street; the two pubs on the right are the Jolly Farmers and the Wheatsheaf. In the distance
there are Victorian buildings - the Bramley Dairy, left of centre, is now a house. At the far left is the high churchyard
wall to Holy Trinity church, yet another Surrey medieval church largely replaced in Victorian times.
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".