Cobham
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Cobham books (24 available)
- 8 photos on Cobham appear in 6 Frith books - View photos of Cobham
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Hatchford Church
My father, Capt. F.C. Dyer used to play the organ at Hatchford Church until his death in 1950. It was a pump organ and Bubbles was the name of the hunchback who pumped the organ. We lived in the Semaphore Tower up on Chatley Heath and would walk down through the woods and through Hatchford Park to the Church every Sunday for the Church Service. Capt. Dyer is buried in the third grave (unmarked) from the south west corner of the church foundations ~ the church itself having been subsequently demolished due to dry rot in the roof.
Contributed by Ron Clibborn-Dyer
Happy Motoring
I believe the white building to the centre left in picture is the Thompson & Taylor garage. I worked there briefly (about 1 year), the manager then was a Huw Edwards? I think, but the name of T & T was very well known in motor racing circles & particularly with the nearby Brooklands motor racing circuit. There was a huge old car Napier Railton I think, memory going, which was kept in the showroom & with which the land speed record was won sometime in the 1930's. Stirling Moss was an occasional visitor as he had then just purchased a very special cooper mini, and John Cooper (Cooper Cars) also came & went, and to top all that ...read more here
Contributed by Vee Williams
Ann & Vic Norman's shop
My mother Joyce Stannard worked at the shop in this picture in the foreground with the canopy next to the wine merchants. When she started it was a little wool shop owned by Miss Wright - she sold it to the Norman's who expanded and did dress design upstairs. My brother Nigel and I attended the Infants school in Hoggs Hill Lane followed by the Primary School which was behind this row of shops. There was a sweet shop on the opposite corner to the post office where we were allowed to spend 2d on sweets after school. We lived in Coveham Crescent and walked to school daily through the rec - along by the ...read more here
Contributed by Julia Stannard
Surrey memories
Ann & Vic Norman's shop
My mother Joyce Stannard worked at the shop in this picture in the foreground with the canopy next to the wine merchants. When she started it was a little wool shop owned by Miss Wright - she sold it to the Norman's who expanded and did dress design upstairs. My brother Nigel and I attended the Infants school in Hoggs Hill Lane followed by the Primary School which was behind this row of shops. There was a sweet shop on the opposite corner to the post office where we were allowed to spend 2d on sweets after school. We lived in Coveham Crescent and walked to school daily through the rec - along by the ...read more here
A memory of Cobham contributed by Julia Stannard
Extracts From Cobham & Surrey books
On the left is the garden of Holly Lodge, the home of the Roman Catholic priest father Henry Aust-Lawrence, which was itself to be used as a place of worship in the period 1912-1915. At the end of the parade of shops on the right is the post office, and in the distance Broxmore, housing the doctor's surgery, stood on the site of the present Oakdene Parade.
An extract from from"Surrey Revisited Photographic Memories".
These refreshment and dining rooms, on the corner of the Portsmouth Road and Copse Road, provided a popular stopping place for cyclists, particularly since the rear of the premises housed a cycle repair shop. Adopted as their headquarters by the Cobham Cycling Club, whose plaque is visible on the front wall of the building, the facilities also proved popular with early motorcyclists, like the rider of this splendid BSA parked on its stand. The lower part of the oak tree could be ascended by a stepladder, explaining the presence of the little girl and her watchful father standing above the enamelled sign advertising R. White's ginger beer.
An extract from from"Surrey Revisited Photographic Memories".
Children pose on the reedy banks of the River Mole below the impressive double wheeled mill. It was built in the early 19th century as a corn and grist mill, and was run by the firm Henry Moore and Son when this picture was taken. It fell into disuse, and is now mostly demolished.
An extract from from"Surrey Photographic Memories".
This is an unusual view for the time, showing the old Portsmouth Road, now by-passed and merely the A307. Even then, the road shows signs of traffic congestion. Note the substantial old-fashioned telegraph poles and cables, a once-familiar sight on Britain’s trunk roads.
An extract from from"Surrey Photographic Memories".
Cobham is architecturally
not the equal of the
similarly named
Chobham. This view
captures well the
disparate suburban
nature of Cobham’s High
Street before we reach
the most attractive River
Hill and Mill Road, which
stretch along the banks of
the River Mole. There
has been much
rebuilding of this part of
the High Street, none of
it for the better, since the
1950s; continuity has
been achieved only by
the building at the far
left, which is still an
estate agency.
An extract from from"Surrey Living Memories".