East Clandon
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An Evacuee during World War II
My name then was Babs Collins and my memory goes back to World War II, when I and others from my school in Victoria, London were evacuated to both East & West Clandon. We had been moved very hurriedly in July 1940 from Brighton where our school was first sent to in 1939. This second evacuation was because the Germans had begun to bomb the south coast preparatory to invading us after Dunkirk.....
In the drama, I was separated from my two elder sisters (imagine). I was taken in with another little girl namrd Josephine by a very kindly Mr & Mrs Holt of 1, Sophy Cottages, and there I stayed until July 1945, when I returned home to London.
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Contributed by Gina Arnold
Surrey memories
An Evacuee during World War II
My name then was Babs Collins and my memory goes back to World War II, when I and others from my school in Victoria, London were evacuated to both East & West Clandon. We had been moved very hurriedly in July 1940 from Brighton where our school was first sent to in 1939. This second evacuation was because the Germans had begun to bomb the south coast preparatory to invading us after Dunkirk.....
In the drama, I was separated from my two elder sisters (imagine). I was taken in with another little girl namrd Josephine by a very kindly Mr & Mrs Holt of 1, Sophy Cottages, and there I stayed until July 1945, when I returned home to London.
All ...read more here
A memory of East Clandon contributed by Gina Arnold
my early years
I was born in Sheepwash cottage in 1926 the year Tommy Sopwith left the Towers and it was turned into a girls colledge by Miss Maule and Miss Isaceson . My father had worked for Tommy Sopwith for many years at the Towers and he stayed on as estate foreman. We moved into the cottage horsley towers as most of the old estate was sold to the developers. The old back enterance became the front enterance, everything had to go through the tunnel under the gardens.
We moved away when the school closed down, that was in 1935 I think.
A memory of East Horsley contributed by Ray Johnson
horse & groom
Not sure but my great grandad may have owned/run this inn back then
A memory of Merrow contributed by First name Last name
Extracts From East Clandon & Surrey books
Fifteen children have been neatly assembled by the photographer in front of the brick and half-timber cottages that comprised this small village, originally called Clandon Abbots. Their cumbersome clothing, and their hats, must have made normal childhood activities restrictive in the summer sunshine, and they would no doubt have relished a glass of R White's lemonade, as advertised on the sign affixed to the wall behind them.
An extract from from"Surrey Revisited Photographic Memories".
This convalescent home for children suffering from hip disease was built in 1902-03 and dedicated in the name of Queen Alexandra, and is seen here with some of its young patients a year after its official opening by the Bishop of London in July 1903. In fine weather this front veranda saw beds being wheeled out from the ground-floor wards inside, so that the children could benefit from the fresh air. They were also able to wave to passers-by.
An extract from from"Surrey Revisited Photographic Memories".
While West Clandon
with its railway station
definitely has the air of
a commuter village, East
Clandon, facing the slope
of the North Downs and
surrounded by fields, still
has a rural feel.
The children in the
photograph would have
attended the village’s
Church of England
school, which opened
in 1863. It was forced to
close in 1968, as by then
there were only 19 pupils.
An extract from from"Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories".
This village was once
known as Clandon Abbots,
for its manor, as in many
other Surrey villages, was
owned by the local abbey.
Here, Chertsey Abbey
owned the manor from
about 666 AD. The parish
church behind the holly
hedge to the left at the
corner of Ripley Road is
partly Norman. The village
has many attractive timber-
framed and brick houses
and cottages, now kept in
immaculate order; these
include Bay Tree Cottage
on the left and Church
Cottage on the right, which
has exposed 17th-century
timber framing.
An extract from from"Surrey Living Memories".
Other local churches, claimed to be ‘old and steady’, are Shere,
Leigh, Mickleham, Abinger, Wotten and Betchworth: they have
stood for centuries. St Barnabas’s on Ranmore sits 700 feet above
Dorking on Ranmore Common. Sir Gilbert Scott designed it in 1859
as the estate church for George Cubitt, the first Lord Ashcombe.
In the churchyard lie the founder of Denbies Estate, and his three
grandsons, Henry, Alick and William, who lost their lives in the First
World War.
St Joseph’s Catholic Church, designed by Frederick Arthur
Walters, was erected in 1895 in Falkland Grove, off Coldharbour
Lane.
An extract from from"Dorking Town and City Memories".