Farncombe
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- 6 photos on Farncombe appear in 4 Frith books - View photos of Farncombe
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Farncombe memories
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Well, it's a start
Disappointed by a lack of reminiscenses here I, only this evening, asked a man (who turns out to have lived in the white house in the top left of the picture since 1917) if he had any memories. I'm afraid all he came up with was the aggrieved memory that the timber merchant (situated where Jackson & Gocher is now) used to let his horse 'drop his guts' right outside his front door 'every (expletive deleted) day'.
It's a start anyway and I'll try again next time I bump into him!
Contributed by Andrew Fuller
Surrey memories
Well, it's a start
Disappointed by a lack of reminiscenses here I, only this evening, asked a man (who turns out to have lived in the white house in the top left of the picture since 1917) if he had any memories. I'm afraid all he came up with was the aggrieved memory that the timber merchant (situated where Jackson & Gocher is now) used to let his horse 'drop his guts' right outside his front door 'every (expletive deleted) day'.
It's a start anyway and I'll try again next time I bump into him!
A memory of Farncombe contributed by Andrew Fuller
Last Public Hanging
I think it took place in 1818 opposite the church and what is now the Phillips Memorial, on the other side of the river . ( Llamas Lands?) The depression made in a horse shoe shape was where the crowd stood to watch the event! Each year, the Horseshoe, as we called it, flooded and froze and we all gathered to scate and slide on it. Was the Boarden bridge the only one there at that time? Still a ford, I think.
A memory of Godalming contributed by Michael George
Doodlebug 1944 ish.
Hidden by or almost visible in the trees beyond the large house on the left is a small cottage or lodge, opposite the beginning of Busbridge Lane just visible behind and to the right of the people in the road. One morning during the war (WW2) a stray
Doodlebug (Flying bomb) landed and exploded opposite this cottage and destroyed it. Minutes before, the occupants, adults and several children had left and gone down to school in Godalming. I lived in Duncombe Road and we had broken windows and a cracked wall in our house.
A memory of Godalming contributed by Michael George
Extracts From Farncombe & Surrey books
Barely visible in the distance are the level crossing and signal box. There has been change here,
with development on both sides of the road, though the white building in the centre and the
terrace of houses remain. In the branch of Gammons, the tailors and outfitters, Jack Phillips,
who was chief wireless telegraphist on the ‘Titanic’, was born in 1887. He earned more than
local fame when he stayed at his post, transmitting the new ‘SOS’ signal until the ship sank.
An extract from from"Godalming Town and City Memories".
The temperance movement had a strong following in both Godalming and Farncombe, and the Catteshall Coffee Tavern offered an alternative to alcohol, and was open six days a week from 5.30am to 10pm. It served dinners and offered 'good beds'. Beyond the Tavern, the Half Moon Pub had been a beer house for at least fifty years. It is now closed.
An extract from from"Surrey Revisited Photographic Memories".
The Godalming Navigation, the extension of the Wey Navigation added in 1760-2, can be explored from Farncombe Boat House either by boat or by walking along the agreeable towpath. The boathouse is one of the last in England where you can hire a punt.
An extract from from"Surrey Photographic Memories".
Across the River Wey from Godalming is Farncombe, once a
hamlet but now in effect a suburb of the town. Its architectural
highlight is the Wyatt Almshouses of 1622 on the Guildford Road;
but our view is in Farncombe Street, looking west to the railway
level crossing. The gates are now lifting barriers, but the signal box
survives. Unfortunately, the left-hand side of the street has largely
been rebuilt in sad 1960s three-storey flats-over-shops style: no
match for the 1930s mock timber-framed parade opposite.
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".