Frimley Green
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Frimley Green books (32 available)
Camberley Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Redhill to Reigate Photographic Memories
Paperback
Camberley Pocket Album
Paperback
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Frimley Green memories
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After the War
I lived at 257 Frimley Green Road- where Warrens' garage now stands - 1942 to 1954. There was an air-raid shelter on the Green which we watched being demolished. Every Nov 5th there was a gigantic bonfire on the Green, fired by paraffin donated by Percy Warren; squaddies would come down from Deepcut and add to the tumult, one year detonating the Gents at the Rose & Thistle. Whenever I'm in the south I have a wander round the village, which has changed remarkably little; even The Mons is still there (or was in 2006) run by Mr Clapshaw, later by Mr Heap, who was one of the few shopkeepers who didn't object (usually with good reason) to the village boys. ...read more here
Contributed by DAVID KEARNS
Frimley Green memories
My Dad was Charles Cheyne, the village chemist in Frimley Green - famous for his cough medicine - the report in the local Camberley News when he died in 1963 reported "It was dark brown in colour and had no name. Word spread far and wide about Mr Cheyne's cough cure, and soon people were sending for his medicine by post from as far away as Gibraltar and Holland." My Mum was Joan Jarman - the local District Nurse, and one can only guess how she and my dad got together - bearing in mind their professions! I have lovely memories of living over the shop - and particularly our telephone number there - Deepcut 5! Dad had moved to Frimley ...read more here
Contributed by Elizabeth Keleher
Surrey memories
After the War
I lived at 257 Frimley Green Road- where Warrens' garage now stands - 1942 to 1954. There was an air-raid shelter on the Green which we watched being demolished. Every Nov 5th there was a gigantic bonfire on the Green, fired by paraffin donated by Percy Warren; squaddies would come down from Deepcut and add to the tumult, one year detonating the Gents at the Rose & Thistle. Whenever I'm in the south I have a wander round the village, which has changed remarkably little; even The Mons is still there (or was in 2006) run by Mr Clapshaw, later by Mr Heap, who was one of the few shopkeepers who didn't object (usually with good reason) to the village boys. ...read more here
A memory of Frimley Green contributed by DAVID KEARNS
Frimley Green memories
My Dad was Charles Cheyne, the village chemist in Frimley Green - famous for his cough medicine - the report in the local Camberley News when he died in 1963 reported "It was dark brown in colour and had no name. Word spread far and wide about Mr Cheyne's cough cure, and soon people were sending for his medicine by post from as far away as Gibraltar and Holland." My Mum was Joan Jarman - the local District Nurse, and one can only guess how she and my dad got together - bearing in mind their professions! I have lovely memories of living over the shop - and particularly our telephone number there - Deepcut 5! Dad had moved to Frimley ...read more here
A memory of Frimley Green contributed by Elizabeth Keleher
Extracts From Frimley Green & Surrey books
We go along the Frimley Green Road, and arrive at
Frimley Green, with Wharf Road to the left of the
picture. The shop and the house next door have been
replaced by a modern parade of shops.
An extract from from"Camberley Pocket Album".
This cottage was believed to have been in the Guildford Road,
and not demolished until the early part of the 20th century. It was
typical of the many older buildings in the area in this largely rural
village, which contains some 15th- and 16th-century farmhouses.
An extract from from"Camberley Pocket Album".
This old tower windmill is on Old Windmill Hill between Blackdown Barracks and Elizabeth Barracks in Deepcut and Pirbright Camps. Today it is amid the rifle ranges and military control of high, heathy west Surrey.
An extract from from"Surrey Photographic Memories".
The Basingstoke Canal, constructed between 1788 and 1794, was supposed to be part of a waterway linking the Thames
with both the English and Bristol Channels. However, the dream fizzled out in rural Hampshire, and slowly the canal fell
into disuse, although there was still some traffic on its Surrey stretches up until 1949. Here at Frimley and just visible in the
distance is the aqueduct that takes it over the railway line.
An extract from from"Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories".
A peaceful view of Frimley Lock, the last of the Deepcut locks flight, which total 14 in all. The Basingstoke canal of 1794 linked the Wey and Godalming Navigation (the River Wey) with Basingstoke. It declined after 1838 and the coming of the railway, and became derelict until it was restored after 1973.
An extract from from"Surrey Photographic Memories".