Frimley
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Frimley books (24 available)
- 10 photos on Frimley appear in 5 Frith books - View photos of Frimley
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Frimley memories
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Memories of Bedford Lane.
This cottage is in Bedford Lane. I lived in the house called Connemara which is still in Bedford Lane. My father Samuel Frederick Richardson and his brother George were both bricklayers. Both were demolishing the cottage and they were burning the thatch. My brother John was playing dare. He walked through the outer edge of the white ash and dared me to walk through the middle. Unfortunately I did and was very badly burned. Mother rushed round all the houses, collecting tea leaves to put on my legs. In those days people didn't empty their pots every brew. They just topped them up with a little more tea and hot water. ...read more here
Contributed by Mr DF Richardson
Surrey memories
Memories of Bedford Lane.
This cottage is in Bedford Lane. I lived in the house called Connemara which is still in Bedford Lane. My father Samuel Frederick Richardson and his brother George were both bricklayers. Both were demolishing the cottage and they were burning the thatch. My brother John was playing dare. He walked through the outer edge of the white ash and dared me to walk through the middle. Unfortunately I did and was very badly burned. Mother rushed round all the houses, collecting tea leaves to put on my legs. In those days people didn't empty their pots every brew. They just topped them up with a little more tea and hot water. ...read more here
A memory of Frimley contributed by Mr DF Richardson
Burrow Hill school
I was at Burrow Hill for 18 months, having been sent there because of poor conditions at home. It was the happiest time of my life. We lived in dorms that were built for wounded GI's during the war. They were built on stilts and had stable type doors. We used torches at night to move from building to building as there were no lights on the paths. Supper was a mug of cocoa and a thick slice of bread and dripping. For a boy from a London slum it was heaven! I would love to hear from anyone who was there about that time or has any photographs.
A memory of Frimley Green contributed by Peter Savine
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
Extracts From Frimley & Surrey books
The White Hart has dominated the High Street,
allegedly since the middle of the 16th century. To the
right, just out of the picture, was the site of the old
Smithy, now occupied by Goddard and Grants, a stockist
of Francis Frith’s prints.
An extract from from"Camberley Pocket Album".
Today Frimley is very much
absorbed into the town
of Camberley, while this
particular corner is a busy
road junction. Frimley’s most
famous son is now without
doubt the Rugby Union World
Cup winner Jonny Wilkinson,
who was born here in 1979.
An extract from from"Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories".
On the left, outside the post office, two postmen are among the group eyeing the camera. At the signpost beyond, marking the junction of the High Street with the Portsmouth Road, and behind the trees, stood a lodge to Frimley Park, since demolished.
An extract from from"Surrey Revisited Photographic Memories".
At the other end of Frimley High Street, we cross the River
Blackwater, which is the boundary between Surrey and Hampshire.
Near to this bridge in 1860, a fight took place that has gone down
in the history of boxing as one of the important fights of the century.
It was a bare-knuckle fight between Tom Sayer, from England, and
John Heenan, the American. After 42 rounds, it was declared a draw.
An extract from from"Camberley Pocket Album".
East of Camberley, the route moves
on to the villages between Bagshot
and Guildford along the A322 on
the east side of the sandy heathland
of the Bagshot Sands; on the map
we see army firing ranges marked
‘Danger Area’. This is one of the
pubs along the A322 at the south
end of Bisley’s village green. The
Hen and Chickens, now a Courage
house, has a 17th-century timber-
framed central section, and all the
elevations are now white-painted.
The sheds and outside toilets on the
left have been rebuilt, and the fir
tree has gone.
An extract from from"Surrey Living Memories".