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Horton Hospital memories
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Happy days
Spent 3 very happy years on the nursing staff, made many friends, who I lost contact with.
Contributed by Derek Simmons
Surrey memories
Happy days
Spent 3 very happy years on the nursing staff, made many friends, who I lost contact with.
A memory of Horton Hospital contributed by Derek Simmons
The Nell Gwynne
In our early teens we used to go to the Nell Gwynne, upstairs in the 'coffee bar' where we had what I believe was the worlds first Nickelodeon (manual version). We paid the lady 3d, I think it was, and she put our favourite record on the record player on the counter and we listened while we chatted.
Anybody out there remember the Lecture Hall School in Upper High Street (circa 1943/44)? Headmistress was a Miss Gray. I fell in love with Ann Bridson (I was 7).
Waterloo Rd had a DIY shop in those days, going under the name of 'Useful Bros'.
I went to the Infants School down the bottom end of White Horse Drive, where we filed ...read more here
A memory of Epsom contributed by Brian Robinson
Rosebery Park
I was born in Epsom in 1936. Apparently, when still in my push-chair, I trundled down the bank shown in the picture and ended up in the water!! Later when 10 or 12 we used to sail our model yachts on the pond and in our teens spent a lot of evenings in the park chatting up the girls! Happy, happy days. I must admit there was a tear or two in my eyes when I saw all those lovely trees felled by the great storm.
A memory of Epsom contributed by Brian Robinson
Extracts From Horton Hospital & Surrey books
This view, taken from
Stonecot Hill, shows the
1930s Woodstock pub,
which still flourishes.
It is now different in
appearance, as most
of the ground floor has
been painted, including
the right hand bay
window. One brick
gate pier is still intact,
although without the
lamp.
An extract from from"Sutton Photographic Memories".
This scene is of
Banstead Downs, which are
actually outside Sutton’s
boundaries, south of Belmont
station. The clubhouse of the
Banstead Downs Golf Club is
seen in the distance. Between
the golfers and the clubhouse
was Burdon Lane, which until
the 1950s joined the Brighton
Road as it crossed the Downs
by way of a dangerous blind
junction. However, this stretch
was later closed and became a
path, so that golfers today no
longer have to cross a road to
get to their clubhouse.
An extract from from"Sutton Photographic Memories".
View 49180 looks west from
the junction with Langley Park
Road along Christchurch Park,
with the well-known copper
beech trees newly planted
in the verges. This view,
however, looks northwards
from fields. These have
long since been built over,
and were situated where
Devonshire Avenue is now. All
these houses have now gone,
to be replaced by blocks of
flats.
An extract from from"Sutton Photographic Memories".
Christchurch Park was laid out
as a road in 1888, converting
a track through fields into a
prosperous residential area.
The only surviving building
from the Christchurch Park
development is its great red
brick church, Christ Church,
designed in 1888 by Newman
and Jacques. It has no tower,
but its scale was such that
it dominated all around it
(at least until the flat blocks
arrived).
An extract from from"Sutton Photographic Memories".
Here we move back to
the west of the High
Street. This view looks
along Cheam Road, with
the Cheam Road Hall on
the right. This building is
now dominated by the
Methodist Church, which
was built four years after
this photograph was
taken. Sadly the trees
have gone, along with
the house on the far left,
which was part of Sutton
High School for Boys.
An extract from from"Sutton Photographic Memories".