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- 4 photos on Merrow appear in 3 Frith books - View photos of Merrow
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That's my home
Second house from front was my mum's family home and I lived there for years.
On the left, a little further along was, and probably still is, the convent/school.
I think the row of houses was called Woodbine Villas.
Chris
Contributed by Christopher Knowles
Surrey memories
That's my home
Second house from front was my mum's family home and I lived there for years.
On the left, a little further along was, and probably still is, the convent/school.
I think the row of houses was called Woodbine Villas.
Chris
A memory of Merrow contributed by Christopher Knowles
First date
This is where my boyfriend (now husband) and I went on our first date. I was so nervous I could hardly eat a thing, I was very shy at that time. We went to the cinema after the meal to see The Yellow Rolls Royce.
We married in April 1969 at All Saint's Church, Onslow Village.
I worked at Thomas Wallis until it closed in 1969/70, my very good friend Christine and I worked there since we left school.
My name was Linda Way.
A memory of Guildford contributed by Linda Potts
Update on Castle Street
The houses in Castle Street have been knocked down some 20 years ago. I used to live in no 18 and used to play in the castle grounds since we had no garden.
A memory of Guildford contributed by bob whitehead
Extracts From Merrow & Surrey books
This rough-cast, three-storied and three-gabled public house was built in 1615 beside the 12th-century flint church of St John the Evangelist, and its ales quenched the thirst of race-goers who flocked to Merrow Downs for the horse races during Whit week. These were immensely popular from the middle of the 17th century through to Queen Victoria's reign, when the meetings at Ascot and Epsom gradually supplanted them in popularity.
An extract from from"Surrey Revisited Photographic Memories".
The blacksmith's workshop, along with the church, pub and local store, was an essential component of a village's existence prior to the arrival of the internal combustion engine. Few, however, could have boasted such a magnificent structure as this, where the very entrance incorporates a giant horseshoe in its brickwork. By 1927, however, this enterprise had succumbed to the irresistible growth of the motor car and become a garage (see image number 79918). All traces of this picturesque forge have now gone - the site is now occupied by a modern service station.
An extract from from"Surrey Revisited Photographic 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".
In Edwardian days cyclists frequented Godalming, especially at weekends. There was a demand
for teashops, and Church Street had three - one is on the left here. Also very popular was the
sending of picture postcards, which served people much as the telephone does today - Eatons
paper shop, on the left, claimed to have the largest selection.
An extract from from"Godalming Town and City Memories".
During the coaching era the need to re-shoe horses must have
made the blacksmith essential. The forge in Godalming was
situated very centrally, in Pound Lane, where Record Corner is
now. In the 1860s the smith added to his business by opening a
beerhouse, appropriately named the Three Horseshoes, next to the
forge. Also nearby was a whitesmith, Mr H Lewer who was also a
gasfitter and electrician.
An extract from from"Godalming Town and City Memories".