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born and raised there
I was born in Shere in 1942 to the youngest child of George and Margaret Bryant. The Bryants were a well-known Shere family, my father being the eldest of nine children born and raised in the village. I had a very happy childhood in the village, attended the village school as did my older brother and sister and several cousins. I remember the Shere bonfire nights which were very enjoyable. I left the village in the sixties and now live in Adelaide, South Australia. My elder sister still lives in in Shere with her husband who was until retirement one of the local postmen. I have only happy memories of my birth place. I was baptised and also had my confirmation ...read more here
Contributed by Rosemary Delia
Living in the Squre Shere
Photograph No. 1. I was born in July l940 – Virginia Le Roux. The house on the left of the picture was where I lived until I was nearly 13 with my parents. The long narrow upstairs window was my bedroom. My mother’s mother and brother also lived in the house. My uncle - John Grover had a shop to the left of the porch, where he sold fresh fish, fruit and vegetables, some of which he grew himself. During the war people would come from Dorking and Guildford to buy fresh fish. The fish came from Harlow’s of Grimsby in wooden boxes, when the empty boxes were returned to Grimsby, ...read more here
Contributed by Virginia Pawlyn
Surrey memories
Living in the Squre Shere
Photograph No. 1. I was born in July l940 – Virginia Le Roux. The house on the left of the picture was where I lived until I was nearly 13 with my parents. The long narrow upstairs window was my bedroom. My mother’s mother and brother also lived in the house. My uncle - John Grover had a shop to the left of the porch, where he sold fresh fish, fruit and vegetables, some of which he grew himself. During the war people would come from Dorking and Guildford to buy fresh fish. The fish came from Harlow’s of Grimsby in wooden boxes, when the empty boxes were returned to Grimsby, ...read more here
A memory of Shere contributed by Virginia Pawlyn
born and raised there
I was born in Shere in 1942 to the youngest child of George and Margaret Bryant. The Bryants were a well-known Shere family, my father being the eldest of nine children born and raised in the village. I had a very happy childhood in the village, attended the village school as did my older brother and sister and several cousins. I remember the Shere bonfire nights which were very enjoyable. I left the village in the sixties and now live in Adelaide, South Australia. My elder sister still lives in in Shere with her husband who was until retirement one of the local postmen. I have only happy memories of my birth place. I was baptised and also had my confirmation ...read more here
A memory of Shere contributed by Rosemary Delia
Extracts From Shere & Surrey books
This gem of a village is
situated between the
North Downs and the
Greensand Ridge. Its
beauty means that it
has a constant stream
of visitors who browse
in the antique and gift
shops and sit beside
the clear Tillingbourne
Stream. A real donkey
usually heads the Palm
Sunday procession to
St James’ Church - a
lovely tradition in a
village full of character.
An extract from from"Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories".
Generally regarded as the prettiest village in Surrey, this delightful picture of two small girls beneath the venerable oak trees, against a backdrop of some of the picturesque cottages at the heart of the village, encapsulates the quiet charm which attracts hordes of visitors here every year.
An extract from from"Surrey Revisited Photographic Memories".
Middle Street leads into
Shere Lane and then on
towards the sandy hills of
The Hurtwood. The building
on the right was once the
premises of
C Baverstock, ‘Shoeing &
General Smith’. Shere even
had its own fire station.
It can be seen on the right
just past the trees.
An extract from from"Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories".
Two local residents, one mounted on an early motorbike, pass the time of day by the Prince of Wales pub in the centre of the village. Built in the mid 19th century, it occupied the site of a former hop garden attached to the rear of another pub, the White Horse, which had been in business since the late 17th century.
An extract from from"Surrey Revisited Photographic Memories".
Shere, by-passed around the date this
view was taken, was once a market
town with a thriving fustian cloth
industry; then it flourished thanks to
watercress in the Tilling Bourne, which
flows delightfully through the village.
This view is taken from within the
churchyard of St James’s church, looking
west into the Square with its elegant
sandstone war memorial cross. The
church is famous for its 13th-century
anchoress or female hermit, Christine:
she was the carpenter’s daughter, and
she was twice walled up in her cell
against the wall of the church.
An extract from from"Surrey Living Memories".