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South Nutfield, Holmesdale Road 1928
South Nutfield, the Village c1955
South Nutfield, Mid Street 1922
Historic maps of South Nutfield and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all South Nutfield maps
Historic map of South Nutfield
Illustrated Victorian map of Surrey
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Godalming Town and City Memories
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Headmistress at Nutfield C of E Primary
I visited Nutfield when I was 4 or 5 with my granny Lillian Curry - who was headmistress (a grand term for the head teacher of a 2 room school) of Nutfield C of E. She must have been appointed in the late 1930s and worked there for 20 years - through the war - and retired in the mid 1950s. She recalled the terrible smell of the trains she caught from Carshalton Beeches in 1940 after Dunkirk - the soldiers had been transported in them after weeks of retreat across France and days standing in the sea waiting for boats.
I wonder if any of her pupils are still in the village?
Shared on 21 March 2008
Did Ted Hart ever buy you a drink?
The watering hole for any Monotype apprentices after working overtime on a Saturday morning. Seemed like I spent a good deal of my time in this establishment in those days. I'm 57 now and living in Devon. Would love to hear from anyone who remembers this great pub.
Shared on 16 November 2007
This most likely stood in my family's New Pond Brickyard. The family firm was W Brown and Sons. The New Pond yard existed from 1813 to about 1938.
Shared on 31 January 2009
This photograph was added to the Frith Website in 2006, I believe.
However, I think it was taken towards the West end of Earlswood Common. I think it is of my Great Grandfather's home, Mackrells. GGF William Brown was a master brickmaker. The family firm was at Mackrells for over 100 years, making bricks and pottery items.
William was Mayor of Reigate towards the end of the 19th Century.
Sadly, the house has gone. It was replaced by Council flats and a close of houses in the 1960's. The name lives on. The flats are grouped around a close called Mackrells.
I would love to share memories etc with anyone who remembers the family & brickworks. Any photos??
Shared on 29 June 2006
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about South Nutfield, inspired by Frith photos.
A mile south of Nutfield, a new village grew up around the railway station on the Tonbridge line named South Nutfield. This view is taken looking along Station Approach north from beside the station; at this date, the shops and houses are almost unchanged since they were built in the 1890s. Now the pace of change has accelerated: the shopfronts in Station Parade have been renewed, and Southgate’s is now Parade Stores and Post Office.
Coulsdon, Chipstead and Woodmansterne Photographic Memories
The Corner Shop and Station Parade Post Office still provides an invaluable service to residents and passers-by, but an extension has been built on to the end wall for Saab who also trade from the garage premises shown here. George Jones commenced running The Corner Shop in 1966 with his wife, Pat.
Coulsdon, Chipstead and Woodmansterne Photographic Memories
Woodmansterne Station, situated in Coulsdon, did not arrive until 1932 and, although some distance from the old village, it was an impor- tant factor in the development of new roads off Rectory Lane as well as the profusion of roads in west Coulsdon. The photographic record importantly shows the villages at different stages of their expansion and repays careful study in understanding the way they have evolved. This record can be useful- ly supplemented by several other sources includ- ing official records, local newspapers and per- sonal reminiscences. Of the latter W G Gardner, station-master at Coulsdon South from 1891, recorded in 1916 the growth of the parish from a hamlet to an urban district: `Red Lion Green was a Green in every particular in those days. Very few houses were in existence excepting the old thatched cottages facing the Chipstead Valley Road. …Cornfields were seen where the Fairdene Estate now rises whilst High Street, Coulsdon [Brighton Road] did not exist. Truly a revolution in the short space of a quarter of a century.` In 1962 Mrs C Nicholls, born in 1872, recalled walking to St John`s School, Bradmore Green from Hooley: `We used to walk up to the Star [near Star Lane], turn left over the railway bridge, through lanes and across Farthing Down, then more lanes. We also had this walk when I and my sisters attended St John`s Church for Sunday School. Later I remember going to Sunday School in a tin hut situated where the Comrades Club now stands… We children used to wait by the side of the main road for the London and Brighton stage coaches, The Age, The Comet and Old Times, to pass, when we called out "throw out your mouldy coppers." One gentleman thought he was tossing down a halfpenny but it turned out to be a golden sovereign…Mother walked to Croydon to shop pushing a perambulator with wooden wheels and iron tyres and I often went too…There were only about six shops in what is now called Coulsdon but which was then known as Smitham Bottom. They were all in old cottages converted to shops. The nearest station was Caterham Junction [Purley]. When I first knew Chipstead Valley, the road was only a nar- row lane, with rough flint surface and no lighting. The only traffic was an occasional farm wagon or flock of sheep…The fields where Richmond and Alexander Roads are now always used to have lots of poppies and looked very pretty`.
