Box Hill, Hotel And Garden 1931
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Photo ref: 83901
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This hotel nestles at the foot of Box Hill, alongside the rushing traffic of the main London to Dorking road. Part of it dates back to the 16th century, when it was known as The Fox & Hounds, and incorporates wooden beams taken from the ships of the Spanish Armada. But the bulk of the building was constructed in 1800. Lord Nelson, along with Lady Hamilton, spent his last night ashore here before travelling on to Portsmouth and embarking on HMS Victory for the Battle of Trafalgar. In the second floor bay-windowed room (framed between the two garden umbrellas), Keats completed his epic poem Endymion. Queen Victoria stayed here as a girl, and the novelist Robert Louis Stevenson was also a frequent visitor. Although the Scots pine on the right has now been removed, the one on the left still towers over the spacious gardens at the rear of the hotel.

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A Selection of Memories from Box Hill

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Box Hill

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I was watching the Ride London-Surrey Classic Road Cycle Road Race today and the pelaton rode up Box Hill bringing back a particular memory, so I decided to look up The Upper Farm Swimming Pool on-line and immediately saw this photograph. In 1961 myself and two friends from Homefield Preparatory School in Sutton were waiting to hear how we had done in our Common ...see more
I lived in a caravan at Box Hill when I worked in Epsom with the race horses. I had a friend called Irene who went out with a boy who also worked in racing his name was Bill Senior. Irene lived at the post office and went to live in Australia (I think) its such a long time ago. Her parents move to look after a care home. I remember going to a little horse show and riding a pony for someone I don't know who. I ...see more
Kids like me were taken swimming from Mickleham School here oncxe a fortnight by coach. The teacher was a Miss James. John Payne I lived on BoxHill from 1947 to 1968.
My Mum and Dad Phylis and Wally Payne worked par time here in 1954 t0 1960. It as owned by a Mr Lloyd who had a standard vanguard car he also kept a monkey in a very large cage. John Payne.