The Building Which Shaped My Career

A Memory of Chertsey.

The town hall on the left was Chertsey Library in 1954 and I have many happy memories of hours of discovery in the reference section, while my mother was looking for novels. This ultimately led to my love of science and a career in engineering. We always used to go up the spiral staircase on the left and come down on the right-hand one. There was a chemist on the right on the photo, on the corner of Guildford Street, just out of the picture where I used to buy chemicals and test-tubes for my home chemistry experiments. You could even buy bottles of sulphuric acid and strips of magnesium in those days!