Nostalgic memories of Frimley Green's local history
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St Andrews Church must have been at least a mile and a half from the Worseley Road council Estate where we lived from 1951 until 1960 at Hillside Crescent. From a very young age a group of us would walk there and back on a Sunday afternoon to attend Sunday School. My sister Moira was christened there in 1956. The Reverend was Laurie Payne and there was a deaconess but her name slips my memory. It was a pretty ...see more
My father Eric Martin was a teacher at Burrowhill in the fifties where he met and married my mother Evelyn Stones, who worked as a cook at the school. At the time Mr. Rees was the headmaster, I remember Mr. Jarman, and Jess and Renee Bellis. My parents and the Bellis's kept in touch over the decades and visited one another during the sixties and continued contact by letter until my mother died in ...see more
I went a lot longer after you guys but loved the moors and going aldershot assult course. Sneaked into lakeside a couple times lol I remember that old Chappel down that lane with trees ether side and the old badger hut off to the left in the bush's
the family of the Ingates are here today and we are trying to find out what shops were up and running back in 1968 -
we remembered The Mons- Deeks shop-Rose and thistle- mace store-candy mix - laundry. alloments-hairdressers. betting shop? fennels newsagent -Iceland - another sweetshop - moss chemist -doctors surgery original.
there was haberdashery does any one know of the people?
greengrocery shop names ?
would anyone have any memories of who lived previously in vicarage . I have only one tiley sisters .
loved to hear any memories.
the old picture that is taken with pram and lady pushing it can anyone recognise who the lady is. it almost looks like family member
picture 1965
We moved into a brand new Council House on this estate at 8, Hillside Crescent about 1950-51 and lived there until 1960. Before that we were housed in a Nissan Hut in Yateley. My Dad was a carpenter and cycled to work just outside of Camberley, My Mum was a Dressmaker and would take in sewing at home. There were many good times growing up here and we have memories of many ...see more
My parents Elsie and Sidney Minton were evacuated from North London to Frimley Green during the war. My Father was a fire-fighter in London. My sister Gillian and I were both born in the ballroom of a large house converted to a hospital or Maternity home during the war.My brother David was about 3 or 4 at the time. I recently visited Frimley Green on vacation from California, where I live now.I ...see more
...... bottom of the road just past the estate entrance corner shop, and wait until he arrived on his way home on his BSA Bantam 125 cc motorbike this would of been 1955.
I was not yet at school I was 4 years old, and this was the day of the week all shops closed for half a day, across the country. (they also closed all day on a Sunday too).
He would ...see more
remember my early childhood paddling in stream along with my sister and brothers.year was then 1967 /8
so much has changed over the years and now you can still see some layout you have to travel little along back of the hatches .
