Places
13 places found.
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- Farnham, Surrey
- Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire
- Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire
- Farnham, Essex
- Farnham, Dorset
- Farnham, Suffolk
- Farnham, Yorkshire
- Farnham Green, Essex
- Farnham Park, Buckinghamshire
- Tollard Farnham, Dorset
- Compton, Surrey (near Farnham)
- West End, Surrey (near Farnham)
- Warren Corner, Hampshire (near Farnham)
Photos
369 photos found. Showing results 21 to 40.
Maps
102 maps found.
Books
2 books found. Showing results 25 to 2.
Memories
93 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.
Evacuation
My brother and I were evacuated to Farnham in 1939. We lived at the Vicarage with 8 other children and 2 ladies looking after us (one was our mother). We used to walk up the lane on Sundays to have lunch at a big house which was ...Read more
A memory of Farnham in 1930 by
Pride Of The Valley
I used to camp as a child and teenager at Crosswater down the road [my father knew the then owner] and one of my memories is of driving past the hotel en-route from Farnham. I stayed here as a birthday treat in 2003 and went on ...Read more
A memory of Churt in 2005 by
Slough, Bucks And Denham Middlesex
I was born in Slough in 1938. It was in Buckinghamshire then. I eventually lived in Denham, Buckinghamshire (see my posting for Memories of Denham in the Middlesex listing). Since I left England in 1959, the ...Read more
A memory of Slough in 1955 by
Where I Grew Up Born 1944
My Mum and Dad moved into the village in the 1930's into a new house in Rogers Lane and lived there for 66 years. My father was the village tailor working from a workshop in the back garden. My mother was very ...Read more
A memory of Stoke Poges in 1950 by
The Abbey Moor Park The Ghost Of Jonathan Swift
I went to Farnham art school in 1968-1971, and at that time, Moor Park was used as a conference centre, available for hire, and inclusive of staff and an elderly chaplain called Dr Bird. As ...Read more
A memory of Waverley Abbey Ho in 1969 by
Elmsleigh School St Polycarp School
Born in Aldershot in 1939 my father worked for a builder in Farnborough, Chuter, and eventually moved to a rented house on Folly Hill. I initially went to St Polycarp but moved to Elmsleigh where both myself and ...Read more
A memory of Farnham in 1945 by
Tonsils, Broken Arm And Two Children
First visit in 1957 - tonsils out, next time in 1959 - a broken arm. Then I had my two children there in 1970 & 1974. It was too small for my appendicitis; they took me to Farnham for that in 1961 and put me in the women's ward.
A memory of Aldershot in 1957 by
Farnham Royal
I remember walking from home on the britwell estate to school at St Anthony RC Primary or to st Anthony RC church walking past Travis court now a private housing development and past the village hall with Farnham royal men's club ...Read more
A memory of Farnham Royal by
Lives Saved
In 1949 my father died of TB, contracted whilst serving in Irag/Iran during WWII. At that time many sufferers of the disease were sent to sanitoriums in the European Alps for a cure. My Father died at our house in the village of ...Read more
A memory of Heath End
Farnham 1945 To 1965
So many memories of Farnham. Although I was born in Aldershot much of our shopping was done in Farnham. I recall the joys of the Christmas card display in a basement below the stationers that was under the colonnade. My first ...Read more
A memory of Farnham by
Captions
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As the Alice Holt Forest receded, this area was planted with hop-bines; Wrecclesham helped to supply the breweries and ale-houses of Farnham with their raw materials, while its inhabitants maintained a
Farnham had been an ecclesiastical estate since the 7th century, but it was Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester from 1129-1171, who began building a castle when he ordered the raising of a motte and tower
The blind belongs to the shop of watchmaker and jeweller James Wheller Farnham, and grocer George John Rendall traded from No 62 (bottom right).
A thousand years ago, Fareham was a patchwork of ancient woodland, heathland, some cultivated fields, a harbour and a river.
Tucked away at the mouth of the little River Wallington is Fareham - much busier around the 18th century than when this picture was taken.
Fareham has been dubbed 'Virtual London' by the IT industry because of the high tech Internet-related activities of firms that have relocated here.
In his autobiography, Viscount Lee of Fareham described his unhappy childhood; he was made to feel 'superfluous and not wanted' by a nanny who had a 'curiously warped character'.
A Ford Consul heads out of Fareham.
LIKE THE INHABITANTS of many coastal towns where creeks and estuaries were formed, the people of Fareham used the sea to extract salt, which before the days of refrigeration was an essential ingredient
The bricks that were used to build many of the houses in the High Street were the same kind, the magnificent Fareham Reds, that built the spectacular railway viaduct, whose seventeen arches loom
Drayton, a suburb of Portsmouth, lies close to Portsdown Hill, a 7-mile chalk ridge stretching from Bedhampton to Fareham.
Opened in 1903, the line ran between Alton and Fareham, with stations here, where the sign said 'Tisted for Selborne', Privett, West Meon, Droxford and Wickham.
West Street is the commercial heart of Fareham, described by Thackeray, who spent his school holidays here, as 'a dear little old Hampshire town'.
Drayton, a suburb of Portsmouth, lies close to Portsdown Hill, a 7-mile chalk ridge stretching from Bedhampton to Fareham.
West Street is the commercial heart of Fareham, described by Thackeray, who spent his school holidays here, as 'a dear little old Hampshire town'.
Drayton, a suburb of Portsmouth, lies close to Portsdown Hill, a 7-mile chalk ridge stretching from Bedhampton to Fareham.
Note the old signpost beside him, indicating that Fareham and Portsmouth are 8 and 16 miles away and Eastleigh and Winchester 6½ and 10½ miles.
South of Fareham, Stubbington has some attractive areas of modern housing, and the village shopping centre, the Parade, is built around a small green.
Southwick is not far from Fareham.
There is evidence that the earliest bricks in Fareham come from Portchester Castle.
It is not surprising, therefore, to discover that the name of Cams is one of the oldest in Fareham, and derives from the Celtic word meaning 'crooked'.
As the population of Fareham increased during the 1820s and 1830s, there was a need for more schools, another church, a new workhouse, and a library and lecture hall.
Fareham held an annual Cheese Fair, and in 1830 an account was published in The Times newspaper: 'Our fair on Tuesday last (29 June) was the fullest and best that has been known for some years.
Fareham Marina.
