Wesleyan Chapel 1904, Warlingham
Wesleyan Chapel 1904, Warlingham Ref: 51277
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Warlingham Park Hospital Harrow Road And The Bull at Chelsham
I was delighted to find these lovely photos of the Warlingham area , but surprised that, so far, there is no reference to the Warlingham Park hospital, the staff and patients of which were a source of financial income to the area for over 100 years. Many of the staff lived in the houses on Harrow Road which may even have been owned by the hospital, as often these large mental hospitals were surrounded by their own little cluster of dwellings/village for the staff. The hospital was linked with a farm, on which some of the inmates/patients originally worked, but later this was discontinued. Just by the site of the old Warlingham Park hospital, is a pub called the Bull. This pub is also pretty old and had hitching posts for horse-riders of earlier times. I wonder if anyone recalls working at the hospital, or living in Harrow Road at that time? Or - are any of you still living there?
Catapults - Mid Fifties
This brings back when us local lads would venture into the bike shop where he also sold modelling bits and pieces. By far the best elastic for our catapaults (sprogs) was 1/4inch elastic, we had to convince the bloke that it was for model aircraft so that he would sell us a couple of feet.
I just remembered also, that he used to sell a 'Penny Farthing Bike' made of fairly heavy duty stiff wire and a heavy 'flywheel' on the front around which we'd wind a bit of string and pull sharply, thus spinning the wheel, we then placed it upright on the pavement and it would take off for a few feet.
Hamsey Green
The building being constructed next to the co-op was a small supermarket that would be first named Coopers then, Fine Fare. The Shop next to the co-op on the right was Bill Croft the bicycle shop. Out of view to the left of the car park bollard would be where Trevors the Newsagents was located and where I was a newspaper delivery boy for several years.
Hamsey Green/Warlingham
This is indeed Hamsey Green. The view is from the Good Companions car park. The two shops with awnings to the right of the image no longer exist, as the Coop built a shop there. One used to be a bike shop (left) and the other (right) a place that sold head stones for graves. The tall trees in the background were a grove of Horse Chestnut trees that covered much of the land as it dropped towards Kingswood. Close to the Kingswood end of this plot of land was a large greenhouse (or more), that was a flower shop of some type. The area where the trees can be seen, is now near the top end of Kingswood Avenue where the newer shops are located.
