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Windlesham photos

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Windlesham maps

Historic maps of Windlesham and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Windlesham maps

Windlesham map

Historic map of Windlesham

Surrey map

Illustrated Victorian map of Surrey

Windlesham map

Historic Map of any Windlesham postcode

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Windlesham books

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Surrey County Memories
Paperback
rrp £15  £12

Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories
Paperback
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Camberley Photographic Memories
Paperback
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Windlesham books
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Memories of Windlesham

Windlesham memories
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My Great Grandparents

Hello from Canada - My great-grandparents, James Elliott and Ann Collyer, were married in Windlesham on July 8th 1865. It is great to see the photos what with me being so far away. I was hoping there would be a photo of the church. They were C of E.  Still it is wonderful to see photos of the town. Thank you.[more]

Shared on 10 March 2009 by Barbara Szapira.

Surrey memories

Clipping the hedge at St Annes

My dad, Eric Berry, used to clip this hedge - BY HAND!
When we're little, things always seem bigger than they really are, but my recollections of watching my Dad clip this hedge on the days he did the gardening at St Anne's church, were pretty accurate. It really is as big as I remember!
I also recall going to St... [more]

Shared on 26 January 2008 by Liz Schultz (nee Berry).

1955 & prior - the Cricketers etc

I was born in 1947 (a home birth) in Grove End cottage which was, and still is, located pretty much across the London Road and railway line from the Cricketers pub. Although I've never been inside the pub, I have on occasion as a child, watched cricket with my Dad at the weekends. I notice on the satellite map that the... [more]

Shared on 26 January 2008 by Liz Schultz (nee Berry).

I have lived in West End for all of my life!!

I live on the housing estate in West End and I have done since I was born (1995 to present day). I've never really thought about what West End was like before until now. The village has changed so much! One of the girls I used to go to primary school with lives in the Hare and Hounds with her parents... [more]

Shared on 09 June 2009 by Fairy Godmother.

There must be people still there

Whatever happened to all the guys and gals I went to school with?? Born 1965, I went to Tringham and Westend Middle School, Winston Churchill and graduated in 1982. I'm Andy Barnett, formerly of Malthouse Lane. I used to know nearly everyone around the village. Surely there's people who have been to this site who remember me. I left for the... [more]

Shared on 30 May 2008 by Andrew Barnett.

Growing up in Westend in the 70s and 80s

I was born in 1965 and grew up in Westend.  I moved  to America in 1988 and have only been back to visit once since then back in 1989/90.  I can't really imagine how much the village has changed since then.  I've seen photos and pics on the internet.  I was hoping that somethings haven't changed like the common, up there... [more]

Shared on 11 September 2007 by Andrew Barnett.

I lived here

I moved to West End in 1966. My family owned the Wheatsheaf from 1964 until about 1967 and my auntie still lived in West End so I often visit.
I was 11 in 1964 and my earliest memory of the village was seeing the Gordon Boys walking around the village in their uniforms of tartan trousers. navy military style tunics and... [more]

Shared on 20 September 2006 by Beverley Thouless.

Mid Eighties

From early 1984 to March 1987 I had the pleasure of being the Landlady of this public house. Many good times (some bad), many lovely customers, some of whom became friends and not forgetting all the people who came to work there to help behind the bar, in the kitchen etc. We celebrated the 40th anniversary of 'D Day'... [more]

Shared on 19 July 2006 by Vee Williams.

Extracts From Windlesham & Surrey books

Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Windlesham, inspired by Frith photos.

Camberley Pocket Album

The bakery of Mr Christmas stands at the junction of Kennel Lane and Church Road, to the right. The shop on the right is that of Boyce the fishmongers. If we take the road to the left we come to our last picture.

This is an extract from Camberley Pocket Album.
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Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories

This is how the village must have looked when the writer Eric Parker passed this way while researching his book 'Highways & Byways in Surrey', published in 1908. He liked the untamed landscape, and once met a family outside their bivouac making beehives out of straw. But he warned that the 'north-west heaths belong to the soldiers', and that here were 'all the camps, training... [more]

This is an extract from Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories.
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Camberley Pocket Album

This view was taken in the middle of the village, and is looking down Updown Hill. The shop just behind the lady, on the right, was that of S Workman, who sold fancy goods; it is now an estate agents. We have now completed our look around Camberley, and by taking the road back to the London Road, we can return to Camberley itself, and... [more]

This is an extract from Camberley Pocket Album.
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