There Seems To Have Been Changes

A Memory of Chaldon.

I first visited Chaldon in the summer of 1946. My parents and I lived in Colindale, NW London in a rented house, at the end of the war the owners, who had lived downstairs, moved to Chaldon, and lived in the small bungalow named 'Valley View' at the end of Leazes Avenue. In 1946 my parents and I visited for the first time and in subsequent years would enjoy a summer holiday 'In the country'. We would visit surrounding towns using the green buses and spend much time walking the fields. Often we would see Guardsmen from the depot out on route marches and if the wind was in the right direction could hear the bawling and shouting from the square bashing. Leazes Ave was an unadopted road in 1946 and was quite rough such that many local traders etc wouldn't risk their springs. I haven't been back since the early sixties, but thanks to the miracles of modern technology I see that the valley which we overlooked, usually populated with cows, is now a golf course.

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