Nostalgic memories of Chobham's local history
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For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.
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Displaying Memories 1 - 10 of 11 in total
When I was 10 or eleven I had a paper round and my first paper had to be delivered to the post office shown by
6:00 am. to catch the mail.
The news agent was just opposite the recreation ground where Chobham Football club played. My brother and I both played for the club.
I was married in St Lawrence Church in 1962.
Happy memories
Dave Hewson
Hi looking at the photo the extension was completed just prior to Christmas 1965
Hopefully just a little detail that may be of use
Jeremy
Many thanks for this information - our archivist will make an update, Ed.
This photo brings back the memory of the High Street, I was born in 1946 in one of the houses in the picture, it was between the Horse and Groom pub and the telephone exchange. My gran lived in the house for so long they named it after her it was called Spong Cottage. My mother lived in Chobham all her life and was highly involved in the football club, her name was Daisy Walley. It was a happy time but we cannot turn the clock back.
I lived in Chobham from 1939 until 1968,and I cast my mind to the 1950's and the High St. Mr Belcher's shop,where my Mum had an account taking the book to the shop and buying groceries.Mr Wellands bakery,where he made the most mouth watering penny buns, Lascelles shop, he was our neighbour in Station (Woking) rd. Moving Along Adamsons the Jewellers and Mitchells the bakers who delivered our bread.Crossing the ...see more
Having moved from Shropshire in Jan 1962 this was the school where I finished my education, so I was only there for a few months. Our house was just behind the house in Burrow Hill, but the we moved to Lighterwater and I had to catch the coach in from West End. I made a few friends at the school and remember there was a self-contained flat attached to the school where 2 pupils of the same sex could spend the week there ...see more
I was sent to Chobham to stay with my Aunt Dolly Mitchell, and her quiet and kindly daughters. 3 hot weeks. I watched Land Army girls ride on top of a hay rick through Chobham High Street. The girls laughed and sang as they passed by. There was the smell of new mown hay in the air, and the village felt alive.
8.1947
In 1960, I gave birth to my daughter Karen in Chobham, on ...see more
I left school when I was fifteen in 1959 and my two brothers Joe and John and I had joined the Chobham brass band . We sometimes played in Woking Park on Sunday afternoons. when I was about seventeen us Chobham girls used to go to the Atalanta in Woking, it was great then, we used to get people like Tom Jones, the Rolling Stones, Screaming Lord Sutch. The Atalanta had a sprung floor and had a coffee bar, no alcohol. I think ...see more
This isn't Windsor Road, it is Chobham High Street!
The earliest date this can have been taken is 1957/58. I know because as a 17 year old school-leaver I worked as a teaboy/labourer on the site in July 1957 when the school was being built.
I started at the infants school in 1948 in Chobham St Lawrence and I made my own way in those days, it was safe to then. I remember the headmistress of the infants school was Mrs Gosden, and a teacher, Mrs Hutchinson, also a lady who worked there, Mrs Lovelock, who was very popular with us children. I had two brothers also that attended, John and Joe. There were fields and farms everywhere in those days and when we ...see more