Nostalgic memories of Churt'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 17 in total
My grandparents lived here and i have many fond memories of stock farm and churt - walking on hankley common with grandads st bernards. Love seeing this pic
My grandparents, George and Bertha Unwin lived and worked in Churt Between 1913-1924. They married at St Johns Church on Christmas Eve 1913. My grandfather was chauffeur to a Mr Shattock at Bookham's and they lived at Bookham’s cottages. After the death of his employer they moved to 2 Council cottages and then moved to Bournemouth presumably because of work. My grandmother loved Churt and always talked about it, but ...see more
I was born in 1933 in the house attached to Overton Garage and i spent my first twenty-one years in the same house. I went to the village school, was a member of the Church choir and a scout in the 1st Churt Scout troop.After I completed my National Service I lived in Grayshott with my wife Janice nee Wonham, who had also lived in Churt and I was scoutmaster of 1st Churt from 1956 to 1960, during which ...see more
My mother was born in Churt and grew up at Number Four Sandy Lane. She worked for a time at the Pride of the Valley during the war and lived upstairs in one of the rooms. While working at the Pride, she met and later married a Canadian soldier who was stationed at Aldershot. He returned to Canada in 1943. She followed on the Empress of Scotland, becoming among the early of thousands of war brides. She is now 97 and ...see more
My Grandfather was Lloyd George's gardener (I am not sure if he worked alone) from around 1923 to 1937 when he left to become Poultry Manager at Wye College in Kent. Grandad met Granma in Churt, she worked at the local pub, The Pride of The Valley. My dad and his 4 siblings were born in Squirrel Cottage on the Bron y De estate. My dad was born in 1929. Grandad was George Herbert Turrell and Granma, Kate Turrell.
To the left of the little girls in the photograph of Churt Post Office there is a large house that was called Threeways in the 50's and 60's, perhaps it was always called this, I do not know. After WWII my parents, Norman and Leila Middlehurst, lived there in a flat with my brother Robert. They moved to Lower Bourne sometime just before I was born in early 1953. A small barn can be seen in the photograph; ...see more
I was born at 'Barford View' in Churt in 1952 and lived there until I was 13. I am one of eight children of the Lindsey-Clark family, my brothers and one of my sisters still live in the area. I have such wonderful memories of Churt - cricket matches at the recreation ground 'the rec', long walks through the lanes and down to Barford Stream & the 'Ghosty Stream' as we used to call it. Churt was a great place to grow up. ...see more
At a wild guess I will say about 1940-50s, we had a caravan at Knights Farm, Churt, loved it there, often went for walks along the country lanes or bike rides through the ford just near the farm. Hope one day I can return to see where I spent many a weekend at Churt.. Later the caravan was moved to another part of Surrey and then Sussex.. near Godstone, then West Lavington., near Midhurst. Summer months ...see more
My great-grandparents Jim and Leila lived in Churt. Jim was born in Churt in 1897 and lived in a number of houses and tied cottages at Churt including Anne's Cottage, named after my mum. For a while he was the carter at Bron y de (?) and I have photos of this time including estate worker photos and one where my mum was a little girl in the fruit fields with David Lloyd George. They also lived at Hide Farm, Marchants Farm, ...see more
My parents were separated during WW2 as my mother was pregnant, so she was moved to Tintagel in Cornwall for 7 months. Through this period they wrote to each other every day - I recently read and typed out all 234 heart wrenching letters! It was a hard time for them as they had recently lost their first infant. They were desperate to get back together again and it finally happened in March 1941, a couple of weeks ...see more