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Egham, High Street c.1950
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Egham is not the most inspiring of Surrey towns. This view is at the east end of the High Street at the roundabout where it joins the A30, in effect the northern by-pass. The buildings on the left survive, as does the church, although now converted to flats as Winslade House. The Eclipse pub on the right, built in typical Surrey 1930s road-house vernacular, is now a Caffe Uno. The site of the Hoover repairers with the petrol pumps visible beyond has been replaced by a large BP garage.

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Memories of Egham, High Street c1950

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Egham, High Street c.1950

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Egham 1960 Onwards
I was born in 1960 in Delham Ave and grew up at 1 the Crescent with my two brothers and sister. My father, Ronald Wykes, took the steam train to Waterloo each day as he was a banker in the city. After he retired he took up a strong interest in local history by chairing the Egham Historical Society. Egham station, had a brick engine shed and sidings for trucks in the car park. The old signal box used to operate the ...see more
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Added 27 January 2014

Egham

I can remember Mullen's the Chemist, sawdust on the floor in the butchers which I would scoop up in a pile with my feet, the map where you could press a button and it would light up, the steam trains passing as I swung on the swings, Auntie Winnie at the sweet shop, buying second-hand scooters and peddling them home into The Crescent, going to the phone boxes outside the post office, Dr Sam Taylor and his Ford Zephyr - with the ...see more
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Magna Carta
The text to the Egham photographs calls Egham uninspiring.  What it may lack in architectural merit (although there are gems if you look closely, perhaps an architect would care to enlighten the readers) is more than made up for by its place in history as the location for the signing of the Magna Carta by King John in 1215.   This took place at Runnymede.  There was a major celebration in 1965.  This took place on the field ...see more
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The Old Cinema
We moved to Egham in about 1955.  My father had been born in Medlake Road in 1920.  We lived in Oak Avenue, Egham Hythe in a house built in the 1930s.  I attended Egham Hythe Infants and Primary and later Magna Carta (on both its sites - Egham Hythe and Manorcrofts - it is now just in the Hythe).   In those pre-M25 and M3 days Egham was a much quieter place.   The High Street was much as it had been in the early 1900s. ...see more
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