Frimley Green, The Basingstoke Canal And New Boathouse 1909
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This view looks north from the old Guildford Road Bridge, with the canal aqueduct across the Waterloo - Basingstoke line in the background. The new wooden boathouse, built in 1906 by A J Harmsworth, stands on the left. The man in the punt is Harmsworth's brother, William, who managed the boathouse.

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A Selection of Memories from Frimley Green

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St Andrews Church must have been at least a mile and a half from the Worseley Road council Estate where we lived from 1951 until 1960 at Hillside Crescent. From a very young age a group of us would walk there and back on a Sunday afternoon to attend Sunday School. My sister Moira was christened there in 1956. The Reverend was Laurie Payne and there was a deaconess but her name slips my memory. It was a pretty ...see more
My father Eric Martin was a teacher at Burrowhill in the fifties where he met and married my mother Evelyn Stones, who worked as a cook at the school. At the time Mr. Rees was the headmaster, I remember Mr. Jarman, and Jess and Renee Bellis. My parents and the Bellis's kept in touch over the decades and visited one another during the sixties and continued contact by letter until my mother died in ...see more
I went a lot longer after you guys but loved the moors and going aldershot assult course. Sneaked into lakeside a couple times lol I remember that old Chappel down that lane with trees ether side and the old badger hut off to the left in the bush's
the family of the Ingates are here today and we are trying to find out what shops were up and running back in 1968 - we remembered The Mons- Deeks shop-Rose and thistle- mace store-candy mix - laundry. alloments-hairdressers. betting shop? fennels newsagent -Iceland - another sweetshop - moss chemist -doctors surgery original. there was haberdashery does any one know of the people? greengrocery shop names ?