Guildford, Swan Lane c.1960
Photo ref: G65173
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Photo ref: G65173
Photo of Guildford, Swan Lane c.1960

Memories of Guildford, Swan Lane c1960

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 Guildford, Swan Lane c.1960

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This is where I met my husband for the first time in 1969, two years later we married, and now have 4 children and are still very happy together.
Back in the 1960s my sister used to take her dolls to the dolls' hospital to get them fixed, they also mended teddy' bears but my best memory of the dolls' hospital was that they used to have a Jonny 7 machine gun set up in the window, it was a toy gun that broke down into 7 different weapons. I was living on Bellfields then and my mum didn't have much money so she couldn't afford to buy me one and all of my mates were in ...see more
My nan and mum used to work in the Guildford Dolls Hospital which would have been on the right just beyond the white building. As the name suggests they would make your doll better if she was ill and also sold many other toys - one of my favourite memories