Nostalgic memories of Leatherhead'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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Does anyone remember Ian Smith 1960s …. Had a red van, used to visit Headley…. Went to Kingston College… We went to the Greyhound races….and a clay pigeon shooting club….
Does anyone remember Ronsons Factory-in leatherhead.. I worked there in 1969 …same bench as Jennifer and Mary… Jennifer’s dad owned a cafe near Headley I think … He was Italian , quite a few bikers used to go in there….
My 2nd great aunt, Kezia Rosina Southon, died here at work in 1915 of peritonitis and exhaustion. The matron in charge, Annie Kate , certified her death. I was wondering whether someone knew this.
Moulds was the first job my sister had. She started around 1958/9 ad during the school holidays she was easy hit hit for sixpence so I could go to the Cresent cinema where I could let my friend in via the exit door just outside the men's toilets. We left Leatherhead in 1960 emigrating to Australia. I have managed to get back twice and re-lived many memories. Thanks to the website Friends Reunited (now no ...see more
Another reason that I liked to visit Leatherhead was because my Auntie Mag had a shop there and I was always guaranteed a welcome that invariably included a sticky bun or some similar magnet to a young child. Opposite The Dukes Head pub in the High Street, (unfortunately just out of view in this shot) the shop was a millinery and haberdashery store that seemed old fashioned even then. I remember ...see more
After the war Dad found work as an assistant in a long established family-run department store called Moulds. Situated in Leatherhead High Street, it was an imposing sort of place with double glass doors set well back from the street and flanked by large curved glass windows displaying everything from three piece suites to sharpening stones. Above the doors on the first floor there was a large arched window ...see more
My paternal grandparents lived and worked at Polesden Lacey from circa 1899 to 1906, under, first, Sir Clinton Dawkins and then later Mrs Greville. Their first born was at a large house in Leatherhead; their second born was in the house of Polesden Lacey itself. They left Surrey at that time and their other children, one of which was my father, were born in Shropshire. Stories told on the hearth, ...see more
Our mother worked at the Blind School in 1935 as a cook, she had many a stories to tell us.
I lived in The Mount near Fetcham where l went to school. One day l was out on my bike in Fetcham near what was them a bg field backing onto the school, there was a big local sports day and as l loved running l entered all the races to my surprise and my mother's l went home with the local silver cup which was to be engraved with my name and a replica for me + a football etc. I also used to help the ...see more