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Nostalgic memories of Lingfield'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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A Short Memory

I have many memorys of lingfield from walking home through jenners field in deep snow from school to falling in the pond !!!! Shame the school has gone now though .. would cut through the graveyard down the steps across the road up the twitten in to jenners then walk on to cold harbour and common road ...home !!!!happy days
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Added 10 March 2021

The Cabin Shop. Linfield
I too remember The Cabin. It was run in my time by Mr and Mrs Steer. My brother Terry Hancock used to do a Sunday paper round for them. When he fancied a lay in he would ask me to do it for him. I used to ride a butchers bike with the papers in and get half a crown for riding all around Lingfield!!. Margaret Farrer.
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Added 28 June 2018

Army
my dad met my mum barracks of lingfield .where would have the barracks stationed
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Added 05 September 2015

Lingfield Pond
We used to walk past the pond everyday on our way to Lingfield Primary School. This was about 40 - 45 yrs ago now. One memory I will always have in when the pond was frozen over and my brother and his friends decided they would try their talents out at ice skating. We were all surrounded watching these boys and, I have to admit, to feeling really frightened when the ice broke and I watched with utter terror as my ...see more
Lingfield, the Old Prison and the Pond c1950
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Added 30 November 2010

The Village I Knew
I used to live at Raymead which was a complex of 24 prefabs, they have been replaced now by a new estate. I come back to Lingfield every year to see the village I grew up in. When I got married to a local lad in 1963 we moved to Tandridge, unfortunately it didn't last due to me but we used to walk to the village pond at night and there was at Christmas one night when it was snowing and they had put fairy ...see more
Lingfield, the Old Prison and the Pond c1950
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Added 31 July 2010

Lingfield
Jean Chambers mentioned the bomb dropping on the school in 1943 - my parents shop (John Banks Outfitters) was almost opposite the school and I was born at the end of 1943 being given my second name of "Heather" after Heather Lumsden who was killed in the school and was a good friend of my parents. Jean also mentioned the bomb that was found in 2002 at the bottom of what had been their garden. I wonder whether we lived ...see more
Lingfield, the Old Prison and the Pond c1950
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Added 14 March 2010

Falling In The Pond
Rod Swift remarked (in a previous memory) about falling in the pond - well I was one of these. Rod must be my cousin's son, as my aunt and uncle lived in the house referred to. Around 1953 on an icy cold day in winter, a crowd of us were going home after school. On passing the pond we knew there was thick ice so decided to skate on the ice. We did not take into account that it was beginning to thaw and around ...see more
Lingfield, the Old Prison and the Pond c1950
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Added 13 November 2009

Just Lingfield
If you hadn't fallen in the pond, you were not from Lingfield! So says my dad. The building to the right of the cage in this photo was a shop. My memory of this shop only goes back to the mid 1970s. My grandparents' house was behind the shop (the hedge to the right on this photo is the edge of their property), and whilst on holiday visiting them, my brother and I would play cards with Grandad for 5p a hand. He always ...see more
Lingfield, the Old Prison and the Pond c1950
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Added 06 March 2009