Ranmore Common, In The Woods 1906

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I have such happy memories of Ranmore school from 1945 until 1952 Miss Piper and Miss Martin, such excellent teachers, got me through my 11+ The dinner lady, Louie Luff, always gave me second helpings. Using my sweet coupons in the post office on Fridays, punching Georgie Mackay on the nose for trying to steal my sweets ! Walking up through the woods from Yew Tree Farm to catch the bus across the common. Such a happy and rewarding childhood.

Wonderful long days riding my ponies around Ranmore Common through the 70's and 80's with my good friends and my mother. We had such lovely times together, friendship and the love of horses and the countryside. We used to ride all over the common, visiting friends and house owners who would give us water for the ponies and a long cool drink!

We have an heirloom picture of relatives, one was said to be the Gamekeeper at Ranmore. It is of four people, one of them an infant, perhaps aged six in a smock, and the elder, whose name eludes me as I write, has been mutilated and lost his hand and has a hook on his left arm. One of the men, "Uncle" , had a shop selling shoes to the north of Chessington, my mother, nee' "Kit" White, told me. NAMES T.F. JLT

The simple pleasure of camping with my Scout group from Ockham, has been a lasting and warm memory over the years. Our Scout room was over the stables in Lady Lovelace's Ockham Park estate. Opposite our camp on Ranmore was a group from Canada, they had made an entrance gateway with a thatched roof with a single vertical pole crossed at waist hieght with pole lashed tightly, the whole revolving on a greased ...see more