Nostalgic memories of Redhill'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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This picture named Redhill Hospital 1908 is in fact the porter's lodge at the main entrance. When I nursed there in the 1970s we all called it "Rose Cottage" as apart from housing the switchboard and the porter's lodge it also housed the Pathology lab and the mortuary! Rose Cottage is a fairly often used term for a mortuary in a lot of hospitals. So if you hear a nurse or doctor say "They will soon be going to Rose ...see more
I was born in 1940 in Gillingham Kent , my Dad used to work for Short's the aircraft builders. We moved to Redhill when I was a baby. One of my earliest memories was seeing the Olympic Torch runner coming down Redstone Hill in 1948. Can anyone tell me his name? I also remember seeing tanks thundering along the A25, the noise that the tracks made on the road was amazing, this must have been soon after the end of ...see more
Some of my memories as a small boy shopping in Redhill with my Mum . I remember Latties the sweetshop with big jars of sweets on shelves up to the ceiling! just along the road was the Arcade and the fishmongers where Mum bought 'fishy pieces' for our cat. Around the corner was Kennards the furniture shop and the model shop, Quintons I think it was called. We used to walk through the tunnel ...see more
I was born next door to the Monson Arms at 43 Green Lane, Redhill, my father built the house - we were the Brunt family.
I used to go and get my bottle of pop and I swallowed a threepenny bit in the off-licence which was at the front of the pub.
The owners used to own a dog called Gus - he was a Boxer - and they had two children called Howard and Beverly Stanley.
I used to also swim at Redhill pool and was a member of ...see more
Hello I am seeking your help and advice. My name is Jason Clarke. I was born at Knighton Road in Redhill in 1959. My father Ronald Sidney Clarke died as a result of a road traffic accident in Bridgewater in Somerset in 1962, and the family moved soon after this happened. I'm trying to locate anyone who knew us, in particular my father's relatives my mum Joyce Clarke (nee Phipps) lived in Merstham ...see more
I remember the pool at Redhill and the cardboard boxes for our clothes. Oddly I was only thinking of it last week when I was locking my clothes up at the gym, I was wondering how they tracked our clothes when we were kids. The pool had a balcony upstairs where parents used to watch us perform - we mucked about most of the time. I can remember my mum and her friend, Mrs. Smith, laughing their ...see more
Does anyone remember the old swimming baths at Redhill? I started swimming there in the 1970s when it was still a Victorian building. The steps in the pool were of stone and the changing rooms were around the poolsides with wooden doors. You could pay to have a slipper bath! There was a young lady who gave you a box to put your clothes in and you had to remember the number on it to get it back after ...see more
I remember the Teddy Boys and 'winkle pickers'. Our baby-sitter used to rock and roll in the living room, and us kids used to laugh because we could see her underwear when her flared skirt twirled! She used to paint our nails for us with pink varnish, and lacquer our hair with squeezy bottle Rosedale Hairspray which only cost a few pence in Woolies. She also used to dye her hair black with a powder sachet called ...see more
Like the young cool girl who remembers the Hollies at the Market Hall on a Saturday night, I too found live music there. I think me and a school mate (from Radnor House School for boys) called Hank Jell, so named after Hank Marvin, attended on its opening night. We saw Nero and the Gladiators supported by Tony Rivers and the Castaways. The next year or two we saw Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages, Johny ...see more
I too trained at RHG from 1963-1966 and I don't think any training these days could surpass the excellent training I received there. It was hard work but fun and I learned a lot and met some lovely people along the way. I ended up as a sister on ward 20 at Smallfield hospital and left in 1968 to go to live in Italy for a year - where I met my husband to be whilst on holiday. Fate has now brought me back ...see more