Maps

46 maps found.

1920, New Town Ref. POP790403
1920, Strood Green Ref. POP841959
1898, New Town Ref. RNC790403
1898, Strood Green Ref. RNC841959
1940, New Town Ref. NPO790403
1895, New Town Ref. RNE790403
1895, Tower Hill Ref. RNE850929
1940, Strood Green Ref. NPO841959
1920, Tower Hill Ref. POP850929
1940, Tower Hill Ref. NPO850929
1895, Strood Green Ref. RNE841959
1919, Hersham Ref. POP731879
1920, Hersham Ref. POP731880
1946, Hersham Ref. NPO731879
1896, Hersham Ref. RNE731879
1900, Hersham Ref. RNC731879
1946, Corsham Ref. NPO678123
1899, Corsham Ref. RNC678123
1919, Corsham Ref. POP678123
1898, Corsham Ref. RNE678123

Books

3 books found. Showing results 25 to 3.

Memories

96 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.

Barry Hammond

Though I have never been to the fair city of Chesterfield, I had a good army mate whom I served with in Corsham in Wiltshire. I have been trying to find him for years, who knows, someone on this site MIGHT just know of him, a stab in the dark, maybe !!

A memory of Chesterfield in 1960 by Brian Williams

Warnham Court 1950 53

I have read a memory on this website of someone who was sent to Warnham Court as a child but does not really know why. I was sent there under identical circumstances. So like this other contributor I would be very ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School in 1951 by Colin Shulman

Hawthorn Box Fields

Pat - it's lovely to read about Hawthorn as my grandmother Mrs Berrett and my Uncle Peter and Aunt Hilda Evans also lived there. School holidays were spent picking blackberries at the old D.P camp and playing in the ...Read more

A memory of Hawthorn in 1955 by Jennifer Mclarney

Mom Attended Here In The 1930's

Mom did take me to Guildford and the surrounding area a few times in the mid 60's and late 60's. I was quite young....she went from here to Horsham school. Horsham school I can find nothing on. Do you know where I ...Read more

A memory of Guildford by Susan Somerville Franz

This Was A New Building When The Picture Was Taken

It was built in 1897 and was designed in the Queen Anne style by the architect Frederick Wheeler FRIBA who had offices in Horsham. It is now the home of the Nat West bank. The bandstand has been moved ...Read more

A memory of Horsham in 1890 by M

Very Little Has Changed

Although no longer a grammer school this does remain an educational establishment, effectively a sixth form college for Horsham. It goes by the name of The College of Richard Collyer, in honour of the man who left money in his ...Read more

A memory of Horsham by M

Wc Sa Great Place To Be

My name is Linda Ashton and I was at WCS 1960-61. This was my 4th boarding school and was far and away the happiest! It felt like family with Mr and Mrs Savage as surrogate mum and dad! I was there because of ...Read more

A memory of Warnham Court School in 1960 by Linda Ashton

My Ancestors Lived And Worked Here!

In the 1881 Census, Elizabeth Mitchell is listed as the head of the household and a widow aged 54 as her husband John Mitchell had died in February of that year and so running the Six Bells Beer House along ...Read more

A memory of Billingshurst in 1920 by Sue Peggram

Craft Cottage

My grandmother Doris Palmer, lived in Craft Cottage which is right next to the pump. We spent all our family holidays there during the 50's and 60's. Granny was a war widow and she worked in Adams tobacconist, which was on the corner ...Read more

A memory of Steyning in 1958 by Simon Palmer

2 Clutterbuck Rd

We moved to 2 Clutterbuck Rd in 1954 by the little grass island and moved out in 1965 to Methuen Way,great memories of playing around the estate, back fields community centre Corsham park and stone quarries,my friends lived nearby, ...Read more

A memory of Corsham in 1954 by Leonard Brokas

Captions

51 captions found. Showing results 25 to 48.

Caption For Upper Beeding, The Village C1955

In the Middle Ages, the parish of Beeding also included a large detached portion in the Weald near Horsham, which was separated and named Lower Beeding by 1838.

Caption For Horley, The Six Bells 1906

The pub is 15th-century with later additions, and has a Horsham stone roof.

Caption For Henfield, Golden Square C1955

Henfield is a main road village midway between Horsham and Brighton.

Caption For Broadbridge Heath, Portsmouth And Guildford Roads 1924

It was a prosperous business powered by two waterwheels that drove six pairs of millstones.The village is now cut off by the new Horsham by-pass that takes much traffic out of the village.The scene

Caption For Billingshurst, Ye Olde Six Bells 1923

It is a fine 16th-century timber-framed building with a Horsham stone roof; it has an unusual overhang along the whole length of the first floor.

Caption For Horsham, The Carfax, East Side 1924

Originally the open central area in Horsham was known as the market place, but by the later 19th century the northern part was called the Carfax, a name possibly derived from 'Skarfolkes', used in 1524

Caption For Rudgwick, The King's Head C1965

The Downs Link, a long distance footpath, passes through the village on the route of the Horsham to Guildford railway line.

Caption For Plaistow, The Village C1955

Holy Trinity church is shown here, with turret, clock and spire and a Horsham stone roof.

Caption For Ockley, Stane Street C1955

The Old Hatch, the cross-winged house on the left, has heavy Horsham sandstone roof slates.

Caption For Horsham, The Causeway 1898

The Causeway always was a tranquil haven amid the chaos, but imaginative pedestrianisation and traffic calming schemes have made Horsham a delight again, particularly around Carfax.

Caption For Bramley, High Street C1955

Bramley stands about four miles south of Guildford on the Horsham Road; it is a long village with a busy crossroads with Station Road (there has been no railway since the 1960s).

Caption For Warnham, Topiary Work 1928

We are just north-west of Horsham.

Caption For Warnham, Topiary Work 1928

We are just north-west of Horsham.

Caption For Faygate, The Village 1929

A small village at the western edge of St Leonards Forest, on the main road and railway line between Horsham and Crawley.

Caption For Crawley, Tillgate Mansion 1907

Tilgate Mansion was situated about a mile south of the town on the edge of Tilgate Forest, part of the woodlands that comprise St Leonards, Tilgate and Worth Forests; they run in a swathe from Horsham

Caption For Arundel, High Street 1906

St Mary's Church 1907 Moving north-east to the western end of the Sussex Weald, we reach the town of Horsham, which expanded greatly after the railway arrived in 1848.

Caption For Faygate, The Village 1929

A small village at the western edge of St Leonards Forest, on the main road and railway line between Horsham and Crawley.

Caption For Graffham, The Village C1955

Holy Trinity church is shown here, with turret, clock and spire and a Horsham stone roof.

Caption For Horsham, The Carfax 1907

St Mary's Church 1907 Moving north-east to the western end of the Sussex Weald, we reach the town of Horsham, which expanded greatly after the railway arrived in 1848.

Caption For Plaistow, The Village C1955

Holy Trinity church is pictured, with turret, clock and spire and a Horsham stone roof.

Caption For Corsham, St Bartholomew's Church C1955

Nearby is Corsham Court, a large manor house built in Elizabethan style.

Caption For Corsham, Almshouses 1906

One of the architectural treasures of Corsham is the Hungerford Almshouses and their school.

Caption For Corsham, The Cross Keys Inn 1907

The scene depicted in the previous picture is repeated in Corsham.

Caption For Corsham, Box Tunnel 1904

Limestone from the excvavated tunnel was used for building houses in nearby Corsham.