Nostalgic memories of Farnborough'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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I remember this view as if it were yesterday, my brother Steve, Edward our neighbour and I as well as others from Clifton Close played here all the time. Scaring each other in the woods by the plane memorial and making tracks through the corn in high summer. Making camps on glass mountain (a pile of broken bottles) and roaming the fields all day, plus the occasional visit to ...see more
Hi,my parents Moira and Jim ran the george and dragon in the early 70s and i went to the local junior school.My best memory of the pub was being given a chance to play the drums for a band named tonic blue,does anyone remember.
I recognize this photo as the northern end of the village I passed it every day on my way to school for six years. Just out of the photo on the right hand side there was a butchers shop and close to that Tom's Shoe Repairs, across the street was the New Bakery and then a farm. To aid our crossing of the A 21 there was always a police officer on duty at that location. One day on my way to school my ...see more
I remember this property very well, as a young girl my mother and her family lived there, my grandfather was the estate manager for the Lubbock family who lived in the manor house. I'm not certain of the years this involved but it was probably prior to or just after WWI. My mother, father, brother, sister and myself lived on Gladstone Road during WWII. I left in 1957, my mother and sister ...see more
We invited the third sec of the Russian emb to talk to us. The senior Conservatives said that they would expel us if we went ahead. We went ahead. How things have changed!
I lived in the George & Dragon when I was a small, I dont know maybe the late 1950s/early 1960s. Mum and Dad were the managers and I remember it being on an open road, almost countryfied, and it was a fabulous size for a child to play in! Hard to imagine it now pulled down, however so many of the pubs I once lived in have now gone and been replaced by flats, or McDonalds.   
My memory of Farnborough was of the hospital, a wonderful old pub and the local cricket ground. Our first child was born in Farnborough Hospital. While my wife was in the hospital I was playing cricket for St. Mary Cray C.C. against the local village team. At one point in the match I left to visit my wife. On arriving I asked how she was. Back then they only had two answers to that question. ...see more
The George and Dragon in Farnborough was the end of the 47 and 51 bus routes for many years. Drivers and conductors then adjourned to the Orange cafe or the little tea room nearby for a quick cuppa and a cigarette before their return journeys. The view from the George and Dragon at this time was hardly interrupted by houses at all. You could see the A21 across the open land on which stood a ...see more
The picture of Farnborough High Street facing the A21 at Farnborough Green evokes memories of the sweet shop, Hills the newsagents, a small "supermarket", the butcher's shop and a small shoe repair shop. To the left of where the picture was taken was the old Scout hut where once a week us younger boys congregated in the Cubs. Straight ahead in the picture is the old Farnborough ...see more