Guildford, The Roof Garden c.1960

Photo ref: G65128

Photo ref: G65128

Photo of Guildford, The Roof Garden c.1960

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This view captures well the design ethos of the period. This roof garden was placed on top of Harvey's, a five-storey department store of 1957 designed by Jellicoe and Partners and built behind a retained High Street frontage. The garden survives, with its views over surrounding townscape and countryside. Harvey's is now House of Fraser with a large modern addition fronting North Street, and the restaurant is now French and classier, but at least this archetypal 1950s-designed roof garden is intact.

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Happy Childhood Times

In the late fifties and early sixties myself and my family lived just outside Guildford (where I was born in 1951) and my mother used to take me after school on shopping trips to Guildford High Street and into Harveys as it was then, as she knew the fashion buyer there. As a treat we would go up to the wonderful roof garden and whilst mum had tea I played, running backwards and forwards over the stepping ...see more

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Added 10 June 2015

Saturday Job At Harveys

I had a Saturday job at Harveys and I was paid £1 for the day. It would have been about 1964-65. I remember working in the toy department one Christmas and loving it; so much easier than the paper round on the Sunday. Harvey's had creaking floorboards under heavy carpets and still had Pneumatic Tube Transport for sending money and receiving change in a cylindrical tube.

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Added 19 January 2014

Harvey's Roof Garden

We moved to live in Hersham, Surrey, in the late 1950's and visited Guildford quite often through the 1960's. A visit to the Rooftop Cafe was always a highlight for me. I remember jumping from stepping stone to stepping stone, and watching the fish darting about in the water. I have never seen another roof top cafe anywhere and I'm very glad to know this unique place is still in existence - I have very happy memories of it.

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Added 27 April 2012