Great And Little Bookham In The Late 1950s

A Memory of Little Bookham Common.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s I lived in both the Bookhams. Firstly in the house attached to Bookham Railway Station and later in a flat at Maddox Park House. I worked at CERL in Leatherhead, cycling over the common and through Fetcham to get there. Steam trains still delivered trucks of coal to Wheal's coal yard. Whilst at the station house we had a black and white collie that I walked for hours on the commons. I had a large saloon Alvis motor car and friends locally had similar old motors. An Austin seven chummy, a Talbot, a Triumph, and 3 wheeled Morgan among others come to mind. I still own the Alvis 50 years on.


Added 15 January 2011

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