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Ranmore Common, The Post Office c.1955
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West of Dorking up on the chalk and just inboard of the North Downs escarpment, and west of the valley cut by the River Mole, is Ranmore Common. The village is scattered along the margins of a long green, and Frith's photographer took his near-obligatory post office view on the north side of the green. The house is L-shaped, and it is no longer either a post office or a tea room. The telephone box has gone too. The house is now called, unsurprisingly, The Old Post Office.

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For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Ranmore Common, The Post Office c.1955

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When I was about 11 or 12 in the 50's I used to ride from Bookham over to Ranmore quite often.  I would take a packed lunch in a rucksack and off I would go for the day all on my own.  When I got to Ranmore, I used to tie my pony to a tree and go in the post office and ask the man for a bucket of water for my pony.   Then we would stop on the edge of the woods somewhere, I'd sit on a log or on my jumper or coat on the ground and let my pony graze whilst I ate my lunch and read a book.
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