Woking, The Broadway 1902
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Photo ref:
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A view of the parade of shops that once graced this elegant road. Today, Maybury is the centre of a large Muslim community, centred on the Shah Jehan Mosque, the oldest mosque in Britain, which was built in 1889, and was thus thirteen years old when this picture was taken.
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A Selection of Memories from Woking
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. Here are some from Woking
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I was born in1967 at home at 25 Alpha Road Woking. Then moved to priors croft where I grew up . Played educated moved to Horsell then to Goldsworth Park. .
Left Woking altogether over 10 years ago. .
Still love the town and its history . Don't like what the council's done to the area tho. .
So many memories of school years here from 1959-66. Coming from Burpham nr Guildford I remember travel on public transportation and how most people did not come from my area.
In the summer during Wimbledon fortnight I would bicycle so as to be home to watch the tennis. I remember how under Miss Andrews I became a maths wiz, she made the subject so interesting and how Miss Brook did the ...see more
Does anyone remember a bakery, run by someone bearing the name Burgess, which also sold iced cakes? My Father worked there before the war and learnt to decorate cakes. Although eventually following a completely different career path he continued to make the most amazing birthday cakes for myself and my siblings. Much of his life is surrounded in mystery and I would very much like to know more about this phase, the Burgess family and what happened to the bakery.
My mother was in the land Army in 1944 on a farm her name was Margaret Shemeld from Dunsfold West Sussex, She was at the Dance hall in Woking where she met my father To be, I have a picture of the land Army girls and the farmer who and were are thay , mother is 6 from the left
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