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The Grove Bakery
Family history tells me that my grandfather, G J Morris, was the proprietor of this bakery before he died in 1940. My uncle, H J Morris, ran the tobacconist, newsagent, sweet shop on the corner in Wallington. I was born in Foxley Lane before a Buzz bomb fell on our garden on 29th June 1944. If anyone has any old photos or information on these memories I would love to hear from them.
Contributed by Elizabeth Smith
School memories
I attended St Philomena's School from 1951 - 1960. I have been living in Australia since 1963 and am visiting England in September 2008 when I will be attending the OGA Reunion at St Philomena's on 13th September.
Contributed by Bette Schoots
WINDBOROUGH ROAD CARSHALTON
I LIVED IN WINDBOROUGH ROAD FROM 1956-1961. WE LIVED AT NUMBER 68 WITH MY PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS. MY DAD TOLD ME HE TOOK CLIFF RICHARD TO SCHOOL ON THE BACK OF HIS BIKE! MY MEMORIES ARE THE "GEM SHOP" WHERE WE WOULD BUY JUBILEES, AND THE "WRECK" PARK. ALSO AS A TREAT WE WOULD GO TO THE SMALL HOLDING WHICH I THINK WAS AT THE TOP OF PINE RIDGE. ALSO WE LIVED NEXT DOOR TO DR AND MRS EICHWALD AND THEIR GRANDCHILDREN WERE ACTORS KIKA, PETRA AND PAUL MARKHAM. WE MOVED TO STEVENAGE BUT WE VISITED REGULARY. I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW IF ANY ONE REMEMBERED MY DEAR GRANDPARENTS WINNIE AND WALLY BLAKEY? SUCH HAPPY MEMORIES.
Contributed by Kay Grimwood
Surrey memories
The Grove Bakery
Family history tells me that my grandfather, G J Morris, was the proprietor of this bakery before he died in 1940. My uncle, H J Morris, ran the tobacconist, newsagent, sweet shop on the corner in Wallington. I was born in Foxley Lane before a Buzz bomb fell on our garden on 29th June 1944. If anyone has any old photos or information on these memories I would love to hear from them.
A memory of Carshalton contributed by Elizabeth Smith
Extracts From Carshalton & Surrey books
This view is taken looking north-
west along Benyon Road towards
the junction of Pound Street and
Carshalton Road. The high brick wall
in the distance belongs to Carshalton
House. This was the village’s grandest
house, a mansion designed by
Giacomo Leoni in the early 18th
century for Edward Carlton, who
was a London tobacco merchant.
Its fine landscaped grounds with a
lake include the important garden
buildings, the Hermitage and the
Water House, now part of a school.
St Philomena’s Convent School was
founded in 1893 by the Daughters of
the Cross.
An extract from from"Sutton Photographic Memories".
Nestled in the rear slopes of the North Downs, the village derives its ancient name from the Saxon word ‘wudmeresthorn’, meaning ‘thornbush by the boundary of the wood’, and was mentioned in the Domesday Book. This 1930s mock-Tudor shopping parade still stands on Rectory Lane as it winds its way south to the junction with the Chipstead Valley Road, where the buildings of the Woodmansterne Treatment Works, belonging to the Sutton and East Surrey Water Company, are just visible.
An extract from from"Around Cheam, including Sutton, Ewell, Banstead and Epsom Photographic Memories".
Much of Banstead High Street was rebuilt during the 1920s with a series of shopping parades. The leafless lime tree in the middle distance occupies the spot where the village pond once existed, while All Saints’ churchyard is concealed behind the trees on the extreme right.
An extract from from"Around Cheam, including Sutton, Ewell, Banstead and Epsom Photographic Memories".
The station, on the branch line from Sutton to Epsom Downs, opened in 1865, and the white stuccoed house, now a builder’s offices, dates from around the same time. The small confectionery kiosk was one of a trio servicing the requirements of commuters, with other branches at Sutton and Epsom. The roof of the station no longer bears the white lettering, and the building is almost a mile from the town centre itself. The road almost immediately makes another sharp bend over the railway line below, before passing the Cuddington Golf Clubhouse and continuing on to East Ewell.
An extract from from"Around Cheam, including Sutton, Ewell, Banstead and Epsom Photographic Memories".
Originally founded for ladies in the autumn of 1890, the club admitted gentlemen to membership within a year, and from a tin hut close to Banstead Railway Station it moved to this site in Burdon Lane nine years later. A putting green was added in 1923, and further major development took place in the years after this photograph was taken.
An extract from from"Around Cheam, including Sutton, Ewell, Banstead and Epsom Photographic Memories".