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- 4 photos on Albury appear in 3 Frith books - View photos of Albury
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Living in the Squre Shere
Photograph No. 1. I was born in July l940 – Virginia Le Roux. The house on the left of the picture was where I lived until I was nearly 13 with my parents. The long narrow upstairs window was my bedroom. My mother’s mother and brother also lived in the house. My uncle - John Grover had a shop to the left of the porch, where he sold fresh fish, fruit and vegetables, some of which he grew himself. During the war people would come from Dorking and Guildford to buy fresh fish. The fish came from Harlow’s of Grimsby in wooden boxes, when the empty boxes were returned to Grimsby, ...read more here
A memory of Shere contributed by Virginia Pawlyn
born and raised there
I was born in Shere in 1942 to the youngest child of George and Margaret Bryant. The Bryants were a well-known Shere family, my father being the eldest of nine children born and raised in the village. I had a very happy childhood in the village, attended the village school as did my older brother and sister and several cousins. I remember the Shere bonfire nights which were very enjoyable. I left the village in the sixties and now live in Adelaide, South Australia. My elder sister still lives in in Shere with her husband who was until retirement one of the local postmen. I have only happy memories of my birth place. I was baptised and also had my confirmation ...read more here
A memory of Shere contributed by Rosemary Delia
Pub
My gran owned the pub at Blackheath which was called the Forest King, it was on the edge of the cricket pitch. There was also another pub called the Volunteer on the next road. Does anybody remember them?
A memory of Blackheath contributed by ian risbridger
Memories
It has been almost 50 years since I have seen the inside of this church. My mother; Molly Risbridger) was married in this church to a Canadian soldier Mr. Ken Lloyd Maxted. I am their son Robert Glenn Maxted. Happy Anniversary! 2007
I love you Mom and Dad,
Your Son,
Glenn
A memory of Blackheath contributed by robert Maxted
Extracts From Albury & Surrey books
The upper of two pools that are fed by chalk springs has been a popular beauty spot since
the 19th century. The tale about a lass who drowned here after an encounter with the wicked
Prince John has been told to generations of visitors as if it were true. Alas, the Victorian writer
Martin Tupper, who lived close by, penned it. The thatched arbour has recently been restored.
An extract from from"Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories".
This was indeed once the place where paupers and those down on their luck could seek food and
a roof over their head. However, if they were able-bodied they had to do menial tasks to earn their
keep. Four years after the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the much larger Guildford Workhouse
opened, doing away with this smaller poorhouse.
An extract from from"Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories".
This chapter’s tour finishes with
an architectural flourish in Albury,
a village still blighted by the A25.
The main village was moved west
and south of the Tilling Bourne
and out of the park in the early
19th century, but the best
buildings date from the 1850s.
The medieval church and Albury
Park are to the east and north of
the stream, and are now on the
North Downs Way long-distance
footpath. These fine tile-hung
houses are crowned by elaborate
moulded brick Tudor-style
chimneys. The Shell garage
beyond has gone since the 1950s.
An extract from from"Surrey Living Memories".
A relaxed tea is enjoyed on the sunlit dappled lawns of the Surrey Trust House hotel by these patrons of what would eventually become one of the Trust House Forte chain of establishments.
An extract from from"Surrey Revisited Photographic Memories".
Three of Church Street’s five pubs are in this photo - the Corn Meter extreme left, the Star
centre left, and the Live and Let Live just beyond the archway on the right. The arch led to
the rear of the Angel Hotel yard, owned at that time by John Jasper Taylor, who also had a
temperance hotel, Deanery House, further down Church Street.
An extract from from"Godalming Town and City Memories".