Bagshot
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Bagshot books (21 available)
- 16 photos on Bagshot appear in 5 Frith books - View photos of Bagshot
- Read extracts and see photos from these books on Bagshot and Surrey
Bagshot memories
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Clipping the hedge at St Annes
My dad, Eric Berry, used to clip this hedge - BY HAND!
When we're little, things always seem bigger than they really are, but my recollections of watching my Dad clip this hedge on the days he did the gardening at St Anne's church, were pretty accurate. It really is as big as I remember!
I also recall going to St Anne's Hall ( a bit further back down the hill?) with my Mum, to collect our ration books. At the bottom of the hill was Fortuna's Ice Cream Parlour - I can still remember the lucious creamy taste! Yum!
Contributed by Liz Schultz (nee Berry)
1955 & prior - the Cricketers etc
I was born in 1947 (a home birth) in Grove End cottage which was, and still is, located pretty much across the London Road and railway line from the Cricketers pub. Although I've never been inside the pub, I have on occasion as a child, watched cricket with my Dad at the weekends. I notice on the satellite map that the cricket pitches are still there - the photo must have been taken on a day of play as ant-like figures are clearly visible, dotted all around the grounds.
Many things have changed over the years - Grove End was once surrounded by dairy farms run by Arthur Knight and Jack Wooldrige. These farms are now gone - one a golf ...read more here
Contributed by Liz Schultz (nee Berry)
Surrey memories
Clipping the hedge at St Annes
My dad, Eric Berry, used to clip this hedge - BY HAND!
When we're little, things always seem bigger than they really are, but my recollections of watching my Dad clip this hedge on the days he did the gardening at St Anne's church, were pretty accurate. It really is as big as I remember!
I also recall going to St Anne's Hall ( a bit further back down the hill?) with my Mum, to collect our ration books. At the bottom of the hill was Fortuna's Ice Cream Parlour - I can still remember the lucious creamy taste! Yum!
A memory of Bagshot contributed by Liz Schultz (nee Berry)
1955 & prior - the Cricketers etc
I was born in 1947 (a home birth) in Grove End cottage which was, and still is, located pretty much across the London Road and railway line from the Cricketers pub. Although I've never been inside the pub, I have on occasion as a child, watched cricket with my Dad at the weekends. I notice on the satellite map that the cricket pitches are still there - the photo must have been taken on a day of play as ant-like figures are clearly visible, dotted all around the grounds.
Many things have changed over the years - Grove End was once surrounded by dairy farms run by Arthur Knight and Jack Wooldrige. These farms are now gone - one a golf ...read more here
A memory of Bagshot contributed by Liz Schultz (nee Berry)
Extracts From Bagshot & Surrey books
The Fighting Cocks Inn
can be seen on our left, but
the Hero of Inkerman was
demolished to make way for
the new by-pass, and was re-
built further to the left. After
a fire new premises were built
on the site, called The Windle Brook.
An extract from from"Camberley Pocket Album".
The village was an
important staging post
in the heyday of horse-
drawn coaches, and it
is not surprising that
the road across the wild
heath was once the haunt
of highwaymen. The
signpost and gas lamp
we see here (centre right)
commemorates Queen
Victoria`s Diamond Jubilee
of 1897. It was renovated
and converted to electricity
in 1994. Knight & Son’s
store looks full of tempting
furnishings for the early
Edwardian home.
An extract from from"Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories".
Children idly watch the photographer - and each other - from either side of the road, and wagons stand under one of the arches in Kemp and Sons’ yard. On the extreme left is Peel House, built in 1851 and once the police station.
An extract from from"Surrey Photographic Memories".
The railway came through Bagshot in
1878, which necessitated this viaduct being
constructed. The first house on the left is
Peel House, which was built in 1851 as
Bagshot Police Station, one of only four in
the whole of Surrey at that time.
An extract from from"Camberley Pocket Album".
Situated on a busy
highway, Bagshot
once had up to
14 inns offering
accommodation
for weary travellers.
The one seen here
on the left has an
eye-catching sign
to attract custom.
Today, the local
history society
is doing sterling
work recording
and discovering
new facts about
Bagshot’s rich past.
An extract from from"Villages of Surrey Photographic Memories".