Grayswood
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Map of Surrey
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Grayswood books (32 available)
Camberley Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Redhill to Reigate Photographic Memories
Paperback
Camberley Pocket Album
Paperback
- 2 photos on Grayswood appear in 2 Frith books - View photos of Grayswood
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Surrey memories
9 months of my life spent here
I was a boy sargeant soldier at Arborfield AAS when I came down with a serious illness and rushed into Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot and when I defied the odds and lived , it was discovered that I had pulmonary TB of the right lung. I was transferred to Connaught Military Sanatorium at Hindhead ,Surrey which I believe is the hospital featured in the photo ref.67886 although I do not recognise the angle it is taken from.
I got to know many of the patients and staff and although the hospital by this time was already condemned I received very good and kind treatment and the male orderlies competence and kindness motivated me into becoming a male qualified ...read more here
A memory of Hindhead contributed by clifford charlesworth
Chiddingfold memories
As a child living in Chidd during the war we had freedom to roam anywhere we wished, ie Sidenhurst lakes (where I caught my first carp), the brooks where we fished for tiddlers which we cooked over a camp fire, climbed trees and made camps. Girls and boys played and swam together down the Lagg's in water so muddy it was like treacle but we were never ill or caught any disease, there was no H&S rules in those days. I now live in the West Country but still visit Chidd 2/3 times a year. Bill MacDonald. Cornwall
A memory of Chiddingfold contributed by William MacDonald
1946-1971
GREW UP IN CHIDD IN THE 50-60'S. HAPPY MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD DAYS'
STILL "HOME" TO ME.. THOUGH NO LONGER LIVING THERE
A memory of Chiddingfold contributed by MADELINE SWINBURN
1953 raoc
i done three months training in almer barracks blackdown concrete building in march 1953 i remember a sergeant swanson but not much more there was a camp picture house i remember watching james cagney in the roaring twenties we also go atrain down to london from i think it was brookwood station and spent a night in the union jack club can anyone say if deepcut barracks is on the same camp i am talking abou
A memory of Blackdown Camp contributed by john henderson
Extracts From Grayswood & Surrey books
Back at ground level, this view
looks across the pond near
the church, past the railings
alongside the A283 to the
houses on the south side of
the Green. The early 1950s
bus shelter has now gone and
no longer obscures the view.
At the far right is the old
forge, while Forrest Wine
Stores has been replaced by a
chemist’s - Forrests have
relocated to shops to the right
of this view.
An extract from from"Surrey Living 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".
In Edwardian days cyclists frequented Godalming, especially at weekends. There was a demand
for teashops, and Church Street had three - one is on the left here. Also very popular was the
sending of picture postcards, which served people much as the telephone does today - Eatons
paper shop, on the left, claimed to have the largest selection.
An extract from from"Godalming Town and City Memories".
During the coaching era the need to re-shoe horses must have
made the blacksmith essential. The forge in Godalming was
situated very centrally, in Pound Lane, where Record Corner is
now. In the 1860s the smith added to his business by opening a
beerhouse, appropriately named the Three Horseshoes, next to the
forge. Also nearby was a whitesmith, Mr H Lewer who was also a
gasfitter and electrician.
An extract from from"Godalming Town and City Memories".
One suspects that Frith’s photos of the river shown on these pages may have been
commissioned by Mr Leroy to sell to his customers - he appears in this one too, in a
Canadian canoe, fashionable at the time. The camping ground was just to the east of the
boathouse. Though camping was already enjoyed, Baden-Powell’s book ‘Scouting for boys’
was published in the same year, and may have increased its popularity.
An extract from from"Godalming Town and City Memories".