Earlswood incident by flying bomb. June 19th ... Ed Marshall from
Atlanta posted this comment on
Monday 10 January 2022 06:35:18.
Regarding the death of Bill Demmming's wife at 98 Earlsbrook: Bill was my Dad's first cousin. We, his cousins in the US, were familiar with the event. I understand that Bill and Mary lived with Mary's aunt, Mary Ann Bath, nee West, and her aunt's husband, Edward Bath (who was also killed). Bill's dad, William J Demming Sr., was also a toolmaker and was a early employee of Monotype. When WWI started he was their representative in Berlin and was unable to return to his family in England until 1919. He later returned to the United States. After his death his tools went to my Dad and are now in my care. |
Coopers Hill Lane, Nutfield. Unknown date. F. ... Stephen Maughan from
GLOUCESTER posted this comment on
Sunday 02 January 2022 15:23:48.
I also remember Umberto, he really was a really nice and fair member of staff. I was there 1975-1976 and remember it well with a lot of fond memories, singing "All Coppers are *****" as we passed the police college at the top of the hill in the mini bus. I do often wonder what happend to all the staff and friends I made there. I retire in 3 years time and have spent my working life in IT. I am now married for 34 years with 4 daughters and grandchildren, so life has been good to me. |
High Beech, Nutfield. Unknown date. Aerofilms Ltd. Stephen Maughan from
Gloucester posted this comment on
Sunday 02 January 2022 14:45:12.
I stayed at High Beech around 1975-1976, and remember Umberto, really nice guy. Had a lot of memories specially our sing song as we used to drive past the police college coming back from the youth clubs. |
Earlswood incident by flying bomb. June 19th ... Robin West from
Rustington posted this comment on
Sunday 02 January 2022 07:44:33.
Bill Demming, an american who moved to the UK in 1900, married Mary Demming (nee West)in 1919. They both lived with Marys mother at 98 Earlsbrook road. Mary was killed outright by the explosion and her elderly mother died days later in East Surrey hospital. Bill was on fire watch that night at the Monotype factory at Salfords where he worked as a toolmaker and therefore survived. He was re-housed in Croydon with just the clothes he stood up in. In 1947 he was remarried to my mothers sister and enjoyed a very happy 2nd marriage. Uncle Bill as I knew him, died in 1988 at the age of 92. I still have many of his work tools which were of course safe at the Monotype, as well as his aliens Identity Book and the fire whistle which he carried on the night of the bomb. |
Tiger Moth G-ARAZ which flew the first 'Wing ... Jenny Pemberton from
West Molesey posted this comment on
Thursday 30 December 2021 09:29:28.
My father, Ron Pemberton was a warrant officer with the ATC squadron based in Esher. Dennis Hartas taught him to fly a Tiger Moth. |
Hooley Lane, Redhill. Unknown date. Dann's ... Steve Kulka from
Redhill, Surrey posted this comment on
Tuesday 21 December 2021 12:10:25.
This picture is probably a view Eastwards from Hooley Lane towards Philanthropic Road. |
Railway Station, Redhill. 29/10/1912. With thanks ... Steve Kulka from
Redhill posted this comment on
Wednesday 15 December 2021 20:30:04.
This picture looks like the station access, primarily to the Southbound line on the eastern side of the station. The bridge over the road is therefore in the right hand background. |
SAMUELS that was at 72 Somerset Road 1921.
Mrs ... Lucas Young from
Horley posted this comment on
Friday 26 November 2021 07:29:14.
Hi Simon. This is a very old thread. I don’t suppose any of your family recalled the names I mentioned? Particularly my grandad (worked fullers earth) , Bill Young and my grandmother , Isobel Young, who worked in the Old Oak. My dad is Bill Young. Warmest regards , Lucas |
Reigate County School for Girls. Unknown date. ... Mandy Thompson from
Peterborough posted this comment on
Sunday 21 November 2021 12:14:53.
I remember the entrance to the air raid shelter but it was not accessible at all by the time I was at school there. There were a lot of stories about tunnels joining up (and of course The Castle Grounds are very near) but my mum, Audrey Ward, who knew a lot about the local history and had been down all the tunnels that were known about, said that most of the stories had no basis in fact. |
Buckland Sand. Circa 1920. Unknown publisher. thomasina farrington from
EPSOM posted this comment on
Saturday 20 November 2021 18:02:32.
Fabulous image added to the site. My Farrington family were Lime Merchants in Reigate,100 years of working the pits until 1927 with the death of Frederick Price Farrington. The company played a significant part of the industrial revolution |
Ivanhoe. Unknown date. Unknown publisher. David Lawrence from
Newcastle-under-Lyme posted this comment on
Tuesday 16 November 2021 12:55:34.
In 1914, this address was for Mr. R. Corry. This was given on the headstone entry on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for Major John Beaumont Corry R.E. DSO who was killed in France 1914 and is interred at The Royal Irish Rifles Cemetery ay Laventie.
I speculate that the R. Corry at Ivanhoe was Major John's surviving brother.His family were originally from Belfast and were involved in a shipping line which moved to London.
I am interested in the family as I own a memorial bronze bust of Major John executed by Sculptor Charles Vyse. |
Staff of Reigate County School.
April 1946 Marion Howser from
Warmington/Peterborough posted this comment on
Saturday 13 November 2021 22:01:50.
Lots of familiar faces - still there when I was at RCS in the fifties. |
Reigate County School for Girls. Unknown date. ... Marion Howser from
near Peterborough posted this comment on
Saturday 13 November 2021 21:41:36.
I was there from 1951 and the pre-fab canteen was already there. There was an entrance to the old air-raid shelter on the front lawn - it was said this linked up with the tunnels under the town. |
Wray Park Garages, London Road, Reigate. Unknown ... Paul Gale from
Clevedon posted this comment on
Thursday 21 October 2021 10:50:15.
We lived in a flat in Warren Road, Reigate,in the late 1950s and my Mum was the secretary of a manager at Wray Park Garages. His name was Bill Kendall. He was a lovely chap and he let us use his holiday cottage in Harrowbarrow, near Callington in Cornwall, for a number of years. |
Deerings Road. Unknown date. Unknown publisher. Liz Miller from
reigate posted this comment on
Sunday 10 October 2021 19:46:50.
Thanks Robert. Is the neighbour you are refering to called David? Your explanation makes sense as when we renovated the middle of the house, we found what looked like coach house beams and windowa sandwiched between the walls, with the glass still in the windows! |
Reigate County School for Girls. Unknown date. ... Mandy Thompson from
Peterborough posted this comment on
Saturday 09 October 2021 12:38:03.
What a fabulous picture. I lived at 1 South Walk from 1959 until 1975 and this photo pre-dates that by several years. It does not include the pre-fab canteen, or the netball and tennis courts which were there when I was at RCS (1964-1971). Also amazing coincidence that the photo was uploaded on my birthday. Thanks |
Deerings Road. Unknown date. Unknown publisher. Robert Knight from
Derby posted this comment on
Monday 27 September 2021 17:14:15.
Correction to my earlier comment. Lots of changes since I was there, after no.69 there was an orchard until no. 71 this is the person you need to speak to. Kellaways at no. 73. Your house was not there at all it is on the site of the coach house of a Victorian mansion called "Dilkusha" which faced on to Doods Park Road. "Dilkusha" its grounds and coach house were all derelict c.1950 which we children all made good use of in the holidays. (No. 78 was the childhood home of the broadcaster Jean Metcalfe) |
Deerings Road. Unknown date. Unknown publisher. Robert Knight from
Derby posted this comment on
Monday 27 September 2021 16:30:43.
I lived in 3 houses in D R 74,54,57 from 1944 to 1966! Your house was lived in by the Kellaway family. I went to school with their children Michael, Julia and Nina. Speak to your next door neighbour he was also at school with us and has lived there his whole life and I think his Dad was an architect. |
Letter head of Little Denshott, Leigh, Nr. ... Rebecca Pini from
Dorking posted this comment on
Tuesday 07 September 2021 21:16:56.
This is the house I grew up in, I would love to see any other photographs available. Thank you. |
Stone House, Reigate. 1907. F. Frith & Co. Ltd. Christopher Venning from
Oxford posted this comment on
Monday 06 September 2021 12:06:37.
The Stone House was built in 1866 for Augustus Mordan (1821-1901). Augustus Mordan was joint owner of the luxury gold and silver goods manufacturing company of S.Mordan & Co. With his brother, Sampson Junior he had inherited the thriving company from his father, Sampson Mordan Senior, in 1843. Augustus's daughter Clara Evelyn (1844-1915) became a generous champion of women's rights and education. She was often a speaker at suffragette meetings and she gifted the money to enable the then newly formed St Hughs College, Oxford to build their first purpose built home. |
Deerings Road. Unknown date. Unknown publisher. Liz Miller from
Reigate posted this comment on
Sunday 05 September 2021 18:34:29.
I am wondering if anybody can help.. We currently live in 75 Deerings Rd - which is at the end of a drive/lane that runs next to the alms houses. Does anybody have any information on when the original house was built and why? It doesn't feel like it was originally meant to be a part of Deerings Road? |
The Warwick Arms. Originally "The Spotted Cow". ... Moira Palmer from
Bodmin posted this comment on
Friday 03 September 2021 00:15:00.
I used to go there often as a teenager. 1971, I had my own glass, and one night I told Molly it was my birthday and she asked how old was and I said 18. I had been going there for about two years, I cannot possibly say what she called me. |
Frenches Road Schools, Redhill. Circa 1910. alan abbott from
Hayling Island posted this comment on
Tuesday 24 August 2021 16:54:34.
My mother Vera Sticklee attended Frenches Road school in the 1920s and I have a photograph of her taken in 1922 when she was in the netball team. I have the names of the other team members as well as teacher's names.
Vera married James Abbott in 1936. Can I send you a photo of the netball team and if so how? |
Reigate, Nutley Lane Church. 1906. F. Frith & Co. ... catherine Harrison from
Leatherhead posted this comment on
Monday 23 August 2021 09:58:45.
Sunday school on the left and where I was a choir girl 45 years ago. I was even christened here. |
Beehive Stores, Nutley Lane, Reigate. catherine Harrison from
Leatherhead posted this comment on
Monday 23 August 2021 09:57:01.
I worked at the Beehive store when I was 11-15, 42 years ago, for Stan Gardener. Great times. Great stories. |
Nutley Lane. Unknown date. Catherine harrison from
Leatherhead posted this comment on
Monday 23 August 2021 08:13:05.
So this was my dad's car. We lived at 136 nutley lane. My brother thinks that us us playing under the bridge but I can't say for certain what year it was. My guess is around 1975. |
I didn't know where this picture was taken - ... Andrew Jarvis from
Copthorne posted this comment on
Wednesday 18 August 2021 11:22:27.
Does anybody know if 28, Warwick Road was ever used as a boarding house or home for girls in the 1950s |
Pine End, Reigate, Surrey. Unknown date. ... Linda Freeman Skinner from
BATTERSEA posted this comment on
Sunday 08 August 2021 20:30:36.
Best year's of my life and many happy memories..took my oldest 2 children there at a reunion....loved it |
 Pine End, Reigate, Surrey. Unknown date. ... Janet Amos from
Leicester posted this comment on
Saturday 07 August 2021 21:42:55.
Pine end school was the best years of my life I'm 71 now and I still talk about them days. I never wanted to leave that school. And to this day I still don't know why i was there. Ann Cruickshank I remember Margaret Forsyth I was there in the 50s and left 1963 and Winifred Cottrill was there with us. We use to get up to some naughty things us 3 would go out to the pond and get the frog spawn and bring it in and put it in the girls that wasn't very nice that week. Oh god we got up to some naughty things but it was young girls having a laugh. Those were the best days of our life we were so well looked after there and we cried when we had to leave. I left in 1961 or 1962 I just remember coming home and starting a new school. I don't think any other school would have looked after us like pine end did. I could talk about pine end all week and still have stories to say.. |
Coopers Hill Lane, Nutfield. Unknown date. F. ... danny thomas from
burgess hill posted this comment on
Friday 30 July 2021 22:43:57.
I remember umberto he was a great staff member and another live in social worker on the 2nd floor end of corridoor cant remember his name though I was there at the age of 14 stayed the for two years The Manager of the place was called Mr Weddon he lived there with his family I had a good mate there called Gary Morgan |
