Aeroplane hull being delivered to Reigate Fire ... Anthony Catherall from
Epworth posted this comment on
Wednesday 27 May 2020 15:17:58.
I was the person who negotiated the purchase of this Trident aircfraft from British Airways. I also arranged tand escorted the transportation (seen here) to the fire brigade HQ at St Davids Reigate on the 28 June 1987. |
Deerings Road. Unknown date. Unknown publisher. KEITH TOTHILL from
Leatherhead posted this comment on
Wednesday 20 May 2020 09:59:11.
Thanks, Robert you are correct, we lived at No 47 with my Grandmother who had owned 47 with her husband.
How interesting Beckett, I had heard that there were plans by a company to develop the area. Still not happened even though I can't really see why not being myself a Town Planner.
The house is now very smart with several extensions -at the rear and the side.
I don't recall any coal burner. However, we heated the house with coal in the front room - the lounge. The coal was stored in the cellar.
My father was a great gardener and yes it was a fine garden with originally flowers and lawns at the front part of the back garden and beans potatoes carrots, etc at the far rear. We even played badminton on a lawn close to the old orchard.
When we moved in, I recall that in the cellar there was a row of servants bells |
Deerings Road. Unknown date. Unknown publisher. Beckett Fish from
Glastonbury posted this comment on
Tuesday 19 May 2020 09:53:00.
I lived at 54 from the 70,s through to the late 80,s. My parents bought it from the Crusader Insurance company who acquired it hoping to demolish it and build a new road but they never got the go ahead. When we moved in there was a huge coal burner in the dining room and a fantastic garden. |
Holmesdale Road, Reigate. School and tuck shop. ... Colin Ashton from
Steyning, West Sussex posted this comment on
Monday 18 May 2020 22:31:14.
I attended Holmedale School from 1943 to 1950, the junior clHead Mistress was Mrs White and another teacher was Miss Henderson, remember during Air Raids we had an Air Raid Shelter below the playground and our dailly 3rd of pint milk. We payed British Bulldog, cigarette cards and marbles in the playground. The senior school ahead Teacher was Mr Bull, known as leggy Bull. At mrs Heslers sweet shop we bought lemonade and chocolate powder at 1d for 2 oz. |
The Hearthstone Mine, The Clears, Reigate. Circa ... Michael Smith from
Hamilton posted this comment on
Monday 18 May 2020 00:29:32.
My names is Michael Smith, my mother was Phyllis Alice Joy, the daughter of Charlie Joy. Albert Joy was my great grandfather. My mother Phyllis Joy married Thomas Smith also of Reigate.
Brian Joy was kind enough to take me up Sheepwalk several years ago.
Would love to hear from any member or information on the Joy family. Please respond to email address below.
Thank you.
Mike Smith
ontario1950@gmail.com |
Bell Street, Reigate. Unknown date. Harry ... Barbara Tucker from
STEYNING posted this comment on
Friday 15 May 2020 11:48:42.
This was the home of Edward Penfold, my great uncle in the later 1910s. He was an Architect, much involved with several buildings around Reigate and Redhill, including the Monument on Reigate Hill. His son, Edward Norman Penfold, was killed in 1918 in WW1. |
Warren Road / Mark's Street, Reigate. Richard Symonds from
Horsham posted this comment on
Sunday 03 May 2020 16:33:41.
Exactly opposite this house, on the other corner of Mark Street with Warren Road, stood the former Warren Arms (No 16A Warren Street) now called the Old Brewery. The old Beerhouse closed in 1913. |
Wonham Manor. 1906. Sophie Molk from
Reigate posted this comment on
Wednesday 22 April 2020 20:22:54.
This is so lovely to read, such a beautiful house with so much history.. great that you can all share stories and hopefully find some more information! It’s truest great how much information you can find now days and family history is especially important, so very nice to hear 😊 We walk past Wonham Manor to see the deer so often, they put such a smile on my face, especially at this difficult time! Would love to know how long they have been there? How many are there? They all look so happy, playing together and with the rabbits 🐇
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Pine End, Reigate, Surrey. Unknown date. ... Linda Smith was Linda Freeman from
Battersea London posted this comment on
Friday 17 April 2020 19:57:02.
Best years of my life..loved it soo much I cried when I left July 1981,am on FB and a member of when I when to Pine End... Whoever set it up needs to correct the spelling... 😁 😁 😁 |
Reigate, London Road. 1921. F. Frith & Co. Ltd. Julia Baxter from
London posted this comment on
Monday 06 April 2020 15:53:56.
would be lovely to find a photo of the shops. I know the one near Somers Road was a chemist...but.... |
The opening of the Redhill British Restaurant. ... Jim Gravina from
Brisbane posted this comment on
Monday 06 April 2020 08:00:44.
I lived in Ranelagh Road and belonged to an orchestra around 1953. I believe it was called the Cromwell Road music Club. It was in fact a full blown youth orchestra, who remembers that? We practised in a School near Merstham and plaYed a few times in the Central Hall |
Beehive Stores, Nutley Lane, Reigate. Steve Prevett from
Bridgend posted this comment on
Tuesday 17 March 2020 20:54:34.
My dad used to shop here every Saturday in the 1970s it was run by a chap called Mr Gardiner I think. Very old fashioned, traditional grocers. |
Tiger Moth G-ARAZ which flew the first 'Wing ... Sönke Siebels from
Hamburg Winterhude posted this comment on
Sunday 15 March 2020 16:46:21.
I met Dennis in the Lensburry Shell Club in 82 as a school kid visiting the German School of London. He took me and my twin brother Eike a couple of times out to the Redhill aerodrome. I will never forget the flight on the Acdc tiger moth. He teached us snooker and sqash and was a great friend for my whole family. We lived close to his home in Clarence Rd, Teddington. |
The opening of the Redhill British Restaurant. ... Brian Hamnett from
Stirling South Australia posted this comment on
Tuesday 10 March 2020 08:33:33.
I can remember going from Cromwell Rd school down for school dinners. Some much loved meals but others I still can not stand. lat 1950's early 1960's |
Bell Street, Reigate. Unknown date. Harry ... John Northover from
Dorking posted this comment on
Sunday 08 March 2020 17:55:07.
My grandfather bought the business of Hammonds in the 1890s. With regard to the funeral side of the business all cremation records would be held by the crematoria. South London was used prior to Surrey and Sussex opening. As I joined the business in 1958 on the furnishing side I know very little about the undertaking part. Jan Hutsebaut's purchase in Belgium is interesting in that it was probably a piece prior to WW2 as I cannot recollect labels on the furniture sold in my time. By the mid 60s the stock was entirely modern design much of it Scandinavian and Italian plus some very good British furnishings. I hope that helps. |
Police Training Centre, Nutfield. Unknown date. ... David Glew from
Broadstairs posted this comment on
Sunday 01 March 2020 16:30:18.
I also received my initial police training at Holmesdale from 1967 having joined the then Kent County Constabulary, now Kent Police, and remember Sergeant Humpage.i eventually served 15 years in Kent. |
H.G. Barber, Monson Road, Redhill. Unknown date. ... jane porter from
Baldock posted this comment on
Friday 21 February 2020 20:53:40.
Henry George Barber was my great-grandfather. He and his wife Annie ran the bakers shop at 84 Monson Road. Their daughter Ada, my grandmother, is the girl standing in front of the shop. She was born in 1896 so this dates the picture to the early 1900's. |
Redhill Grotto and Catholic Church. Unknown date. ... Dr David Miller from
Lymington posted this comment on
Friday 21 February 2020 13:44:19.
Does anyone know, was the church address 'Brighton Road' Redhill in the 1930s? |
St. Mary's School from the Playing Fields. ... G Richardson from
Wokingham posted this comment on
Thursday 20 February 2020 15:09:03.
I was at the school in the 1970s. I'm not sure if anyone found Rev Hobson or his wife easy to deal but the "progressive headmaster" I had in my state school could be just as difficult with anyone who did not comply with his ideas.
I'm not sure how good the education actually was but I still credit my interest in science and Maths to Mr Davis. PE was in the church hall, play time was outdoors in all weathers, Latin was torture and we were better at football than singing ! My main gripe has always been it was stuck in the 50s...grey flannel suits, ancient text books and woe betide anyone who's parents through they should go to a Grammar School at 11 rather than a minor public school at 13. |
"Mining in Surrey". Unknown date. Daily ... Peter Burgess from
Crawley posted this comment on
Monday 17 February 2020 10:46:41.
This is the loading point from the Betchworth Hearthstone Mine onto standard gauge trucks on the private sidings of the Dorking Greystone Lime Company, near Betchworth Station. The mine closed by 1950 but was barely worked at all after WW2. |
"Mining in Surrey". Unknown date. Daily ... Peter Burgess from
Crawley posted this comment on
Monday 17 February 2020 10:44:19.
This is Betchworth Hearthstone Mine, close to Betchworth station. The mine ceased working by 1950, but was barely worked at all after WW2. |
Reigate Station. From foot bridge. Jonathan Banks from
Reigate posted this comment on
Saturday 15 February 2020 16:11:14.
I have a copy of the OS map of Reigate dated1896 which shows with northern platform (1) extending further east than the southern one (2). Looking at platform 1 from platform 2 today one can see where the original western end of it was. There was a more extensive goods yard south of platform 2. You can see the goods shed behind the station buildings on that side. |
Old Parish Hall, Lesbourne Road and Howard Road. ... Robert Knight from
Derby posted this comment on
Friday 31 January 2020 20:53:43.
The hall was designed by my Grandfather B K Field an architect and church warden. |
Holmesdale CP School. The country dancing team ... Peter White from
Seaford posted this comment on
Friday 31 January 2020 19:28:30.
For Penny Stapley, Comment 1, and Roger Campbell Comment 3, above. I was in Beryl Newton's class when my father died in 1956. She wrote my mother a wonderful letter, and they became lifelong friends. She ended the letter: "if there is anything that I can do to help you, or Peter, please do let me know. Remember me to Peter (I was off school for a while) and give him my love." |
S.E.C.R. 30047 Reigate, Surrey. Lens. Christopher Todd from
Petersfield posted this comment on
Thursday 30 January 2020 22:30:38.
30047 was not a SECR Loco though the line to Guildford and Reading was indeed originally SECR. The is an ex LSWR M7 tank based at Guildford shed. Photo dates after Rail Nationalisation in 1946. |
Redhill. Chris Todd from
Petersfield posted this comment on
Thursday 30 January 2020 22:26:54.
This is not Redhill Station as there was not an island platform there. I suspect by the track layout, signalling, and platform canopy it's Earlswood |
Deerings Road. Unknown date. Unknown publisher. Rbert Knight from
Derby posted this comment on
Monday 27 January 2020 12:22:45.
re comment 3 from Keith Tothill. I also lived in no.54 from '47 to '57. In fact your father bought 54 from my father!! You had lived further down Deerings Road with your parents and sister Christine if my memory serves me. |
Deerings Road. Unknown date. Unknown publisher. Keith Tothill from
Great Bookham posted this comment on
Sunday 26 January 2020 17:14:20.
No 54,on the other side from no 57 was also built in 1901. I lived there in the 1960s.
It was called Olde Cleeve and had the date on the eaves |
The village children on the ... Peter White from
Seaford posted this comment on
Sunday 26 January 2020 15:57:29.
Confirmed as 6th June 1953. Can confirm the identity of a few of those pictured IF the person concerned asks on this page! |
Pine End, Reigate, Surrey. Unknown date. ... MARJORIE church from
Bury st Edmonds posted this comment on
Sunday 26 January 2020 14:59:10.
I was at pine end school from 63to 66 these were the happiest days for me,I remember the bike rides the walks up colly hill,the socials with boys schools,midnight walks in the town,boy we were naughty, the paneled house, the food Yum,the garden patch,remembering it all gives me such a warm feeling |
