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Image number 6648
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Photo from the "Crusader" magazine, "The Official ...

Jennie Goddard from Horley posted this comment on Sunday 20 October 2024 21:24:06.

Mandy Thompson Yes, I do think your parents in law were friends with my parents. I think Mary came to my wedding in 1988 and I think as a child I can remember going for Sunday lunch at their house in Reigate , East Walk?.Was their daughter called Jane? I have a feeling she liked riding horses maybe as think she once took me to some riding stables to see a horse she rode back in the 1970s.




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Photo from the "Crusader" magazine, "The Official ...

Ruth cornwell from Bideford posted this comment on Saturday 28 September 2024 17:25:07.

My sister worked at the crusader as a typist




Image number 5053
image number 5053

Ivy Bank School, Oakhill, Reigate. Boarding and ...

Felicity Susan Rogan nee Nathan from Bourne, Lincs posted this comment on Friday 13 September 2024 20:32:40.

I went to North Bank School from 1947 to 1953. I have such clear memories of being there. I have a wonderful School photo when I’m sitting on the grass with my friends in the front row and can remember the names of almost everyone in that photo. It was a happy School.




Image number 3178
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H.G. Barber, Monson Road, Redhill. Unknown date. ...

Graham Shoubridge from Horley posted this comment on Sunday 08 September 2024 15:06:43.

Does anyone remember Parsons Motorcycles in Monson Road?




Image number 6648
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Photo from the "Crusader" magazine, "The Official ...

Mandy Thompson from PETERBOROUGH posted this comment on Sunday 25 August 2024 11:52:20.

Jennie Goddard, I think your parents attended our wedding as your father was a friend of my parents in law, Len Thompson and Mary. Len worked at Crusader all his working life, from the age of 14 until he died at the ge of 61. Our wedding was nearly 50 years ago at Reigate Methodist Church.




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Staff of Reigate County School. April 1946

Marianne Hepple from Auckland posted this comment on Wednesday 21 August 2024 14:35:09.

Can you point out Miss Newberry. She was Mum's German teacher. She was living in Cambridge in the late 70s/early 80s and we visited her there.




Image number 6637
image number 6637

Reigate County School. 1945.

Marianne Hepple from Auckland posted this comment on Wednesday 21 August 2024 14:07:55.

My late mother is front row left. Jeanne Margaret Watson as she was then. I have been looking into Banstead Wood POW camp, as Mum was friendly with some of the Germans. She won a German songbook at school. She passed her love of the German language on to me




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image number 1731

Mrs Seymour Hicks and the Misses Mabel and Betty ...

Gemma Enriques from Bakersfield California posted this comment on Tuesday 06 August 2024 21:37:02.

So what happened to Ellaline's children did they also pursue an acting career ?




Image number 3181
image number 3181

Earlswood Mount from the air, circa 1936.

Martin Powell from Blackburn posted this comment on Tuesday 16 July 2024 21:23:49.

Earlswood Mount was converted into offices for Redhill General Hospital. The stables and garages were converted to two houses and my family lived in Fir Cottage, Earlswood Mount fromc1953 to early 1957. My father, Desmond Powell, was Group Catering Officer at the hospital. In 1957 he moved to Horton Hospital, Epsom and we bought our own house in Epsom.




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image number 555

B.J .Roberts, Brighton Road. Unknown date. ...

Joan Talmage Whyte from Wokingham posted this comment on Sunday 14 July 2024 21:13:03.

These properties are 81 and 83 Brighton Road. I 1920, or thereabouts, my grandfather Herbert Marchant bought the property on the left, No. 83, and opened it as a greengrocer's and fruiterer's. My father, Van, who had just left school went to work for him, and later his daughter, Edith and youngest son Reginald also worked there. Our family continued to own the shop until 1980 when my father retired. My grandparents lived over the shop but later moved to The Cutting and then my parents lived there from 1940 when they married until 1952 when we moved to Meadvale. Even though I was only 5 when we moved I have many memories of living there. After we moved the living room was incorporated into the shop and the upstairs rooms were used for storage - it was not great.




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SAMUELS that was at 72 Somerset Road 1921. Mrs ...

Joan Talmage Whyte from Wokingham posted this comment on Sunday 14 July 2024 17:52:00.

I have only just found this site and, as I grew up in Meadvale, as did both my parents, I remember the Samuels family well, including two girls, one of whom I think was called Diane. My maiden name was Marchant and my Dad had a greengrocer's shop in Brighton Road, Redhill and knew George and Jack Samuels well.




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The village children on the ...

Joan Talmage Whyte from Wokingham posted this comment on Sunday 14 July 2024 17:25:03.

I remember this event, although not the Punch and Judy. We used to have some photos of races which also took place. I think my Mum is standing in the middle of the front row of adults wearing a light dress and dark cardigan and I think the girl you can partly see sitting in front of her with darkish hair and a light coloured bow is me. I was six and we had moved to Meadvale from Brighton Road Redhill, where my Dad had a greengrocer's shop, the previous year although family had been living there since to 1860s. I can't see my sister who still lives there in a flat looking out over Swing Common.




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Staff of Reigate County School. April 1946

Linda Marcroft nee Jackson from Reigate posted this comment on Thursday 04 July 2024 19:06:25.

I was at Reigate County School from 1960 to 1965 and recognise from the 1946 photo the following members of staff.Miss Wakefield(needlework) Miss Phipps (history) Miss Lambell(Greek)and Mrs Huggins(careers)




Image number 3736
image number 3736

Reigate, South Park, Priory Road. 1910. F. Frith ...

Lewis Jackson from Reigate posted this comment on Saturday 04 May 2024 20:34:29.

We currently live in the house where the lady is standing. We are told this was a bakery but would love more information on the history if anyone has it!




Image number 3753
image number 3753

Merstham. 1923. F. Frith & Co. Ltd.

Jane Hall from Merstham posted this comment on Thursday 02 May 2024 16:07:12.

Good picture of St Nicolas Cottage




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image number 6659

Joan Apps in front of a tree in the grounds of ...

Alan Morton from Seaford posted this comment on Friday 26 April 2024 15:23:23.

I worked with Joan briefly 1970-1971 in the Computer Room at Crusader, and I went to her wedding (27th February 1971).




Image number 356
image number 356

Bell Street, Reigate. Unknown date. Harry ...

Kristy Poulton Poulton from Redhill posted this comment on Friday 05 April 2024 09:36:54.

We have just bought a beautiful walnut wardrobe with the Northover and Sons label on the inside above the mirror. Its stunning. Purchased from Furnistore in Redhill.Such a lovely addition, they just dont make things like this anymore, the finish is divine and so well thought out..




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image number 2864

Wray Park Garages, London Road, Reigate. Unknown ...

john MCKEE from Reigate posted this comment on Thursday 07 March 2024 08:54:16.

slightly different request for info. i am trying to track down any descendant of the Hodgkins family - who owned Wray Park Garages. Reigate rugby club was bequeathed the land we play on today in memory of Eric (who had two daughters) and we're celebrating our 90th annivaersay 2024. any leads greatly appreciated




Image number 6648
image number 6648

Photo from the "Crusader" magazine, "The Official ...

Jennie Goddard from Horley surrey England posted this comment on Monday 26 February 2024 22:01:35.

My parents met at The Crusader insurance company. Douglas Young and Barbara Parker. They married in 1950. I have a photograph of them working in this office




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image number 6638

Reigate County School. Circa 1945.

janet Munro from Basingstoke posted this comment on Thursday 08 February 2024 16:37:54.

My Mum is in the last row of this picture - white shirt and tie. She was at the school from 1942 to 1944 and then 1945 to 1949 ( was evacuated between 1944 to 1945 ) I have the same picture with following names on back : M Chappell, Audrey Baalam, Claire , Jillian R Dawson, Jane Douglas, Jane Pinock, Mary Stoneham, D Mooore,




Image number 2794
image number 2794

Thatch Cottage, Linkfield Lane, Redhill. Unknown ...

Jill Goulder from Lewes posted this comment on Friday 29 December 2023 17:52:12.

Hello Helen MacDonald - I've just seen your fascinating post about Woodside uniform photos! How absolutely lovely it would be to see them. I know that sadly (though understandably, of course) the site doesn't allow email addresses to be published, so I am most frustrated at how to contact you in order to see them. I was in touch, too, with several people too who were at Woodside at the same time, and who were interested in getting in touch with each other, which I'd love to do via a private email group. I hope that the excellent admin of the page can help (as some of the former pupils are now of very advanced years), so that ideally a few of us could exchange memories and photos. I'm ready to give an email address that can be freely published (starts with emmawoodhouse), and in my next post I'll give it and HOPE that the system won't block it and that some of us can communicate privately about Woodside. All the very best to all who knew and loved Woodside




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image number 126

The Back Entrance, Earlswood Asylum. Unknown ...

Pamela Gunn from Morpeth posted this comment on Wednesday 27 December 2023 14:37:30.

This is indeed West Lodge and We lived in this house between 1967 and 1973 when Royal Earlswood Hospital existed as a residential hospital for patients with severe learning difficulties. My husband was a Hospital Engineer. Some of the happiest days of my life were spent here, and my two elder boys remember it with much affection. We met Gary's parents some year's ago at the Lodge.




Image number 1115
image number 1115

High Beech, Nutfield. Unknown date. Aerofilms Ltd.

Peter arnold from Lewisham posted this comment on Monday 25 December 2023 03:24:24.

I was there in the seventies i was there with sid jones and a few others great times with gov and umberto sovereign club can't remember name of other club we went to but fond memories been a builder for nay on fifty years built schools hospitals colleges houses all down to them putting me on right road




Image number 5053
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Ivy Bank School, Oakhill, Reigate. Boarding and ...

Margaret Nicholson from Chester posted this comment on Tuesday 05 December 2023 08:05:06.

I was at North Bank from 1948 to 1954. In the same class as Josephine & remember Gillian & Tony, all above. Tony, I seem to remember your mother, & big sister? Another teacher, Miss Jutson, taught us in the Transition class. Do you remember the unvarying timetable? Today is Tuesday so we would have had English before our milk & Arithmetic afterwards. I seem to recall that term started on a Wednesday, so that was nature study. We learnt about earwigs & woodlice, & for many years I muddled them up!




Image number 76
image number 76

The Copse, Alma Road, Reigate. 1914.

Karen woolf from Reigate posted this comment on Saturday 04 November 2023 20:44:03.

Beautiful old building what did it use to be




Image number 2794
image number 2794

Thatch Cottage, Linkfield Lane, Redhill. Unknown ...

Jill Goulder from Lewes posted this comment on Wednesday 25 October 2023 21:38:16.

Jo Stewart-Long - lovely to see your comment about Woodside! As you'll have seen in the comments, it was started by my lovely great-aunt Sylvia who then handed it on to Mrs 'Codfish'. Very sadly I know nothing about the history of the house - Redhill must have been very different in those days




Image number 2794
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Thatch Cottage, Linkfield Lane, Redhill. Unknown ...

Helen Anne MacDonald from Woodlawn posted this comment on Tuesday 24 October 2023 16:27:34.

Somewhere around I still have photos of us in our grey and green Woodside School uniforms!




Image number 2794
image number 2794

Thatch Cottage, Linkfield Lane, Redhill. Unknown ...

Jo Stewart-Long from Bexhill posted this comment on Saturday 21 October 2023 17:27:32.

I went on line to look for info on Woodside School and found all your comments - loved reading through them! I attended the school in I think 1968 to 1969, Mrs Godsiffe was headmistress (we called her Mrs Codfish behind her back!) My teacher was Mrs Lawson, but I would have liked Mrs Barklet instead as she was lovely. It was indeed a lovely house, I'd love to know more about its history




Image number 1116
image number 1116

Police Training Centre, Nutfield. Unknown date. ...

Mr. Gerald Rowland Bridges from Tonbridge posted this comment on Friday 20 October 2023 11:45:42.

I have a record of a Miss Doris Black who worked for the Mc Alpine Family at Holmsdale House Nutfield Surrey. It is on A3 paper three pages long. It states where she first started in service for them in Thortonhall Clyde, Scotland. Doris Black story really starts from 1918 when she worked in the shipyards on the Clyde. Her father worked As an engineer for Sir Robert McAlpine, sadly he was killed in Lincolnshire while they were relaying the G.N.E. Railway. Please contact me if you would like to no more.




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Reigate County School for Girls. Unknown date. ...

Lois Ellett Pawson from Shoreham-by-Sea posted this comment on Friday 06 October 2023 11:03:00.

My family lived at both 3 South Walk and later 20 The Crescent, Chart Way in the 1960’s to 1980’s - I can see both in the photo with their mid century ‘dig for Britain’ vegetable patches. Great photo.




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