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Esher, High Street c.1910
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The little girl dragging her feet on the unmade roadway in front of the camera would be taking her life in her hands were she to attempt such a casual progress today, when modern traffic thunders up this hill on its way to Cobham along the old Portsmouth Road. Many of the old buildings and shops on the left still remain, albeit with altered frontages. The imposing building (centre left) which juts out at the crossroads of Church Street and Claremont Lane ahead, is now occupied by the National Westminster Bank.

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A Selection of Memories from Esher

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Esher

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Yew Tree Cottages
I lived in Yew Tree Cottages, Portsmouth Road, Esher next to the Marquis of Granby pub. I went to Esher Primary School and my mother also went to that school. My father was a welsh guard at Sandown Park. My grandfather was a taxi driver with horse and trap to start with. He used to wait outside Esher station. I remember the air raid shelters on the common where we used to have to go.
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Triggs Garage And The Beatles
George Harrison lived in Esher in the early 60's, he used to pull into what was Triggs Garage in his E-type with Patty Boyd quite regularly. Michael Bentine of the Goons lived round the corner from us in Sandown Road, where all the wealthy people lived at that time. We lived in Hillbrow Road that had Triggs at one end, and George Harrion's dentist Powell Cullingford. Great memories in the early 60's ...see more
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Happy Days
Mary Edwards was my sister, she would have been 15 at the time. We lived in Sandown Road, Esher, in a house called Madresfield, where I was born. Sandown Road was a private road, off the A3 Portsmouth Road, opposite Sandown Park and next to the Council Offices; my father was the Clerk and Solicitor to Esher UDC. Mary, who became an air stewardess with British European Airways, married an Australian in 1956 and went to ...see more
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Happy Days
In 1945 I was stationed in Esher racecouse, as a Welsh Guard who had just completed 3 months of hard discipline in the guards depot in Caterham. The difference in Esher to the depot was remarkable, N.C.Os were suddenly human beings who treated men as men, not objects. I can say in the 3 years I was in the army that the time at Esher was the most enjoyable. I was also friendly with a girl named Mary Edwards. She live in a ...see more
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Added 24 November 2009

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