Farnborough, High Street c.1955
Photo ref: F185004
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A Selection of Memories from Farnborough

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 Farnborough

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I remember this view as if it were yesterday, my brother Steve, Edward our neighbour and I as well as others from Clifton Close played here all the time. Scaring each other in the woods by the plane memorial and making tracks through the corn in high summer. Making camps on glass mountain (a pile of broken bottles) and roaming the fields all day, plus the occasional visit to the ...see more
Hi,my parents Moira and Jim ran the george and dragon in the early 70s and i went to the local junior school.My best memory of the pub was being given a chance to play the drums for a band named tonic blue,does anyone remember.
I recognize this photo as the northern end of the village I passed it every day on my way to school for six years. Just out of the photo on the right hand side there was a butchers shop and close to that Tom's Shoe Repairs, across the street was the New Bakery and then a farm. To aid our crossing of the A 21 there was always a police officer on duty at that location. One day on my way to school my ...see more
I remember this property very well, as a young girl my mother and her family lived there, my grandfather was the estate manager for the Lubbock family who lived in the manor house. I'm not certain of the years this involved but it was probably prior to or just after WWI. My mother, father, brother, sister and myself lived on Gladstone Road during WWII. I left in 1957, my mother and sister stayed ...see more