Hinchley Wood, Hotel c.1955
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H439005
Photo ref:
H439005
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Memories of Hinchley Wood, Hotel c1955
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I think this is now a McDonald's outlet...?
My family moved to Hinchley Wood when I was very small. We lived in the flat over the butchers shop on The Parade, at that time it was called Hodson & Harmer but later progressed to Baldwin Brothers and later still to West Butchers which it was for several years later. The shop can be seen on the picture of The Parade. My father Reg Martin became manager of this shop and was so for a good few years. My mother ...see more
My uncle Lawrence married Peggy Smurthwaite in about 1935 and took over the Hinchley Wood Hotel. It was already well-known to him and his brother, Ellis, because he was a partner in the building firm E & L Berg which had developed an estate over the other side of the Kingston Bypass. Though he knew little or nothing of the licenced trade, his wife, Peggy, was the daughter of teh Smurthwaites of the ...see more
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