Great Bookham, Polesden Lacey House 1906

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What a big surprise stumbling across this photo of where I lived during the 1960's. The caption on the photo dates it as c.1965. I can perhaps be a bit more accurate on the date. The shop called Mould was sold in 1962 to my parents and we lived in the flat above. My mother and father had the Mould name replaced with their own fairly soon after taking over, so the photo must have been taken prior to ...see more

I chanced upon this site. It brought back great memories from early 1980's. I met 'Kathleen' 'Kathy' at Preston Cross Hotel, I was as a receptionist there . Nito's People were the resident band. At the weekends the hotel held dinner dances. Kathy and I worked at the dinner dances, taking the guest coats and doing the guest billing. As I remember her husband was Alan and they had a daughter Sylvia. They owned the Granary, in Great Bookham High Street. I remember they sold animal feed .

Attended Bookham Primary school.The headmaster was Mr Brown.Pupils included the Walker Smiths managers son and the Lloyds bank managers son. It was a small village in those days.My grandparents lived in church cottages in church road and I lived in middlemead road.

In 1924 my grandparents Charles and Maud Kleboe bought The Croft, Church Road. The Croft is the house with the For Sale sign. They bought it from Mrs Procter, the widow of Dr Procter, who was famous for visiting patients by car. The 1871 census shows a Dr Steadman and family living there. The census includes a resident coachman. The stables are still there behind The Croft. I lived there in the late 1940s/early fifties.