Woking, The Wheatsheaf c.1965

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I was born in1967 at home at 25 Alpha Road Woking. Then moved to priors croft where I grew up . Played educated moved to Horsell then to Goldsworth Park. . Left Woking altogether over 10 years ago. . Still love the town and its history . Don't like what the council's done to the area tho. .

So many memories of school years here from 1959-66. Coming from Burpham nr Guildford I remember travel on public transportation and how most people did not come from my area. In the summer during Wimbledon fortnight I would bicycle so as to be home to watch the tennis. I remember how under Miss Andrews I became a maths wiz, she made the subject so interesting and how Miss Brook did the ...see more

Does anyone remember a bakery, run by someone bearing the name Burgess, which also sold iced cakes? My Father worked there before the war and learnt to decorate cakes. Although eventually following a completely different career path he continued to make the most amazing birthday cakes for myself and my siblings. Much of his life is surrounded in mystery and I would very much like to know more about this phase, the Burgess family and what happened to the bakery.

My mother was in the land Army in 1944 on a farm her name was Margaret Shemeld from Dunsfold West Sussex, She was at the Dance hall in Woking where she met my father To be, I have a picture of the land Army girls and the farmer who and were are thay , mother is 6 from the left