Sam: We were both born in Redhill. Alice was brought up in Dorking and arrived in Cranleigh through teaching, first at Cranleigh Primary School and then retraining as a fitness instructor 4 years ago. She now works at the Leisure Centre and the Golf and Country Club. I was brought up in South Holmwood and have worked ...
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Cranleigh Common in 1911 where Ian's great grandfather David Stedman lived at no. 4 Parkgate Cottages (photograph courtesy of Mike Rackley) I was born in Cranleigh in 1939, though we moved soon afterwards to Guildford. My father, Cecil George Stedman, went to Burma in 1942 to fight the Japanese, and Aunt’s husband ...
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Chris Finill, left and Steve Pope keeping the pace up on their 'Help for Heroes' fundraising run across America I was born in Harrow, Middlesex on the last day of 1958. I went to a local state primary school which coincidently was the same school Sir Roger Bannister attended. I then went to Harrow County Grammar ...
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I'm Rosanna Clare and I live and work in the Surrey countryside. I have been running my workshop making leather bags and accessories as well as teaching courses for 3 years now and recently moved from Kent to Cranleigh near Guildford. I now live and work at a craft and business centre called Smithbrook Kilns. Here is ...
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Iraq - Myself and fellow medic beside Australian military field ambulance I was brought up near Bristol and when I was very young I didn’t have any aspirations towards anything medical. Despite having no military background all I wanted to do was join the Army, I just liked the idea. I would read books about the ...
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The Brooking museum teaching gallery for historians, students and researchers I was born in Sutton, South London, in October, 1953. My mother, Edith, was a picture restorer and had run an amazing gallery, known as St. Martin’s Gallery, off The Strand, London. She ran this with her uncle. The gallery was well known ...
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Cranleigh Station Platforms - c.1965 © Norman Hamshere My dad’s name was Harry Koster and in London he used to work as a mechanic for the black taxi cabs. He was in Burma during the war and when he came out of the army there was a shortage of jobs and a shortage of homes. He really wanted to get out into the ...
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I was born and bred in Cranleigh and lived there for nearly 26 years with my parents and three sisters. Initially I went to Cranleigh Infant school then Park Mead, followed by Glebelands. I was at Cranleigh School for 6th form. I loved school, being a bit of a cheeky chappie but worked hard and did pretty well. ...
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Majolica plate with fruit I live and work as an artist in the village of Dunsfold with my husband, Tim, and we have been there for nearly 22 years now. I was born in London and lived for a couple of years before my family moved to the Essex countryside. My parents had met and married in India, my father worked for ...
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I’ve lived in Cranleigh since 1974 but I’m a London boy, born in Streatham. There was a King on the throne when I was born 67 years ago. My family lived around South London for most of my childhood, first in Orpington and then we moved to Croydon. I came here as a policeman having worked in Guildford and Woking before ...
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