I’m not a Cranleigh girl, I was born in East London ‘within the sound of Bow bells’ which considering my ‘Surrey’ accent is a bit ridiculous. I lived there all my life until I finished university and it was my husband’s job that brought us to live locally, near Cranleigh. My father was a country boy from ...
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I was born in Guildford, and lived in Cranleigh for 19 years. My family lived in Woodlands Close, which is up Woodlands Avenue. My mother still lives in Cranleigh, in Summerlands, so I often return to Cranleigh to visit her. I went to Park Mead School then went onto Glebelands, which feels like a lifetime ago ...
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My silver Fender Stratocaster in all it's glory I was born in Guildford in 1957, at St Luke’s Hospital and am still living to this day, in Guildford. I was brought up in Guildford Park which is just by the main train station, so as a kid all I could hear was the sound of train whistles going past my window. It’s also ...
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I was born and bred in Poole, Dorset and lived there with my parents until I was about 18. When I left school, I went to live in Africa for a year. I’d suggested to my parents that I could go to University but they discouraged me from embarking on that as they knew it wouldn’t suit me, which was very honest of them. ...
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I was born on 31st March 1943, in Mount Alvernia Hospital, Guildford. My family had been evacuated from Dulwich, where my mother was a matron at Dulwich Hospital. We were billeted to ‘Hollyhock Farm House’, next to Notcutts, and from there we moved to 20 Kings Road Cranleigh and subsequently to ‘St Anthony’s’ at the ...
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Violette with her husband Etienne Szabó in London 1940 Violette Szabó was born on 26 June 1921 in Levallois-Perret, Hauts-de-Seine, France, the daughter of Charles and Reine (née Leroy) Bushell. Violette took her father’s British nationality, since Charles Bushell was an Englishman who, as a soldier, had met his ...
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I was born in 1953 when my parents were living with my grandparents in Ash Vale, close to Frimley. They then moved to Normandy, near Guildford. I had two sisters and three brothers, two of which sadly passed away in infancy. Normandy was mainly a farming community and I have a very good recollection of seeing cows ...
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Happy days with my Mum. I still have the piece of jewellery I gave her as a present when I was older I was born in 1960 in Chelsea, London and moved to Virginia Water in 1961 with my parents and brother, who was 4 years older than me. The move was inspired by mine and my brother obsession with nature and my ...
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For the first twelve years of my life, I lived with my family in South West London, after this time we moved to Surrey. Some of the highlights of my early years, were when my father drove us to the countryside in his car. He encouraged me to stop, look and appreciate the countryside around me and the beauty of nature ...
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SS Northern Star I was born in Havant, Hampshire in 1948 and studied at Portsmouth Grammar School before going on to St Thomas’ Medical School in London. Mine was the last of three generations of doctors, all of whom trained at St Thomas’. My father, a GP in Havant, was a big man both in frame and personality, ...
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