tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91529508922722526362024-03-13T01:11:11.511-07:00Edith's StreetsLondon Local History - this lists street by street items of historical interest - public, industrial buildings & some environmental features in London and its immediate surroundings. Streets are given in OS grid squares - but numbering is not included (sorry!). Older squares give links to adjacent squares - but many are unfinished. Enter search words above rightUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3411125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152950892272252636.post-90121449172207843612022-07-18T04:21:00.007-07:002022-07-19T10:22:32.021-07:00Kilburn Station<p style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2022/05/cricklewood_3.html">Post to the north Cricklewood</a></p><p style="text-align: left;">The North London Line<br />The north London line from West Hampstead Station turns south westwards</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /><span lang="EN-GB">Arial Road,<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">Hebrew word for water spirit, built by British Land Company 1879<br /></span><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">Barlow Road<br />Built on the site of the Midland Railway’s West End Sidings – a marshalling yard and goods distribution centre. William Barlow was the Midland Railway’s engineer who built much of St.Pancras Station.<br />Lauriston Lodge, sheltered housing<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">Brassey Road<br />Built on the site of the Midland Railway’s West End Sidings – a marshalling yard and goods distribution centre. Thomas Brassey was the civil engineer and contractor for the Midland Railway <span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;">London extension into St Pancras in 1860 and was responsible for 1 in 3 miles of all railway track that was laid during his lifetime.<o:p></o:p></span><br />Sidings Community Centre. Opened in 1983 and named for the Wrest End Sidings and it stands on a small part of the siding site.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: left;">Brondesbury Park</p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: red;">Brondesbury College</span>. This is an Independent (private fee paying) Secondary School for boys. It has a traditional English curriculum with selected Islamic subjects. The main building was originally a house and was used to set up Islamia Primary School as a kindergarden in 1983. This then relocated and the College opened here in 1996.<br /><span style="color: blue;">Mission House</span>. The house was originally called Restormel. In the early 1900s this was the home of Solomon Barnett, a Polish born lead and glass merchant, who became a local developer and political activist. It was later renamed The Mission House and belonged to Revd Dr Herbert Vaughan and was the Headquarters of the Catholic Missionary Society. It had a large entrance hall and an oak staircase plus a large conservatory at the back. It was lent it to the War Office in the Great War and became the Brondesbury Park Military Hospital 1915 – 1919. The garden was over 2 acres with tennis, croquet and a kitchen garden. A Recreation Hut was built with sofas, billiards and bagatelle. It has a stage for performances. There was a Hospital's magazine ‘With the Wounded’. In 1917 took over neighbouring - Beversbrook to make a total of 120 beds. The hospital closed in 1919 and the house has since been demolished long ago, but gate posts and boundary wall remain. The site is part of what was Avenue Primary School grounds <br /><span lang="EN-GB">Stormont House home of WJ.G.Kingston, writer.`<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red;">St.Monica’s Home </span><span lang="EN-GB">hospital<br /></span></div><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><o:p></o:p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB">Brondesbury Road<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">John Barker Court<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">Rosedene<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">St Hildas close<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">Brondesbury possible hill fort next to Watling Street<br /></span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB">Christchurch Avenue<br /><span style="color: red;">Malorees School</span>. Malorees Primary – Junior School and Infant School. , Opened in 1953 as a council school to cope with ‘the bulge’. <br /><span style="color: blue;">Lady Adelaide Home</span>. This was one of several institutions belonging to the Community of the Sisters of the Church which began as the Church Extension Association, a missionary society begun in 1863 by Miss Emily Ayckbowm. Much of their work had been in the parish of St. Augustine, Kilburn. The Lady Adelaide Home for Boys was built and presented to the Community by the Rev. Henry Law, in memory of his wife as a home for destitute boys.<br /><span style="color: blue;">Beversbrook</span>. This was a big house on the corner with Brondesbury Park. In the Great War it was lent to the War Office by its owner, Mr Stanley Gibbs, and became an annexe to hospital in The Mission House across the road. It has 4 acres of grounds, could provide 50 beds and opened in July 1917. The site is now Moatfield, block of flats<br /><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB">Cavendish Road<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">Houses – alleged that the houses were built with mud mixed into the mortar.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Brondesbury Station</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> 1</b><span lang="EN-GB">860. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Between West Hampstead and Brondesbury Park on Silverlink North London Line. </span><span lang="EN-GB">Hampstead Junction Railway line from old Oak Common to Camden Road. Originally ‘Edgeware Road Station’ on NLR line from Hampstead to Willesden<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1873 ‘Brondesbury’ station. Rebuilt by London North West Railway booking office left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <br /></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Footpath gone to West Hampstead Station</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">Christchurch Avenue<br /><span lang="EN-GB">Burstin girder bridge,<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red;">Rosedene</span><span lang="EN-GB">, flats on the sire of a house with the same name<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red;">Malorees School</span><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Built for bulge in the late 1950s<br /></span><span style="color: red;">Metropolitan Railway bridge</span>. This was built in 1914 – the date is shown on the bridge - and carries the Metropolitan and Jubilee line tracks over the A5. It still carries Metropolitan Railway insignia and signage.<br /><span style="color: red;">Murals</span> – under the railway bridge and relates to the building of the railway.<br /><span style="color: blue;">The Bijou Cinema</span> in the film the Smallest Show on Earth was constructed as a set between the two railways bridges<br />Railway Bridge carrying the Chiltern Line from St, Marylebone</div><h2><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><br /></div></h2><p style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB">Coventry Close<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">Coal offices<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB">Dyne Road<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">Town Hall<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><h2><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;">Fordwych Road<br /><span style="color: red;">St. Cuthbert</span>. The parish was formed in 1888 and met in an iron church originally founded by Holy Trinity, Finchley Road which had been replaced in 1882 by a brick mission church designed by W. C. Street. A church was later built at right angles to the mission church in red brick style by Street in 1886. The mission church became the church hall but was demolished in 1902 by the Midland Railway who rebuilt it nearer to the church in 1903. In 1979 it was to sell the site of the church for housing. A new church was built in 1987-8 by Jeremy A. Allen. As a low, polygonal brick building set back. In front of the church is a bell of 1906 from Street's church whose site is occupied by a block of flats<br /><br /></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;">Garlinge Road</div></h2><h2><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: red;">Chevington Estate</span>. Housing project built by the London Borough of Camden when Sydney Cook was borough architect 1965-73.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Iverson Road<br /><span lang="EN-GB">Bombing<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">Heysham Cottages site of West End House. Home of Beckford, let to railway contractors, then as railway workers flats, and stationmaster<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">From West End Lane to Maygrove Road built by Midland Railway<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">West Hampstead Station built as West End Station, Midland Railway, sidings, station on site of cobbled road from Iverson Road<br /></span><span style="color: red;">9-11 Brondesbury Christian Centre</span>. This was built in 1989 to replace the Baptist church on the corner with Shoot Up Hill and on the site of the church Sunday School and hall. Brondesbury hall dated from 1884 and used as a mission chord and Sunday School.<br /><span style="color: red;">Railway Bridge</span></span></div></h2><h2><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;">Kilburn High Road.</div></h2><p style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB">The Kilburn went under it at what was Bridge Street and flowed along site of St. Augustine's schools and down Kilburn park road.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">1 Queen's Arms<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">Kilburn stream ran parallel crossing Quex Road and then West End Lane<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">3/85 Bridges<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">Kilburn Grange Cinema site of the Grange with public park behind<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">8 Kilburn Bookshop<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">St.Andrew's church, clergy House etc<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">118 W.H.Smith<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">125 127 first M&S, in Willesden 1906, next to Cock, Penny Bazaar<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">165 Cooper's Arms<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">Emerald Agency - for Irish employment</span>This is the A5, a Roman Road and still a major road out of London north. It is a section of the ancient Watling Street and the western boundary of the London borough of Camden.</p><h2><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: blue;">Brondesbury Baptist Church</span>,., was built on site given by Jas. Harvey and opened in 1878 on the Corner with Iverson Road. It was an ornate building by W. A. Dixon with a church hall. It closed in 1980, demolished and was replaced by flats.<br /><span style="color: red;">375 North London Tavern Pub</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">The Envoy Cinema </span>opened in 1937 as a news and cartoon cinema decorated in an Art Deco style. The Entrance was via a long corridor along the side of the auditorium and patrons entered from the rear with the screen behind the front facade. Seating was on one level only. It was taken over by the Classic Repertory Cinemas chain and re-named Classic Cinema from 1955. It closed in 1984. The building lay empty and derelict but the site is now housing. The premier of the first West Indian made film was shown here.<br /><span style="color: red;">Kilburn Station. </span>Opened in 1879 by the Metropolitan Railway it now lies between Willesden Green and West Hampstead on the Jubilee Line. It was first called as ‘Kilburn and Brondesbury’ as part of the Metropolitan and St. John's Wood Railway. In 1939 it became part of the Bakerloo Line and at which time the station was extensively rebuilt and in 1950 name was changed to ‘Kilburn’. In 1979 it became art of the Jubilee Line and in 2005, underwent major refurbishing which involved the station being repainted, receiving a new CCTV system, better lighting, new toilets, and new train indicator boards<br /><br /><br />Kingscroft Street<br />In 1911 work began on this road on the site of Shoot Up Hill Farm and the Elms; 7 houses were built there before 1914<br /><br /></div><p style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;">Linstead Street<br /><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red;">Kilburn Grange Children’s Centre</span><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fantastic range of children’s spaces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Outdoor play areas, etc. Meadowcroft Griffin 2006.789<br /></span></p></h2><p style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB">Loveridge Road<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">Built by British Land Company 1879<br /></span></p><h2><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;">Maygrove Road<br />The Kilburn stream is said to have run between this and Iverson Road. The road was built up mainly by the British Land Company from 1879. <br /><span style="color: red;">Maygrove Peace Park </span>is situated on the site of part of je former West End railway sidings. In 1983, Camden Council agreed to designate Maygrove a peace park as a reminder of the council’s commitment to peace. The opening of the park was on the 39th Nagasaki Day and a telegram from the Mayor of Nagasaki, Hitoshi Motoshima, said "We hope your Peace Park will be remembered long as a symbol of Peace”’. There are various works of art relevant to peace in the park -The Peace Crane by Hamish Black represents the Japanese origami peace crane made by children all over the world. On the plinth a plaque tells the story of the little girl called Sadako and the origin of the crane as the Japanese symbol of peace. along Peace Walk are 7 stones inscribed with messages of peace, one of which is from the Mayor of Hiroshima, Takeshi Araki “We the citizens of Hiroshima ever mindful of the cruel experience clearly foresee the extinction of mankind and an end to civilisation should the world drift into nuclear war. Therefore we have vowed to set aside our griefs and grudges and continuously pleaded before the peoples of the world to abolish weapons and renounce war so that we may never again repeat the tragedy of Hiroshima” - Antony Gormley’s “untitled (listening)” statue, with a granite block symbolising “part of the old deep history of the planet… sculpted by time – a cherry tree marking the cherry tree which continued to bloom throughout the holocaust of Hiroshima.<br /><span style="color: red;">128 Done Our Bit Club</span>. A private club for veterans, working men and ex-army men. There is a lounge and a bar.<br /><span style="color: red;">67 Maygrove House </span>offices and other uses in refurbished building<br /><span style="color: red;">65 conversion </span>to flats of site used by Dexion, metal shelving and construction specialists as their west London headquarters<br /><span style="color: red;">59 Garage Maygrove Motors</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">Mission Hall</span><br /><span style="color: red;">Railway Bridge</span><br /><br /></div></h2><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB">Maida Vale<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">Manor House Drive<br /></span>Moated manor .<span lang="EN-GB"> first described in 1538. in 1788 sold to Lady Elizabeth Salusbury by which time it was a three storey villa. The grounds had been landscaped by Repton. Occupiers included Sir Coutts Trotter and Charles Hambro. 1856 the lease was sold to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The Original entrance was in Willesden Lane but it was cut off by new road in 1901. From 1882 it was a school and was bought by local builder C.W.B.Simmonds in 1934 and demolished/<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB">Mapesbury Road<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red;">Mapesbury Road</span><span lang="EN-GB"> Preserves the name of the old manor of ‘Mapesberi’ c.1250, ‘Mapesbury’ 1254, ‘Mapesbery’ 1322, that is 'manor of a man called Map', from Middle English ‘bury’. Walter Map, a prebendary of St Paul's, is mentioned c.1180 in connection with Willesden. Mapesbury House is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1876-7, earlier shown as simply ‘Mopes’ on the map of 1822. Ecclesiatical commissioners replaced St.Pauls in 1840 and sold off the majority of the freeholds privately in the 1950s.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red;">Mapesbury Estate</span><span lang="EN-GB">. Typical Victorian estate<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on the site of Mapes House. s<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB">Maygrove/Iverson Road<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">Kilburn stream ran between these<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB">Maygrove Road<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">Built by British Land Company 1879<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB"><br />Netherwood Street<br /><span style="color: red;">Netherwood Day Centre</span>. This was set up for dementia sufferers and was opened in 1988 by Jonathan Miller whose mother, the writer Betty Miller, suffered early onset Alzheimer’s. <br /><br />Quex Road</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB">Railway<br /><span style="color: red;">The Midland Railway </span>which connects West Hampstead Thames link station to St Pancras and Europe through the Eurostar International line. The first train to use this line left St Pancras en route to Manchester at in 1868.</span></p><div><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB">Shoot Up Hill<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">250' above OD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6m. galls water 1890.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grand Junction Co.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">windmill burnt down in 1860.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <br /></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Telephone House<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red;">Kilburn Station</span><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: black;">24<sup>th</sup> November 1879 </span>Between Willesden Green and West Hampstead on the Jubilee Line. <span style="color: black;">Metropolitan Railway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Opened as ‘Kilburn and Brondesbury’. 1950 name changed to’Kilburn’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1939 became Bakerloo Line. 1979 became Jubilee Line<br /></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB">The Avenue<br /><span style="color: red;">Primary School</span>.. The site was a demonstration kindergarten for the Maria Grey College – the teacher training institution which had a main site slightly to the south of here until the 1940s although the school remained here. From 1970 it housed the Manor Primary school for educationally sub-moved to this site in 1970 from Kingsbury. It subsequently became The Avenue Primary School. This closed in 2007 and it has since housed a relocated school from Swiss Cottage.<br /><br />Willesden Lane<br /><span style="color: red;">Christ Church</span>. This was a first daughter church of St.Mary, Willesden. It was consecrated in 1866. It was combined with the Parish of St Laurence in the early 1970s and in the 1980s, most of the of the church was converted into flats. The church now meets in what were the transept, choir and sanctuary.<br /><span style="color: red;">163 Trojan Court Flats</span>. The site was that of Vernon House. IN 1960s this was Willesden Education Department and then a special school.<br /><span style="color: red;">180 North West London Jewish Primary School</span>. This originally opened in 1945 in Hampstead and moved here in 1958.</span></p><h3>Willesden</h3><p style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB">Was a village called Wilsdon<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB">Brondesbury House home of Lady Salisbury and then Coutts Trotter<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB">Willesden Green<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB">Willesden Lane<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red;">Christ Church</span><span lang="EN-GB">. As the population grew this was the first daughter church of St.Mary. the site was chosen by Dr.Charles Williams and it was consecratednon 21 November 1866.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red;">Vernon House</span><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1960s this was Willesden Education Department and then a special school.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red;">Mapesbury Hall </span><span lang="EN-GB">built in the grounds of Mapesbury House as the Christ Church Parish Hall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Taken over by Willesden Council in 1959 and renamed Majestic Rooms. Since in private ownership.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Sources<br /></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">British History
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152950892272252636.post-54757477148300000042022-06-17T02:40:00.014-07:002022-06-18T02:49:41.022-07:00Nutfield<p> <a href="https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2011/01/thames-tributary-redhill-brook-warwick.html">Post to the north Warwick Wold</a></p><p>Post to the east - end of posts</p><p><a href="https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2011/01/thames-tributary-nutfield-brook.html">Post to the south Nutfield Brook Bletchingly</a></p><p><a href="https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2022/06/nutfield_17.html">Post to the west Nutfield Marsh</a></p><h2><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">Glebe
Quarry</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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surprisingly) exposed fuller's earth when the motorway alignment intersected
the A25. This stimulated extraction in the area north of the ridge </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">between <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Nutfield</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Church</st1:placetype></st1:place>
and the line of the motorway. This lasted until the late 1980s. Subsequent
landscaping has left a lake at the <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">north
west</st1:place></st1:state> corner of the site. Apart from the water, this
is part of a large fuller's earth pit left in its working state.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<h3><st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ff3300; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Pendell Court</span></st1:address></st1:street><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"> red-brick<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>built in 1624. a large Jacobean mansion
standing in a picturesque and well-wooded park and now occupied by </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">the Retired Services Club. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">a many-gabled
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mansion in a pleasant park</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">East Surrey Water
Company Pump House</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Site 138<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Pendell
Camp.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Operations Room</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. When the M23 was constructed it severed a WWII site at Pendell Camp.
This military camp was started in 1938 and was associated with a searchlight
battery. For some time after the war, huts on the site were used for
non-military purposes. In 1961 the inhabitants of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tristan da Cuna were evacuated there because
their island was threatened by volcanic action. After the arrival of the
motorway, Gipsies took over the eastern part of the site. On the western part
of the site, a military bunker still exists in an active state. This is presumably
the WWII operations room but refurbished for nuclear war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the book, War Plan <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>, by Duncan
Campbell (1983), the site is described as originally an anti-aircraft operations
room, but as the Metropolitan Police War HQ (South) in its latter day<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Pendell mill </span></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152950892272252636.post-65136368416954959162022-06-17T02:39:00.009-07:002022-06-18T03:11:41.053-07:00Nutfield Station<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2022/06/nutfield_70.html">Post to the north Nutfield High Street</a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2011/01/thames-tributary-nutfield-brook-coopers.html">Post to the east Nutfield - Coopers Hill Roa</a>d</p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2011/01/thames-tributary-streams-redhill-brook.html">Post to the south South Nutfield</a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2011/01/thames-tributary-redhill-brook-south.html">Post to the west South Nutfield</a></p><p style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;">Kings Cross Lane - Kings Mead Estate</p><p style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;">Housing Estate on old industrial land<br /><span style="color: red;">Brick and tile works</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This site operated until about the beginning
of the 20th century but eventually became used by the Nutfield Manufacturing
Co. Ltd.<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> A brick and tile works to the SW of
the village (later the acid works,) was purchased by Henry Edwards and its products
were used in the construction of the village</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Jam container factory. In the Great War , jam was sold in containers made of cardboard or 'papier mache' impregnated with wax. The tops and the bottoms of the cartons were made of tinned steel. British wax refiners were asked to set up a reclamation plant. They company dissolved the wax from used cartons and reclaimed it by a distillation process. The papier mache was also recovered. The tin plate were passed on elsewhere for recovery. <br /></span><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">National Reclaimers
Limited </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The 'acid works' was a relatively small business, but was to become more and more obtrusive. </span>James Wilkinson and Sons Ltd. they had made manufactured hydrofluoric acid in Sheffield but in 1925 Frank Wilkinson sold it and decided to buy the old brick and tile works at South Nutfield for a new manufacturing plant. It was cheap site, had a railway siding, and in an area with few other makers. It is a dangerous substance and made difficulty, by the hazardous interaction of fluorspar and sulphuric acid. This process lasted until the 1950s. Nutfield Manufacturing Company Ltd, also sold distilled water, battery acid sodium fluoride, ammonium thioglycollate for hair perms and various other chemicals. Eventually they diluted hydrofluoric acid provided by other companies, one of which was Imperial Smelters, which was part of RTZ. In 1965 RTZ bought the Nutfield Company. It closed in 1984, and the plant demolished in 1985; the site is now a new housing estate.</p><p style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;">Office buildings and neighbouring houses of Nutfield Reclaimers. R the entrance to the housing estate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /> </span><o:p></o:p></span>Mid Street<br /> <span style="color: red;">Concrete Buildings</span>, A group of concrete
war-time buildings hidden east of South Nutfield.<br /> <span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Little Cormongers = Nutfield
Mill </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Rocque's map of 1768 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">calls what is now </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">South Nutfield as </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Mill
Street</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">”. It is known
there was a </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">water mill at
Little Cormonger's farm </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">–
which is a mile or so </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">during the 17th
century seems to indicate a water mill at this site.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a small pond still in existence fed
by springs but no other sign of a mill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The site is on the hillside and the stream issuing from it has been
piped away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is this Nutfield's Domesday
mill site?</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span>Nutfield Station<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <br /> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Nutfield Station<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The
station was opened in 1884 but it is not clear what the relationship was
between the railway and the village. It may be significant that Sir Myles
Fenton who was General Manager to the South Eastern Railway came to live in the
village at that time and that plots of land for houses were sold to Sir Edward
Watkin, (also an MP.) who was the Chairman of the SER board. Also Edwards was
allowed free travel on the line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
station once contained a waiting room, a post office and a ticket office and
there was a signal box on the south west side. Sidings served the coal yard to
the south west and the adjacent brick works which later became chemical works.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It died, in the traditional sense, with the
steam age in 1967 and since then has been little more than a train stop. The
station buildings and the signal were demolished. The coal sidings were finally
built over in 1991-1992. In preparation for the Channel Tunnel freight traffic
a pedestrian over bridge was installed in 1992 to replace the level crossing.<br /> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The Station Hotel </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">was built after 1884 and still stands as a pub.<br /> <o:p></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The station master's house
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">stood on the north side<br /> <o:p></o:p></span><br /></p><p style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;">Railline<br /><span style="color: red;">Medieval Pottery Kiln.</span> A medieval kiln was
detected on this site <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">north of
railway line on east side of village in the 1960s.<br /><o:p></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">South Nutfield<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The financial collapse of the bank
Overend Gurney in 1866 caused its principal shareholder H E Gurney to sell his property to the south of Nutfield village. some was
purchased by Sir Henry Edwards MP who began to develop the area. The various social classes
were separated since the most expensive houses were built away from the least
expensive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <br /> </span></span><br /></p><p style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;">Trindles Road<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></h2>
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<h3>Leather Bottle Cottage. Warm texture<o:p></o:p></h3>
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Cottages 18<sup>th</sup> terraces<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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Nutfield Marsh has a name which</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">stands as a reminder of various canal schemes<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but it was<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>built in the late 17th century</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">though modified later.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">These canal schemes had in common that they</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">would have passed through the marshes in the</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">north of Nutfield
Parish and through the</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">marshy area
we now know as Redhill. From</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">thence The Weald could be reached by</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">following the brook which meanders through</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">Earlswood dodging the
hills of the Lower</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">Greensand.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">But it was all too
near the railway age and these canal schemes never came to fruition</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152950892272252636.post-85128288561776325742022-06-17T02:38:00.015-07:002022-06-18T08:47:45.916-07:00Nutfield High Street<p><a href="https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2022/06/nutfield_17.html">Post to the north Nutfield Marsh</a></p><p><a href="https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2011/01/thames-tributary-nutfield-brook.html">Post to the east Nutfield Bletchingly</a></p><p><a href="https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2011/01/thames-tributary-nutfield-brook.html"> </a><a href="https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2022/06/nutfield-station.html">Post to the south Nutfield Station</a></p><p><a href="https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2022/06/nutfield.html">Post to the west Nutfield Cormongers</a></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">Blacklands Meadow<br /><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Park Works.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Park works was a collection of brick buildings from the 19th constituting a processing
plant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was demol</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;">ished in
1988.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cleared site is behind
the old village school on the north side of the A25 in Nutfield village. Park Works
was built for James Cawley who came from Bletchingley and started a large
development of pits between Park Works and Cormongers Lane. Later it was called Cockley Quarry.<br /><o:p></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Settling Pit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>North west of the site of Park
Works is a wide shallow pit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here fuller's earth was allowed to settle after it had beenn ground up </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">in
water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> T</span>his was a method of
washing and grading before kiln drying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Later in the 19th the dried fuller's earth was graded using air currents created by a fan.</span></p><h2><o:p></o:p></h2>
<p style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;">High Street<br /></p><p style="margin: 0cm;">Fullers Earth Union Ltd. A modern
complex works for woollen manufacture. Cutting in M23<br />Chart Lodge. <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">house built 1780, was by John William Grece - who was the first to have a devote business entirely for fuller's earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Behind the house </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">and to the west are the remains of Grece's Chartfield pit dating to the early years of the 19th.<br /></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Well House.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the north side home of James Cawley (1822-1882) and his son Claude William Cawley. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">Claude William Cawley became a dominating figure in he English fuller's earth
business and he was the first managing director of the Fuller’s Earth Unions
Ltd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also worked a hearthstone mine
at Betchworth.<br /><o:p></o:p></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">Tower Folly in the garden of Well House.</span></p><p style="margin: 0cm;">Crown now a vet's</p><p style="margin: 0cm;">Queens Head</p><p style="margin: 0cm;">War memorial</p><p style="margin: 0cm;">Memorial Hall<br /><br /></p><p style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;">Nutfield<br /></p><p><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Nutfield Village.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A linear village along the A25 with a
few buildings dating before the 19th. There was w</span><span style="mso-font-kerning: 8.0pt;">oollen manufacture in the 17<sup>th. </sup>. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> was closely </span>connected </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">with the fuller's earth industry and buildings quoinstone from
the fuller's earth pits are evident.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <br /></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">Almost the whole of the south side of the ridge between Capenor and Chartfield has been worked for fullers earth.. Most of the former pits have been used as small landfill sites but it is still possible to find traces of workings north of Priory Farm.</span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: left;">Church Hill<br /><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Copyhold Works.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On north side of the A25. In 1993 this was still in use as the last surviving fuller's
earth </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">plant and was used for crushing, drying and screening the earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <br /></span></span>Park Works Nature reserve on the demolition of Park Works processing plant shallow settling pits and pond<br /><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">Pits to the north merge into sand pits and were at the point of exhaustion in 1993 are were largely operated as landfill sites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <br /></span></span>Nutfield
Quarry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Modernised by Laporte in 1982
for cat litter<br /> <span style="color: red;">Laporte
Earths.</span> Park Woods nature trail. Fullers’ earth works. Path from A215 to
quarry line.<br /><span style="color: #ff3300;">St. Peter & St.Paul’s Church</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Down a sunken road. Built 13-15<sup>th</sup> and restored in the 18<sup>th. </sup> F<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">aced,
with roughcast concrete with a </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">15th tower with a spire and
six bells. </span>Burne Jones window done by
Morris Monuments. <br /><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Inn on the Pond. Preserved Pits - South west of the pub are old steep sided fuller's earth pits. Such pits were a familiar feature of the
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<div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; margin: 0cm; text-align: left;">Sandy Lane<br /><span style="color: red;">Narrow Road</span> The Greensand ridge between
Redhill and Godstone constituted a defensive line and roads running north-south
over it are generally steep and sunken between high sided banks. An exception is Sandy Lane where the road follows a shallow gradient up to
Nutfield and during the war its width was deliberately restricted, by the
military, by erecting a low wall on the east side. <br />Nutfield Priory<br />Tip<br />Farm Quadrangle</div>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;"><br /></span></h3><h3> </h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152950892272252636.post-9101664225951147182022-06-17T02:37:00.004-07:002022-06-18T08:44:50.084-07:00Nutfield Cormongers<p> <a href="https://edithsstreets.blogspot.com/2022/06/nutfield_70.html">Post to the east Nutfield High Street</a></p><h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Cormongers Lane</st1:address></st1:street><o:p></o:p></h2>
<h3>Cockley Works. Fullers Earth Works. Side trails on the mine. <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Large pits were worked here for over
100 years into the 1980s but the plant was stripped </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;">out in 1981 and
finally demolished in 1988. The pits were then used for land fill which was
completed in 1993 and the site landscaped.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h2><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">Fullers
<st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Wood Lane</st1:address></st1:street>
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<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Green Hut. This stood at east corner
of junction of <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Fullers Wood Lane</st1:address></st1:street>
and the A25. and contained an electrical transformer but in 1982 it was identified as the site remains of vestiges of underground workings. U</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">nderground galleries of abandoned mines have sometimes been uncovered by later working. There was a nearby collapse of the A25 in 1962,<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">Old underground workings and near <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Fullers Wood Lane</st1:address></st1:street> <o:p></o:p></h3>
<h2><br /></h2>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152950892272252636.post-77215325278042908662022-06-17T02:35:00.003-07:002022-06-18T08:56:09.962-07:00Earlswood<p style="text-align: left;"> </p><div style="text-align: left;"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on"><span lang="EN-US">Royal</span></st1:placename><span lang="EN-US"> <st1:placename w:st="on">Earlswood</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Hospital</st1:placetype></span></st1:place><span lang="EN-US">. This
was a huge building with a central tower. It was originally the
Earlswood Institution for Mental Defectives founded in 1847 and incorporated by
Royal Charter in 1862. It was considerably enlarged in 1870, and in</span><span lang="EN-US"> 1903 new buildings meant they could take 600.
The site had its own waterworks, gas works and electric generators. Closed in
1996.<br /></span>Staff Recreation Block. 1976.<br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;">Secret tunnel. I</span><span lang="EN-US">n
1987 several newspapers pursued a story that a number of relatives of
the Queen Mother were kept in a men</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">tal home near to Redhill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This story included a story about the a special tunnel was built from Redhill Station to
the hospital to allow discreet visits from VIP relatives.</span></span></div><p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">Three Arch Road<br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Canadian Road.
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The East Surrey
Hospital stands at the end of a concrete road built by the Canadian forces in the Second World War and which
never used after the War. It runs from <st1:place w:st="on">South Nutfield</st1:place>
and although its original purpose is obscure it would have formed a bypass
around Redhill linking the A25 and A23.<br /><o:p></o:p></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">East Surrey Hospital
dates from the early 1980s and took patients from the old Redhill General Hospital. </span></p><p></p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152950892272252636.post-68465900956341584062022-06-17T02:34:00.004-07:002022-06-18T08:56:54.383-07:00Redhill North<p> </p><p style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;">Gatton Park Road<br />This is on the line of the 1804 turnpike road.<br /><br /></p><p style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;">Monson Road<br /> 99 was Parkes Cycle Works</p><h2><o:p></o:p></h2>
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Croydon Road<br /> Batts Hill House. British General Insurance Co. moved there in the Second
World War<br /><br /></p><p style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;">Gatton Park Road<br />This is the line of the 1804 turnpike road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There was a tollgate here at Wray Common. Only removed in 1964.</p><p style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br />Wray Common<br />Windmill. Brick tower mill 1824. East Anglian style. Closed
1928. Restored with sails, ogee cap, fantail
and gallery, no machinery<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Palladian
style door case. This is now a house.</p><p style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /></p><h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></h2>
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<h3><o:p></o:p></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152950892272252636.post-71438498416005719232022-06-17T02:30:00.006-07:002022-06-18T08:59:54.620-07:00South Reigate<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"> </p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;">Dovers Green Road<br /><br /></p><p style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;">Crawley Road. First Surrey Road to be improved<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1696,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as a saddle horse road but not for carriages until 1755.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1820 the gradient was lowered</p><p style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br />Sandcross Lane Junction<br />Milestone<br /> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Woodhatch<br /></span>The Angel. 1650 Almost like a folly.</p><h2><o:p></o:p></h2>
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<h3><o:p></o:p></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152950892272252636.post-16923776404904271052022-06-17T02:29:00.003-07:002022-06-18T09:01:04.270-07:00Reigate Park<p> </p><h4 style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;">Bell Street<br />Reigate Park. Open space </h4><h4 style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br />Cockshot Hill<br />Crawley Road. First Surrey Road to be improved<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1696<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>as a saddle horse road but not for carriages until 1755.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1820 the gradient was lowered<br /> <br /></h4><h4 style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;">Lesbourne<br /><span style="color: red;">Bus Station</span>. The front became an
office development.</h4><h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></h2>
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<h3><o:p></o:p></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152950892272252636.post-71170928346651595472022-06-17T02:28:00.009-07:002022-06-24T06:42:29.188-07:00North Reigate<p> </p><div style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;">Frenches Road<br />145 Smithy 19th connected with Battlebridge Brick and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Tile Works on site of Westway Gardens. Sand and gravel works <br /><br /></div><div style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left;">Redhill sand caves.<br /> impressive cave opening, fire
fuller’s earth. Folkestone sand and bed of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>ironstone. stream going through the whole system Kent underground
research<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>group 1989, British Industrial
sand </div><h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></h2>
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<h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152950892272252636.post-83006336786912709612022-06-17T02:28:00.008-07:002022-06-21T00:43:24.295-07:00Reigate Hill<p> </p><h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Allders
Road<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Juneberry 1955<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alma
Road</span></h2><h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><br /></h2><h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">Bell Street</h2>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Lesbourne watercourse crossed the street but was culverted
when the turnpike road was built in the early 19th<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ff3300; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Reigate Priory</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>18<sup>th</sup> mansion on site of the Priory of the Austin
Canons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Said that under the staircase is the entrance
to a secret passage to the castle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1771 and again in 1775 Wesley preached
in what was known as The Priory, but then known as Reigate Place. At the Reformation the Augustinian
friary was passed to Howard of Effingham and converted into a
private house. Largely rebuilt at the end of the 18th century, it is now a
school, community centre and </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">a r</span>ecreation ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Some original features remain.</span></h3>
<h3>15 14<sup>th</sup> tie beam from
St. Lawrence’s chapel</h3>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;">Intended Reigate terminus </span><span lang="EN-US">of the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Croydon,
Merstham & Godstone Iron Railway</span><span lang="EN-US"> which should have
been reached in or shortly after 1805</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt;">Swan. Coaching inn clearing
coaches between London and Brighton</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Castlefield Road<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ff3300; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Town Hall.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>erected in 1902 and later enlarged.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Fire Station with tower<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;">Reigate 6th Form College. Ttunnels</span><span lang="EN-US"> under the lawn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> It was </span>formerly the site of Reigate Lodge. T</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">unnels were rediscovered in 1925/6 when the
foundations of the school were dug and because of them the school site was changed and the playing fields
reduced in size. The entrance was then down a manhole but in 1939 two more entrances
were dug for use as air raid shelters. They are now blocked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One was at the side of a path leading to
the bicycle shed with a long,
steep passage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other was opposite the front door and had 2 sets of steep wooden steps.
On the floor the sand was powdery and thick, The caves had many corners and cavities. One passage led to the Ice House which is a large mound in
the shrubbery. There
appear to be two different mines at slightly different levels which have merged. Tjey had quite distinct methods of working.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The southern, system has a gridiron of
relatively small passages at right angles. The northern system has roomier
passages, and in one or two places two superimposed levels of working.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Church Street<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ff3300;">St.Mary Magdalene.</span><span lang="EN-US"> Parish church and the largest church in Surrey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> It is a</span>n ancient building of native fire stone
dating from the 12<sup>th. </sup> It has a tower with ten bells with was restored
in 1845. in the
chancel is the tomb of Howard of Effingham, Elizabeth's Lord High Admiral,
who commanded the British fleet against the Armada, and died in 1624, aged 87. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">In the vestry is one of the oldest
public libraries in England; founded in 1701.</span></h3><h3>White Hart. Caves and tunnels at what was
once the end of the garden</h3>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">The Barons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1720
typical Baroque House</h3>
<h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><br /></span></h2><h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Croydon Road<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">14 Holmesdale Natural History
club collection<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><br /></span></h2><h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">High Street<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ff3300; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Old Town Hall</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The old redbrick Town Hall at the crossroads
in the High Street was erected in 1708, was originally as the Market House, with
arches from 1728.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> It is o</span>n the site of a chapel to Thomas a Becket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> It has t</span>wo
dummy chimney pots out of four and is surmounted by a turret, with a clock with four dials. It is still the property of the Corporation.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Congregational Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>1869 <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Methodist Church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1885 <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">65 18<sup>th</sup> porch</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> with sand caves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></h3>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;">2,4,8,10,12,14,16,18,24,26,28,30,
32,34,42,46,48,50,70,84,86,88,90,92 and 94</span><span lang="EN-US">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> All have s</span>and caves although the precise extent and .their relation to the surveyed caves and their current state is unknown.</span></h3>
<h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">London Road<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The London road tunnels for 60 yards under the hill on
which Reigate Castle once stood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> It was the f</span></span><span lang="EN-US">irst Surrey Road to be improved<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> in </span>1696<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as a saddle horse road but
not for carriages until 1755.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1820
the gradient was lowered on Reigate Hill and the tunnel built through the sand
ridge.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">6 Scutts Cave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;">14a Old Auction Rooms</span><span lang="EN-US">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There have been structures on the
site since at least 1664 and the Auction Rooms were built in
1868. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">The t</span>unnels underneath probably precede the auction rooms and <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">are connected to Scutt's Cave and Barons' Cave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></h3><h3><span lang="EN-US">Sand Caves. The caves were dug for silver sand used for washing of woollen goods, blotting paper, sanding of floors, glass
making and a substitute for soap. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>A partial survey of the tunnels was made in 1942 by the Corporation when they were used as air raid shelters. <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Between 1985 and 1987 the tunnels were
resurveyed by the Royal School of Mines and
behalf of the local Council. Large sections have been filled to
stabilise the road and surrounding land. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> B</span></span>efore 1900 men used to fill sacks with sand and take them to a puh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Landlord sold the sand to the car men of the goods wagons, who put up there for the night, at 6d. a bag and they took it to London and sold it for 1/- a bag. It was a gentleman's agreement that if you broke into a neighbour's cave you blocked up the opening. </h3>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Bat and Balls Inn, or the Cricketers</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> O</span>ne set of tunnels led from beneath
the Inn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Up to 1912
this Public House was where the Beanfeasters used to come and put up for their
day out. The landlord, used to light up
part of the caves with candles and they paid 2d -to go down there. </span></h3><h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;">Three Pigeons</span><span lang="EN-US">. A
well-known betting house which the police had closed because when they raided
it they could not catch anybody, as they disappeared down the caves..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> police had the holes bricked up several times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The roof of this cave fell in about 1923 and
the premises were pulled down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></h3>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;">Knight’s Cave - </span><span lang="EN-US">upper
series. The last to be worked in 1887. There is a complicated network of caves here. At one point there are some railway remains.</span></h3><h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;">Red Cross Inn</span><span lang="EN-US">. This was a Medieval pilgrims’ hostel. </span></h3><h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;">Knight's Cave Lower series</span><span lang="EN-US">. Anthother complex network.</span></h3><h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Reigate
Station</span><b><span lang="EN-US">, </span></b><span lang="EN-US">1849. Opened as
Reigate Town. 1898 renamed Reigate</span></h3>
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<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">High Brooms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1957<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Reigate<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The ancient town with 30,825
inhabitants, was called in the Domesday Book 'Cherchefelle', but the modern
name is said to derive from a corruption of 'Ridgegate', signifying a passage
through the ridge of the North Downs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> It is also said it m</span></span>eans a gap through which roe deer were hunted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Known as Churchfield in Saxon times. It
stands on a bed of white sand, which was used in the manufacture of
fine glass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reigate was a parliamentary rotten borough. Later it was a municipal
borough Parliament, but was disfranchised by the Representation of the People Act. The De Warennes,
Earls of Surrey, were lords of the manor. William de Warenne, the Conqueror's
son-in-law, built the first Reigate castle on the high ground through which the
London road tunnels for 60 yards before it starts the hard climb of Reigate
Hill.</h3>
<h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Reigate Castle<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ff3300; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Sham Gatehouse</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Built by William de Warenne and dismantled in the civil war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gardens, lots of tunnels underneath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The chief point of interest in the town is
the mound of its old castle, under the Keep of which is a crypt known as the
Barons' Hall with an arched roof and a vault.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is 150 feet long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The manor of
Reigate was granted after the Conquest to the Earls of Warenne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are supposed to have built the castle
was destroyed about 1648.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The stone
gateway was erected in the grounds, which belong to the Corporation, are laid
out as a garden, at all times open to the public.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The road leading from railway station to the
town passes through a tunnel under the hill<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;">Moat. </span><span lang="EN-US">In the
1930s the roof of one of the caverns collapsed underneath the Castle Moat and
the Corporation put in </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">hundreds of yards of earth in to fill
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h2 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Reigate Hill<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A lofty shoulder of the North Downs resembling the form of a
crouching lion rising to 687 feet above sea level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From the top of it we obtain a magnificent
view, extending from the borders of Hampshire over a part of Surrey and Sussex
to the Weald country of Kent, which occupies the prospect on the east.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the far distance can be seen in clearly
the outline of the South Downs<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Reigate Hill Hotel and Ridge House both provide convenient
accommodation for visitors and motorists.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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1860.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bulgy<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<h3 style="margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;">Vogan Memorial</span><span lang="EN-US"> . The park was presented to the town by Mr. and Mrs. Randal Vogan<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Reigate's road
tunnel </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">was opened in
1824. It is the oldest surviving tunnel on a public road in the British Isles.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;">The tram plates </span><span lang="EN-US">from
the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Croydon, Merstham
& Godstone Iron Railway</span><span lang="EN-US"> that have at last reached
the town are now in the 'caves' at Tunnel Road, about half a kilometre north of
where the end of </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 9pt;">the line would
have been. <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;">Caves</span><span lang="EN-US">. “My
mother, years ago, told me that there was a tunnel in the caves to Redhill, and
a man walked through them playing, but the ground fell in on them, and you
could hear the little drummer boy banging his drum for a long time after. She
said it happened somewhere near Linkfield Lane. There was a major collapse in
the summer of 1858 when part of the Castle Moat fell into the auction room
caves. An opportune shower drove away a party of young cricketers from the
spot, when the earth sank suddenly with such a sound as is given by the tearing
down of a large bough. The band, the Reigate Town Silver Band used the Tunnel
Road Caves for practice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The entrance to
the mine is down a flight of steps in front of the shop which was run by an
electrical contractor Jo H. Croft.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
tunnels were once at the eastern end of the White Hart Hotel's garden. Charles
Reason worked on the boilers of the hotel in 1927 and visited them - He
described a 'bridge' built in the tunnels to support the road above. It was a
fairly large structure with supporting walls which were not opposite one
another, but ran offset and parallel so that the arch was built obliquely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are the same tunnels as were
originally discovered about 30 years ago by a man who, without premeditation,
and against his will, found is way into them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was a workman, and when cutting a trench for a new drain, sent his
pick into the crown of the unsuspected cave - with a single blow he made a hole
big enough for himself and what his sensations were when he found himself lying
on his back on the sandy floor below e as the inferior novelist is wont to say,
'better thought than described’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
set of caves is under some very fine specimens of builders work to support that
medium of traffic, with its drains and water pipes, -are to be found. But in
addition it is a very peculiar piece of brickwork, forming a section to a well,
which was increased in depth under the circumstances. Originally the bottom was
above the crown of the caves, but one day the bottom fell out. An additional
sinking was made and all was well again."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The east and west 'caves' are in fact mines for silver-sand which was
taken to the Thames-side glass furnaces in the first half of the 19<sup>th</sup>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">century. They were
commenced shortly after Reigate's road tunnel was opened in 1824 (the oldest
surviving tunnel on a public road in the British Isles.) They fell into disuse
as mines in about 1860 and were subsequently used as stores for beers, wines,
and spirits; military stores in World War I; a rifle range; and air raid
shelters and a control centre in World War II. Since the last war the east side
caves have been used as a corporation store, and included for some years public
lavatories <o:p></o:p></span></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152950892272252636.post-13699864260623164862022-06-17T02:26:00.002-07:002022-06-24T06:43:57.320-07:00Reigate West<p style="text-align: left;"> </p><p style="text-align: left;">Colley Lane<br />Pavilion Cottages. Lutyens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cottage
at either end and cricket pavilion in the middle<br /><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">North Albert Road<br />White Stevenson Ltd. 1921 made food flavourings. Tangye twin cylinder steam pump, Howden high-speed engine and a
Pearn vacuum pump<br /> <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">Nutley Lane<br />8 Nutley Hall<br /> <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">Park Lane<br /><span style="color: red;">3,4,8 Inglenook.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mine remnants in the back gardens. The
Inspector of Mines recorded that the mine was being worked from 1896 to 1900.
The owner was Lady Henry Somerset and the Agent F.H.Pollen. It is in the Lower
Greensand Beds. It was probably ,once more extensive and has been
eroded by open quarrying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <br /> </span>Bellingham’s Victorian butcher’s shop<br /><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">Upper West Street<br />20 simplest possible 18<sup>th</sup> house<br /><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">West Street<br />15 Burtonshaw's Carriage works, 1830, made carriages, became a builders
merchant<br />17th forge<br /> Pilgrim Brewery<br /> 31 Ogee window<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">s<br /><i><o:p></o:p></i></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">22 Browne’s Lodge. Best house in
Reigate. Coade stone plaque<br /></span>Old West Street House 1720</p><h2><o:p></o:p></h2>
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best-known footpath in the country. The ancient trackway</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;">runs under
dark groves of ancient yews as it wanders along the</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;">foot of Colley Hill, towering above
you on the left.</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152950892272252636.post-14311987203202527802022-06-17T02:24:00.003-07:002022-06-24T06:44:49.929-07:00Reigate Heath<p style="text-align: left;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left;"><st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Buckland
Road</st1:address></st1:street>.<br /> Flat Victorian letterbox.</p><p style="margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left;"><br /> <st1:place w:st="on">Reigate</st1:place>
Heath<br />Bronze age burial mounds<br /><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left;">Flanchford Road<br /> Reigate Heath windmill. Round house is a chapel. Internal machinery still
there. 18th century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Restored by council
for £3,500 in 1964.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last used 1868.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Decorative sweeps. Post mill from 1765
converted to a chapel in 1880 after not being used for 12 years. Could not have
worked efficiently on its present site.<br />Monumental Mason.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr.Francis
1866-1917.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Carving on the side of the
house now a garage<br /> Racecourse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1834-39.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meeting on Wednesdays and Thursdays after
Epsom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1863 tried again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Western edge of heath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Site west of <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Flanchford Road</st1:address></st1:street>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1834- 9<br /> <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><br /></st1:address></st1:street></p><p style="margin-top: 0cm; text-align: left;"><st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Reigate
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<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ff3300; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Buckland
Tileworks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">These were situated north of the railway and
were served by the siding, which was also connected to the sandpits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">The sidings and works were extended during World
War II when they were used as a munition store.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Later the remaining buildings were used for storing theatrical scenery
and now they are used for agricultural purposes. <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h2>Colley Pit<o:p></o:p></h2>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ff3300; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Buckland
Sandpits<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Here the Folkestone Beds of the Lower<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Greensand spread over a wide area and the
grain size and chemical composition of the sand </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">make it particularly
suitable for glass manufacture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
operation at Buckland, which used to be one of the largest employers in the
village, was<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>started in 1925 by the
grandfather of the present owner; however since 1978 the operation has been
leased to ARC Southern. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An earlier
extraction operation took place at Colley Pit which is now restored as a lake
and used for trout fishing. Once the operations at the other pits are completed
these will also be restored as lakes.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h2>Railway<o:p></o:p></h2>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Buckland Siding.
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This siding was on the
north of the line to serve the tile works in Clifton’s Lane as well as the 2'
0" gauge line to the Buckland sand pits which went under the main line
through a brick arch which still exists. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;">The brick and tile
works received sand from the Buckland Sand and Silica Company <o:p></o:p></span></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152950892272252636.post-43455164183256101482022-06-17T02:21:00.003-07:002022-06-17T02:21:57.100-07:00Buckland<p> </p><h2><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Buckland<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Population 530 in the
1950s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A pretty village with a green and
pond. <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3><span style="color: #ff3300;">St.Mary’s Church</span>, 1860 rebuilt in 14<sup>th</sup>
style. Woodyer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Picturesque old timber
belfry Spiral staircase to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1380
glass with Peter and Paul and other stuff silver stained glass with virgin and
child. In dark Bargate stone, very pretty. Victorian church building at its
best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stained glass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ironstone, in the Decorated style, and has a tower with six bells</span><o:p></o:p></h3>
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<h3>School with gable Woodyer 1862<o:p></o:p></h3>
<h3>Street’s Farm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>17<sup>th</sup>
plastered with tarred weatherboarded barn<o:p></o:p></h3>
<h3>Buckland Court rambling elevations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Roughcast lodges on the main road. Peculiar stables now much decayed –
gimcrack 18<sup>th</sup> stucco with castellated tower.<o:p></o:p></h3>
<h3>Chinery House. 1966 simple glass house<o:p></o:p></h3>
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<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ff3300; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Buckland
Sandpits<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Here the Folkestone Beds of the Lower<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Greensand spread over a wide area and the
grain size and chemical composition of the sand </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">make it particularly
suitable for glass manufacture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
operation at Buckland, which used to be one of the largest employers in the
village, was<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>started in 1925 by the
grandfather of the present owner; however since 1978 the operation has been
leased to ARC Southern. At one time the company produced up to 60 different
products, a very important one being<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>foundry sand - in fact, the propellers for the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>QE2 were cast in Buckland sand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sand from Tapwood Pit is slurried with water
and pumped under the road to the main </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt;">processing plant in Park Pit, where the final
glass sand for bottle making is produced. Construction sand is dug from Park
Pit.</span><o:p></o:p></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152950892272252636.post-69136063572351189422022-06-17T02:20:00.002-07:002022-06-17T02:20:54.255-07:00Buckland<p> </p><h2><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">Tapwood Pit<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ff3300; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Buckland
Sandpits<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Here the Folkestone Beds of the Lower<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Greensand spread over a wide area and the
grain size and chemical composition of the sand </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">make it particularly
suitable for glass manufacture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
operation at Buckland, which used to be one of the largest employers in the
village, was<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>started in 1925 by the
grandfather of the present owner; however since 1978 the operation has been
leased to ARC Southern. At one time the company produced up to 60 different
products, a very important one being<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>foundry sand - in fact, the propellers for the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>QE2 were cast in Buckland sand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At present sand is extracted from Tapwood
Pit<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sand from Tapwood Pit is slurried
with water and pumped under the road to Park Pit.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152950892272252636.post-3040250938955353552022-06-17T02:19:00.003-07:002022-06-17T02:19:45.603-07:00Betchworth<p> </p><h2><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Broome</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Park</st1:placetype></st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></h2>
<h3>Plain 19<sup>th</sup> Ashlar Front<o:p></o:p></h3>
<h3><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Temple</st1:place></st1:city> in
the grounds. Circular and domed.<o:p></o:p></h3>
<h3><span style="color: red;">brick-built ice house </span>100 yards north of the
house near the site of an old pond. It is built into an earth mound under trees
with the tunnel entrance facing north. Except for the <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">missing doors the ice house
appears to be complete, although the chamber was filled with rubbish when
examined</span><o:p></o:p></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152950892272252636.post-63866084443612207432022-06-17T02:18:00.003-07:002022-06-17T02:18:55.088-07:00Buckland<p> </p><h2>Buckland<o:p></o:p></h2>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;">Pylons. </span><span lang="EN-US">The
scheme for the transmission system for South Eastern England was outlined in
the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1926. This entailed the provision of bulk
supplies at 33kV to Epsom, Dorking, <st1:place w:st="on">Reigate</st1:place>
and Leatherhead from Croydon Power Station. By 1930 an arrangement was in place
to supply the JEA from Croydon Corporation to Epsom, and by the end of the year
the JEA took supplies at Leatherhead, By 1931 much of the secondary 33kV
transmission system of the Central Electricity Board in South Eastern England
had been completed including the 33kV ring from Epsom via Leatherhead, Dorking
and Reigate back to Epsom. Most of this original installation in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Mole</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Valley</st1:placetype></st1:place>
still exists comprising steel-cored aluminium conductors supported on lattice
steel towers. <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;">Sub Station</span><span lang="EN-US">.
Later modifications have been made to the original CEB 33kV system in the area
to include sub-stations <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h2><st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Pebblehill Road</st1:address></st1:street><o:p></o:p></h2>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;">Cox's Plant Hire </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Building of George Cummins
and Son, a major local builder with headquarters on <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Pebblehill Road</st1:address></st1:street>. Cummins built a lot of houses
and other buildings.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h2>Station Road<o:p></o:p></h2>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;">Betchworth Station. </span><span lang="EN-US">This was called 'Betchworth and Box Hill' when first opened and
gained its present name when the new station down the line opened two years
later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The buildings on the down side
are the original 1849 structures in the steeply gabled style found elsewhere on
this line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were at one time two
signal boxes but both closed in 1934 when signal and level crossing operation was
transferred to the booking office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
arrangement continued until 1983 when CCTV operation of the crossing was
installed, controlled from <st1:place w:st="on">Reigate</st1:place>; automatic
barriers had replaced the traditional gates in 1977.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The station buildings remain but are no
longer used for railway purposes, passengers now being provided with bus-stop
type shelters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a siding and
coal yard south of the station whilst on the north side there were sidings
serving the adjacent lime works, which had its own extensive rail network with
three different gauges. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ground frame
at the end of the down platform which controlled access to the siding is still
in place as is the head shunt on the up side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>SER. cottage style red brick buildings and yellow bricks and tiled roof.
Lever probably for level crossing in the old booking office<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3><span lang="EN-US">The Beeches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
house in the station forecourt was originally Beeches Inn, built as a station
hotel, but it became a private residence in the early 20th century<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;">Buffer Depot 339 </span><span lang="EN-US">During World War II a number of 'buffer depots' were built
throughout the country to hold strategic stocks of food and other supplies. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">During the Cold War period the
depots were operated by private contractors for the government and contained
food, cooking equipment, utensils, tents, tarpaulins etc. in case of a nuclear
attack. This depot was operated by <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Butler</st1:place></st1:city>'s
Wharf Ltd on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF).
It appeared to be unused in 1995, but an application has been made for it to be
demolished and houses built on the site.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h2>Rectory <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Green Lane</st1:address></st1:street><o:p></o:p></h2>
<h3><span lang="EN-US">Level Crossing A number of crossings existed on this
stretch of line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Manned gate at
Buckland. All the gated crossings had cottages for the crossing keepers but
only the Buckland one remains, and this is no longer used by the railway. When
control of the gates was established from <st1:place w:st="on">Reigate</st1:place>
in 1983, automatic half barriers were installed at here. <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h2><st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Pebblecombe Road</st1:address></st1:street>.<o:p></o:p></h2>
<h3><span lang="EN-US">Cawley’s hearthstone mine. Claude Cawley from a background
with the fullers’ earth companies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Detail<o:p></o:p></span></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152950892272252636.post-61564427484101044002022-06-17T02:17:00.002-07:002022-06-17T02:17:54.925-07:00Highridge<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Wellhouse lane<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Manor
Cottage. The Front Range has been dated to 1588-9. The main range is timber
framed with brick infill, now covered in lime render. In 1634 the house was
part of the manor of East Betchworth. An apotropaic offering to ward off evil influence
or ill luck found in the southern inglenook was dated to the late 18th. By 1843
the house had been divided into two, but by 1871 it was home to a gardener and
By the 1880s called "The Meadows". In the late 19th it became part of
a larger house as the servants’ quarters. Canadian soldiers were billeted here
during the First World War and in 1950 in was split into four properties, <o:p></o:p></span></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152950892272252636.post-68763603805681252042022-06-17T02:16:00.002-07:002022-06-17T02:16:19.217-07:00Brockham<p> </p><h2><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">Railway<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Brockham Sidings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Sidings left the north side of the
railway to serve limeworks, brickworks, hearthstone mines, and sand pits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The arch under the line by Pilgrim's Cottages
took the siding to the sand pits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
were extensive railways in the area to </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">serve the various industries, with
a siding, built in 1867, connecting to the main line between the level crossing
and the cattle arch by Pilgrim's Way Cottages. A standard gauge track from this
siding to the limekilns was used to bring in coal and take away the hearthstone
and lime. This steeply- graded line was worked by a steam haulage engine built
by Filmer & Mason of Guildford in 1874, housed in a building adjacent to
the eastern battery of kilns. The private siding was closed in 1935. Another
standard gauge connection ran from the siding to the brickworks, and from there
to the sandpit passing through the arch where the cottages now stand - neither
the cottages nor the present A25 had been built at this time. A very extensive
narrow gauge network existed within the quarry areas for transporting the chalk
to feed the kilns. The wagons used for this were all horse-drawn. Traces may be
seen of some of the routes in the quarry.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h2><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">Brockham
Sand Pit</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Sand
was extracted from a pit south of the present A25 road and north of the Old
Reigate </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">Road.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152950892272252636.post-50388518339259902792022-06-17T02:15:00.002-07:002022-06-17T02:15:27.688-07:00Betchworth<p> </p><h2><span lang="EN-US">Fort Road<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h3><span style="color: red;">Betchworth Fort </span>Situated at the top of the <st1:place w:st="on">Downs</st1:place> above Brockham Limeworks, access from <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Fort Road</st1:address></st1:street>. The
fort, cottage and land were sold back to <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Deepdene
Estates by the government around 1909 and the fort buildings were lived in at least
from 1921, when Deepdene Estates sold the property, until 1983. The caretaker's
cottage has always been inhabited but the fort is now a store. The boundaries
of the property were indicated by stone markers inscribed WD and some of these remain.
The fort is similar to that at Box Hill, with metal shutters and doors still in
place.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h2><span lang="EN-US">The Coombe<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ff3300; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Cottages </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">built for the limeworks staff - New
Cottages, Coombe </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">Cottages and Western Cottages.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h2><span lang="EN-US">The Quarry<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h3><span style="color: #ff3300;">Betchworth Limeworks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>Although chalk quarrying had been carried
on <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">here for years it was not
until 1865 that large-scale lime manufacturing started with the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">6
incorporation of the Dorking Greystone Lime Company Ltd; the peak of production
taking place between 1920 and 1940.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
name 'Dorking' was included in the company name to take advantage of the
reputation of the lime from the earlier Dorking limeworks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first Hoffman kiln, which burned lime in
a continuous cycle, was erected here in 1865 and operated until 1904.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A second one was built in 1867 and used until
1901.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1867 the six conical flare
kilns of the southern battery were built, followed in 1872 by another six in
the eastern battery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These were later
converted to Bishop's patent 'Brockham' type in the 1920s and 1930s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1887 two of the original flare kilns were
replaced by a pair of Dietzsch kilns which had been modified from the design
for cement making; ten years later a second pair were similarly converted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When a demand for white lime for gas
purification arose at the turn of the century, a new face was opened above, and
to the west of, the main pit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An
overhead cableway was installed to operate via pylons to the gantry between the
Dietzsch kilns in the south battery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This was in use from 1901 until 1910 operated first by a 4hp Priestman
paraffin engine and later by a 7hp petrol engine of the same make.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Dietzsch kilns were last used in 1934,
after which production took place in the eastern battery of kilns, most of
which was upgraded during the 1950s and 1960s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The tall brick-built Smidth kiln, built adjacent to the No 2 Hoffman
kiln at the beginning of the 20th century has never been fired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was an experimental modification to the
Dietzsch kiln; it is thought that this was never used due to the sudden
cessation in the demand for white lime for gasworks when it was superseded by
iron oxide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The main pit is now being
used as a landfill site and it will be graded and restored for grazing.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> These
engines and quarries were used for an episode of the TV serial Doctor Who to
give an appropriate nightmarish touch!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3><span style="color: #ff3300; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">Railways at Betchworth</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The South Eastern Railway came to
Betchworth in 1847; when the Dorking Greystone Lime Company was formed twenty
years later, a siding was laid into the limeworks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Initially the system was horse-operated but </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">from 1871
locomotives were used and the third standard gauge locomotive on the site
worked there until 1960.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An extensive
narrow gauge system of both 3ft 2in and 2ft 0in gauge was used to transport
chalk to the kilns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were three
locomotives of the former gauge and one of the latter, all of which are now at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Amberley</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Museum</st1:placetype></st1:place>.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3><span style="color: #ff3300;">Betchworth Hearthstone Mines</span>. <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">These mines, to the east of the
limeworks kiln area, operated from the 1870s until 1950.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A 1ft 7in gauge railway line connected the
mines to the standard gauge siding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
wagons were hauled up the steep slope out of the mine using </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">a
stationary engine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The building in which
hearthstone was ground survives at the south of the site, behind the station.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3><span style="color: #ff3300;">Workers' Housing And Buildings</span>. <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Workers' houses as well as some of
the works buildings, including stables, still stand on the site<o:p></o:p></span></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152950892272252636.post-87899348337190580362022-06-17T02:13:00.003-07:002022-06-17T02:13:53.636-07:00Betchworth<p> </p><h2><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Betchworth
Park <o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt;">The
coach road through Betchworth Park was a toll road from the 19th to c. 1930.
Part of the swivel gate of the pedestrian turnstile the northern end of the
road remained in position.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Golf
course <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Brockham Green, and a noted
double avenue of limes<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h2>Brockham Hills. <o:p></o:p></h2>
<h3>Betchworth kiln remains etc. Lime kilns and remains of railway tracks to
them. Two lines of kilns. <o:p></o:p></h3>
<h3>Quarry eating into the ridge above the Pilgrim’s Way<o:p></o:p></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0