The Hambledon Heritage Albums

The 1952 Hambledon Village Scrapbook

(also digitised – http://hambledonsurrey.co.uk/scrapbook/). Old and contemporary photographs, postcards, artworks, newspaper clippings, written memories and other ephemera: a reference for village life from Victorian times until 1997.

Memories of Hambledon, by Mary Parker. Original of the text compiled in 1968 as an accompaniment to the 1952 Hambledon Village Scrapbook and subsequently published by the Hambledon Heritage Society.

1965 Hambledon Village Scrapbook. Compiled for the Surrey County WI 1965 Scrapbook

Competition; a month-by-month account of village life in words and pictures, including original illustrations.

The Silver Jubilee, 1977. Photographs of Hambledon’s celebrations.

The Nutboune Brickworks. By long-term Hambledon residents Norman and Paddy Gravestock. A brief history from the opening of the Brickworks in 1934 to their closure in 1990, including accounts and photographs of some of villagers who were employed there throughout their working lives.

Hambledon Village Shop. “Shall we try and re-open our Shop?” (following its closure as a commercial undertaking in 1990). Annotated photographs of a display at the Hambledon Village Fete, July 1992.

The Hambledon Village Snapshot, 1999. Published to celebrate the Millenium. 175 householders’ (out of a possible 278) one-three page descriptions, with photographs, of their homes and lives in Hambledon; a forward summarising the history of Hambledon from pre-Domesday times to the present day; and accompanying illustrations by villagers.

Images of Hambledon – a portrait of the village drawing on material from the 1952 scrapbook, by Audrey Monk and Gabrielle Mabley, published 2000

Hambledon Village Shop. 10th anniversary party, 2002, Hambledon Village Hall [in celebration of the Shop’s re-opening in November 1992as a community owned and run venture]. Annotated photographs.

The 2002 Album. The year of the death of HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and HM The Queen’s golden Jubilee. Contents page attached.

Hambledon Vilage (Jubilee) Fete. Photographs of the fete, the evening celebrations, the bonfire and other related activities to celebrate HM The Queen’s diamond Jubilee.

The First Red Book. Hambledon histories; Hambledon happenings, 1977-1900. Contents page attached.  

The Second Red Book. Hambledon happenings 1991-2005. Contents page attached.

The Blue Book. Hambledon happenings 2006 – 17.   Contents page attached.

The Black Book.   Hambledon happenings 2018 – 21.  Contents page attached.

THE 2002 ALBUM

1-2       The death of the Queen Mother, 30 March

3-6       Music at Feathercombe, 8 June

7-10     Hambledon Golden Jubilee fete, 2 June

11-14   Hambledon flower and vegetable show, 31 August

15-16   Arts and Crafts exhibition, 19-20 October

17-18   Hambledon Village Shop 10th birthday celebrations

19        Surrey Hills boundary marker, installed in September

21        Restoration of Beech Hill Green well post

23        Hambledon Nursery School jubilee party

25        The new arrivals [children born to Hambledon parents]

27        Hambledon Post Office and Village Shop: what they do, what they sell

29-30   Special celebrations:    Mic and Sylvia Coleman golden wedding, Florrie Stevenson 90th birthday, Joan Hardy 80th birthday/garden make-over

31-3     St Peter’s Church and the new curate’s study

35        The Worshipful Company of Carpenters’ visit to St Peter’s Church

37        The Almshouses, their Trustees and their residents

39        Oakhurst Cottage

41        Hambledon Cricket Club

43        The Wednesday Afternoon Group (WAGs)

45-6     Hambledon Ramblers

47        Village views [photographs]

49        Hambletots

51        Haslemere & Godalming Dolls House Group; Wey Valley Lace Makers (who met at the Village Hall)

53        Firm Friends (who met at the Village Hall)

55        Godalming Morris Men

57-8     Hambledon properties on the market

 

THE FIRST RED BOOK

HAMBLEDON HISTORIES;  HAMBLEDON HAPPENINGS, 1977 – 1990

1-4       Tigbourne Cottage, 1858 – 1899     

5-6       The Pickett family (and see also pp.17-18, Black Book)

7-8       Hambledon 1878 (from the Post Office Directory)

9          Thomas Hammond, born June 1830 Hambledon, and his wife Emma

10        Their daughter Fanny, born 1871 Hambledon; married Arthur Balchin of Limbo Farm

11        With their children Percy, Frank, Morrie and Toby Balchin

From right to left:  Bert Jeffrey with wife Fanny (who lived at Rose Cottage with their five children);  son Ernie;  son Ted standing just behind his wife Elsie (who were the last inhabitants of Oakhurst Cottage);  and daughter Elsie with her husband Tom Hammond

12-13   Hambledon cottages in Old Cottages and Farmhouses in Surrey, pub.1908

14        Hambledon ladies, photographed in ?1902;  also in the Scrapbook, p.13

15-16   Hambledon School, pupils’ memories, 1912-1939

17-18 Hambledon Hurst, 1918 and 1923

19        The Merry Harriers, 1931

20-22   Grace Squelch’s brothers, ?1915. 

Part of a letter from Grace Squelch (the photographs to which she refers on p.2 of Sir James Fletcher and his dog are on p.28 of the Scrapbook, together with a photograph, on p.35, of Grace as the May Queen.

23        Account of the funeral of Mr Milligan, one-time owner of Matterys, died 25 December 1946     

24        Peter and his mother Fanny Gaskin’s post card of Hambledon Common sent to

           Peter’s father, April 1944

25        King Edward’s School returns from its wartime home in Hambledon, 1947

           The entrance of the Hyde wartime army camp – now the Cheshire Homes

26-27   Hambledon houses, 1951

28-33   Sid Elliott and Privett Cottage

34        The Merry Harriers and Harrods Stores darts teams, 1950s or 1960s

35-36   Eric Parker, died 13 February 1955:  Seen in Surrey tribute

37-41   Court Vale, sale particulars 1966 and photographs

42-44   Historical photos, Hambledon houses

45-50   Hambledon Village School photos from 1914 – 1970

51-2     Death Crash Plane Just Misses [Hambledon] Village School, Surrey Advertiser,     

            7 January 1972

53-8     Old post cards of Hambledon, incl (pp.51-2) St Dominic’s

59-78   Hambledon Village Shop and Post Office:  historical information from the Surrey Postal History Group;  re-opening as a community venture, 1992;  bravery award to Guy Lemieux, 1955

79        Lane End, 1952 and Refugee Cottages, Wormley Lane

80-3     Hambledon Homes (otherwise the Workhouse, Hambledon Union, the Institute)

84        Matterys (demolished, early 1960s)

85-8     Hambledon celebrates Coronation Day, 2 June 1953

89-90   Hambledon village pond restored     

91-7     Hambledon celebrates the Silver Jubilee, 7 June 1977

98-9     Purchase of Sutton Palmer painting of Hambledon Common [which hangs in the Village Hall] as a “lasting souvenir of the Jubilee”

100      Women’s cricket match, 19 June 1977

101-2   Planting the Jubilee walnut tree

103-6  The WI Silver [wrongly described as Diamond] Jubilee party, 2 December 1977

107-9   This village keeps its ties with the past, The Advertiser, 23-24 March 1978

110      Villagers meet to fight juggernaut route plan [by SCC, for the A283], 19 April 1978

111-12             The 1978 Parish Meeting, The Advertiser, 5 May 1978

113-16             Best Kept Village, 1984

117      Hambledon Village Shop collage [which hangs in the Village Hall], 1984

            The Octavia Hill memorial seat on top of Hydon Ball

118       Institution of the Rev. Canon Peter Sertin, 7 May 1985

119-132           Oakhurst Cottage history, including its opening as a National Trust cottage museum with the support of the Parish Council; Stanley Cookson’s account of the time he spent there as a war-time evacuee; and an early NT guide book (probably written by Joan Hardy and published during the 1980s)

133-139           The Great Storm, October 1987 – photographs

140-5               Hambledon village fete, 1984

146                  Best kept village, 1988  

147-8               Godalming Band, Village Hall, 1988

149-150           Century of Fine Stitchwork, coronation sampler worked by Mrs Jeffery of Oakhurst Cottage and                                        presented to Godalming Museum, Surrey Advertiser, 27 January 1989

151                 Rejection of plan to build 52 houses on the Hydestile Hospital site,  Surrey Advertiser, 31 March 1989

152                 The entrance to the (then) Hydestile Hospital site

                       Installation of the Rev. Christopher Blizzard-Barnes, 1 September 1989

153                  WAGs tea party at Beech Brow, 1989

154                  Rock ‘n’ Roll, 1989

155-6               Hambledon Cricket Club:  Race Night, Village Hall, 1989

                        Old Time Music Hall, Village Hall, 1990

157-165           Hambledon village fete, 1990

167-8               Godalming Band, Village Hall, 1990

169                  The changing faces of agriculture in Hambledon, 1990 – photographs

170                  Postcards of Rock Hill and Vann Lane 

 

 THE SECOND RED BOOK

HAMBLEDON HAPPENINGS, 1991 – 2005

1          Death of Dorothy Ellingson, April 1991

2          Closure of Hambledon Post Office, April 1991

3          Opening of the Nursery School car park, 15 November 1991

4          Hambledon village fete, 1992

5-6       A Village in View, Hambledon, 13.8.1993 (Haslemere Herald)

7-8       Hambledon village fete, 1994

9-13     Rose Sage (“Auntie Rose) who lived at Oliver Cottage, on her 100th birthday, Mirror 5oman, 3 August 1994

14        Mary Parker:  an appreciation [on her death], The Advertiser, 6 January 1995

15        Church service commemorating VE Day

17        VE Celebration concert, Village Hall, 13 May1945

18        Hambledon village fete, 1996

19-22   Hambledon Heritage exhibition, 28 February – 1 March 1998  and other events in aid of the Mary Parker Memorial Fund [for conserving the Village Scrapbook]

23-24   “A Walk through Hambledon”, 1998

25        Canon Charles Oldham:  an appreciation [on his death in 1998] 

26        Retirement of Brenda Stansfield, head teacher, Hambledon Nursery School,

            Surrey Advertiser, 17 July 1998

27-30   Winning Surrey’s Best Kept (small) Village competition, 1999

31-40   Hambledon’s “Parish Pages”, forming part of the Surrey Hills Jigsaw Project, 1999

41-44   Welcoming in 2000 in the Village Hall

45-48   Reg May: an appreciation [on his death], Trials and Motorcross News, 1 January 2000

49-52   Planting the Millennium English oaks opposite the Village Hall

53        Malthouse Lane street party, September 2000

54-56   Nutbourne Cottages, 2000

57-58   Nutbourne Brickworks, 2001

59        Keep Grass Roots Cricket Alive, cricket in Hambledon, The [Waverley] Link,

           summer 2001

60        The sponsored slim [in aid of the Cricket Club pavilion fund], The Advertiser,

            6 July 2001

61        Building the steps at the top of FP181 (Rock Hill), 12 September 2001

62        CLA Wildlife Sites award for Stephen Dean, Surrey Advertiser, November 2001

63        “Memories of Hambledon” by Mary Parker (1989, reprinted 2001)

64        Ron Beasley, former Merry Harriers landlord, appreciation [on his death], Surrey Advertiser, 19 July 2002

65        Refurbishment of St Peter’s Church flag and banner, 2002

66-68   The conversion of the Old Coal Yard, 2002

69-72   The Henry Smith Charity: Parish Magazine, December 2002, Mary Parker’s report

73-80   Hambledon Parish Plan, 2003

81        Retirement of Mary Caroe and George Pitt as Hambledon Nursery School Trustees,

            Parish Magazine, February 2003

82-88   Opening of Duncombs Cottages by HRH Princess Anne, President, Rural Housing Trust, 9 January 2003

89        Hambledon Heritage Society AGM [at which Annabel Watts talked about

            Helen Allingham], Parish Magazine, May 2003

90-91   Fred Elliott, 1909 – May 2003:  an appreciation [on his death]

92        Archie Hutchins, 1904 – May 2003:  an appreciation [on his death]

93        Hambletots, summer 2003

94        Hambledon Village Trust, created April 2003, purchases Hambledon Village Shop and Pendle Cottage

95-96   Poirot comes to Hambledon [filming at Vann, autumn 2003]

97        Hedgerow Survey [by the Hambledon Heritage Society], autumn 2003

98-100             Great House on the market

101-8   Starving for a Pavilion”, 27-29 February: sponsorship chart, photographs,

            Surrey Advertiser, 13 February, Daily Telegraph 9 February, Haslemere Herald, 5 March 2004

109-113           A Walk on Jekyll’s Wild Side [Vann garden], The Garden, April 2004

114      Stephanie Couvela arrives in Hambledon as Associate Minister

115-6   Flint axe found on Hambledon Common, 23 April 2004

117-22             Hambledon village fete 2004

123      Retirement of Ion Campbell as Chairman, Hambledon Parish Council, May 2004

124      Barbara Beadle retires as head teacher, Hambledon Nursery School, Surrey Advertiser, 23 July 2004

125      Formal opening of the new Hambledon Cricket Club pavilion, 10 July 2004

126      Postcards of Hambledon (from original paintings)

127-8   Policing in Hambledon (John Hockley appointed Neighbourhood Specialist Officer,

           April 2004)

129-130 Molly Vacher, 1914 – October 2004, an appreciation [on her death]

131      Hambledon calendar, 2005

133-34  Surrey Village of the Year competition, 2005:  why Hambledon didn’t enter

135      Hambledon Village Shop:  ownership in the 1920/30s

136      You’ll find it in the Parish Magazine:   poem by Terry Cornell, May 2005

137-142           The history of Bryony Hill

143      The Hambledon Village Trust brochure

145      Ray Williams telling at the 5 May 2005 general election

146-9   Hambledon Village Shop and Cricket Club support for the Surrey Farm and

            Village Shop Day, 17 September 2005

150      Post Office long service recognition for Jane Woolley’s “10 years of distinguished service with Royal Mail Group”

           [as nominated Hambledon postmistress]

151-2   Development plans for St Peter’s Church [addition of a meeting room]

153      Bobby Dazzler – PC Hockley wins the 2005 Community Police Officer of the Year award

154-6   Hambledon Village Shop barn restoration, 2005

 

THE BLUE BOOK

HAMBLEDON HAPPENINGS, 2006 – 2017

1          Hambledon Village Shop on Air, January 2006

2          The Hambledon [Churchyard] Yews (findings of the dendrochronology dating, March 2005)

3-7       The Seventy/70 Challenge, June 2006 [Hambledon Village Trust sponsored walk to raise funds for the Hambledon Village Shop up-grade]       

8          Hambledon village fete, June 2006

9-10     Partying at Malthouse Farm, August 2006

11        Hambledon Village Shop:  first promotional leaflet, Autumn 2006

12        “Focus on Hambledon”, The [Waverley] Link, August 2006

13-14   Campaign to save the Post Office, Daily Telegraph article by Stewart Payne,

20 October 2006

15-16   Sale brochure, Rose Cottage, 2006

17        Hambledon Football Club:  purchase of the football field

18-20   Hambledon Christmas Concert, 3 December 2006

21-22   Appeal to save [Waverley] Post Offices, Surrey Advertiser, 16 February 2007 (with Jeremy Hunt MP signing the petition to save Hambledon Post Office)

23-24   Formal opening by Jeremy Hunt of the up-graded Hambledon Village Shop,

           18 May 2007

25-26   Waverley Design Awards, 23 October 2006 [Special Community Award,

             Hambledon Village Shop, for barn restoration and 2006 shop up-grade]

27-30   Photographs of St Peter’s Church

31-32   Hambledon Football Club:  improving the pitch, planning for new changing rooms,    

            Parish Magazine article by Mic Coleman, 2008

33        Hambledon flower show, September 2008

34        Queen’s Birthday Honours, Surrey Advertiser, 20 June 2008 [award of MBE to

            Jane Woolley]

35        Surrey Village of the Year Award., Surrey Advertiser, 19 September 2008

            Hambledon village fete 2008, Surrey Advertiser, July

36        Theft of york stone from Vann, Surrey Advertiser, 28 November 2009

Hambledon wins Sustainability Category, South England region, Vallage of the Year, Surrey Advertiser, 26 June 2009

37        Hambledon Village Shop volunteers (photo montage)

38        Launch of the Hambledon village website, 2008

39-40   Oakhurst Cottage brochure

41-43   Southern Water laying mains drainage through (part of) the village, 2008-9

44        Scaling new heights [at St Dominic’s], Surrey Advertiser, 12 May 2008

            A land girl in Hambledon [during WW II], Surrey Advertiser, 12 September 2008

45-46   The London Philharmonic Skiffle Orchestra at Hambledon Village Hall,

30 April 2009

47-50   The Merry Harriers changes hands:  photos and Surrey Advertiser articles, 2008/9

51-54   Visit of Princess Alexandra, 9 July 2009

55-56   The snow storm and deep freeze, 6 January 2010

57        Derek Miller resigns as Editor of the Parish Magazine, May 2010

58-59   Pugin and St Peter’s Church, Parish Magazine article by Audrey Monk, January 2010 and Surrey Advertiser

60        Hambledon Village Shop, Surrey Advertiser, 12 February 2010

61        Award of OBE to John Anderson, 26 February 2010

62        The Cup Hill Morris Men on Hydon’s Ball, May Day 2010, Surrey Advertiser,

           7 May 2010

63-65   Hambledon village fete, 2010

66-68   St Peter’s personalities (Giles Carpenter, Stephanie Couvela), Haslemere Herald,

           August 2010 and Surrey Advertiser, 3 July 2010

          Fanny Gaskin’s 100th birthday, 28 August 2010, Haslemere Herald

69        Louis de Berniers “Growing up in Hambledon” (on the occasion of the publication of Notwithstanding)

70-71   Hambledon fruit and flower show, 2010

72        Promoting produce at Hambledon Village Shop, Parish Magazine, October 2010

73        Saving the pub, saving the phone box, Surrey Advertiser, 1 and 22 October 2010

74-75   A Country Mansion at the Nutbourne Brickworks?  Surrey Advertiser,

            5 and 26 November 2010

76        Panto at the Merry Harriers [in aid of the Football Club], Surrey Advertiser,

            21 January 2011

77-78   The Marvellous and Unlikely Fete of Little Upper Downing, theatre at Hambledon Village Hall, 23 February 2011

79        Hambledon’s own grit bin, Surrey Advertiser, 11 February 2011

80        May Day on Hydon’s Ball, Surrey Advertiser, 6 May 2011

 

81        Ron Vickery and Derek Miller retire as Parish Councillors, Surrey Advertiser

13 May 2011, Parish Magazine July 2011

82-83   Go-ahead for stately home at the Nutbourne Brickworks, Surrey Advertiser,

           27 May 2011

85        Drug den in Hambledon:  police seize £25,000 worth of cannabis, Surrey Advertiser

           10 June and Parish Magazine July 2011

86-87   Hambledon Football Club achievements, Parish Magazine July 2011, Surrey Advertiser, 2 December 2011

88-89   The Hamble Ramble [in aid of the Hambledon Community Fund], 12 June 2011,

             Parish Magazine, July 2011

90        Hambledon Heritage guided walk, 26 June 2011, Parish Magazine, May and

            August 2011

91        Map of the Manor of Hambledon, 1763

92-93   Hambledon flower, fruit and vegetable show, 3 September 2011

94-95   Photos that (nearly) won the Surrey Village Photo competition, 2011  

96        Raising money for cancer research, Surrey Advertiser, 2 September 2011

            St Dominic’s fete, Surrey Advertiser, 26 August 2011

97-101 Over the Counter, Hambledon Village Shop feature in Convenience Store,

           8 October 2011

            Launch of “Our Land” project at the Merry Harriers by Kate Humble, Surrey

            Advertiser, 21 October, Haslemere Herald, 28 October 2011

102      Basil Dean, creator of ENSA, by his son and grandson, Winton and Stephen Dean,

            Parish Magazine, November 2011

103      St Peter’s Church and the Rev. Bullock: a Pugin Monument Rediscovered, by Audrey Monk

104-5   The [Hambledon and Busbridge] Church Big Day Out, Parish Magazine, November 2011

106-7   The 201 Hambledon Xmas party, Parish Magazine, 2012

108      Hambledon Community Fund mugs go on sale at Hambledon Village Shop,

            Haslemere Herald, 24 February 2012

109      Award of the Legion d’Honneur [for pioneering surgical work and teaching] to Prof. Michael Bailey, Surrey                     Advertiser, 12 April 2012

110-11 Restoring Busses Common [to heathland], 2012

112      Licensing and Installation of the Rev. Catherine McBride [as Associate Vicar of Hambledon], 8 May 2012

113-14 Hambledon Heritage Society brochure, by Audrey Monk, of a circular walk around Hambledon

115-6   Appeal for funds for the up-grading of the Hambledon Almshouses

117      Godalming Community Heroes:  Norman Gravestock for services to the Holloway Hill Bowling Club, Surrey                      Advertiser, 2 May 2012

118      Award of BEM to Mic Coleman, Surrey Advertiser, 22 June 2012, Parish Magazine, November 2012

119-135           Hambledon celebrates the Diamond Jubilee, 2012

136      New curates for Hambledon, Parish Magazine, August 2012

137      Community policing – tea at the Village Hall, Surrey Advertiser, 24 August 2012

138-139           Hambledon Football Club new pavilion, Surrey Advertiser, 30 November 2012 (and 15 August 2014)

140-2   Hambledon Village Shop 20th birthday celebrations, November 2012

143      Three years old and celebrating remission from cancer, Surrey Advertiser,

            21 December 2012

144      Bus stop signs return to Hambledon, Surrey Advertiser, 29 March and 9 August 2013

145      Anniversary of German bomber crash in Busbridge, Surrey Advertiser, 12 April 2013 

146      Morris dancing on May Day, Surrey Advertiser, 3 May 2013

147      Hambledon Football Club – funds and vandalism, Surrey Advertiser, 10 May

           and 12 July 2013, Parish Magazine, July 2013

148-150           A Night at the Opera [Hambledon Community Fund fund-raiser] at Hydon End, 8 June 2013

151      Ten years with the llamas, Surrey Advertiser, 2 August 2013

152      Denys Kinsella, 1923-2013: an appreciation, Parish Magazine, October 2013

153      Hambledon flower show, 31 August 2013

154-5   Winton Dean, 1916-2013:  an appreciation, The Times, 23 December 2013

156      Dick Whittington at the Merry Harriers, 17-19 February 2014, programme

157      Storms ruin Christmas [including in Hambledon], Surrey Advertiser,

           3 January 2014

158      Martyn Grove, Surrey County Football Association Groundsman of the Year,

            Surrey Advertiser, 28 February 2014

159-160           Natural Successors – Vann’s garden, Telegraph Magazine, 12 April 2014

161-6   Opening of the refurbished Almshouses, 2014 and 2015;  The Story of the Almshouses   

167-9   Unveiling of the Greensand Way Viewing Map, Hambledon Common,

            22 June 2014 [a Hambledon Heritage Society project]

170      Oakhurst Cottage conservation, Surrey Advertiser, 28 November 2014

171      The Robertson Memorial, Hydon Ball

172-180           Hambledon – a celebration in flowers, June 2015, June 2017

181-2  Stepaside – the history of a house

183-6   The Queen’s Birthday celebrations, June 2016: the Queen’s bench (and acknowledgement) and village fete

187-189           Filming “Howard’s End” in Hambledon, 2017

190-1  “Moscow’s Universal Provider” – the history of Bryony Bank

192      Farewell to Associate Minister Catherine McBride

193-200           Hambledon Village Shop, major happenings (mostly major successes!),

                        2014-17

201-2               Hambledon at the Oval

203-4  Retirement of Jane Woolley as Hambledon Parish Clerk

205-14             The Village Hall:  2017 – lockdown    

 

THE BLACK BOOK

HAMBLEDON HAPPENINGS, 2018 – 2021

1-2       Hambledon House fire, January 2018

3-6       HMS Hambledon (WWII warship adopted by the-then Hambledon Rural District

            Council

7-11     The Mellershes and properties in Hambledon which they (and others) were associated

12        Norman Gravestock at 90

13-14   St Peter’s Church:  a 70-year old inventory (from the February 2019 Parish Magazine)

15-16   Installation of Simon Willetts as Associate Minister, Hambledon, September 2019

17-18   The Pickets (details obtained from family members, 2020, and supplementing photos

            in the First Red Blook, p.5/6)

19-20   St Dominic’s School and Ada Watney/Weguelin – a past School inmate remembers     

21-4    Orchard Farm, 2014-20

25-6    The Old Coal Yard – from the Freemantles to the present (2020)

27-36   The Speedwatch Scarecrows, autumn 2020

37-40   “Sunday Reflections:  Hambledon in Lockdown, 2020”

41        Julie Llewelyn, High Sheriff of Surrey, 2021-22

42        Hambledon Village Shop:  the (second) Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service

43-4     Hambledon Parish Assembly, April 2021:  how the village coped with lockdown

45-6     Retirement of John Anderson as Parish Council Chairman

47-8     History of the Hambledon WI

49-57   History of Hambledon Village Hall (to 2020)

59-78   Hambledon notables, deceased 2015-2021:

            Hampden Parker                     Ray Williams

            Raymond Smith                      Joan Elliott

            Tony Field                              Joan Hardy

            Mary Caroe                             Annie and John Tidmarsh

 

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The 1952 Hambledon Village Scrapbook

(also digitised – http://hambledonsurrey.co.uk/scrapbook/). Old and contemporary photographs, postcards, artworks, newspaper clippings, written memories and other ephemera: a reference for village life from Victorian times until 1997.

Memories of Hambledon, by Mary Parker. Original of the text compiled in 1968 as an accompaniment to the 1952 Hambledon Village Scrapbook and subsequently published by the Hambledon Heritage Society.

1965 Hambledon Village Scrapbook. Compiled for the Surrey County WI 1965 Scrapbook

Competition; a month-by-month account of village life in words and pictures, including original illustrations.

The Silver Jubilee, 1977. Photographs of Hambledon’s celebrations.

The Nutboune Brickworks. By long-term Hambledon residents Norman and Paddy Gravestock. A brief history from the opening of the Brickworks in 1934 to their closure in 1990, including accounts and photographs of some of villagers who were employed there throughout their working lives.

Hambledon Village Shop. “Shall we try and re-open our Shop?” (following its closure as a commercial undertaking in 1990). Annotated photographs of a display at the Hambledon Village Fete, July 1992.

The Hambledon Village Snapshot, 1999. Published to celebrate the Millenium. 175 householders’ (out of a possible 278) one-three page descriptions, with photographs, of their homes and lives in Hambledon; a forward summarising the history of Hambledon from pre-Domesday times to the present day; and accompanying illustrations by villagers.

Images of Hambledon – a portrait of the village drawing on material from the 1952 scrapbook, by Audrey Monk and Gabrielle Mabley, published 2000

Hambledon Village Shop. 10th anniversary party, 2002, Hambledon Village Hall [in celebration of the Shop’s re-opening in November 1992as a community owned and run venture]. Annotated photographs.

The 2002 Album. The year of the death of HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and HM The Queen’s golden Jubilee. Contents page attached.

Hambledon Vilage (Jubilee) Fete. Photographs of the fete, the evening celebrations, the bonfire and other related activities to celebrate HM The Queen’s diamond Jubilee.

The First Red Book. Hambledon histories; Hambledon happenings, 1977-1900. Contents page attached.  

The Second Red Book. Hambledon happenings 1991-2005. Contents page attached.

The Blue Book. Hambledon happenings 2006 – 17.   Contents page attached.

The Black Book.   Hambledon happenings 2018 – 21.  Contents page attached.

THE 2002 ALBUM

1-2       The death of the Queen Mother, 30 March

3-6       Music at Feathercombe, 8 June

7-10     Hambledon Golden Jubilee fete, 2 June

11-14   Hambledon flower and vegetable show, 31 August

15-16   Arts and Crafts exhibition, 19-20 October

17-18   Hambledon Village Shop 10th birthday celebrations

19        Surrey Hills boundary marker, installed in September

21        Restoration of Beech Hill Green well post

23        Hambledon Nursery School jubilee party

25        The new arrivals [children born to Hambledon parents]

27        Hambledon Post Office and Village Shop: what they do, what they sell

29-30   Special celebrations:    Mic and Sylvia Coleman golden wedding, Florrie Stevenson 90th birthday, Joan Hardy 80th birthday/garden make-over

31-3     St Peter’s Church and the new curate’s study

35        The Worshipful Company of Carpenters’ visit to St Peter’s Church

37        The Almshouses, their Trustees and their residents

39        Oakhurst Cottage

41        Hambledon Cricket Club

43        The Wednesday Afternoon Group (WAGs)

45-6     Hambledon Ramblers

47        Village views [photographs]

49        Hambletots

51        Haslemere & Godalming Dolls House Group; Wey Valley Lace Makers (who met at the Village Hall)

53        Firm Friends (who met at the Village Hall)

55        Godalming Morris Men

57-8     Hambledon properties on the market

THE FIRST RED BOOK

HAMBLEDON HISTORIES;  HAMBLEDON HAPPENINGS, 1977 – 1990

1-4       Tigbourne Cottage, 1858 – 1899     

5-6       The Pickett family (and see also pp.17-18, Black Book)

7-8       Hambledon 1878 (from the Post Office Directory)

9          Thomas Hammond, born June 1830 Hambledon, and his wife Emma

10        Their daughter Fanny, born 1871 Hambledon; married Arthur Balchin of Limbo Farm

11        With their children Percy, Frank, Morrie and Toby Balchin

From right to left:  Bert Jeffrey with wife Fanny (who lived at Rose Cottage with their five children);  son Ernie;  son Ted standing just behind his wife Elsie (who were the last inhabitants of Oakhurst Cottage);  and daughter Elsie with her husband Tom Hammond

12-13   Hambledon cottages in Old Cottages and Farmhouses in Surrey, pub.1908

14        Hambledon ladies, photographed in ?1902;  also in the Scrapbook, p.13

15-16   Hambledon School, pupils’ memories, 1912-1939

17-18 Hambledon Hurst, 1918 and 1923

19        The Merry Harriers, 1931

20-22   Grace Squelch’s brothers, ?1915. 

Part of a letter from Grace Squelch (the photographs to which she refers on p.2 of Sir James Fletcher and his dog are on p.28 of the Scrapbook, together with a photograph, on p.35, of Grace as the May Queen.

23        Account of the funeral of Mr Milligan, one-time owner of Matterys, died 25 December 1946     

24        Peter and his mother Fanny Gaskin’s post card of Hambledon Common sent to

           Peter’s father, April 1944

25        King Edward’s School returns from its wartime home in Hambledon, 1947

           The entrance of the Hyde wartime army camp – now the Cheshire Homes

26-27   Hambledon houses, 1951

28-33   Sid Elliott and Privett Cottage

34        The Merry Harriers and Harrods Stores darts teams, 1950s or 1960s

35-36   Eric Parker, died 13 February 1955:  Seen in Surrey tribute

37-41   Court Vale, sale particulars 1966 and photographs

42-44   Historical photos, Hambledon houses

45-50   Hambledon Village School photos from 1914 – 1970

51-2     Death Crash Plane Just Misses [Hambledon] Village School, Surrey Advertiser,     

            7 January 1972

53-8     Old post cards of Hambledon, incl (pp.51-2) St Dominic’s

59-78   Hambledon Village Shop and Post Office:  historical information from the Surrey Postal History Group;  re-opening as a community venture, 1992;  bravery award to Guy Lemieux, 1955

79        Lane End, 1952 and Refugee Cottages, Wormley Lane

80-3     Hambledon Homes (otherwise the Workhouse, Hambledon Union, the Institute)

84        Matterys (demolished, early 1960s)

85-8     Hambledon celebrates Coronation Day, 2 June 1953

89-90   Hambledon village pond restored     

91-7     Hambledon celebrates the Silver Jubilee, 7 June 1977

98-9     Purchase of Sutton Palmer painting of Hambledon Common [which hangs in the Village Hall] as a “lasting souvenir of the Jubilee”

100      Women’s cricket match, 19 June 1977

101-2   Planting the Jubilee walnut tree

103-6  The WI Silver [wrongly described as Diamond] Jubilee party, 2 December 1977

107-9   This village keeps its ties with the past, The Advertiser, 23-24 March 1978

110      Villagers meet to fight juggernaut route plan [by SCC, for the A283], 19 April 1978

111-12             The 1978 Parish Meeting, The Advertiser, 5 May 1978

113-16             Best Kept Village, 1984

117      Hambledon Village Shop collage [which hangs in the Village Hall], 1984

            The Octavia Hill memorial seat on top of Hydon Ball

118       Institution of the Rev. Canon Peter Sertin, 7 May 1985

119-132           Oakhurst Cottage history, including its opening as a National Trust cottage museum with the support of the Parish Council; Stanley Cookson’s account of the time he spent there as a war-time evacuee; and an early NT guide book (probably written by Joan Hardy and published during the 1980s)

133-139           The Great Storm, October 1987 – photographs

140-5               Hambledon village fete, 1984

146                  Best kept village, 1988  

147-8               Godalming Band, Village Hall, 1988

149-150           Century of Fine Stitchwork, coronation sampler worked by Mrs Jeffery of Oakhurst Cottage and                                        presented to Godalming Museum, Surrey Advertiser, 27 January 1989

151                 Rejection of plan to build 52 houses on the Hydestile Hospital site,  Surrey Advertiser, 31 March 1989

152                 The entrance to the (then) Hydestile Hospital site

                       Installation of the Rev. Christopher Blizzard-Barnes, 1 September 1989

153                  WAGs tea party at Beech Brow, 1989

154                  Rock ‘n’ Roll, 1989

155-6               Hambledon Cricket Club:  Race Night, Village Hall, 1989

                        Old Time Music Hall, Village Hall, 1990

157-165           Hambledon village fete, 1990

167-8               Godalming Band, Village Hall, 1990

169                  The changing faces of agriculture in Hambledon, 1990 – photographs

170                  Postcards of Rock Hill and Vann Lane 

 THE SECOND RED BOOK

HAMBLEDON HAPPENINGS, 1991 – 2005

1          Death of Dorothy Ellingson, April 1991

2          Closure of Hambledon Post Office, April 1991

3          Opening of the Nursery School car park, 15 November 1991

4          Hambledon village fete, 1992

5-6       A Village in View, Hambledon, 13.8.1993 (Haslemere Herald)

7-8       Hambledon village fete, 1994

9-13     Rose Sage (“Auntie Rose) who lived at Oliver Cottage, on her 100th birthday, Mirror 5oman, 3 August 1994

14        Mary Parker:  an appreciation [on her death], The Advertiser, 6 January 1995

15        Church service commemorating VE Day

17        VE Celebration concert, Village Hall, 13 May1945

18        Hambledon village fete, 1996

19-22   Hambledon Heritage exhibition, 28 February – 1 March 1998  and other events in aid of the Mary Parker Memorial Fund [for conserving the Village Scrapbook]

23-24   “A Walk through Hambledon”, 1998

25        Canon Charles Oldham:  an appreciation [on his death in 1998] 

26        Retirement of Brenda Stansfield, head teacher, Hambledon Nursery School,

            Surrey Advertiser, 17 July 1998

27-30   Winning Surrey’s Best Kept (small) Village competition, 1999

31-40   Hambledon’s “Parish Pages”, forming part of the Surrey Hills Jigsaw Project, 1999

41-44   Welcoming in 2000 in the Village Hall

45-48   Reg May: an appreciation [on his death], Trials and Motorcross News, 1 January 2000

49-52   Planting the Millennium English oaks opposite the Village Hall

53        Malthouse Lane street party, September 2000

54-56   Nutbourne Cottages, 2000

57-58   Nutbourne Brickworks, 2001

59        Keep Grass Roots Cricket Alive, cricket in Hambledon, The [Waverley] Link,

           summer 2001

60        The sponsored slim [in aid of the Cricket Club pavilion fund], The Advertiser,

            6 July 2001

61        Building the steps at the top of FP181 (Rock Hill), 12 September 2001

62        CLA Wildlife Sites award for Stephen Dean, Surrey Advertiser, November 2001

63        “Memories of Hambledon” by Mary Parker (1989, reprinted 2001)

64        Ron Beasley, former Merry Harriers landlord, appreciation [on his death], Surrey Advertiser, 19 July 2002

65        Refurbishment of St Peter’s Church flag and banner, 2002

66-68   The conversion of the Old Coal Yard, 2002

69-72   The Henry Smith Charity: Parish Magazine, December 2002, Mary Parker’s report

73-80   Hambledon Parish Plan, 2003

81        Retirement of Mary Caroe and George Pitt as Hambledon Nursery School Trustees,

            Parish Magazine, February 2003

82-88   Opening of Duncombs Cottages by HRH Princess Anne, President, Rural Housing Trust, 9 January 2003

89        Hambledon Heritage Society AGM [at which Annabel Watts talked about

            Helen Allingham], Parish Magazine, May 2003

90-91   Fred Elliott, 1909 – May 2003:  an appreciation [on his death]

92        Archie Hutchins, 1904 – May 2003:  an appreciation [on his death]

93        Hambletots, summer 2003

94        Hambledon Village Trust, created April 2003, purchases Hambledon Village Shop and Pendle Cottage

95-96   Poirot comes to Hambledon [filming at Vann, autumn 2003]

97        Hedgerow Survey [by the Hambledon Heritage Society], autumn 2003

98-100             Great House on the market

101-8   Starving for a Pavilion”, 27-29 February: sponsorship chart, photographs,

            Surrey Advertiser, 13 February, Daily Telegraph 9 February, Haslemere Herald, 5 March 2004

109-113           A Walk on Jekyll’s Wild Side [Vann garden], The Garden, April 2004

114      Stephanie Couvela arrives in Hambledon as Associate Minister

115-6   Flint axe found on Hambledon Common, 23 April 2004

117-22             Hambledon village fete 2004

123      Retirement of Ion Campbell as Chairman, Hambledon Parish Council, May 2004

124      Barbara Beadle retires as head teacher, Hambledon Nursery School, Surrey Advertiser, 23 July 2004

125      Formal opening of the new Hambledon Cricket Club pavilion, 10 July 2004

126      Postcards of Hambledon (from original paintings)

127-8   Policing in Hambledon (John Hockley appointed Neighbourhood Specialist Officer,

           April 2004)

129-130 Molly Vacher, 1914 – October 2004, an appreciation [on her death]

131      Hambledon calendar, 2005

133-34  Surrey Village of the Year competition, 2005:  why Hambledon didn’t enter

135      Hambledon Village Shop:  ownership in the 1920/30s

136      You’ll find it in the Parish Magazine:   poem by Terry Cornell, May 2005

137-142           The history of Bryony Hill

143      The Hambledon Village Trust brochure

145      Ray Williams telling at the 5 May 2005 general election

146-9   Hambledon Village Shop and Cricket Club support for the Surrey Farm and

            Village Shop Day, 17 September 2005

150      Post Office long service recognition for Jane Woolley’s “10 years of distinguished service with Royal Mail Group”

           [as nominated Hambledon postmistress]

151-2   Development plans for St Peter’s Church [addition of a meeting room]

153      Bobby Dazzler – PC Hockley wins the 2005 Community Police Officer of the Year award

154-6   Hambledon Village Shop barn restoration, 2005

THE BLUE BOOK

HAMBLEDON HAPPENINGS, 2006 – 2017

1          Hambledon Village Shop on Air, January 2006

2          The Hambledon [Churchyard] Yews (findings of the dendrochronology dating, March 2005)

3-7       The Seventy/70 Challenge, June 2006 [Hambledon Village Trust sponsored walk to raise funds for the Hambledon Village Shop up-grade]       

8          Hambledon village fete, June 2006

9-10     Partying at Malthouse Farm, August 2006

11        Hambledon Village Shop:  first promotional leaflet, Autumn 2006

12        “Focus on Hambledon”, The [Waverley] Link, August 2006

13-14   Campaign to save the Post Office, Daily Telegraph article by Stewart Payne,

20 October 2006

15-16   Sale brochure, Rose Cottage, 2006

17        Hambledon Football Club:  purchase of the football field

18-20   Hambledon Christmas Concert, 3 December 2006

21-22   Appeal to save [Waverley] Post Offices, Surrey Advertiser, 16 February 2007 (with Jeremy Hunt MP signing the petition to save Hambledon Post Office)

23-24   Formal opening by Jeremy Hunt of the up-graded Hambledon Village Shop,

           18 May 2007

25-26   Waverley Design Awards, 23 October 2006 [Special Community Award,

             Hambledon Village Shop, for barn restoration and 2006 shop up-grade]

27-30   Photographs of St Peter’s Church

31-32   Hambledon Football Club:  improving the pitch, planning for new changing rooms,    

            Parish Magazine article by Mic Coleman, 2008

33        Hambledon flower show, September 2008

34        Queen’s Birthday Honours, Surrey Advertiser, 20 June 2008 [award of MBE to

            Jane Woolley]

35        Surrey Village of the Year Award., Surrey Advertiser, 19 September 2008

            Hambledon village fete 2008, Surrey Advertiser, July

36        Theft of york stone from Vann, Surrey Advertiser, 28 November 2009

Hambledon wins Sustainability Category, South England region, Vallage of the Year, Surrey Advertiser, 26 June 2009

37        Hambledon Village Shop volunteers (photo montage)

38        Launch of the Hambledon village website, 2008

39-40   Oakhurst Cottage brochure

41-43   Southern Water laying mains drainage through (part of) the village, 2008-9

44        Scaling new heights [at St Dominic’s], Surrey Advertiser, 12 May 2008

            A land girl in Hambledon [during WW II], Surrey Advertiser, 12 September 2008

45-46   The London Philharmonic Skiffle Orchestra at Hambledon Village Hall,

30 April 2009

47-50   The Merry Harriers changes hands:  photos and Surrey Advertiser articles, 2008/9

51-54   Visit of Princess Alexandra, 9 July 2009

55-56   The snow storm and deep freeze, 6 January 2010

57        Derek Miller resigns as Editor of the Parish Magazine, May 2010

58-59   Pugin and St Peter’s Church, Parish Magazine article by Audrey Monk, January 2010 and Surrey Advertiser

60        Hambledon Village Shop, Surrey Advertiser, 12 February 2010

61        Award of OBE to John Anderson, 26 February 2010

62        The Cup Hill Morris Men on Hydon’s Ball, May Day 2010, Surrey Advertiser,

           7 May 2010

63-65   Hambledon village fete, 2010

66-68   St Peter’s personalities (Giles Carpenter, Stephanie Couvela), Haslemere Herald,

           August 2010 and Surrey Advertiser, 3 July 2010

          Fanny Gaskin’s 100th birthday, 28 August 2010, Haslemere Herald

69        Louis de Berniers “Growing up in Hambledon” (on the occasion of the publication of Notwithstanding)

70-71   Hambledon fruit and flower show, 2010

72        Promoting produce at Hambledon Village Shop, Parish Magazine, October 2010

73        Saving the pub, saving the phone box, Surrey Advertiser, 1 and 22 October 2010

74-75   A Country Mansion at the Nutbourne Brickworks?  Surrey Advertiser,

            5 and 26 November 2010

76        Panto at the Merry Harriers [in aid of the Football Club], Surrey Advertiser,

            21 January 2011

77-78   The Marvellous and Unlikely Fete of Little Upper Downing, theatre at Hambledon Village Hall, 23 February 2011

79        Hambledon’s own grit bin, Surrey Advertiser, 11 February 2011

80        May Day on Hydon’s Ball, Surrey Advertiser, 6 May 2011

81        Ron Vickery and Derek Miller retire as Parish Councillors, Surrey Advertiser

13 May 2011, Parish Magazine July 2011

82-83   Go-ahead for stately home at the Nutbourne Brickworks, Surrey Advertiser,

           27 May 2011

85        Drug den in Hambledon:  police seize £25,000 worth of cannabis, Surrey Advertiser

           10 June and Parish Magazine July 2011

86-87   Hambledon Football Club achievements, Parish Magazine July 2011, Surrey Advertiser, 2 December 2011

88-89   The Hamble Ramble [in aid of the Hambledon Community Fund], 12 June 2011,

             Parish Magazine, July 2011

90        Hambledon Heritage guided walk, 26 June 2011, Parish Magazine, May and

            August 2011

91        Map of the Manor of Hambledon, 1763

92-93   Hambledon flower, fruit and vegetable show, 3 September 2011

94-95   Photos that (nearly) won the Surrey Village Photo competition, 2011  

96        Raising money for cancer research, Surrey Advertiser, 2 September 2011

            St Dominic’s fete, Surrey Advertiser, 26 August 2011

97-101 Over the Counter, Hambledon Village Shop feature in Convenience Store,

           8 October 2011

            Launch of “Our Land” project at the Merry Harriers by Kate Humble, Surrey

            Advertiser, 21 October, Haslemere Herald, 28 October 2011

102      Basil Dean, creator of ENSA, by his son and grandson, Winton and Stephen Dean,

            Parish Magazine, November 2011

103      St Peter’s Church and the Rev. Bullock: a Pugin Monument Rediscovered, by Audrey Monk

104-5   The [Hambledon and Busbridge] Church Big Day Out, Parish Magazine, November 2011

106-7   The 201 Hambledon Xmas party, Parish Magazine, 2012

108      Hambledon Community Fund mugs go on sale at Hambledon Village Shop,

            Haslemere Herald, 24 February 2012

109      Award of the Legion d’Honneur [for pioneering surgical work and teaching] to Prof. Michael Bailey, Surrey                     Advertiser, 12 April 2012

110-11 Restoring Busses Common [to heathland], 2012

112      Licensing and Installation of the Rev. Catherine McBride [as Associate Vicar of Hambledon], 8 May 2012

113-14 Hambledon Heritage Society brochure, by Audrey Monk, of a circular walk around Hambledon

115-6   Appeal for funds for the up-grading of the Hambledon Almshouses

117      Godalming Community Heroes:  Norman Gravestock for services to the Holloway Hill Bowling Club, Surrey                      Advertiser, 2 May 2012

118      Award of BEM to Mic Coleman, Surrey Advertiser, 22 June 2012, Parish Magazine, November 2012

119-135           Hambledon celebrates the Diamond Jubilee, 2012

136      New curates for Hambledon, Parish Magazine, August 2012

137      Community policing – tea at the Village Hall, Surrey Advertiser, 24 August 2012

138-139           Hambledon Football Club new pavilion, Surrey Advertiser, 30 November 2012 (and 15 August 2014)

140-2   Hambledon Village Shop 20th birthday celebrations, November 2012

143      Three years old and celebrating remission from cancer, Surrey Advertiser,

            21 December 2012

144      Bus stop signs return to Hambledon, Surrey Advertiser, 29 March and 9 August 2013

145      Anniversary of German bomber crash in Busbridge, Surrey Advertiser, 12 April 2013 

146      Morris dancing on May Day, Surrey Advertiser, 3 May 2013

147      Hambledon Football Club – funds and vandalism, Surrey Advertiser, 10 May

           and 12 July 2013, Parish Magazine, July 2013

148-150           A Night at the Opera [Hambledon Community Fund fund-raiser] at Hydon End, 8 June 2013

151      Ten years with the llamas, Surrey Advertiser, 2 August 2013

152      Denys Kinsella, 1923-2013: an appreciation, Parish Magazine, October 2013

153      Hambledon flower show, 31 August 2013

154-5   Winton Dean, 1916-2013:  an appreciation, The Times, 23 December 2013

156      Dick Whittington at the Merry Harriers, 17-19 February 2014, programme

157      Storms ruin Christmas [including in Hambledon], Surrey Advertiser,

           3 January 2014

158      Martyn Grove, Surrey County Football Association Groundsman of the Year,

            Surrey Advertiser, 28 February 2014

159-160           Natural Successors – Vann’s garden, Telegraph Magazine, 12 April 2014

161-6   Opening of the refurbished Almshouses, 2014 and 2015;  The Story of the Almshouses   

167-9   Unveiling of the Greensand Way Viewing Map, Hambledon Common,

            22 June 2014 [a Hambledon Heritage Society project]

170      Oakhurst Cottage conservation, Surrey Advertiser, 28 November 2014

171      The Robertson Memorial, Hydon Ball

172-180           Hambledon – a celebration in flowers, June 2015, June 2017

181-2  Stepaside – the history of a house

183-6   The Queen’s Birthday celebrations, June 2016: the Queen’s bench (and acknowledgement) and village fete

187-189           Filming “Howard’s End” in Hambledon, 2017

190-1  “Moscow’s Universal Provider” – the history of Bryony Bank

192      Farewell to Associate Minister Catherine McBride

193-200           Hambledon Village Shop, major happenings (mostly major successes!),

                        2014-17

201-2               Hambledon at the Oval

203-4  Retirement of Jane Woolley as Hambledon Parish Clerk

205-14             The Village Hall:  2017 – lockdown    

THE BLACK BOOK

HAMBLEDON HAPPENINGS, 2018 – 2021

1-2       Hambledon House fire, January 2018

3-6       HMS Hambledon (WWII warship adopted by the-then Hambledon Rural District

            Council

7-11     The Mellershes and properties in Hambledon which they (and others) were associated, including Matteryes

12        Norman Gravestock at 90

13-14   St Peter’s Church:  a 70-year old inventory (from the February 2019 Parish Magazine)

15-16   Installation of Simon Willetts as Associate Minister, Hambledon, September 2019

17-18   The Pickets (details obtained from family members, 2020, and supplementing photos

            in the First Red Blook, p.5/6)

19-20   St Dominic’s School and Ada Watney/Weguelin – a past School inmate remembers     

21-4    Orchard Farm, 2014-20

25-6    The Old Coal Yard – from the Freemantles to the present (2020)

27-36   The Speedwatch Scarecrows, autumn 2020

37-40   “Sunday Reflections:  Hambledon in Lockdown, 2020”

41        Julie Llewelyn, High Sheriff of Surrey, 2021-22

42        Hambledon Village Shop:  the (second) Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service

43-4     Hambledon Parish Assembly, April 2021:  how the village coped with lockdown

45-6     Retirement of John Anderson as Parish Council Chairman

47-8     History of the Hambledon WI

49-57   History of Hambledon Village Hall (to 2020)

59-78   Hambledon notables, deceased 2015-2021:

            Hampden Parker                     Ray Williams

            Raymond Smith                      Joan Elliott

            Tony Field                              Joan Hardy

            Mary Caroe                             Annie and John Tidmarsh

Carlo Davico Edna Atkins Muriel Campbell

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