Jane Woolley has retired as clerk to Hambledon Parish Council after twenty years of invaluable service, dedication and hard work.
Although Jane is by no means stepping down from active involvement in the village, this is a timely moment to reflect on her significant contribution as she hands over to her successor, Caroline White, on January 1st, 2018.
Jane’s commitment has already been recognised when, in 2008, she was made an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list for her voluntary service to Hambledon.
Her resourcefulness – as well as her generosity – was instrumental in setting up the Hambledon Village Trust, which now owns the freehold of the village community shop, and has helped fund and promote a range of local activities.
She celebrated her 70th birthday by walking 70kms in 70 hours to raise £7,000 to fund a shop re-fit, and on her 80thi in 2016 she undertook another fund-raising walk, this time a half-marathon, to raise more than £2,000 to pay for an outside toilet at the shop, for the use of customers including those with disabilities.
At a retirement party hosted by John Anderson, parish council chairman, she was thanked for the guidance and support she had given him and his colleagues. Surrounded by current parish councillors, Waverley and Surrey County councillors and others from the many areas of public life Jane has been involved with, John praised her for her “steely determination, great eye for detail and always ensuring that correct procedures were followed”.
A memorial bench commemorating the life of Raymond Smith and his contribution to village life – and to Hambledon Cricket Club in particular – was unveiled at a short ceremony on Saturday September 10.
A planned cricket match between a Hambledon Village XI and a Family and Friends XI was rained off but spirits were not dampened inside the pavilion where a toast was drunk in Raymond’s memory and a barbecue served under a gazebo outside.
Andy Hinde, club chairman introduced Mic Coleman, long-serving club president who spoke of Raymond’s immense contribution to the club, a driving-force behind fund-raising and an enthusiastic and active supporter.
His widow Peggy then unveiled the bench assisted by son Charlie and daughter Rosie. They are pictured sitting on the bench, the first of many who will relax on its timbers to enjoy cricket on the green.
Raymond, who lived at Lane End, died in January this year and his funeral service at St Peter’s Church was packed as tributes were given to his role as dedicated family man, loyal friend and outstanding contributor towards many aspects of village life.
His son Charlie spoke fondly of learning to play on the cricket green where his father was a convivial and welcoming figure on the boundary.
It is planned that the memorial cricket fixture will be re-arranged for next season.
* Our photographs above show Mic Coleman making his speech and Charlie recalling his father with his sister Rosie and Andy Hinde looking on.
Built by the Metropolitan Asylums Board as a Tuberculosis Isolation Hospital in 1922 (originally known as Highdown Sanatorium), KGV was at the cutting edge of TB research and treatment for forty years. It was instrumental in pioneering development of drug therapy (streptomycin) to combat TB and the manufacture of Iron Lung equipment. KGV had a smaller sister hospital just 2 miles to the west: Milford Hospital ( formerly Milford Sanatorium )
1960’s Admin and Dining Hall Eric Sim collection
The King George V Hospital was constructed at an initial cost of £215,000 on an open field site surrounded by trees. The land was originally part of the Busbridge Hall estate. Chessums were the builders working under post-war pressure to complete on time and on budget. Original plans intended that the entrance would be from Hambledon Road, with a long drive approaching the star formation building layout. (The route is probably marked by a line of Poplar trees still in evidence between Hares Grove, the Superintendent’s house, and the road. Cost cuts prevented this and the Salt Lane entrance remained the only way in with porter’s gatehouse. Buildings on site included many isolated wards connected by covered open sided paths in a star formation, canteen, chapel, kitchens, pharmacy, Library, X-ray and operating theatre (extended in 1950’s), nurses homes (1940 & 1960’s), admin block, greenhouses, patients leather workshops, snooker room, tuck shop, mortuary, engineering, boiler with chimney for the overhead piped heating.
A 1 hour presentation of the history of the hospitals and the community. March 2024Map of site with location of photographs. Click to browse and expand images.
The tower and admin block: 1995 prior to demolition, and in 1947
Most buildings were brick built (pebble-dash rendered) with concrete floors (innovative in their day) under slate roofs. The majority of Wards were single storey with central corridors and glazed pavilion at the end. These were demolished in the 1970’s. The hospital was only connected to mains drainage in the later years and originally sewage was discharged into the field to the SW of the crossroads (see ornate soil vent pipe at crossroads).
One of the 8 pavilion wards c1930
The hospital was also a significant horticultural site, the orchard, extensive range of trees and vegetation being laid out by the first medical superintendent Mr James Watt (an arboriculturist) in the 1920’s. A farm sited at Hydestile crossroads (now mostly demolished) was used for patient rehabilitation.
Many patients were from London and upto the late 50’s it was exclusively male. The long term nature of their incarceration and treatment meant that patients and staff built strong friendships. Most staff and patients speak of their time at Hydestile as being “the best of times”. Indeed many patients came back to work at the hospital.
The site expanded considerably in 1941 with the building of a hutted military hospital on adjacent farmland to the South East. This soon became the home for St. Thomas’ Hospital Lambeth, evacuated from their London site due to extensive bombing. St. Thomas’
The Hospital ceased to be for diseases of the chest in 1969 and adopted a variety of other roles and eventually closed in 1988. The buildings were demolished in 1997, leaving only the gatehouse, Hares Grove (former Superintendents house) and six staff cottages, all now refurbished. Other buildings in the area owned at some time by the Hospital included Ryecroft, Hunt Cottages and Wayside.
Unedited Video from 1995
This YouTube video was recorded in around 1995. At the time I lived on site in one of the former nurses cottages. The site had been stripped by vandals and used for paintball and general destruction. After many planning battles the site was eventually destined for re-development. The diggers came in and flattened it all. A sad day for the many who’s lives had been touched by their time at Hydestile. I had recorded this on 8mm tape and stumbled upon the tape recently. I dumped it to my Mac and ran a soundtrack underneath, so please excuse the rough quality.
Images from Historic England archive:
Nurses walking to a lecture in the Chapel / Hall at KGV
Medical lectures in the Chapel / Hall at KGV
Head Gardener (left) and patients working the gardens to the West of Nurses’ accommodation.
Patients’ dining hall adjacent the kitchens and admin block.
Nurses posing for photographs in the gardens of Milford Cottage, opposite Secrett’s farm shop in Milford.
The chapel and hall in the 1990’s
Ray Galton as a TB Patient in Milford 1949
The hospital also benefited from celebrity support over the years from Leslie Phillips, James Robertson Justice and Terry Scott, who were regular visitors. As an interesting snapshot of what it was like to be a patient you’d be well directed to view a BBC2 sit-com from the 90’s “Get Well Soon” co-written by Ray Galton. He drew upon his experience as a patient in the nearbyMilford Hospital (linked to KGV) during the late 40’s and early 50’s. He met his long time comedy writing partner Alan Simpson there and together they wrote their first comedy radio scripts during their enforced stay in hospital. Within 10 years they were the UK’s foremost comedy writers, famous for Hancock and Steptoe. Their famous Hancock’s Half Hour radio episode “The Sunday Afternoon” is a clever observation of the boredom that must have been repeated often during their many years treatment for TB.
The 52 acre site has now been redeveloped for housing – known as The Hydons, Salt Lane, Hydestile. Little trace remains of the KGV although one of the tennis courts has been refurbished and forms part of one garden. In the woods to the north of the new houses there are traces of the foundations of nurse and doctors accommodation, hidden in the undergrowth. Likewise the steps and footings of 1&2 Salt Lane remain close to the new footpath. These were temporary hut buildings used by the original builders of the Hospital in 1921. No. 1 was demolished after 1945 and number 2 (latterly a shop) in the 1970’s.
1928 huts at 1 & 2 Salt Lane1960’s “Showmen at 2 Salt Lane”
1963: The Story of KGV
By Dr. J.V. Hurford As published in the KGV Gazette Summer 1963
My predecessor, Dr James Watt, wrote this article in 1954, (he retired in 1948). I modified it for the issue of August 1957, and here it is again, brought upto date.
The need for sanatoria for London patients was foreseen in 1914, when sufficient land for three hospitals was purchased. Building of King George V Sanatorium, the first of these, started after the First World War, and it was finished and opened in 1922. The two huts still in use are reputed to have housed the workmen! (1 & 2 Salt Lane? sic). The new Hospital was to have been called Highdown Sanatorium, but by command of’ the King, who had been invited to attend the opening but was unable to be present, the name was changed to King George V Sanatorium.
It was administered by the Metropolitan Asylums Board (whose crest is over the entrance to the Administrative Block), until 1929, when the London County Council took over, only to give way in 1948 to the South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, With local control vested in the Godalming, Milford and Liphook Group Hospital Management Committee. Recently, this Management Committee area became merged with that of’ Guildford, and the controlling body is now the Guildford and Godalming Hospital Management Committee.
1928. King George V, seven years after opening. Photo Britain from Above
1973: KGV and the 1940’s hutted hospital of St. Thomas’ Hospitals. This was just prior to demolition of pavilions
When I wrote in 1957, my thoughts ranged back over the period from 1922 to that year, the period of the modern treatment of tuberculosis, as being mirrored in the story of K.G.V., there were so many changes. Patients, and perhaps even doctors and nurses, entering in this “Anti-biotic Era” – when successful treatment is difficult enough, though usually achieved – know little or nothing of the strenuous methods of treating tuberculosis which preceded it. Surgery played a great part. The first surgeon was appointed in 1929, and the Theatre and X-Ray Department were built in 1934. At one stage fifty per cent of tuberculosis patients had major surgery of the chest, usually very successful; now perhaps only five per cent require it.
The Hospital expanded over the years both staff and buildings. Of the latter I have already mentioned the Theatre Block, the Canteen was built in 1936; an additional Wing to what is now the Nurses’ Home was added in 1945, the Theatre Annexe in 1953, the Respiratory Function Unit in 1955, a new Patients’ Library in 1958, a messroom exterior (now the Domestic Staff sitting room) in 1959, and Nurses’ Home No.3 in 1960.
Admin block looking North c1931
1931
At one time, what is now the Staff Restaurant was a dining-room for perhaps a hundred up-patients. Gradually, the numbers of these shrank as methods of treatment changed, and patients were discharged earlier, until the present conversion was made two years ago. In the immediate future it is planned to erect a large hut on the rising ground by the main car-park, to be used as a playroom for visitors’ children, and as a Staff’ club room.
Staff 1960″s
But of course the most striking change is in the nature of’ the work carried out in the Hospital. From being a Sanatorium for the tuberculous, it came to treat also non-tuberculous chest conditions, hence the present name: King George V Hospital for Diseases of the Chest; and then some patients with other than chest diseases – a limited number of orthopaedic and geriatric cases – were admitted. There is a lot to be said for this departure from the restricted area of’ our disease, even were there now sufficient tuberculous patients to fill the beds, for variety is a stimulant to the interest and intelligence of doctors and nurses. ‘ It is odd perhaps that not many of our patients come from the immediate neighbourhood, which is catered for by Milford Chest Hospital “down the road”, but from beyond this area, from London, Aldershot and Farnham and sometimes as far away as the South Coast. We have the Respiratory Function (“Puff and Blow”) Unit for this Region, and are also part of the regional Chronic Bronchitic Unit.
I wonder when another revision of this article will be called for, and if I shall write it. It is certain that “K.G.V. ” will go on for many years and probably it will change in many particulars as time goes by. There has always been something human and genuine in the atmosphere of the Hospital; let us hope that nothing changes that!
KGV Gazette Summer 1963
1968 Historical Note: By Dr. J.V. Hurford, Superintendent
As published in the last ever KGV Gazette Summer 1968 upon the closing of the Hospital
The Highdown Sanatorium which started at Hydestile in 1922 was soon, by gracious permission, allowed to take the name of “King George the Fifth”… However, it is told that his Majesty, when asked if he would condescend to come to the opening {in 1924) said: “Not on your life – visit a T. B. hospital – I might catch it ” – or words to that effect. These fears were felt by dwellers in the locality, even by their G. P. s, who met the choice of site with as much opposition as now would be offered to an aerodrome for jumbo jets. Though the sanatorium was modern for the time (incorporating an early form of re-inforced concrete in its pavilion walls), the money which the authority {then the Metropolitan Asylums Board – crest over the entrance to the administrative block) was prepared to spend on it ran out before the plans could be fulfilled, so that the main entrance was from a narrow lane (Salt Lane) rather than by a more imposing approach from the Hambledon Road.
1928 before the building of the 1941 Emergency Hutted Hospital (note the tent in the field and the long time missing, 1 & 2 Salt Lane) https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW023439
There are aerial photographs which show the site in the early twenties. Though surrounded apparently by forest (the Hare’s Grove which gave a name to the Medical Superintendent’s house) the actual grounds were quite bare. The beautiful limes and birches and ornamental trees and shrubs may be credited to Dr. James Watt – a canny gardener as well as a towering medical figure – and grew up during his reign. The hospital really was in the country (in 1935 when I first saw it as a member of a visiting D. P. H. class from London, I half wondered if we should ever find our way back) and in its building workmen were accommodated in wooden chalets, used for many years as staff quarters, and plans and materials stored in two wooden huts which still do service though very decrepit.
Salt Lane main entranceCountry Counter Shop on Salt LaneLeather workshopsRock HillDining HallSt. Thomas’ pharmacyThe club/summer roomBilliard RoomSalt Lane 1930’sBuildings
In 1949 the wards were still without heating, other than the thin pipes under the windows designed, so it was said, to reduce condensation – in itself unlikely since windows had to be kept open. A few years later this was remedied, but the previous absence of heating was symptomatic of an age, the age of the “cure”, based on ‘Sanatorium principles’ of fresh air, good food, rest, graduated exercise. This age lasted into the ‘antibiotic era’ and both were overlapped by that of minor and major surgery. To those who know tuberculosis as a disease fairly easily treated by chemotherapy, the long periods which started perhaps with Hippocrates and died away in the fifties of this century cannot be imagined or fully understood. Artificial pneumothorax, pneumoperitoneum, thoracoplasty and so on seem almost bizarre in retrospect.
South facing pavilion
Yet the ‘cure’ and the surgery did save lives. And what seemed spartan routine was much more vital and engrossing. Quite apart from the attentions of the doctors and nurses a patient’s week could be filled with: occupational therapy, art therapy, typing, learning a language, woodwork, printing, concerts and whist drives, inter-ward sports – shove-halfpenny, table skittles, croquet, billiards etc. There were a silver shield and two cups to be competed for. When Marcus Patterson devised “graduated exercise ” at Frimley he used baskets of stones of various weights. At K.G.V. there were walks increasing in length and then outdoor tasks. Many a patient must have acquired there a love for gardening or even pigs! “Teebeeland” seemed to be regarded with a wry humour. Perhaps the uni-sexual nature of the sanatorium (women patients came only in the late fifties) was a trial and the outlook of the authorities far too monastic – rather backward looking.
But in other respects, for many years we were in the van of sanatorium work. With its first surgeon – Mr. J. E. H. Roberts, whom I always imagine operating with a Petit Caporal hanging to his lower lip – major surgery in anew theatre started in 1933. K.G.V. took part in all the M.R. C. Trials of the new anti- tuberculous drugs from 1949 onwards. Whilst such units were still rare in the UK a respiratory function laboratory was inaugurated in 1954.The antibiotic era which came with the fifties for some years increased the use of surgery, largely because an umbrella was provided for lung or part-lung removal.
Dr Rao and Dr HurfordMr Sims – printer/photographerMr PowellMinister visitPatients feeding rabbitsMicha Konstam & Vince PowellEscape planningParty animalsTuck shopLung disease and pipesMr MorrisMrs HurfordThe Manor?location unknownSt Thomas flagpoleGroupHead GardenerThe names are fogotten but the tree survivesXmas 1953Mr BeachGallery of patient and staff submitted photos – 1950’s and 60’s
In 1955, of patients admitted with tuberculosis, 58% had a major operation; the figure for 1967 was 3%. However, what was so amazing was the decline in tuberculosis due to anti- tuberculous drugs. The great physicians of the past – Robert Philip, Trudeau, Marcus Patterson – could never have imagined it. K.G.V., like other sanatoria (or Hospital for Diseases of the Chest as it became) began to admit patients with other complaints. Since these stayed a shorter time, the turnover accelerated. In 1951 there were 401 admissions (354 tuberculous), in 1967, 1358 (135 tuberculous).
Operating Theatre, date unknown
Starting under the rule of the M.A .B., the hospital became a jewel in the crown of the gargantuan London County Council in 1929, and in 1948 of course entered the National Health Service. These authorities appeared to differ in administrative approach, but of course this depended on other things – the changing conception of disease, uniformity and availability of finance over the country rather than a metropol is and so on.
The War did not alter things very much, -it saw the appearance of an E.M.S. hutted hospital, at first under the aegis of K. G. V., then of the Australian Army Medical Corps, and finally St. Thomas’s Hospital, Westminster. The expatriate staff of the latter organised their lives with the ingenuity and cheerfulness of castaways on a South Sea Island, who know that sooner or later they are bound to be rescued. Every year they expected this to happen and, finally, after twenty-three years, it did.
K.G.V. has seemed to be blessed by the numbers of sterling people who remained on the staff for very long periods, even at this present date in one or two instances going back to the twenties. Perhaps other hospitals have been as fortunate, but I doubt it. Inevitably, sad little ceremonies of farewell have sprinkled later years. Till the middle-fifties a generous and mutually useful policy had meant the recruitment of many excellent nurses – who happened themselves to have had tuberculosis, and to whom a place on the staff was offered for re-habilitation. These were known for some reason as ‘trainees’, presumably because they could complete training in the B.T.A. certificate (though many already had an S.R.N.). In the later years of the hospital, a Pupil-Nurse training school was set up in conjunction with Haslemere General Hospital, and was successful. In our ‘middle period’ a number of decorative, charming and efficient young things were very much appreciated – these were the ‘Tommy Nurses’ seconded for three months at a time to explore the countryside on their bicycles.
Nursing Sister 1952
The staff has tended to be cosmopolitan. At one Christmas dinner some years ago, I counted nineteen different nationalities. There were cycles of “foreigners” (I refer to those who were not what St. Joan called the ‘Goddam English”): early on Scots and Irish, but mostly Irish, then Italian and Polish or Baltic, then Spanish and Yugo-Slav. (It was touching to see girls from Northern Italy trying to understand the intrcacies of Scottish dancing!) And of course, in the last ten years many men and girls from the Commonwealth, all very welcome.
Nurses accommodation looking West from Admin 1950
There were no tremendous events in the history of K.G. V. and smaller happenings it is difficult to select any except at random. The tennis feuds with Milford in which for so long we had an edge. The farewell party to Miss Sheenan in which those still working with her and many who returned for the occasion filled the Large Hall and a large marquee. The annual pantomime devised and written by a select few and performed by a cast which could include a chaplain, a cook or a consultant surgeon, and in which anything might happen – and usually did. The re-union fetes on August Bank Holiday, to which ex-patients returned in large numbers I(Your name escapes me I’m afraid, but I clearly remember your x-ray!’). The weather station – that curious relic of more leisurely days. The night that the safe was stolen from the Hospital Secretary’s office, taken off on a porter’s trolley and abandoned -empty – on Hydon’s Ball. But why recall only these?
Perhaps one of the more important landmarks was when a prefabricated building (The Cedar Hall) was added in 1964 and a thriving staff social club became possible. Swinging Hydestile! Traditionally the hospital had its ties with London and in later years the link was with Aldershot and Farnham through the chest clinics. It was not wholly unregarded, however, in the immediate neighbourhood, and kind and ever present help was found in the W .V .S and its own League of Friends. Nor must we forget the ‘Not Forgotten’ Association, to which successive generations of patients owed much. And, of course, the Red Cross picture library, that opener of windows not made of glass.
I hope that I have recalled something of the forty seven years of a hospital and with little hint of any sadness that they are finished. And the story is not finished – neither of K.G.V. nor Hydestile. The sanatorium may have gone the way of Trudeau and Schatzalp and the National, Ventnor, and many others, but there is still work to be done of another kind.
Good luck to all who remain – or come – to do it in this very pleasant spot.
J V Hurford, Hospital Gazette 1968
The King George V Hospital for Diseases of the Chest closed in Summer 1968. Other medical uses were found for some of the other buildings but within a few years the majority were left to become derelict.
KGV in 1994
Patient Gallery:
Visitors and and Mr WattAdmin towerLocation unknownCovered walkway heading West to Admin blockGallery: Photos from 1950’s submitted by patients
The Hospital plan in 1970’s. Note the original road layout at Hydestile Crossroads. By the 70’s the single storey villas had been demolished.
Layout of KGV in the 1970’s (North section)
Layout of KGV in the 1970’s (South section)
Gallery of scans of publications from staff and patients:
James Watt, for many years medical superintendentof King George V Sanatorium, Godalming, Surrey, and chief medical officer of the London County Council’s medical tuberculosis service, died at the country branch of St. Thomas’s Hospital at Hydestile, Godalming, on October 4. He was within two weeks of his 75th birthday.
Dr. James Watt was born in Aberdeenshire on October 17, 1883, the son of William Watt, J.P., and was educated at Robert Gordon’s College, Aberdeen, and at Aberdeen University, where he graduated M.B., Ch.B., with first-class honours, in 1908. Outstandingly successful as a student, he held the John Murray scholarship in 1908 and the Anderson scholarship in 1909-10. He took the D.P.H. in 1911, and proceeded to the M.D., with highest honours, five years later. After graduation he was an assistant, first, in the department of pathology, and then in the department of medical juris-prudence in Aberdeen University. From 1912 to 1922 he held a number of appointments in different parts of the United Kingdom: as deputy medical officer of health for the City of Aberdeen; senior resident medical officer at the Royal National Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Ventnor, Isle of Wight; medical superintendent of the Bradford City Fever and Infectious Diseases Hospital; and medical superintendent of the Downs Sanatorium, Sutton, Surrey. From 1922 to 1948, when he retired, he was medical superintendent of the King George V Sanatorium, Godalming, and chief medical officer of the medical tuberculosis service under the old Metropolitan Asylums Board and subsequently under the London County Council. Dr. Watt was president of the Society of Superintendents of Tuberculosis Institutions in 1924 and 1925 and of the Tuberculosis Society in 1926-1927. A founder-member of the Joint Tuberculosis Council, he later became its chairman. To his widow and family we tender our sympathy.
We are indebted to Dr. G. LIssant Cox for the following appreciation:
The old guard of the original tuberculosis service is thinned again through the death of James Watt, late superintendent of the King George V Sanatorium at Godalming. He was of the pre-1914 vintage, big in body and in mind, contemporary of Ernest Ward, Sir Henry Gauvain, and Jane Walker. Lloyd George’s Insurance Act of 1911, with its special financial arrangements for “sanatorium benefit” and for Exchequer grants for sanatoria and dispensaries, stimulated local authorities to provide buildings and the medical staff to run them. Of those very early in the service, James Watt was one. A brilliant student of the Aberdeen school, he was on the high road to a distinguished academic career when he contracted pulmonary tuberculosis. Fortunately, he made a good recovery, and, like several other medical men and women so affected, obtained, a junior post in a sanatorium and finally emerged as the well known head of the large new London County Council sanatorium which has been visited by nearly all who have come to England in order to see some of the best work in tuberculosis. Watt had a clear, lucid, logical mind, and took a prominent part in tuberculosis affairs. One of the two remaining founder-members of the Joint Tuberculosis Council, he later was one of its outstanding chairmen and did valuable work in the chair and on many committees, work both pioneer and advisory in the tuberculosis field. He was a very keen horticulturist, and this hobby was a real solace and interest in his retirement, especially after a serious motor accident had left him grievously lame, though still cheerful and uncomplaining when I last saw him in London. He was the fortunate possessor of the three important qualities, a clear head, a warm heart, and a stiff back, and he used them to the full.
Peter Cole thinks it’s well worth while travelling from Chichester to Hambledon to join the team of volunteer guides at Oakhurst. In this article he explains why he is so enthusiastic about the job. He and all his co-volunteers, from within the village and further afield, would love to welcome additions to the team. You can find out more about volunteering by clicking here.
Why did I sign up with the National Trust to be a guide at Oakhurst Cottage? Because my wife thought that a) it would be a suitable outlet for my verbosity, b) I would enjoy it and c) it would give her some peace at home. She was right on a) and b) and, as for c), you’ll have to ask her. So what pleasure is there in playing estate agent to a damp, draughty, dark old cottage tucked away in a corner of Hambledon? Two things: the place and the people.
I’m interested in buildings, history fascinates me and I like meeting people. The place is magical but not in a Disney sense – the feeling is far more real than that, and far less romantic. The cottage has been home to some two dozen families: that’s more than a hundred people because long ago families were large. It has stood on the same spot for over 400 years, altered and repaired by local builders (I hesitate to call them craftsmen for their work is crude). You
can still see those layers of history today, exposed, not covered to keep up appearances for that would have cost too much and Oakhurst was owned by people of the middling sort and rented to those with little money.
Before the industrial revolution most of our ancestors lived hard lives in places like this, called it home and made the best of it. Late Victorian artists created idealised images of these rural slums, but gradually the tenants moved to more comfortable homes and the old cottages were modernised into something acceptable to the middle class wife of a commuting husband or demolished. This left Oakhurst a rare survivor, a witness to the harsh reality of the ‘good old days’.
The cottage is special and so too are the people who are associated with it today. First, our cheerful guides, each telling the story of the cottage in their own way, variations on a theme within a symphony. They’re a friendly and helpful bunch. We share our knowledge and our experiences, put the cottage to bed in the autumn and in spring get it ready for the new season. We share the guiding when there are a lot of visitors and still find time to socialise. Then there are the National Trust staff, including the gardeners. I lock up the cottage at the end of my day and return a couple of weeks later to find the garden tidied and the hedges cut. If only my own garden were in the care of the same secret gardeners. The ladies of the National Trust kiosk at the Winkworth Arboretum are our marketing arm, suggesting to visitors that they make the trip to the cottage and giving them directions on how to find us.
The people I only meet once are special too – the visitors, a melange of humanity and another reason for my association with the cottage. Mostly they come from nearby, but some make the trip from the far corners of the earth. They come in all shapes, sizes and ages, singly, couples, families and friends. Some say little, others compensate with their chattiness, maybe remembering a granny who lived in a place like the cottage or asking questions that I can’t always answer. Ever appreciative of the guides’ efforts, our visitors are an endless source of interest and some have remained in my memory, like the Japanese lady whose grandson acted as translator and the couple who left their car at Winkworth and didn’t allow enough time to walk back. I gave them a lift on my way home.
Guiding at Oakhurst Cottage is a pleasure, as are the peripheral activities such as meeting people who are considering volunteering for the National Trust. I’ll be at Winkworth for the coffee morning on Tuesday 15 March between 10.30 and 12.30, hoping for lots of new volunteers – but not so many that I don’t have time for coffee and cake.
Hambledon Nursery School will be a warmer place this winter, thanks to new windows in its two classrooms.
The nursery, formerly the village primary school, dates back to Victorian times and is a listed building. Its original wooden-framed windows were in an advance state of decay but the school had to replace like-for-like to comply with planning regulations – a costly business.
Thanks to a £4,000 grant from the Hall Hunter Foundation – a trust set up by the owners of nearby Tuesley Fruit Farm – and a dip into the nursery school’s reserves, the money has been found to pay for the work, which was carried out over the summer holiday.
Nicola Collett, head teacher, said: “We are delighted with the Hall Hunter grant and very grateful. It enabled us to give the go-ahead for the work and we now have new windows on the southern elevation of the classrooms which were the ones in most urgent need of replacement.”
“They are structured to the original design with wooden frames but are double-glazed. I am actually looking forward to winter this year because the staff and children will be nice and warm and nestled in the classrooms with no drafts to contend with.”
She added: “I suppose the saddest part of the project was actually watching the old windows come out. But remarkably the Hopper style openers and some of the frames have been donated to The Brooking National Architectural Museum in Cranleigh, because they were of significant architectural interest.”
“The next phase will be along the Eastern side of the building restoring and replacing the old original stone bay window. The final phase will be to replace the old Crittall windows in the flat roof extension.”
The Background Story of the German Air Crash at Lodge Bottom
Compiled for the Hambledon Parish Magazine with extracts from Lady Gillian Brunton’s booklet “The Survivor”
How many times have you driven through Lodge Bottom on the Hambledon Road and glanced over to the statue standing at the far side of the dewpond? Most of us know some of the story behind it but the whole story is full of fascination. With the help of a wealth of material provided by Lady Gillian Brunton who lives at North Munstead Farm and articles written by Frances Morris I will attempt to bring to life the characters who took part in the events of 9 April 1941.
There was a survivor, a young girl involved in the rescue of the survivor, and the air crew who shot the plane down and all have a story to tell. Our story must start however with Gillian Brunton because little would have been known about the crash if she had not researched it in the first place.
In the summer of 2010 three old villagers thought it might be a good idea to research the churchyard at St Peter’s, to re-organise the written records and survey the gravestones before some of the older inscriptions became illegible or disappeared altogether. The aim was to see if family names could be researched (with the help of the internet), and perhaps linked to extant relatives who may not be aware of their antecedents’ burial places.
Two young volunteers, Alex Sehmer and Vicky Grove, took on the work, and this is a brief summary of their findings:
Background
The graveyard is split into two areas: pre and post 1906. There is a map in the vestry of the Church, but the area pre-1906 is not detailed on it and the only record (as far as we were aware) is found in documents prepared by Gay Mabley twenty-five years ago. King Edward’s School also carried out a survey in 1980 and their findings have been incorporated.
The post-1906 area map is updated as and when each plot is filled. This map correlates with the Church’s burial register.
Summary of Work Undertaken
Inscriptions and dates recorded for graves post 1980 (since KES’s project).
Compiled database of all those buried in the graveyard with (the majority of) inscriptions and salient details. The database (an excel spreadsheet) therefore incorporates both previous projects and is now an up-to-date information source.
Brief research into the bigger families and ‘interesting’ inscriptions included:
Kettle Family: 18 members in the 1800s, some moved to Brecon, Wales.
Winkworth Family: 12 members 1700/1800s, links to the March family of Great Enton.
Elliot Family: 12 members 1700s, many of whom were rectors/vicars: one was Chaplain to HRH Frederick, Prince of Wales.
Dennyer Family: 6 members, one of whom is linked to the building of navigation links between Guildford and Godalming.
Lt Col Francis Walter Finnigan MC and wife Jean Sime Finnigan MBE: Col Francis won the MC during WWII while serving in 179 Field Regiment Royal Artillery.
Conclusion
The project has successfully tidied up the burial records, and the database is available for anyone engaged in research. It was interesting to note how time-consuming it became when trying to research the genealogy of just one family, let alone 50! However, the records are now ‘alive’ and let’s hope we can keep them up to date!
Gay’s records Plot number First name Family name Date of birth Date of death Address Inscription Notes
1 a Mary Hill (& Mercy Ford) 1822 Mary, wife of Thomas Hill who died April 9th 1822 aged 57 years, Mercy, wife of James Ford who died November 11th 1820 aged 85 years double headstone 2 b Maria Woods 1857 Maria, wife of William Woods who departed this life August 22nd 1857 in the 58th year of her age 3 c Ann Woods 1827 Ann, daughter of William and Maria Woods who died November 1827 aged 1 year 6 weeks 4 d William Woods 1836 William Woods who departed this life July 8th 1836 in the 38th year of his age 5 e Mary Mills 1882 Mary, beloved wife of James Mills who dies January 30th 1882 aged 54 years. Also Mary Ann, the eldest beloved daughter of James and Mary Mills who died December 17th 1881 aged 29 years single headstone but with two footstones 6 f Elizabeth Lambert 1776 Elizabeth, wife of Abraham Lambert who departed this life June the 16th 1776 aged 67 years 7 g Abraham Lambert 1786 Mr Abraham Lambert who died September 11th 1786 aged 76 years 8 h ? Lambert 1796 Lambert daughter of John and Jane Lambert who died the 14th day of Febraury 1796 aged 5 years and 6 months. Also of Abraham and Mary who died in their infancy 9 i James Miles 1837 James Miles who died October 7th 1837 aged 61 years. Also Martha wife of James Miles who died August 10th 1842 aged 60 years double headstone 10 j Hannah Miles 1864 Hannahh, wife of James Miles who died April 11th 1864 aged 63 years Also four sons of the above 11 k James Miles 1887 James Miles died October 23rd 1887 aged 83 years 12 l Sarah & Thomas Hammond 1861 Sarah, wife of Thomas Hammond who died February 14th 1891 aged 54 years. Also Thomas Hammonf who died December 20th 1881 aged 76 years. Also Hannah, daughter of the above who died July 18th 1870 aged 33 years 13 m George Fielder 1867 George Fielder who died January 9th 1867 aged 73 years. Also Charlotte who died June 18th 1908 aged 87 years. Also Ursula who died October 15th 1908 aged 89 years and Ellen who died March 20th 1909 aged 85 years, daughters of the above George Fielder 14 n Richard Lambert 1839 Richard Lambert son of John and Jane Lambert formerly of Chilworth in this County who departed this life September 5th 1839 aged 55 years 15 o Jane Lambert 1823 Jane, wife of John Lambert who died January 12th 1823 aged 60 years. Also Abraham Lambert who died July 29th 1852 aged 57 years 16 p John Lambert 1801 John Lambert who died April 11th 1801. Also Mary(?) Lambert 17 q John Matthews 1772 John Matthews who died March 7th 1772 aged 65 years 18 r illegible grave stone 19 s William Lindsay Watson 1836 William Lindsay Watson born North Shields 15th January 1836, died at Tigbourne Cottage near Hambledon 7th April 1866 large pointed headstone with kerbing 20 t Elizabeth Winkworth 1857 Elizabeth, wife of Arthur Winkworth of Sattenham who departed this life January 26th 1857 aged 64 years. Also their children who died in their infancy – Arthur, January 21st 1818 aged 8 days and Frederick, April 26th 1819 aged 13 days. Also Arthur Winkworth Esq. late of Sattenham who died at Cranleigh December 22nd 1867 aged 76 years 21 u Mary Winkworth 1813 Mary, daughter of John and Betty Winkworth who died 16th of April 1764 aged 16 years 22 v John Winkworth 1764 John, son of John and Betty Winkworth who died 16th of April 1764, aged 16 years 23 w Betty Winkworth 1795 Betty, wife of John Winkworth who died 20th November 1795 aged 76 years 24 x John Winkworth 1787 John Winkworth who departed this life September the 5th 1787 aged 66 years 25 y Mary & Frederick Winkworth 1793 Mary, wife of Frederick Winkworth daughter of John and Mary March of Great Enton who died 16th June 1793 in the 40th year of her age. Also Frederick Winkworth of Great Enton who died 25th June 1838 in the 89th year of his age stone tomb 26 z John Bennett 1853 John Bennett who died February 16th 1853 in the 87th year of his age. Also Mary, wife of John Bennett who died February 11th 1861 in the 70th yead of her age 27 aa Mary Winkworth 1824 Mary Winkworth daughter of Arthur and Ann Winkworth who died August 13th 1824 in the 30th year of her age. Also Ann Winkworth daughter of Arthur and Ann Winkworth who died February 24th 1843 aged 51 years 28 ab Arthur Winkworth 1824 Arthur Winkworth who died September 18th 1824 aged 73 years. Also Ann wife of Arthur Winkworth who died July 27th 1840 aged 73 29 ac John Winkworth 1843 John Winkworth who died May 3rd 1843 aged 49 years. Also Ann Winkworth widow of the above taken to her rest June 22nd 1891 aged 86 years 30 ad Allen Lambert 1860 Allen Lambert son of John and Jane Lambert formerly of Chilworth in this county who departed this life August 17th 1860 aged 75 years 31 ae Joseph & Mary Upfold 1876 Joseph Upfold who died January 17th 1876 aged 79 years. Also Mary, wife of Joseph Upfold who died March 3rd 1880 aged 79 years double headstone 32 af William Wilkinson 1853 William Wilkinson MA late Rector of this Parish who died December 21st AD 1853 aged 56 and Frances Ann Wilkinson his wife who died ? 1885 aged 87 years 33 ag Matthew Bone 1828 Matthew, son of Absalom and Ann Bone died December 22nd 1828 aged 7 years and 10 months. Also four other of their children who died in their infancy 34 ah Absalom Bone 1853 Absalom Bone who died August 24th 1853 aged 71 years. Also Ann wife of the above who died October 23rd 1866 aged 83 years 35 ai Ann Lickfold 1887 Ann, wife of Lawrence Lickfold who died May 6th 1887 aged 56 years Also Lawrence Henry Lickfold grandson of the above who died June 23rd 1888 aged 2 years 4 months 36 aj Lawrence Lickfold 1891 Lawrence Lickfold who died September 25th 1891 aged 65 years 37 ak Peter Balchin 1845 Mr Peter Balchin who died February 16th 1845 aged 77 years 38 al-1 Agnes Newman 1793 Agnes, daughter of Henry and Mary Newman who died December 1793 aged 9 years. Also David, the son of Henry and Mary Newman who died January 17th 1794 aged 8 years. Also near this place lieth Mary with of Henry Smithers of Churt al-2 John Newman 1791 unmarked taken from Burial Register – John son of Henry and Mary Newman, 30 June 1791 al-3 Henry Newman 1791 unmarked taken from Burial Register – Henry son of Henry and Mary Newman, 17 July 1791 al-4 Richard Newman 1791 unmarked taken from Burial Register – Richard son of Henry Newman and Mary his late wife, 10 November 1791 al-5 unmarked unmarked unmarked al-6 Mary Newman 1791 gravestone possibly marked MN 1791 39 am Henry & Elizabeth Newman 1837 Henry Newman who died April 14th 1837 aged 86 years. Also Elizabeth Newman, daughter of the above who died September 16th 1869 aged 88 years 40 an Henry Denyer 1778 Henry Denyer late of Godalming who died April 12th 1778 aged 40 years 41 ao Ann Denyer 1777 Ann Denyer who died May 23rd 1777 aged 71 years 42 ap Sarah(?) Denyer Sarah(?) Denyer who died February 7th 17?? 43 aq Barbara & Charles Childs 1884 Barabara Childs wife of Charles Childs dies March 24th 1884 aged 40. Also Charles Childs died February 28th 1904 aged 62. Also Annie Maria died June 29th 1886 aged 21. Also Percival Ernest died October 21st 1881 aged 9. Also Julia Alexandra died September 4th 1870 aged 4. Also Charles Sidney died June 29th 1869 aged 6 weeks. Also Flora Kate died May 11th 1876 aged 1(1/2) years cross on three-tiered stone slabs 44 ar Thomas Richmond Phillips 1866 Thomas Richmond Phillips Lt Col RA Born 24th December 1866. Died 5th June 1963. And his wife Anna Maria Hilda Josephine November 1868. Died 13th June 1971 45 as Richard Phillips 1907 Richard Phillips for 31 years Rector of this Parish died 30 September 1907 aged 75 years. Also Anne Phillips daughter of the above died 26 June 1907 aged 45 years. Also Richard Sylvester Phillips Maj 37th Dogras Indian Army second son of the above who died at Jhelum India, 4 July 1914 and was burried there aged 45 years. Also Ellen Sarah Phillips widow of the above Rector who died at Witley 20 March 1915 and is buried here aged 83 years. 46 at Mary Ann Lickfold 1897 Mary Ann Lickfold wife of John Lickford who died 11 October 1897 aged 79 years 47 au John Lickfold 1862 John Lickfold of this Parish who died March 2nd 1862 aged 56 years 48 av Louisa Caroline Lickfold 1847 Louisa Caroline daughter of John and Mary Ann Lickfold who died December 3rd 1847 aged 7 years and 11 months 49 aw Thomas Lickfold 1833 Thomas Lickfold of this Parish who departed this life August 2nd 1833 aged 73 years 50 ax Elizabeth Gregery 1811 Elizabeth wife of Robert Gregery who died 23 March 1811 aged 23 years 51 ay Thomas Lickfold 1796 Thomas Lickfold son of Thomas and Dorothy Lickfold who departed this life ? ? 1796 aged ? Years 9 months 52 az William Ford 1755 William Ford of Vann who departed this life April 30th 1755 aged 80 years 53 ba Elizabeth Ford 1758 Elizabeth Ford who departed this life 30th December 1758 aged 32 years 54 bb Catherine Ford 1759 Catherine the wife of John Ford of Vann who departed this life 25th November 1759 aged 32 years. Near this place lyeth two of their (sic) children who died in there (sic) infancy 55 bc John Over 1864 John Over who died June 20th 1864 aged 62 years. Also four sons and three daughters of the above 56 bd John Ford 1809 John Ford of Vann died the 18th day of September 1809 aged 80 years 57 be Ann Denyer 1775 Ann Denyer wife of Tho. Denyer who departed this life May 27th 1775 aged 70 years 58 bf Thomas Denyer 1768 Thomas Denyer Maltster, Projector of the Navigation from Guildford to Godalming who died 22nd August 1768 aged 70 years headstone shows skeleton aiming a bow and arrow at a man 59 bg Ann Jelley (Sarah & William Coombes) 1869 Ann wife of George Jelley who died 19th July 1869 aged 25. Also Sarah wife of William Coombes who died 2 April 1885 aged 64. Also William husband of the above who died 24 January 1888 aged 76 60 bh Stephen & Harriett Duke 1893 Stephen Duke MD died 29th September 1893. Also Harriett Elizabeth Duke died 22 February 1908 aged 56 years 61 bi George Mellersh 1844 George son of Thomas and Mary Mellersh died 1 June 1844 aged 29 years. Also Henry died 10 October 1845 aged 31 years. Mary wife of Thomas Mellersh died 27 January 1864 aged 76 years. Thomas Mellersh died 1st February 1870 aged 87 years 62 bj Henry Keen 1762 Henry Keen who died the 28th September 1762 aged 27 years 63 bk Richard & Betty Keen 1790 Richard Keen who died 5 April 1790 aged 80. Also Betty the wife of Richard Keen who died 10 March 1803 aged 88 years 64 bl George Marner 1836 George Marner who died 24 November 1836 aged 51 years 65 bm Mary Ann Rothwell 1855 Mary Ann wife of George Rothwell and relict of George Marner who died 4 July 1855 aged 71 years 66 bn Arthur Marner 1843 Arthur son of George and Mary Ann Marner who died 14 July 1843 aged 13 years and 10 months 67 bo Harriet Sophia Mellersh 1861 Harriet Sophia wife of Thomas Mellersh Junior who died 4 February 1861 at St John’s Wood, London aged 71 68 bp Eliza Anne Mellersh 1853 Eliza Anne second daughter of Thomas and Harriet Mellersh born 20 February died 26 March 1853 69 bq Charles John Mellersh 1867 Charles John Mellersh late of Petersfield Hants second son of Thomas and Mary Mellersh who died at Bath 4 May 1867 aged 56 70 br Lily Ellen Duke 1879 Lily Ellen Mellersh only child of Stephen and Harriet Elizabeth Duke died 26 August 1879 aged 8 days 71 bs Mary Welland 1869 Mary wife of John Welland of Witley and daughter of George and Ann Marner who departed this life 29 May 1869 aged 88 years 72 bt Ann Marner 1813 Ann daughter of Mary Marner who departed this life 22 April 1813 aged 3 years and 5 months 73 bu Ann Marner 1795 Ann the wife of George Marner who died 23 November 1795 aged 50 years 74 bv Martha Marner 1815 Martha daughter of George and Ann Marner who departed this life 18 May 1815 aged 33 years 75 bw George Marner 1828 George Marner died 25 July 1828 aged 74 76 bx Ann Marner 1836 Ann wife of George Marner who departed this life 9 February 1836 aged 37 years 77 by James Greest 1781 James Greest died 3 May 1781 aged 43 years. Also near this place lieth Richard Greest his father who died February 2nd 1747 and Elizabeth his mother died 7 February in the same year. They died and left eleven children 78 bz John & Hannah Goodchild 1888 John Goodchild 12 April 1888 aged 82 years. Also of Hannah Goodchild who died 2 December 1893 aged 86 years 79 ca Elizabeth Wade Morton 80 cb Flora Catherine Stewart 1874 Flora Catherine Stewart born 29 May 1842 Died 28 June 1874 81 cc Evan Edward Roswell 1875 ? Evan Edward Roswell MA Rector of the Parish died 2 December MDCCCLXXV aged 71, Edith Roswell 15 July 1875 – March 22 1953 Granddaughter of the above, Dorothy Roswell July 1886 – February 1961 Granddaughter of the above 82 cd Thomas Mitchell Kettle 1836 Thomas Mitchell Kettle who died January 12th 1836 aged 55 years 83 ce Sarah Elliot 1762 Sarah Elliot Relict of Edward Elliot MA She died November 30th 1762 in the 75th year of her age 84 cf Edward (no grave) Elliot 1740 Near this place are deposited the remains of Edward Elliot MA Rector of Dunsfold in this County who died March 26th 1740 in the 65th year of his age 85 cg William (no grave) Eliot 1755 William Eliot MA Rector of the Parish also of Dunfold and Chaplain to his RH Frederick Prince of Wales. He died October 7th 1755 in the 46th year of his age and is interred near his father 86 ch George Kettle 1853 George Kettle who died July 16th 1853 aged 41 years. Also Dorothy wife of the above who died April 17th 1849 aged 31 years 87 ci Thomas Haselden 1810 Mr Thomas Haselden late of this Parish who departed this life the 2nd August 1810 in the 79th year of his age 88 cj Elizabeth King 1788 Elizabeth King who died September 25th 1788 aged 22 years 89 ck Mary Kettle 1818 Mary wife of James Kettle who died April 9th 1818 aged 39 years. Also Robert son of James and Mary Kettle footstone denotes Robert Kettle died 1810 90 cl Robert (or Albert?) Kettle 1811 Robert (Albert) son of James and Mary Kettle who died February 10th 1811 91 cm Mary Kettle 1808 Mary daughter of James and Mary Kettle who died March 10th 1808 aged 3 years and 7 months 92 cn Elizabeth Kettle 1806 Elizabeth daughter of James and Mary Kettle who departed this life in April 12th 1806 aged 5 years and 7 months 93 co Catherine Eliot 1781 Underneath are deposited the remains of Catherine wife of Laurence Eliot MA Vicar of Steeple Ashton, Wilts. She died November 6th 1781 in the fifty-third year of her age 94 cp Laurence Eliot 1787 Laurence Eliot Clerk MA Vicar of Steeple Ashton, Wilts. Died September 22nd 1787 aged 61 95 cq Clement Longhurst 1764 Clement the wife of Thomas Longhurst who died October ye 1st 1764 aged 44 years. Also John the son of Thomas and Clement Longhurst who died May ye 31st aged 25 years 96 cr Aaron Kettle 1754 Aaron son of Wm. And Eliz. Kettle who died October 6th 1840 aged 17 years 97 cs Elizabeth Kettle 1828 Elizabeth wife of William Kettle who died February 3rd 1828 aged 43 years 98 ct William Kettle 1860 William Kettle who died December 19th 1860 aged 81 years 99 cu Israel Kettle 1825 Israel son of Wm. And Eliz. Kettle who died May 11th 1825 aged 7 years and 1 month 100 cv John Kettle 1819 John Kettle who died April 1st 1819 aged 7 years and 1 month 101 cw Dorothy Kettle 1804 Dorothy wife of John Kettle who died March 13th 1804 aged 64 years 102 cx Dorothy Kettle 1781 Dorothy Kettle died June 10th 1781 aged 3 months 103 cy Elizabeth Mitchell 1774 Elizabeth wife of John Mitchell who died ? ? 1774 aged 78 years 104 cz John Mitchell 1788 John Mitchell Snr. Who died August 20th 1788 in the 86th year of his age 105 da Sarah Mitchell 1812 Sarah Mitchell who died November 22nd aged 75 years 106 db Edward (+ many family members) Eliot 1790 Edward Eliot clerk MA decd. August 1790 aged 59. Mary Eliot his wife decd. January 22nd 1816 aged 70. Edward Eliot decd. June 10th 1794 aged 19. Thomas Eliot decd. September 22nd 1800 aged 20. Catherine Eliot decd. January 29th 1852 aged 73, children of Edward Eliot and of Mary his wife large tomb in brick and stone 107 dc Ann Noldart 1870 Ann wife of William Noldart who died January 14th 1870 aged 64 years. Also William Noldart died January 6th 1892 aged 85 years 108 dd John Kurn 1903 John Kurn died May 2nd 1903 aged 63 109 de William Kettle 1857 William son of George and Ann Kettle who died November 3rd 1857 aged 8 years 110 df George Kettle 1889 George Kettle third son of William and Elizabeth Kettle who died January 4th 1889 aged 73 years 111 dg Ann Kettle 1895 Ann wife of George Kettle who died April 7th 1895 aged 79 years 112 dh Elizabeth Gunner 1811 Elizabeth wife of Francis Gunner who died September 29th 1811 aged 80 years 113 di Francis Gunner 1801 Francis Gunner who died December 31st 1801 aged 74 years 114 dj William Kettle 1889 William Kettle eldest son of William and Elizabeth Kettle who died November 27th 1889 aged 84 years 115 dk John Gunner 1799 John Gunner who died March 10th 1799 aged 28 years 116 dl John Mitchell 1813 John Mitchell ? ? 1813 aged 83 years 117 dm Sarah & Richard Callingham 1805 Sarah Callingham wife of Richard Callingham who died April 26th 1805 aged 73 years. Richard Callingham who died ? ? 1810. Also of Jane daughter of Richard and Sarah Callingham who died September 4th 1771 aged 7 years. double headstone 118 dn Rosamund & John Borrowman 1895 Rosamund Vertue the beloved wife of John Borrowman. She died 25th August 1895. Also the above named John Borrowman son of Robert Borrowman born in Edinburgh 3rd April 1830 died at Hambledon 4th July 1906. Also Elizabeth daughter of the above died 22nd October 1932 aged 72 years 119 do Emma Woolven 1898 Emma the beloved wife of George Woolven died October 3rd 1898. Also William their son died February 25th 1899. Also George Woolven died at Penzance June 5th 1907 aged 79 Cross on three-tiered stone slabs and square kerbing 120 dp Robert Markby 1842 1908 Robert Bremner Markby Born 23 January 1842 Died 13 January 1908 121 dq Andrew (& Alison) Muir 1817 1899 Andrew Muir born at Greenock 6th January 1817 died at Hambledon 12th June 1899. Alison Blair Muir wife of Andrew Muir Born 24th October 1822 Died 15th December 1910 (tomb) 122 dr Arthur Gladstone 1850 1914 Arthur Sydney Gladstone Born 18th June 1850 Died 24th May 1914. Helen Lumley Gladstone aged 24 June 1st 1901. Mary Elizabeth Gladstone cross fallen from original position (Gay’s notes) 123 ds John Bennett 1825 1906 John Bennett Born October 7th 1825 Died November 1906 I found the below in the KES project missing Arthur Ackhurst 1888 1902 missing Charlotte Myatt 1900 missing Thomas Frogley 1894 missing Jane Frogley 1909 From map in vestry: 1 George & Edith Edwards 2 George Hamilton 3 Elias Elliott 4 Sarah Hutchins 5 Patty Hope 6 Arthur Hutchins 7 Thomas Jackson 8 Sarah Gill 9 George Hawkins 10 Charles Mills 11 Ursula Fielder 12 Ellen Fielder 13 Harriet Pullen 14 George Lillywhite 15 Job & Mrs Goodchild 16 James & Harriet Young 17 Emily Gill 18 James Hersey 19 Elizabeth & James Ayling 20 Emma Spooner 21 Hazel Young 22 Joseph Buss 23 Harvey Miles 24 Elizabeth Miles 25 Harvey Edwards 26 Ernest Gill (& Richard Clifton & Thomas Clifton) 27 David & Mary Bookham 28 Marshall & Lottie Yeomans 29 George Young 30 Thomas Henderson 31 James Underwood 32 Lillain Stillwell sib S/Smithers 33 Elizabeth Trigg 34 Hannah Lane 35 Arthur Stevens 36 Mary Gerring 37 Florence Andrews 38 Frank Arnold 39 Doris Coombe & Elsie Turner 40 George Fane 41 Harriett Johnson 42 Ellen Sunders 43 Francis Reeve 44 William Hutchins 45 Ellen Fowler 46 Elsie Beere 47 Ellen Frost 48 Victoria Carter 49 Alfred Carter 50 Grace & Amy Ellis 51 Albert & Emily Ellis 52 Charles Young 53 William Squires 54 Mary Bettesworth 55 Alexander & Sophie Deneke 56 Arthur Miles 57 Jessie Hutchins 58 Henry Holt 59 Agnes Gray 60 Wilfred Hardy 61 Stephen Clifton 62 William & Caroline Jennings 63 Louisa Ketchell 64 Rosa Newman 65 Henry Lickfold 66 Richard Jennings 67 Dorothy Hedges 68 Willaim & Matilda Lawrence 69 Lillain Mitchell 70 Mark & Matilda Knight 71 Shime & Sidney Ayling 72 Mary Denyner 73 Edith McKee 74 VACANT 75 Frederick Bicknell 76 Joyce Beecher & Hazel Luxford 77 George & Emily Street 78 Albert Brockhurst 79 Lousia Elliott 80 Mercy Ragoett 81 Alice Pentney (& ashes, Joan Keddle) 82 Jane Kettle 83 Arthur & Emily Gill 84 Thomas & Lucy Young 85 ASHES or INFANTS 86 Dr & Emily Dawson-Turner 87 Gladys Kingshott 88 John Ketchell 89 Evelyn Hellicar 90 Edith Elliott 91 William Rollestone 92 Harriett Fame (?) 1929 Hambledon Almshouses 93 Mary Keen 94 George Goodchild 95 Edwin Knight 96 Thomas & Elizabeth Mann 97 Julia & Kate Jennings 98 Henry Cooper 99 Ephraim & Lilly Freemantle 100 Rev A & Laura Willway 101 James & Violet W/Martin 102 Col. F & Marie Hammond 103 Robert, Rupert & Muriel Readhead (& W John & Romsemary Peel & Margaret Elizabeth Susan Greig) 104 NO GRAVE 105 Oliver Robson 106 George Ferguson 107 Alfred Carter 108 Michel Becker 109 Reginald Allum 110 Arthur & Emily Cumber 111 Henry & Alice Holt 112 Alexander Gray 113 Eliza & William Balchin 114 Walter & Evelyn Winson 115 James & Emily Edwards 116 Edward & Kathleen Farmer (ashes, Francis & Edward) 117 David Lyle (ashes, Muriel Wreford Lyle) 118 Rev EJ & Marjorie Seymour 119 ASHES or INFANTS 120 William & Esther Rugman 121 Arthur Hammond 122 Albert & Mary Herrington 123 Harriet & Frederick Young 124 Ernest & Kate Ransdale 125 Geoffery & Audrey G/Holmes (ashes) 126 Eleanor Richmond 127 William Neary 128 Rose Goddard 129 George Raggett 130 Emily Rubman 131 Ethel Bonner 132 Harry Grinling (ashes, Dorothy Grinling) 133 Mary & Frank Bendle 134 William, Jane & Alice Herrington 135 Emily Mills 136 Sarah & Stephen Peacock 137 Mary Hunter 138 Mary Salmon 139 Ernest Kille 140 Sarah & Clara Costen 141 Albert & Rhoda Simkins 142 Athelstane & Martha Walker (ashes, Ernest W Walker) 143 Elizabeth & Albert Jeffery 144 Jane & Henry Dennymer 145 Herbert Mansfield 146 Emily Edith & Thomas Vickery (ashes, Reginald S Pirksuy ?) 147 Henry Ayling 148 Percy Lee 149 Albert & Sarah Froggly 150 Sarah Barrett 151 Alan & Elizabeth Bowman 152 James Adlard (& Arthur Phillips) 153 Annie & William Freemantle 154 Arthur & Minnie Winson 155 Charles & Elizabeth Clark 156 Mary Davis 157 Cyril & Majorie Foyle 158 Edith Cockburn 159 Alexis & Kate Hornett 160 Thomas Henery 161 Ellen Wesley 162 Walter Kimpson 163 Jessie Rodgers 164 George Bonner 165 Lilly Payne 166 Herbert Barings 167 Jessie Puttock 168 Charles Bonner 169 Kathleen & J Oliver Hedley (ashes, John Hedley) 170 Jean Lindsay & James Martin 171 Ruth Parker 172 Frederick & Allen (son) Parker 173 VACANT (?) 174 Francis Hinks 175 Minnie & Thomas Hammond 176 Emily & Alfred Mansfield (ashes, John Mansfield & Florence Emily Thomas ?) 177 George Mansfield 178 William & Ellen Hutchins 179 Elizabeth Hutchins 180 Thomas & Florence Parker 181 Lillian Baker 182 Sidney & Ellen Frogley 1952 1 Castle Cottages, Horsham 183 Willaim & Eliza Edwards 184 Emily & Charles Peters 185 Ena, Leslie, Gillian & John Phillips 186 William Freemantle 187 Albert Nambourne 188 John Weldon 189 James & Margaret Goodchild 190 John Froggley 191 Edward & Edith Beere 192 Jane & Edith Symes 193 William & Rose Hoptroff 194 Margaret & William House 195 William & Alice Dollin 196 Hugh & Florence Gabb 197 Alfred & Rosina Hammond 198 Hannah Lickfold 199 Leonard Jennings 200 Walter & Jane Hardy 201 Euphemia Henery 202 Ms Henery (marked VANCANT) 203 Margaret & William Winson (ashes, Hector, Alice & David Dudman) 204 Belinda Parker (Nicholas & Laura Gibbes) 205 Eric & Ruth Margaret Parker 206 Leslie & Elizabeth Anne Wieler 207 Kate & Herbert Carter 208 William & Elsie Maud Chesson 209 Ronald Kitley 210 Edith & Louisa Ellis 211 Frederick & Ellen Monk 212 William & Elizabeth Gale 213 David & Margaret Annie Gill 214 Colin & Joan Dowson 215 Mary Freemantle 216 Alice & Charles Dedman 217 Thomas Hill 218 ASHES or INFANTS 219 Anthony Prosser 220 Frank & Nora Milligan 221 Philip & Amy Smith (& Lilly Margaret McDonald) 222 Ernest Willet 223 Emily & George Luxford 224 John Borrowman 225 Alice & William Goad 226 Sarah & James McNally 227 Harvey & Emma Edwards 228 Arthur & Eva Ashdown 229 Clifton Crawford 230 William & Harriet Johnson 231 Vera & Beatrice Allfrey 232 Mary & William Denyner 233 Charlie & Elizabeth Elliott 234 Frederick Jenny 235 Barry Jackson 236 Mary & Thomas Pickett 237 Louise Buchanan 238 Colin Parker (and Rosemary Parker) 239 Mary Ruth Parker 240 Ernest & Olive Spindler 241 Kate Mitchell 242 Peter Thorne 243 William & Esther Elliott 244 Charles & E. Faith Denny 245 Morris Thurgood 246 Emma Cray 1957 1 Wormley Lane, Hambledon 247 James & Kate Laker 248 Winifred Puxley 249 William Hutchinson (ashes) 250 Amy & Frederick Pritchard 251 ASHES or INFANTS 252 Agnes Pennington 253 Hannah Jelley 254 Mary Droop 255 Frank Ellis 256 John Cooper 257 Evelyn & William Walford 258 Ellen Mortimer 259 Alfred Blyth 260 Laura Knowles 261 Frederick Lefley 262 Daisy Onslow 263 Elizabeth Doyle 1 Wormley Lane, Hambledon 264 Eva Lindley 265 Louisa Burton 266 Bridget Barry 267 Margaret Clarke 268 Mary Dane 269 Kenneth Macrae 270 Esther & Lucy Stenning 271 ASHES or INFANTS 272 Walter & Lilian Denyner 273 Harry & Rosetta Howard 274 Johan Lee 275 Iris & James Thacker 276 Alice & Ernest Jeffery 277 Joseph & Elsie May Williams (ashes Elsie) 278 Arthur & Edith M Thorpe 279 Victor & Dorothy A Jeffery 280 Ellen & George W J Matcham 281 ASHES or INFANTS 282 Albert Pullen (& Constance White) 283 Harvey Edwards 284 John Wilson 285 Ruth Gettings 286 Ellen Wiltshire 287 Maud Smith 288 Martha Argyle 289 Annie Salmon 290 Hilda Booker 291 Clara Strudwick 292 Sarah Wells 293 Ellen Browne 294 Elizabeth Gordon 295 Ernest John Colliss 1965 1 Wormley Lane, Hambledon 296 Frederick Fry 297 Elander Paddock 298 William Killick 299 Edith Pullen 300 Lilly Kellett 301 Agnes Thompson 302 Joseph & Gwendoline Marriage (Gwendoline ashes) 303 ASHES or INFANTS 304 Bessy & Ruth Bonner 305 Elsie & Thomas William Hammond 306 Gladys Allen 307 Robert Simms 308 Alice & Herbert Edwards 309 EE Avery 310 Olive Mavis Azis 311 Guy Mansor Azis 312 Asa C & Anna Marie Jarmin (ashes Anna Marie) 313 Ronald & Lorna M Sparks 314 Robert & Florrie Hammond 315 Richard Withington (& Mary Richmond Withington) 316 Douglas Petter 317 Mathilda Heath 318 Mary Saxby 319 Christopher Hammond 320 Elvina Ward 321 Hilda & Dorothy cooper 322 Maud & Diana Maud Jordon 323 George Madgwick 324 John McClintock 325 Alfred Cole 326 Ingrid Wenham 327 John Wenham 328 ASHES or INFANTS 329 John S & Dora W Milligan (ashes) 330 Isabella D Panton 331 Florence M & Alan S Wingate 332 Margaret N McConnell 333 Albert Henry Jeffery 334 Sylvia Ann Dudman 335 Elsie Emily Patricia & Alfred Edward Jeffery 336 ACC Willway 337 Ernest Frogley 338 Hilda Constance Helen Pearson 339 ADB Pearson 340 Anthony Nation (& BSW Mitchell) 341 Harriett Lawson Brown 342 Arnold CGA Vermundsen 343 Annie Thompson 344 Alice Lambden 345 Ernest Austin 346 Christine Howard 347 Heidi Parfitt 348 Cyril Bawn de Vere Green 1983 Haydon Wood Cottage, Feathercombe Lane, Hambledon 349 Bertha Jane de Vere Green 1980 Haydon Wood Cottage, Feathercombe Lane, Hambledon 350 RW & Margaret Jean Sharpington 351 NRA Walford 21 Apr 1982 Norcliffe Rodney Arrow Buzz Walford died April 21 1982 aged 55 years. 352 Ivy Lewis 353 Kenneth Arthur & Jean M Harding (ashes, Jean) 12.1.1932 13.5.1983 Kenneth Arthur Harding devoted husband and father who lived and worked in this village for 30 years at the Nutbourne brickworks born 12.1.1932 died 13.5.1983 also Jean Marie Harding beloved wife and mother who was warm, wonderful and wise and cared for everyone. Love never gives up, its faith, hope and patience never fail. born 12.4.30 died 6.2.93 Love is eternal Cor.13.7 354 Ronald & baby Amelia & Eleanor M Greybanks 19.1.1917 4.11.1986 Ronald Graybanks (RNR) born 19 Jan 1917 died 4 November 1986 and his wife Eleanor Marjorie born 15 June 1922 died 27 August 1994 with Amelia 21 November 1991 355 Fred & Jessie Amy Winifred Edwards 22.1.1908 2.9.1988 Frederick Edwards born January 22 1908 died September 2nd 1988 Also his wife Jesse Amy Winifred died November 1994 Aged 78 years 356 Edric Hardy 28.11.1920 15.5.1988 I will lift mine eyes to the hills Pl.121 Edric Hardy 357 Olive M Murphy 19 Mar 2010 Mar-88 Olive Mary Agard Murphy March 1919 – March 1988 358 David E Sopp worn/overgrown gravestone 359 Mary E & G Forehead 1911 1988 Mary elizabeth Forehead 1911-1988 and her devoted husband Walter George Forehead 1907 – 1985 360 Susan Penelope & Darren J Reynolds May-47 Apr-85 Aged 37. Maureen Joyce Reynolds (nee Blood) December 1921 – October 2009 Aged 87 361 Richard C & Ruth Steele 21.6.05 9.10.92 born Bradfield 21.6.05 died Hambledon 9.10.92 and his wife Ruth Wilson Steele born Handsworth 10.2.10, died Hambledon 31.8.01 362 Francis W & Jean S Finnigan 10.2.92 Lt Col Francis Walter (Tosty) Finnigan MC died 10.2.92 aged 78. and his wife Jean Sime Finnigan (nee Douty) MBE died 4.6.92 Aged 79. They served their country and were loyal to their family and friends. 363 Cameron Hammond 16.10.82 Aged 82. South of England Showman 364 Montague Hammond 28.5.1985 Aged 77. A much loved South of England showman 365 Amy Mary Hammond 5.12.85 aged 69. wife of Montague 366 Daisy Elizabeth Thorne (& Margaret E Holland) 23.12.09 14.3.84 daughter of above Margaret Elizabeth Holland born 11.4.46 died 22.4.96 367 Ursula & Charles Finch Oldham (ashes, Charles) 1911 1984 Arthur Charles Godolphin 1905-1998 368 Edith Beatrice Arden-White (& ashes Cecilia D Townsend, ashes & Herman Guy Collingwood Townsend) 1904 1983 1984-1983and Cecilia Davina 1907-1992 Inscription just for Herman Guy and Cecilia Davina 369 Lucy Marjorie Harvey 7.4.85 Aged 94 370 Alice Harris 9.3.33 Alice Harris 9th March 1933 Aged 88 Tranouillit(?) 371 VACANT (?) 372 Martin B Caroe 1933 1999 Martin Bragg Caroe of Vann 373 William D Caroe 374 RESERVED 375 RESERVED 376 Dennis LE Wieler 20 Nov 1930 31 Oct 1997 Dennis LE Wieler of Feathercombe born 20 Nov 1930 Died 21 Oct 1997 377 RESERVED 378 VACANT (?) 379 Mary Violet Millicent Etherton 7 Jul 2003 Mary Etherton died 7 July 2003 aged 84 380 Geoffrey John Thorne 29.5.1912 13.11.99 G J Thorne Jack born 29.5.1912 died 13.11.1999 381 Susan Sewell 1959 1995 Susan Jennifer Ann Sewell 1959-1995 382 Sydney L & Louise Cathleen Elliott 25 Sep 1995 Sidney Leonard Elliott died 25 Sep 1995 aged 75 Louise Kathleen Elliott “Jim” died 1st March 2004 aged 81 383 Nichola F Pickup 7 Jun 1957 7 Feb 1993 Nicola Fleur Pickup born 7th June 1957 died 7th February 1993 384 Ronald Denyer 1991 worn/overgrown headstone 385 Elsie May & Mary E Sertin 1897 1990 Elsie May Sertin 1897-1990 Mary E Sertin worn/overgrown headstone 386 Charlie Eliott 23 Apr 1990 Charlie Noel Elliott died 23 April 1990 aged 74 387 Evelyn Lilly Collins 12.9.08 12.9.88 Farncombe Evelyn Lilly Collins born 12.9.08 died 12.9.88 388 Joan Howarth Robinson 21 Nov 1988 Squirrels Wood, Wormley Hill, Wormley Joan Haworth Robinson died November 21st 1988 aged 71 389 William O’Callaghan 390 Rosemary E, Harold & Lilian Whale (ashes, Howard) 14 Nov 1989 In memory of Rosemary Elizabeth Whale died 14th November 1989 aged 41 years 391 Peter F Monks Peter F Monks wooden cross 392 Alan Talman 25 Apr 1997 In memory of my husband, Dad, Grandpa Alan Talman died 25 April 97 aged 59. 393 Audrey Stedall 1910 1999 In loving memory of Audrey Wishart Stedall nee Cotton 1910-1999 and her beloved husband Marcus BP Stedall 1905-1982 and their eldest child Carolyn S Stedall 1938-1945 394 Thalia Dean 1918 2000 In loving memory of Thalia Mary Dean born 7th August 1918, died 10th December 2010 395 Michael J Atkins 1934 2001 In loving memory of Michael James Atkins 1934-2001 396 VACANT (?) 397 VACANT (?) 398 VACANT (?) 399 VACANT (?) 400 VACANT (?) 401 VACANT (?) 402 VACANT (?) 403 VACANT (?) 404 VACANT (?) 405 VACANT (?) 406 VACANT (?) 407 RESERVED 408 Julian H Williams 1969 2008 Julian Williams “Joolz” 14-12-69 26-07-08 409 Martha L Davis Martha Davis Rest in Peace 410 Lilian M (& W Leonard) Edwards 1905 1993 Loving memory of Lilian May Edwards born 23.2.1905 died 1.4.1993 William Leonard Edwards born 14.11.1903 died 6.6.2000 Eternal God and father all our days are blest living in your sight 411 Gordon T Brignall 1934 1996 In loving memory of Gordon Trevor Brignall 21-12-1934 – 10-11-1996 a much loved husband 412 K Jean Montin 1999 In loving memory of Kathleen Jean Montyn nee Dudley wife and mother died 21st November 1999 aged 73 years 413 Diana R Taylor 1949 2001 in memory of Diana Rachael Taylor. Much loved daughter and sister 21st April 1949 – 21st May 2001 Thine For Ever 414 Darren W Knott 1968 2001 In loving memory of a dear husband and father Darren Knott 31.10.1968 – 06.08.2001 We will love you forever 415 A George Clark 1917 2002 In loving memory of Alfred G Clark ‘George’ 3.3.1917 – 19.4.2002 Husband to Hanna God Bless 416 Frederick JF Elliott 1909 2003 In loving memory of Fred Elliot 1909 – 2003 aged 94 417 Eric John & June Elization Vranch 1925 2008 In memory of Eric John Vranch 1925 – 2008 and his wife Jane Elizabeth 1926- 2009 418 Paddy M Gravestock 1932 2004 In loving memory of Paddy Mary Susan Gravestock a beloved wife and mother 10th August 1932 – 26h May 2004 419 Oskar Wieser 1941 2003 Treasured memories of Oskar Wieser 13th August 1941, 31st October 2005 loved and missed by all forever in our hearts 419 (a) Neville R Sewell 1937 2006 Nev, Neville Robert Sewell, 11th Dec. 1937 – 5th April 2006 a devoted husband, dad and grandad much loved and forever in our thoughts 419 (b) Sylvia Harvey 1930 2006 In loving memory of Sylia IC Harvey 8th February 1930 to 13th November 2006. Caring daughter, sister and auntie 419 (c) Maria Pink 1964 2008 In loving memory of Maria Ann Pink, a caring mother, daughter, sister and friend 24th July 1964 – 30th April 2008 Rest in peace 420 VACANT (?) 421 Jack A (and Pat?) Sanguinetti 1907 1986 In treasured memory of Jack Allen Sanguinetti 1907-1986. A devoted husband, father and grandfather greatly loved. Darling wife Pat Sanguinetti 1917-2003. Adored mother 422 VACANT (?) 423 VACANT (?) 424 VACANT (?) 425 VACANT (?) 426 VACANT (?) 427 VACANT (?) 428 VACANT (?) 429 VACANT (?) 430 VACANT (?) 431 VACANT (?) 432 VACANT (?) 433 Lilian Rosina Sage 1894 1998 In loving memory of Dear Auntie Rose, Lilian Rosina Sage July 1894 – November 1998. The Lord Bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine upon you and give you peace 434 John M Blanchard 1931 2005 Dear John 1931-2005 John Malcolm Blanchard died 15th July 2005 aged 73 years 435 Susan Kim Kane 1961 2005 Sue Kane 4 July 1961, 8 October 2005 Dragonfly out in the sun 436 Christopher King 2006 Christopher King died 25th Sept 2006, aged 71 years 437 Edith V & William Lintott- Porter In loving memory of Edith & Bill Lintott-Porter 438 Clive RR Harvey 2008 Clive Reginald Basil Harvey, died30th March 2008, aged 72 years 439 James Edward Knight 440 Shirley Pollock 1935 2010