Cab You Identify These Locations? (8)

Published on: 28 Feb, 2012
Updated on: 28 Feb, 2012

The previous post featured Westbury House in Buryfields and was correctly identified by Carol Norris and Ian Plowman.

Carol’s reply is interesting, as she thinks the original postcard may have been sent by a member of her father’s family. She was born there and spent her childhood at the house.

I only made some notes about the message on the back of the postcard and did not take a copy of it. But I have asked my collector friend Chris Quinn if he would mind sending me a scan of that side and I will then post it here.

I think Carol is also right about the other picture of ‘The Mount’ not being the one in Guildford.

A quick check on Google Maps reveals there are several roads of that name in the UK. Closest to Guildford are ones in Leatherhead and Ewhurst. Others are in Herefordshire, Cumbria, West Sussex, and so on.

However, the view seen on the previous post does look like a south of England location. Any further suggestions?

This time another two mystery images – one believed to be in the Guildford area, and one certainly.

The first one is another of those frustrating postcards of a house, but with no clue to its address. From the details on the back we know it was sent from Guildford on December 22, 1911, to an address in Guernsey, as a Christmas greeting card.

It certainly looks like a house in the Guildford area. I’d say somewhere like the London Road end of Nightingale Road. What do you think?

I do know the location of the second postcard featuring a section of the River Wey. The card is from a series that feature what was once a local boarding school. I think there are some remains of the boathouse still there, but much overgrown.

The school was in a lovely house within a parkland setting. The building was pulled down in 1977. The site is now a car park!

However, this stretch of the river was a few hundred yards away or more from the school itself.

Look forward to your suggestions and comments….

3 Responses to “Can You Identify These Locations? (8)”

1. Caroline Reeves says:

   2 October 2011 at 3:45 pm  (Edit)

   or Waterden Road, the last house on the right as you approach the cross roads with Epsom Road and Harvey Road?

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2. Carol Norris says:

   2 October 2011 at 9:08 am  (Edit)

   Picture 1 : I don’t think it is Nightingale Road. Perhaps Cranley Road – same side as Tormead School but beyond what is now Tormead Road – used to be a field when I was at school at Tormead. Or maybe Cranley Road end of Pit Farm Road.

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3. Bernard Parke says:

   1 October 2011 at 12:07 pm  (Edit)

   Some thirty years ago Guildford Borough Council was asked to provide a rowing course on this section of the river as The Rowing Club activity often clashed with the pleasure boats from Leroys Boat House. However the idea did not find favour with the then ‘city’ fathers.

   Pleas to the University also fell on deaf ears.

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