Notice: Free Local History Talk on Bellfields, Friday, Oct 28

Published on: 22 Oct, 2016
Updated on: 22 Oct, 2016

Local historians David Rose and Carol Brown present a free evening of vintage pictures and stories about Guildford’s Bellfields estate on Friday, October 28, at 7.3opm.

The venue is the Guildford Waterside Centre, Riverside, Bellfields GU1 1LW.

Hear about the Paynter family who lived at Stoke Hill House and how Julia ‘Fanny’ Paynter’s estate became the housing of Bellfields after the Second World War.

The history of Slyfield and homes along Woking Road will be told along with some of the characters who once lived in the area such as Charlie Matthews who had his scrap metal busines in Stoughton Road.

The event will also be an opportunity for people to go along and share their memories and air their views about the Stoke ward of Guildford today – and perhaps say what they’d like to see by way of improvements to services offered to residents of all ages.

The evening has been organised by David Rose in his role of co-ordinator of Joining In! – a project that supports community involvement in the Stoke and Westborough wards of Guildford and which is managed by Voluntary Action South West Surrey.

No need to book, just go along. The bar at the Guildford Waterside Centre will also be open for drinks.

Responses to Notice: Free Local History Talk on Bellfields, Friday, Oct 28

George Trask Reply

October 23, 2016 at 8:03 pm

What a shame. I only received the email today (Sunday at 2.30pm).

I used to live in Hornbeam Road but moved around a bit, now in Swindon, but would have love to have been there to reminise.

I remember Charlie Mathews well, along with Racliffes haulage and Pankhurst waste paper recycler.

Happy days.
- Frank Ayling Reply
  
  April 12, 2021 at 1:35 pm
  
  I lived in 52 Cypress Road, Bellfields, from 1955 until I left in 1970 and emigrated to Australia.
  
  My mother lived there until she passed in the 1980s.
  
  We used to go up to the Paynter’s house and explore it when it was empty.
  
  I have some great childhood memories of Cypress Road and Cedar Way when they were called Paynter’s Close and part of the original estate.
  
  I thought this would be interesting to some who lived there. I now live in South Australia.