Where Is This? No.175

Published on: 10 Sep, 2015
Updated on: 10 Sep, 2015

By David Rose

Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe in Friary Street was recalled by a number of readers as last week’s mystery vintage picture.

Pam Butler adds some great details as it was owned by her grandmother and great aunt. While Carol Norris added interesting details about other shops once found in Friary Street.

The quirky picture of a wind vane can be seen at Guildford Cathedral.

Chris Townsend makes some interesting comments about whether, for a period, All Saints church at Onslow Village held services in the cathedral’s Crypt Chapel.

Sorry, I can’t answer that (see my comment at the foot of her reply) but I’d love to see a photo of the original All Saints, “tin chapel”.

Click here to see last week’s post and all the replies at the foot of it.

Which Surrey village is this, seen in the 1900s?

For this week’s vintage picture, I have chosen one from my collection of Surrey villages. It dates from the early 1900s. Do you know where it is?

The map app on my computer tells me it’s about 11 miles or so south of Guildford – so there’s a clue. The image on the pub sign might give it away.

Do you know where this is and the name once used for the building?

The quirky picture is a round window in a building (once named as a hall) in a side street, not too far from the town centre.

Readers may know the name of the hall. But I can’t find any details of the origin of the name. Perhaps someone may be able to supply an answer.

If you know the answers to this week’s mysteries and can perhaps add some extra facts, please leave a reply in the box below. They will be published at about the same time next week along with two more mystery images.

Responses to Where Is This? No.175

Bernard Parke Reply

September 10, 2015 at 9:11 am

All Saints Church did use the crypt for services at a time when it was believed that the cathedral would have its own parish.

However, it was eventually stated that the cathedral would be a peculiar (no parish).

The crypt was to be used as a song room.

The earlier church building in Onslow Village was eventually pulled down and in place a new church was built in the early 1960s and consecrated be the first Dean of Guildford Cathedral the Revd Clackson.
Bernard Parke Reply

September 10, 2015 at 5:14 pm

1) Chiddingfold.

2) Beverley Hall Haydon Place near where Waitrose is rising from the rubble!
Dave Middleton Reply

September 11, 2015 at 8:31 pm

The village scene is Chiddingfold, looking along the road at the back of the green from outside The Crown.

The quirky picture is Beverley Hall on Haydon Place, now occupied I believe as a community centre, refurbished by Waitrose as part of their planning permission. As for the name, I’ve no idea!
John Lomas Reply

September 12, 2015 at 12:54 am

The old picture is Chiddingfold and the inn, which is just out of the picture, is still called the the Crown Inn.

The gabled building just behind the inn sign is the village bakery, which is now a kitchen and interiors business but carries a sign “The Old Bakery”.

The quirky picture is of Beverley Hall on Haydon Place.
Carol Norris Reply

September 12, 2015 at 3:04 pm

Picture 1 : Chiddingfold
Brian Holt Reply

September 14, 2015 at 8:01 pm

(1) Chiddingfold village. The pub sign is the Crown Inn one of the oldest inns in England, built as a a rest house for Cistercian monks on their pilgrimage from Winchester to Canterbury.

It claims to have been established in 1285 with the earliest recorded reference to the present building dated 1383 probably when the alehouse expanded to include accommodation and become a inn.

On the green is the hawthorn tree 500 years old in front of Forrest Stores.

Chiddingfold became famous for its glass-making during the reign of Elizabeth I. There were no fewer than eleven glass works on the green. Chiddingfold glass was used in some of the finest buildings in the land, including St Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster, and St George’s Chapel, Windsor.

On the left of the green is the forge. St Mary’s church has a unique lancet window with 427 uncut pieces of Chiddingfold stained glass from the 11 glasshouse sites in the village.

The village is known for its torch-lit procession, bonfire and fireworks display, on the nearest Saturday to November 5th.

(2) Beverley Hall on the corner of North Place and Stoke Fields. It was used for the deaf in 1970s then later Guildford School of Acting, and now as a community centre.

Another informative and interesting answer from Brian Holt. Many thanks. Ed
David Bennett Reply

September 14, 2015 at 10:40 pm

The village is Chiddingfold, taken from the front of the Crown Inn looking towards the village green, beyond the old blacksmiths forge on the far left of the photo.

The tree in the centre with the dog nearby is, I think, a hawthorn and several hundred years old.

The other picture could be of the building once used by GSA down Lea Pale Lane.
Chris Townsend Reply

September 15, 2015 at 10:18 am

The village is Chiddingfold, viewed from in front of the Crown, looking towards the green, with the smithy on the left and an old hawthorn tree on the right, close to what is now Forrest Stores.

The hall in question was formerly known as “Beverley Hall for the Deaf”. St. John of Beverley is patron saint of the deaf and dumb. More info’ here:

http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/DeafStudiesTeaching/deafed/Session%202A.htm
Doug and Bill Staniforth Reply

September 15, 2015 at 10:19 am

Picture 1 is the village of Chiddingfold showing the Crown pub
We think there is a bus stop nearby no. 71

Picture 2 is the Beverly Hall in Haydon Place
The nearest bus stop is in North St no. 3 no.28 no. 34 and 35 no.91 and probably many more

Unfortunately there is no speedboat service
Margaret Cole Reply

September 16, 2015 at 8:10 am

The Crown Inn can be found in Chiddingfold. It is a five-star hotel at the south end of the village green.

Opposite was the blacksmith’s forge, a necessity at the turn of the century for the horse-drawn traffic en route from London to the south coast.

The hall is Beverley Hall at the junction with North Place and Stoke Fields.

It was once used as a meeting place for the deaf, now it’s used by the poorer families in the community. Not much left of the area.
Ray Springer Reply

September 16, 2015 at 2:42 pm

The village I’m sure is Chiddingfold – the pub sign The Crown did rather give it away.
The quirky picture is the hall (cannot remember its name) is in Haydon Place.