Where Is This? No.177

Published on: 24 Sep, 2015
Updated on: 24 Sep, 2015

By David Rose

The building in Addison Road, Charlotteville, that was once a shop and post office, was last week’s mystery picture.

Many recognised it and three readers noted the same building was featured in a different view in Where Is This? No.120. Well remembered!

The quirky photo, as I guessed, proved much harder with only Chris Townsend correctly identifying the decorative feature as being on 20 Quarry Street, that building also being featured in a different photo in Where Is This? No.122.

A good guess by those who suggested it is on what was the Tudor Rose tea rooms in Milkhouse Gate, but not correct!

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

What was this and where was it? A photo from the late Dave Salmon’s collection.

We have a really interesting building featured as the mystery vintage picture this week. One that I was not sure of where it was and what it was. Perhaps readers can confirm?

It is one of thousands of images taken by the late Dave Salmon of Guildford.

Retired railwayman Geoff Burch is the custodian of this very important collections of images that covers railways, buses, aircraft, Guildford City football club, and hundreds of Guildford street scenes.

To see more of these, everyone is welcome to a memorial service to Dave Salmon, at St Saviour’s Church, Guildford, on Friday, October 16, at 11am.

Geoff and I will be giving an illustrated talk on Dave’s life and his photography. We will also be displaying more than 90 images from Dave’s collection. A must see for anyone interested in Guildford’s past! Do come along and help celebrate the life of a real Guildford character.

Have you seen this man on a brand new building soon to open?
Don’t think speedboats will be for sale there, but not too far from the River Wey as it happens!

On to this week’s quirky photo and a very new addition to Guildford’s street scene. The picture was emailed to me by Jan Messinger.

To work out where it is, if you haven’t seen it yet, the clue lies in the colour of the ‘man’. And it’s on a brand new building, not yet open, on the outskirts of town.

Do you know where it is?

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.177

Gina Redpath Reply

September 24, 2015 at 10:37 am

It’s the new controversial (in Burpham) Aldi on the London Road in Burpham on the site of the Green Man pub.

The shopping trolleys have been in the car park for weeks but Aldi isn’t due to open until 5th November.

There are some beautiful photographs on the windows as you drive past, but I don’t think they are our North Downs. I hope I’m wrong because it would be a very nice gesture.
John Lomas Reply

September 24, 2015 at 2:46 pm

The old picture may be the Woodbridge Hill Dennis Bros site.

There is a picture on the Dennis Society website, under “A brief history” which shows, towards the left hand side, two buildings with tall chimneys behind them. I believe your photo is one of those buildings.

The left-hand car appears to be a Vauxhall E series (Wyvern or Velox) which was introduced in 1951.

I am going to guess that the modern picture is of the new Aldi store which I understand has been built on the site of the former Green Man pub at Burpham.
Paul Robinson Reply

September 24, 2015 at 3:07 pm

The Green Man is on the new Aldi store in Burpham. On the subject of which, the store proudly boasts of its low CO2 consumption.

Have they got this wrong? I thought low CO2 emissions was the target.
Chris Townsend Reply

September 25, 2015 at 7:52 am

That’s not the Friary brewery chimney, which was stepped in shape, nor could it belong to other Guildford breweries or foundries, which were closed long before the time of the cars in the photo.

It could be one at Guildford Park Brickworks, with a second in the background, and the photo taken during its last days, before Guildford Park Avenue was built on the site, about the early 1960s.

The Green Man must be on a wall of the new supermarket on the site of the pub of the same name, at Burpham.
Dave Middleton Reply

September 25, 2015 at 8:54 am

No idea about the building in the old photo, but the quirky picture is a “Green Man” on the new Aldi supermarket building at Burpham on the old Green Man inn site.

A nice touch by Aldi, referencing the history of the site.
Ann and David Bailey Reply

September 26, 2015 at 7:06 pm

We think that this week’s featured building was near the river in Bedford Road.

In 1960-65, we think it was, it became the new ‘Guildford Corporation Club’ following their compulsory move from the old pumping station site in Drummond Road, to allow new homes to be built.
Alan Cooper Reply

September 27, 2015 at 12:52 am

The new Aldi store at Burpham that I cannot wait to see open and will maybe help nearby Sainsbury’s to get “their act together”.
Brian Holt Reply

September 28, 2015 at 8:39 pm

(1) The Corporation Club, (I was a member) it was in the Bedford Road car park.

Behind it is the Guildford Laundry (Perfect Cleaners) chimney.

I worked there as a van driver from 1965 until they closed down after 1968 floods.

When we finished work on Saturday mornings we played snooker in the club. Later the Bedford Road Sports Centre was built there, then the Old Orleans bar.

(2) The new Aldi store Burpham, being built on the old Green Man pub site.
Doug and Bill Staniforth Reply

September 29, 2015 at 5:07 pm

We guess it’s maybe the railway station yard or the dump.

The Green Man is the hugely anticipated new low emission Audi we mean Aldi store at Burpham.

I am afraid we had to send your VW speedboat back lads. Could not risk your delicate chests being suffocated in underrated fumes. See how much we care? Ed.
Margaret Cole Reply

September 30, 2015 at 7:50 am

The old building was a bit of a poser, so I am going to plump for Filmer and Mason’s foundry in Millmead, where the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre is now. I maybe wrong again but I’m having a go, or was it in Friary Square? Do tell us.

The green man is on the wall of the new Aldi building at Burpham facing Merrow Lane.