Where is This? No. 228

Published on: 28 Sep, 2016
Updated on: 28 Sep, 2016

By David Rose

Readers were correct in indentifying Clandon Park House during the First World War when in use as a military hospital as being last week’s mystery vintage picture.

The ‘Guildford’ sign in the quirky picture can be found at the Mercedes-Benz dealership in Moorfield Road, Slyfield Green Industrial Estate.

Click here to see last week’s post with all the relplies at the foot of it including extra details as supplied.

And in reply to Chris Townsend about me sitting with my daughter as she is learning to drive, no we haven’t tried Pewley Hill or The Mount for hill starts as yet – we are still on the gentler slopes of hilly Guildford!

Where on the river were these chaps rowing? Click to enlarge in a new window.

A rowing party on the river is this week’s vintage mystery picture. Can you identify the location? And among the young men is someone who adds his comments to many a story published on the Dragon. You might even recognise him (he’s second from the right) and say who he is!

What can be seen here and from where (roughly) was the picture taken? Click to enlarge in a new window.

This week’s quirky picture is a bit different, as it is a view that caught my eye one afternoon last week. I put my camera on full zoom and took this snap.

Cardwells Keep (formerly the keep of Stoughton Barracks) can clearly be seen, but where are the buildings in the distance?

However, the main question is: roughly where was I standing to take this picture?

If you know the answers to this week’s mysteries, please leave a reply in the box below – and include extra details if you have them.

They will be published along with two more mystery images at about the same time next week. Good luck.

Responses to Where is This? No. 228

George Trask Reply

September 29, 2016 at 6:24 pm

Pretty sure it’s on the Wey heading towards the bridge over the river from Quarry Street.

The big house in the back was I think by the turning which Chantry View Road.

My friend John Tavener lived in the big house. I Think!
Mike Williams Reply

September 29, 2016 at 7:54 pm

The rowers are very close to the Rowing Club boathouse off the photo to the right, and I think the concrete bank on the left of the photo is the edge of the weir opposite.

In fact, they may be over the relief tunnel that drains Shalford Meadows after a flood.

You have a super lens for that camera for that must be Woking in the distance and you must be standing somewhere on the Mount maybe above Wodeland Avenue. Or could be at Sunnydown?

Why was the tower at Stoughton called Cardwell?
John Lomas Reply

September 29, 2016 at 8:25 pm

I think the old picture is somewhere round Tumbling Bay with the rowing club on the same side as the camera and the white building above possibly Quarry Edge Hotel.

Surely that isn’t one of the brothers, if he can row why does he want a speedboat?

The modern pic is taken, I think, from somewhere around Henley Fort looking virtually due north.

Barrack Road houses and the flat-roofed buildings opposite the old Royal Hotel are visible in front of Cardwells Keep.

I don’t know what lens you have and can only guess that we are looking towards Slough (come friendly bombs) which would make the hills beyond the Chilterns and Burnham Beeches.

If the lens is that long you must have been using a tripod.
Charles Graham Reply

October 1, 2016 at 10:22 am

I believe the picture of Cardwells Keep and Woking might have been taken from the top of Guildford Castle.
Bernard Parke Reply

October 3, 2016 at 2:29 pm

This was taken 52 years ago when I was much younger!

It is one of the Guildford Rowing Club’s crews who competed most summer weekends at the Thames regattas which included Henley.

We were very keen but this did not lead to our success in winning racers.

At Windsor, in one heat, we were drawn against a blind crew and due to our cox we won only by breaking their oars at a bend in the river!
Dave Middleton Reply

October 3, 2016 at 4:47 pm

The rowers are on the river Wey, going downstream, just past the weir almost opposite the Guildford Rowing Club House and approaching the sharp left hand bend in the river.

You can just see the steps of the footbridge that leads to the A281 if you look under the bushes on the far bank.

The long distance view looks to have been taken from Stag Hill by the cathedral and the buildings in the distance beyond Cardwell’s Keep at Stoughton are in Woking town centre.

If I’ve got them correct, they are from centre left to right, Export House on top of Wolsey Place, The New Central Complex of Olympian Heights and Cardinal Place, then, to the right of the tower crane, The Centrium complex opposite the magistrates’ court and finally, the red and white looking building is Park Gate Court.
Brian Holt Reply

October 3, 2016 at 9:10 pm

This picture was taken from Shalford Meadows next to the Rowing club’s new boathouse.

The building to the right of seat with white door is the old rowing club boathouse.

The big house above is in Great Quarry, by the junction with Abbot Road.

Hidden by the trees is Jolly Farmer pub, and on the left the white building is Leroy’s boathouse.

The quirky picture was taken from the top of Woodside Road, to the left of the trees above the flats you can see the top of the old Royal Hotel its the white building. Row of houses on the left is Barrack Road, with Stoughton Barracks at the top.

In the distance are the tall buildings of Woking town centre.
Margaret Cole Reply

October 4, 2016 at 9:02 am

The river scene could be taken from Guildford rowing club with the house in Great Quarry behind.

I think the chappy you referee to could be Bernard Parke, seems to pop up everywhere.

Now the view of Stoughton Barracks and Export House Woking may have been taken from Henley Fort on The Mount, with map ruler and pen this was my calculation, not so hot on things like this!
Chris Townsend Reply

October 4, 2016 at 3:52 pm

The rowing party are near the back of the Jolly Farmer, and heading in the direction of Guildford Rowing Club.

The large building is the Quarry Edge Hotel high above Quarry Street.

I think it has since been replaced by houses at the foot of Abbot Road.

In the quirky picture I can see the former Royal Hotel on the corner of Barrack Road, and the flats opposite on the Worplesdon Road.

That’s Woking in the distance. I’ll guess David was on Stag Hill. Quite a view!
Bill and Doug Stanniforth Reply

October 4, 2016 at 5:12 pm

The river photo was taken (pre-speedboats) from Millmead Island looking towards Great Quarry.

We think the quirky photo was taken from the cathedral as the jewel in Surrey’s crown that is Woking is visible!