Where is This? No.230

Published on: 13 Oct, 2016
Updated on: 13 Oct, 2016

By David Rose

It was Shalford Road and Park Cottages featured as last week’s mystery vintage picture in which the former turnpike road toll house could also be seen.

Among the replies were details of the toll house that was pulled down in 1933 to make way for road widening and the opening up of Pilgrims’ Way.

The ‘millstones’ seen in last week’s quirky picture are the ones that can be found in Chilworth on the bend of New Road and junction with Hornhatch Lane.

There are others in the area and they all relate to the former Chilworth gunpowder mills. Click here to see last week’s post and all the replies at the foot of it with extra information.

Which Guildford building is this that suffered due to the floods of September 1968. Click to enlarge image in a new window.

This week’s vintage mystery image dates to the famous floods of September 1968.

Which well known Guildford building is seen here with a rowing boat being tied up?

Do you recognise where this is?

The quirky picture features a bit of ornamental metalwork that is part of a fence that surrounds a modern building. As a clue, it’s near a bridge close to the town centre. Do you know where?

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.230

Dave Middleton Reply

October 13, 2016 at 4:30 pm

The flooded building is the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, with the boat being tied up outside the stage scenery door, to the left of the main entrance.

The water seems to be lapping at the door’s raised threshold, so would’ve been about two feet deep at the time. I wonder who the lady sucking her thumb is?

The sculpted iron railing is at the junction of Farnham Road and Guildford Park Road and forms part of the boundary fence of the offices at number 1 Farnham Road.

I seem to remember that the building was a challenge to build due to the type of ground it stands on and some form of special extra long piles had to be used to support it.
Bernard Parke Reply

October 13, 2016 at 5:03 pm

1: Yvonne Arnaud Theatre.

2: Office block at the junction of Guildford Park Road and Farnham Road.
John Lomas Reply

October 13, 2016 at 10:07 pm

I think the flood picture is the blue door facing the access road at the Yvonne Arnaud theatre just to the left of the entrance canopy.
The quirky picture was taken outside No 1 Farnham Rd.
Chris Townsend Reply

October 14, 2016 at 3:01 pm

The flooded building was the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre. Not much need for those sprinklers.

I spotted the fancy metalwork while stuck in a traffic jam, and thought it might make a good quirky picture; it’s near the junction of Guildford Park Road and Farnham Road, close to the railway bridge.
Brian Holt Reply

October 18, 2016 at 5:48 pm

The picture is the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Millbrook.

This door is used for loading and unloading scenery etc, as the stage door is at the side near the river. I remember this flood in September 1968, as I was a driver at Guildford Laundry “The Perfect Cleaners” at the time, and all the smaller vans were completely under flood water.

The water came up through the drains first before coming over the bank. The flood line left on the walls of the laundry showed it was flooded to a depth of seven feet.

Does anyone remember seeing all the laundry and dry-cleaning floating down the river towards Woking Road?

The laundry was not insured for flooding, as it was on the river bank, and no compensation was paid out for lost items. Customers were told it was an “Act of God”. Also, a lot was lost at the shop in Friary Street.

The ornamental metalwork is next to the Farnham Road railway bridge.
Margaret Cole Reply

October 19, 2016 at 8:29 am

The first picture is the floods at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in 1968.

It affected all the scenery and that part of the theatre was closed for a couple of weeks for the mop up.

The second one is 1 Farnham Road, on the corner of Guildford Park Road. They are executive office suites with fancy iron work railings – very swish!