Where Is This? No.236

Published on: 24 Nov, 2016
Updated on: 24 Nov, 2016

By David Rose

The mystery vintage picture featured last week was the Anchor pub in Normandy, now replaced by houses and called Anchor Close.

All replies to that one were correct. However, the quirky picture proved a lot harder.

I was surprised that only Brian Holt correctly identified it. I think my clues stating from where it can be seen when coming down the A3 were not really helpful at all!

It is Clandon House – currently covered with scaffolding and plastic sheeting while renovation work progresses.

Click here to see last week’s post and all the replies and some good comments and memories of the Anchor pub.

Where is this please? Click to enlarge in a new window.

For this week’s mystery vintage picture, I don’t think we have featured it before. I don’t who the boy is, but it looks to date to about the 1930s or 40s.

The building he is standing in front of no longer exists, but the bridge in the background is a bit of a giveaway.

Where can this feature be found and what is it? Click to enlarge in a new window.

The quirky picture shows stones set in the ground to form a labyrinth. It is in a special garden for the benefit of children. 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.

Responses to Where Is This? No.236

Frank Phillipson Reply

November 25, 2016 at 1:12 am

The vintage photo is taken from Stoke Hill Lodge looking out onto Woking Road at the bridge over the River Wey Navigation.

The quirky picture is of the Seeds of Hope Children’s Garden at the eastern end of Guildford Cathedral. It is designed to help children and young people explore feelings of loss.
Dave Middleton Reply

November 25, 2016 at 10:24 am

The vintage picture is taken at the end of Riverside, near where it now meets the Woking Road.

It looks to have been taken with the Woking Road behind the boy, outside the house that used to stand where the flats numbered 2a – 2d Riverside now stand, just about opposite the entrance to GBC’s Woking Road Depot.

They look to have been built in the late 60s or 70s on the site of the old house.

The quirky picture is the brick maze, or labyrinth, in the Seeds of Hope Children’s Garden at the east end of the cathedral.

http://www.seedsofhopechildrensgarden.co.uk/
John Lomas Reply

November 25, 2016 at 10:52 am

The labyrinth is a part of the children’s garden at the east end of Guildford Cathedral. It represents winter in the four seasons theme of the gardens.

I can’t figure out the bridge though something about it rings a bell.

The car is a Morris 8 series E tourer which would date the picture as 1938 at the absolute earliest.

I wonder, who was playing Robin Hood?
Christopher Fairs Reply

November 25, 2016 at 9:05 pm

I think it is the lodge house on the corner of Riverside and Woking Road. If correct, it was one of three such lodges at entrances to Paynter’s Bellfields Estate.
Chris Townsend Reply

November 27, 2016 at 5:44 pm

I guessed that the bridge might be a giveaway to someone who’d spent years nearby at Stoke Mill, but not to all of us readers; as I thought, it’s one of the Stoke Bridges.

Was the building a lodge to Stoke Hill House, opposite the entrance to the Woking Road Depot? There’s certainly an old boundary wall of the Stoke Hill grounds remaining there.

The labyrinth is at the Seeds of Hope Children’s Garden, at the east end of Guildford Cathedral.
Brian Holt Reply

November 29, 2016 at 7:32 pm

This picture is of the Woking Road river bridge over the River Wey. The boy is in Riverside, this road junction is now blocked off. There are flats now built where the house was. This sharp left hand turn into Riverside is where a lady driver on her driving test drove into the river.

The stones set in the ground to form a labyrinth, is in the children’s garden which was opened in 2008, and is known as the Seeds of Hope Children’s Garden. It is a beautiful peaceful part of the Cathedral Grounds. The garden was designed specifically to help children and young people deal with feelings of loss.
Margaret Cole Reply

November 30, 2016 at 8:18 am

I think the bridge in the first picture might be London Road rail bridge shown from the corner of Nightingale Road with the Girls High School entrance at, as was, number 100.

The second picture is the Labyrinth in the garden at Guildford Cathedral depicting the Seeds of Hope. Two tricky ones this week it can only get better!
Bill and Doug Stanniforth Reply

November 30, 2016 at 9:32 am

Picture 1 is Woking Road river bridge. The house? is probably on the old junction of Riverside. The kid in the picture is probably the Ed practising to be Robin Hood to take from the rich and not give prizes to the poor.

Picture 2 is the Seeds of Hope garden at the cathedral. The labyrinth is a map of the planned new bus station in Guildford.

Your clumsy and defamatory remark about me has been noted. But I wouldn’t push your pedals along forest trails anytime soon without your arrow proof vest on. Ed.