Mickleham & Local History Group NEWSLETTER Volume 6 – February 2019 Editor: Sue Tatham

The Chairman writes ... t has been another busy year for help you to get started. An example of now an office. At the moment our Ithe Group’s researchers as you can what you might do is researching the archives are stored in the houses of see from the reports on our activities history of your own house. We have three committee members. We need a which follow. We would welcome the information and people who can place which is warm, dry, secure and more people to help with this work help you to do that. easily accessible with about 10 metres and to extend our activities. Would Another matter with which we would of shelving about 50 cm deep and a you like to contribute to the subjects like your help is finding a suitable spacing of about 40 cm. which we are already researching? place to store our archives. We have I look forward to seeing you at our Are there particular things in our local had to take all our material out of AGM meeting and at our other events. history which interest you? If there the National Trust offices in Warren Ben Tatham are, please get in touch so that we can Farm Barns as the room we used is [email protected] From our archives - then and now photographs

Dell Close, Mickleham in the before 1920 with the village hall on the right and Eastfield Cottage at the far end of the road.

Same view today. The village hall car park has replaced the hedge on the right. The house on the right beyond the hall was originally the police house. The 12 semi-detached cottages on the left were built by the district council in 1920. 1 Task Group Report: The Village Archives his year we have welcomed some was commissioned by William Locke Memorial have made a contribution to Tmore visitors. The first was not in the 18th century which would be a the hugely successful research project M&WLHG Contact Information strictly an historical researcher at all fitting scene for a romantic encounter! undertaken by the SHC over the period but a Californian lady called Abigail We were also visited by a number of of the Great War. To find all the above Committee Bok who is a novelist. She fell in love members of the Mortimore family who items in the SHC catalogue they are with Jane Austen as a 13-year-old and were interested in tracing the various available on reference no. 9572 and Chairman: Ben Tatham 01306 882547 [email protected] consecutively read all her books five descendants of Robert Mortimore, there are no access restrictions. Secretary: Sue Tatham 01306 882547 [email protected] times she says! Her interest did not headmaster of St Michael’s School They are also posted on the wane, and she wrote her undergrad Museum website. Treasurer: Elizabeth Moughton 01306 883040 [email protected] (then the National Schools) for 33 thesis on ‘The Watsons’ before writing years, who died in 1907. More on this Other material, minute books and Librarian: Judy Kinloch 01372 375358 [email protected] her own contemporary version of family is to be found in the report on papers, that came to light from the attic Programme Secretary: Judith Long 01372 375206 [email protected] ‘Pride and Prejudice’ which she called the churchyard. of a Westhumble resident were also Committee members: ‘An Obstinate Headstrong Girl’! Since deposited at the SHC last year. These then, possibly inspired by Box Hill, Last year we deposited at Roger Davis 01306 884505 [email protected] History Centre (SHC) a photograph date back to the period immediately she has embarked on a new series of at the end of the Second World War Rosemary Robinson 01372 378157 [email protected] album of Theodore Henry Bryant who novels, ‘The Darking Hundred’ set in when residents felt that action was Surrey circa 1800, the first of which lived with his family at Juniper Hill towards the end of the 19th century. needed on a number of fronts and was called ‘Coldharbour Gentlemen’, so formed what was then known as about the smuggling trade. One album had already been deposited some years before by a descendant the Westhumble Association. The Task Groups Abigail came to the UK again this year of the Rose family of the now sadly inaugural meeting was reported in the in order to research Fanny Burney Archives: Judy Kinloch 01372 375358 [email protected] defunct Rose’s Stores, but this one Dorking and Advertiser and the Locke family of Norbury. Her th Oral Histories: Roger Davis 01306 884505 [email protected] is of particular interest as it focuses on 20 July 1945. To view these, the heroine will we understand be one on Mickleham villagers, the church catalogue number is 9189. Last year St Michael’s Churchyard: Judith Long 01372 375206 [email protected] of William Locke’s sisters but I’m not (including late 19th century works such Michael Hallett wrote a comprehensive clear about any further details. We Mickleham Parish Magazine: Sue Tatham 01306 882547 [email protected] as the temporary iron church while account, ‘A History of the Westhumble introduced her to House restoration was carried out), and Residents’ Association’ which has Mickleham Village Hall: Ben Tatham 01306 882547 [email protected] (seen through the bars of the gates!) various notable residents. We have now been edited by Sue Tatham for and spent some time in the church been able to add to the information publication in the parish magazine; the looking at the Norbury Pew with the on the original captions in the album archive holds the full version. graffiti on the rear of the altar tomb. which are now included in the SHC We continue to catalogue the material We also arranged to visit the Templeton catalogue. This album contains a note that we hold and receive. It is being Room at and were able to written by Bryant presenting the album put on to Excel spreadsheets and now The Group’s website look through the 19th century album to the church for the interest of visitors amounts to 2017 items. www.hugofox.com/community/mickleham-westhumble-local-history-group-13483/ of the house and garden. Abigail was and parishioners and names Mrs Pack, also interested to see our archive Thanks must go to Judith Long for Manager: Roger Davis the pew opener, as custodian. It can of photographs taken at Norbury her impeccable research and her IT now be viewed on the our history during Leopold Salomon’s ownership. skills, as well as to Angela Ireland who group’s website although the quality Although these were a little later than continues to work on cataloguing the of the pictures varies. the period Abigail was interested in, historic parish magazines. she was able in particular to view the Our own research into the war service Judy Kinloch famous Painted Drawing Room which of the names on the Mickleham War M&WLHG Programme for 2019 Photographs: Village Archives • Friday 22nd February AGM at Mickleham Village Hall followed by a talk by Robin Daly ‘The Story of Broadmoor - the Village’ • Thursday 6th June Guided tour of & Charlwood Church followed by a pub lunch

• Saturday 5th October (provisional date) Village Walk along Old Road starting at the Burford Bridge end.

Views of the painted room in Norbury Park House circa 1900 2 3

>>> on the steps. In 1830 magistrates attracted a crowd of about fifty people of the pubs outside Dorking, including Our Fifth Annual General Meeting even read the Riot Act to an angry mob when he installed a television in his the Running Horses and William IV in On 24th February 2018 following the AGM of the M&WLHG in Mickleham Village Hall we were treated to a of starving labourers. On a less serious room in 1936. Mickleham, and we very much look fascinating presentation on the History of Dorking Pubs byDavid Langford. The following note, a demonstration of one of the forward to the publication of their report appeared in the April 2018 edition of the Mickleham Parish Magazine. At the end of the talk we were pleased first vacuum cleaners took place at the to hear that David and Jim plan to second book. Judith Long Time Gentlemen, Please inn and a Daily Express correspondent extend their research to cover more From July-August 2018 Mickleham Parish Magazine The Story of Dorking Pubs Photographs: From Clare McMillan, copy in Village Archives The Laundry at Flint Cottage n February 16th, following the Photograph: Village Archives OAGM of the M&WLHG, we were here are three Flint Cottages treated to a very entertaining talk by Tin Mickleham but I think the David Langford about the history of earliest is situated high up on the Dorking pubs. David, together with London Road (A24), some distance Jim Docking, thoroughly researched from the Old School House. In 1841, the subject (requiring the enjoyable James and Elizabeth Andrews (aged task of visiting the surviving pubs) for 20 and 25 respectively) from Headley an exhibition at the Dorking Museum arrived with their one-year-old son. last year and published a book on The family settled in Mickleham and the subject. Working out when and had a total of nine children. James is where the various hostelries were described as a carter or carman and we located turned out to be quite a know he was respected in the village as challenge. Pubs and beerhouses he was voted on to the Parish Council. would sometimes have their names He died sometime in the 1860s and changed and it was not uncommon by 1871 Elizabeth is described as the for landlords to take the name of a Ernest Arthur, grandfather of Clare McMillan of Westcott, head of the household with three sons pub with them when they moved to a outside the Railway Arms – now the Stepping Stones working, one as a labourer and two as different establishment. Some streets farm boys, two children at school and were also renamed. For example, East expanded along the High Street and the the power to refuse to renew a pub’s the youngest at home. services they provided were not just licence if they felt there were too many work so hard as those girls did’. Hard Street became High Street, Back Lane My information about the family and upstairs the ironing room, the stove confined to drinking. Trading such as similar premises in the area. to imagine those conditions today. became Church Street and Church the laundry comes from Mrs Dorothea in the centre and all the irons were corn pitching took place where buyers Lane is now North Street. In the 1930s David then told us about the history Puttock, born Zillah Dorothy Twort in around it.’ Another letter describes The third generation, Eleanor (Nelly) could purchase corn more cheaply than the Post Office added to the confusion of some of the individual pubs and 1896/7. As a young girl she used to how the house was fitted up as a died aged 76 in 1948 after playing a at the market. by renumbering both South Street and inns. We were intrigued to hear that visit her Uncle Jim (son of James) who laundry for the big mansion. ‘First significant role in the life of the village. the High Street. Following the construction of the the Rose and Crown on West Street was head of the family in 1881 and her a room full of tubs for washing and She was still at Flint Cottage in 1938. coppers going to boil clothes and the David explained that the records from turnpike road in the mid-18th century (where Christique is now located) had Aunt Ann who at this time was running Her sister Kate died in 1944 in Thorn long dolly sticks. I’d see them all but the 1892 Dorking Petty Sessions were an and the resulting improvements in an underground passage leading from a flourishing laundry business, most Cottage aged 71. Both married but was not allowed to stay in there as invaluable resource. These documents road travel, several coaching inns were the cellar to a brothel across the street. likely for the Gordon Clark family at Kate’s husband was killed in 1941 on it was all steam. We sat in the front contain detailed information about established, the Bull’s Head on South In contrast, the Wheatsheaf on the High Mickleham Hall. About six or seven the London Road and Nelly’s husband room where the piano and organ each of the licensed premises in the Street and the White Horse on the High Street (now home to the Quilt Room) girls were employed, ‘mostly from the was a rogue who married her for her was.’ ‘Myself I loved to go into the area, including the names of both Street being notable examples. With the had a large cock fighting pit in the cellar. Home in Dorking’. Dorothea in her money. ironing room upstairs. Everything owner and licensee, whether tied to coming of the railway a century later and The inn was also, reputedly, home to old age was an inveterate letter writer There is much to tell about the was scrubbed snow white, a big stove a brewery, distance from the nearest the growing popularity of Box Hill, more the largest hog in the land. After the from her nursing home in Reigate and Andrews family and I shall write more in the centre of the room and all the licensed house and the accommodation licensed premises opened, including the hog and its keeper disappeared, the her letters make fascinating reading in future. The photograph shows the irons were around it as the stove was available. The type of clientele was also Railway Arms in Westhumble (now the landlord reared a replacement hog. about her childhood in Dorking and girls holding the tools of their trade, so hot all day. Long tables to iron on recorded, such as tradesmen, working Stepping Stones). On the death of this second one, visits to Mickleham where a rabbit was apart from the third on the right who the landlord had it stuffed and put and the girls would talk to me as they men or 'respectable class of people'! In 1830 the Beerhouse Act reduced always a present to take home. holds a kitten! Judy Kinloch ironed great long table cloths and restrictions and taxes on the brewing on display where it became quite an We learned about the major factors Dorothea tells us how the cottage then to goffer* the lace with special Goffer - make wavy, flute or crimp and sale of beer. The government attraction. influencing the growth and decline was organised. ‘In the house was the tools and to damp the starched (a lace edge, a trimming etc) with wanted to encourage people to drink The Red Lion, also on the High Street, of the pubs, namely the town market washing room, all tubs and things; things. Well I never seen anyone heated irons. and trading, transport and travel and, beer rather than spirits to reduce public was built on the site formerly occupied perhaps the most significant, the drunkenness. Consequently, the number by one of the town’s oldest inns, the Licensing Acts. In the late 16th and early of beerhouses increased significantly. By Cardinal’s Hat, and has now been th 17th centuries pubs such as the Queen’s the end of the 19 century there were replaced by the rather less attractive Our Scrapbook hen the local history group was formed in 2014 one of our first activities was to start a scrapbook of clippings Arms, the Chequers and the Bell opened 46 licensed premises in the parish of building housing Oxfam and Vision and articles about our area and its residents that appear in current newspapers. Wendy Roberts was our near the old market hall which was Dorking. However, the influence of the Express. The Red Lion was one of the W first scrapbook custodian and when she moved away Rosemary Robinson took over the task. The scrapbook close to Pump Corner where one of the temperance movement and the 1904 most important inns in Dorking. Court will be on show at the AGM. If you see anything relevant in the press, please will you take a copy or check that town’s main wells was located. More Licensing Act resulted in the closure of sessions were held there, and election Rosemary has one for the scrapbook. licensed premises opened as the market some. The 1904 Act gave magistrates results announced Continued >>> 4 5 From February 2018 Mickleham Parish Magazine Photograph: State Library of NSW >>> Lady Tichborne, offered a reward that followed was then one of the Mickleham & Westhumble Local History Group for information about her son. In longest in English legal history, lasting 1865, a poor Australian immigrant from 23 April 1873 to 28 February Hidden Histories named Thomas Castro, thereafter 1874. Public opinion was divided over known as 'The Claimant', declared the case, with many in the working As you may know, members of the Mickleham & Westhumble Local History Group are in the process of himself to be the missing Roger, who classes believing it exemplified their recording the grave inscriptions in St Michael’s churchyard. Some of the names recorded are familiar, by then would have become the difficulties in obtaining justice through others new to us and it is impossible not to be intrigued by the personal stories behind these gravestones. 11th Baronet. Lady Tichborne was the legal system. Walter Nangle testified We have researched some of these 'hidden histories' and in this article, the first of an occasional series, convinced by the Claimant, despite that he was intimately acquainted introduces Colonel Nangle who had some very unexpected family connections. the fact he was significantly heavier with Roger Tichborne in Paris and was than her son, of poor education and constantly in his company. He said the Colonel Walter Chidiock Nangle had little knowledge of French. Other Claimant had failed to recognise him family members believed him to be an twice since returning to and a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. them at a cottage in Hampshire so they impostor and their investigations led bore no resemblance to Roger. The He served in Canada, Jamaica and the could only have lived in Mickleham for to the discovery that he was possibly Claimant was found guilty of perjury Crimean War, where he witnessed the a brief period before Walter’s death. Arthur Orton, born in Wapping, who and sentenced to fourteen years in prison. He died in poverty in 1898 and capture of Sebastopol. In February Colonel Nangle’s obituary appeared had lived in South America before was buried in Paddington cemetery. The 1855 he married Mary Annesley, in newspapers throughout Britain immigrating to . th Tichborne family allowed the name 'Sir granddaughter of the 11 Viscount (including the Shetland Times!) A civil case was brought in 1871, which Roger Charles Doughty Tichborne' to Valentia. For the next twenty years, like and almost all referred to him as a the Claimant hoped would confirm his be placed on his coffin and the name many others in the military, he moved witness in the Tichborne trial. This identity. However, the jury rejected Tichborne was entered in the burial repeatedly with his growing family now a forgotten case, involving a his claims and he was arrested on records. 'The Claimant' c1880 e found Colonel Nangle’s in tow. A short stay at Sandhurst was claimant to the Tichborne baronetcy, charges of perjury. The criminal trial Judith Long Wheadstone by chance. It lay followed by several years at Woolwich fascinated Victorian society in the under a tree, covered by dead leaves, in the 1860s. By then a Captain, he was 1860s and 1870s. The case hinged on and some distance from the actual transferred to the Control Department the disappearance of Roger Tichborne, From December 2018 Mickleham Parish Magazine grave. According to the inscription, and appointed Assistant Controller heir to the baronetcy. Roger was Walter Chidiock Nangle, late Royal (equivalent to Lieutenant-Colonel) of Walter Nangle’s cousin, Roger’s father Local History Group visit to the Workhouse Artillery, died aged 70 in 1900. His the depot at Bull Point in Devon where being the brother of Walter’s mother. father came from Ireland and his 40,000 barrels of gunpowder were Roger’s parents did not have a happy mother was the daughter of Sir Henry stored. During his time at Woolwich and ‘The Spike’ marriage and he was brought up in Paris Photographs: Stephanie Randall Tichborne, Bart. The Mickleham burial Bull Point he had three patents granted by his French mother, speaking mostly e associate workhouses with in 1906 to separate the ‘undesirable’ register confirmed that he was buried provisionally, for inventions relating to French. In 1854, while sailing from bowls of gruel, Oliver Twist and vagrants from the routine of the actual th W in 1900, on 26 September, and gave armour plating and to improvements South America to Jamaica, the ship sank Charles Dickens. Provision for the poor workhouse. Each cell measured 2.4m x his address as Cowslips, Mickleham (in in paints for coating metals, although and Roger was presumed drowned. was not a matter of which we can be 1.4m (8’ by 4.6’) and had a simple bed Norbury Park) and his age as 69 (which these later became void due to non- Rumours suggested that survivors of proud. The origins of the ‘Old Poor frame. There was no sanitary provision, was correct). Judy Kinloch pointed payment of the required stamp duty. the wreck had been taken to Australia Law’ date from the 15th century, with merely a bucket. There was a room out that, given the unusual names, he In 1874 Walter was posted to Gibraltar and Roger’s mother, Continued >>>> the decline of the monasteries. Charity with one, maybe two enamelled tubs, might be related to Chidiock Tichborne, where five years later his wife died Photograph: State Library of NSW was gradually replaced by a land tax but the same bath water was shared an Elizabethan poet remembered now tragically after fracturing her skull in levied at parish level. The Poor Law multiple times. Considering the skin for his Elegy which begins: 'My prime a fall. Between 1860 and 1875 Mary Act that we recall from school history diseases, sores, infection, lice and worse of youth is but a frost of cares'. These Nangle had given birth to ten children lessons came about in 1601. Nearly … well, it hardly bears thinking about. words are made more poignant on of whom two died in early childhood. all workhouses were built to a design To occupy a ‘cell’ for the night a discovering they were written to his Not only had Walter now to cope with by Scott and Moffat, few remain, but homeless person (mostly men, although wife on the eve of his execution for the loss of his wife but he was also left there is an intact one in Tavistock. there were a few women) was expected treason in 1586. Tichborne, a staunch with six children still under the age of The workhouse in Guildford was built to pay and if he could not pay, he had Catholic, had taken part in the failed sixteen. Perhaps due to this situation in 1838 as a result of the Poor Law to work. The illustration shows one of Babington Plot to murder Elizabeth I he left Gibraltar to become Chief of Amendment Act of 1834. It housed four grids each measuring about 90 homeless. Ships had sails and sails need and put the Catholic Mary, Queen of the Ordnance Department in Ireland, the, ‘forgotten classes of Victorian cm by 60 cm (3’x 2’). The expectation rope, lots of rope. Old ropes could be Scots, on the throne. He was a second before transferring to Portsmouth England: the poor, the infirm, the ill was to crush about 100 kg of rock into re-sold if the hemp was broken down cousin of Sir Benjamin Tichborne from and retiring as an honorary Colonel in and the destitute’. On old town maps, pieces small enough to pass through into strands, which was done using a whom Colonel Nangle’s mother was 1885. In 1883 he married Alicia Almeira the workhouse would be found in the small slots, about the size of a pointed tool, known as a spike. Hence descended. The stain of treason on the Mackenzie and, although his personal Union Street, although the name was matchbox. It was dusty, back-breaking the expression, money for old rope. family name did not however prevent life presumably improved, his finances later ‘updated’ when the workhouse work conducted in a space with barely For more information go to www. Sir Benjamin being created a Baronet deteriorated until he was declared was demolished. Guildford’s Union enough room to swing a sledgehammer. guildfordspike.co.uk. How fortunate we by James I. bankrupt in 1889. This did not prevent Street was re-named Warren Road in Supper was broth, bread and maybe are to have modern plumbing, sprung Walter Chidiock Nangle was born in the Nangles from remaining in their about 1966. some cheese. mattresses and families that love us. Lymington, Hampshire in 1831. In house in Kensington, as Walter was still The Spike you can see today is a So why, I hear you say, is it called The Have a lovely Christmas. 1849, after two years as a Gentleman on the Kensington Electoral Register in Roger Tichborne purpose-built Casual Ward erected Spike? It relates to another task for the Stephanie Randall Cadet, he earned his commission as 1896. Kelly’s Directory for 1898 lists 6 7 From March 2018 Mickleham Parish Magazine Mickleham & Westhumble Local History Group Task Group Report: The Churchyard Photograph: Village Archives udy Kinloch and I have made good The Village Archives Jprogress this year and finished recording the inscriptions in the oldest in the archive and cover many areas and Bencomb, now Glenrose, built in his year we have donated to the part of the churchyard. Comparing our of contention that have arisen over its place. Our research showed that it Surrey History Centre (on long results with the information from the T the years, such as the plans to reduce was leased to Allan Chaplin while he loan) the minutes and records of the 1913 map of the churchyard and the the tragic accidents on the A24, and was serving in Ootacamund in India Westhumble Residents’ Association descriptions of the graves recorded the leasing of Norbury Park to Surrey in 1898; he and his wife built the from 1945-2017. They can be viewed by Alfred Bax in the 1890s, we found Wildlife Trust. Ranging from historical new house and lived there until their at the SHC in Woking, reference nos. several differences. A significant planning applications to allotment deaths; both are buried in Mickleham 9189/1 and 9189/2. Mick Hallett has number of graves were originally holdings, the scope is hugely various. churchyard. Later it was occupied produced an extensive account of the enclosed by railings which have since Currently these papers are being by William Whitely, the department contents which we intend to make disappeared (perhaps removed to catalogued and entered on the archive store owner. The name Annie Besant available to members soon. help the war effort in the early 1940s) spreadsheets, as are the many items is one we have come across before Other donations (approved by the and, confusingly, some headstones are that add to our growing collection of as she is said to have led the strike of PCC) include assorted churchyard not in the positions recorded on the the village’s history. the matchwork girls who worked for plans, a second Bryant photograph original map. The summer heatwave Bryant & May (Bryant being the owner album of village scenes and We have dealt with a number of helped us locate one grave when we of Juniper Hill in the late 19th century.) parishioners, including the late 19th queries over the past year, some of noticed a large rectangular patch of century restoration when the church which are covered in the churchyard Every bit of research leads to grass, slightly browner than the rest. was closed and services took place in section. We spent some time looking another. Looking for The Cottage we Pupils at Mickleham National Schools with Headmaster Robert Mortimore circa 1900. Mrs The grass proved to be just a thin Mortimore and daughters Grace and Evelyn, all teachers at the school, are pictured top right. an iron building, and other records of for the history and whereabouts of discovered a lot about Pinehurst, the layer covering a large stone slab which Mickleham history written by Samuel a house called simply The Cottage, coachman’s/gardener’s cottage (now marked the grave of Joseph Nicholson, th Mr and Mrs Mortimore were highly Once again, we would like to thank Eric Woods in the 19 century. These can which is shown on the 1895 Ordnance Little Pinehurst) and another that buried in 1820. respected and much-loved members Flint and his team for their continuing also be seen at the SHC, reference nos. Survey map but which was very was then called Coal House Cottage. All the inscriptions in the churchyard of the community. In 1899, in maintenance of the churchyard. 9752/1, 9752/1/2, 9752/1/3, 9752/2. hard to pinpoint. Our enquirer was There is a tablet in the tower of the have now been recorded, except appreciation of 25 years of service to Judith Long If you order the day before, they looking for a guesthouse where Annie church which records a grant of land for those on the most recent graves the school and in celebration of their can be available on arrival. All these Besant and Charles Leadbetter of the by Henry Thomas Hope of Deepdene which we will look at in the spring. silver wedding anniversary, they were documents have been digitally copied *Theosophist movement had stayed for the benefit of the Mickleham Coal We have begun checking some of presented with a cheque for £65 and Photographs: Judith Long for our archive. while developing her clairvoyant Charity. A cottage was built on the site the inscriptions recorded at the given a glowing testimonial to which After the sad and sudden death of powers and astral vision. They received ‘furnishing a lodgement for the coals beginning of the project (when we more than 200 people subscribed. Richard Roberts-Miller, Fiona asked important guests of the movement and and the rent of it is appropriated to were very much ‘learning by doing’) Their three surviving children, that we take away the records that used to conduct their psychic research the funds of the charity’. The grant for any errors and omissions. Several daughters Grace and Evelyn and son Richard had kept of Parish Council in the back garden before walking up was made in 1839 and vested in two people have offered to help us in the Robert Charles (a second son, Percy, business over the 20 years that he the hill. There was a good reason for trustees who charged a peppercorn churchyard and, with their assistance, died aged 3), also made important was chairman. Unless needed by the our difficulty as we finally discovered rent for 99 years, ‘reversible to the we expect to complete this task next contributions to village life. Grace current PC these papers will be lodged that it must have been demolished donor and his heirs when not used for summer. and Evelyn both became teachers at the purpose for which it was given.’ In June we were visited by the school and Robert Charles was The space for coal storage is still to members of the Mortimore family, the church choirmaster and organist, be seen under one of the bedrooms, descendants of Robert James plus a stalwart of the Cricket Club. supported on columns. It is now owned Mortimore, headmaster of the Robert James died in 1907, aged 60, by the National Trust, given in lieu of Mickleham National Schools (now after a brief illness and his obituary death duties by the Corbet Hue family St Michael’s School) for 33 years. in the Dorking Advertiser described who then lived at Pinehurst and was Ten family members are buried in him as ‘beloved by every child whom the main benefactor of St Faith’s Trust St Michael’s churchyard. Robert and he had taught’. Jessie moved to 2 for children in destitute or straitened his wife Jessie, the headmistress Thorn Cottages on the London Road circumstances and unmarried mothers. 2 of the school, came to Mickleham (now the A24) where she remained Mortimore family gravestone We are happy to research any topic of in 1874, the year of their marriage. until her death in 1928. in the churchyard. local interest that members would like 1 to explore. 4 Judy Kinloch *Theosophy: occult movement originating M&WLHG Website 3 in the 19th century with roots that can t seems that every organisation, photographs from the archives. There it does several articles about people, be traced to ancient Gnosticism and Ifrom the local cub pack to the UK is also a page that will give you details places and events that are linked to Neoplatonism. The term theosophy, Government has a website – and of our upcoming events including the history of our community. theos derived from the Greek (‘god’) and the Mickleham & Westhumble Local outings to places of local historical Roger Davis sophia (‘wisdom’), is generally understood History Group is no different! significance, interesting talks and to mean ‘divine wisdom’. Encyclopaedia Britannica We are slowly increasing the content guided walks that often include a If you haven’t already, Detail from 1895 OS map showing: on our website to include more pub lunch! The newsletter page is please visit www. 1. The Cottage; 2. Coal House Cottage; articles of local interest and more also well worth a visit, containing as micklehamwesthumblehistory.co.uk 8 3. Pinehurst; 4. Pinehurst Cottage. 9 From April 2018 Mickleham Parish Magazine Photographs: Ben Tatham

The Norman Church >>> and starting the chancel there was a change in how to measure due east, Of Weeping Chancels and Lepers’ Squints which the altar should face. There is Second in a series of occasional articles on the history of Mickleham Church a theory that in medieval times east was determined by the position of y first article dealt with the the sunrise on the church’s patronal Mchurch that was recorded in the feast day. A poem written in 1823 by 1086 Domesday Book. This has been Wordsworth supports this view. described as having a flint tower and Our churches, invariably perhaps, stand east a straight nave and chancel, probably and west, but why is by few persons exactly timber-built, about half the length of the known; nor that the degree of deviation from due east often noticeable in the ancient ones present one. We also speculated that it was determined, in each particular case, by could have been built originally, as early the point in the horizon at which the sun rose as 970 AD but that the nave may have upon the day of the saint to whom the church was dedicated. been destroyed and re-built following various Viking invasions. Archaeological Subsequent studies have questioned data suggests that it might have been the scientific basis for this theory. built on a previous high-status Roman Much more sound is the suggestion site. This time we will look at the 11th that the calculations were done century Norman church. using a magnetic compass. This had been invented in the 11th century Local historian Ronnie Shepperd records Plan of the 1180 church superimposed on the footprint of today’s church by the Chinese and studies suggest that c 1140 is given as the date for the Left: The squint from the inside; Right: Outside view of west end of church inside. The springing of the arches was sometimes called a weeping chancel. that it may have arrived in western tower (incorporating the lower portion showing position of the squint. about four feet from the paving of the In Victorian times it was thought to Europe as early as the late 12th of the Saxon structure including the church and all above that was solid flint. represent the dying Christ’s head century. This subject continues to be in the 19th century so that those seated the altar and thus the raising of the window mentioned in the last article) In typical Norman (Romanesque) style falling to his shoulder and was more studied by church scholars. in the gallery which was being added host. From the inside of the church our and nave with a south aisle. The chancel the rounded arches between the nave often fond in a cruciform (built in could see into the chancel. squint appears far too high to serve was added later, c 1180. Later building Present day calculations show that and the south aisle were supported by the shape of a cross) churches of this this purpose, but outside one can see work revealed that rude arches formed St Michael's realigned chancel does Being able to see the ‘raising of the round pillars. These were made of rock period. Ecclesiastical architects do not that the ground level reaches part-way the heart of the lower walls. These indeed face close to due east. host’ was vital in the Roman Rite of chalk, possibly taken from the mine in recognise this explanation. up the wall (and may have been even 18-to-24-inch diameter arches varied Despite extensive rebuilding in Victorian Mass when the consecrated elements Westhumble. This gives us the picture higher in the 12th century) so that the in height and were formed of rough, One must then ask what other reason times several original features of the of bread and wine are raised and shown of a simple unpretentious building with squint was easily accessible. untooled Reigate stones 6 x 7 inches might there be for this misalignment Norman church can be seen today. The to the people during the celebration of a large tower. square and 5 feet long, placed on their in churches of a certain age. It is four lancet windows in the side-walls the Eucharist. The church described here remained ends. The tops of the arches were One feature of Mickleham Church is possible that it was merely a builder’s of the chancel date from this time as This necessity brings us to another essentially unchanged, but for a that the chancel was not built in line miscalculation when the chancel was does the chancel arch. This arch shows original feature: the small window few additions eg windows, doors, roughly made. The remainder of the th wall was built with rounded flint stones with the nave. This is occasionally added to the nave. Another possible, a double chevron bead and dogtooth in the west wall of the south aisle. porch, steeple etc, until the early 16 and rubble, heavily plastered on the found in ancient churches and is and in my opinion more plausible, ornament resembling the style of a Often referred to as leper’s squints century when what we now know as explanation is that during the years chapel arch in the castle at Caen, built or hagioscopes, these small windows the Norbury Chapel was built on the north side. That will be the subject of between finishing the nave Continued >>> by William the Conqueror. Originally were built with inside walls angled so the next article. Photographs: Ben Tatham the arch was much lower but was raised that those looking through could see Sue Tatham Task Group Report: Oral Histories don’t know about you but I regret not find information about that period in have found a former pupil who started Iasking my parents and grandparents history but that’s really no substitute in 1937…. can anyone beat that? Our more about their early lives. It didn’t for hearing people tell their own hope is to record the reminisces of a seem important when I was young stories in their own way. This is where ‘relay of pupils’ passing on the baton and then, as I grew older, I had other oral histories become so important until we reach someone still attending priorities such as work and a family and during the past year we have the school. Of course a school is more of my own. Apart from a few basic dusted off our microphone to record than just its pupils, so we also plan facts I know very little about their the reminiscences of members of to interview other members of the daily existence. Was life hard in early our community who have been kind school community including staff th 20 century London? Did they have enough to allow us a fascinating and representatives of the parents. happy memories of their childhood? glimpse into their long and full lives. Please let us know if you would like What were their memories of the to contribute to this project, or if you We have now started a new project for blitz? So many things – but alas, would like to tell us about your life so 2019 based on recording memories of as they are no longer with us, I’ve future generations will be able to hear St Michael’s School, Mickleham. For One of the original lancet windows. missed my opportunity to have those how we all lived in the ‘olden days’. Note the thickness of the wall. The conversations. Yes, of course I can our first interview in this series we Current photograph showing the off-centre chancel with its original 12th century arch. stained glass is a Victorian addition. Roger Davis 10 11 Photographs: Ben Tatham From November 2018 Mickleham Parish Magazine From December 2018 Mickleham Parish Magazine Lest We Forget Mickleham & Westhumble Local History Group The Batchelor Family History of the Norbury Chapel children, including Leonard, living at 1 Lancelot, born in August 1900, was too Readers who find themselves in St Michael's over the Christmas season may find it interesting Elm Cottages on Byttom Hill. young for full military service but he to learn more about the side chapel on the north side of the nave. It seems hardly surprising that after joined the Royal Flying Corps as a ‘boy’ he first two parts of this series on appeals were made for army volunteers, in 1917 before transferring to the RAF Tthe history of Mickleham Church following Britain’s declaration of war on his eighteenth birthday for the last dealt with the first church, built by the on Germany in August 1914, Percy, few weeks of the war. The signing of the Saxons, and the 11th century church a grocer, and his brother Horace, a Armistice must have been a cause for built after the Norman Conquest. carpenter, were keen to enlist. With celebration in the Batchelor family with Although there were additions of a their mother dead and the family living all four sons who served in the military porch, steeple and various windows in cramped conditions, they no doubt having survived the war. Sadly, their in the ensuing years, the next major viewed going to war as something of disabled brother Leonard died a few change to the footprint was the an adventure. They travelled to the days later and was buried in Mickleham building of a mortuary chapel onto the th recruitment office in Kingston on the on the 20 November. northern wall of the building. Mortuary th th Chapel 30 August and joined the 7 Battalion After the war, Lancelot, Horace and William Wyddowson (surname spelt of the East Surrey Regiment. This was Ted joined their father in his building in various ways), Lord of the Manor the same battalion to which Harry company, all of them living to begin with of Fredley and a patron of Mickleham Edgington (their Mickleham classmate at 1 Elm Cottages, with sisters Queenie Church, built the mortuary chapel a who died in France in 1917) had been and Georgina. In the mid-1920s the few years before his death in 1514. Plan of the church in 1514 showing the new chapel. At this time it had three outside walls, with s the centenary of the 1918 assigned ten days earlier. Horace was family built and moved to Mon Repose It is constructed of rock chalk and access only from the nave. Some of the historic accounts refer to the presence of a hagiascope AArmistice approaches, our given service number 463 and Percy on School Lane, running their business firestone. The chalk probably came or squint to enable worshippers in the chapel to see the lifting of the host during the mass. thoughts inevitably turn to those who 465 (who received 464 I wonder?). from Batchelor’s Yard nearby. Even after from the chalk mine in Westhumble, died for their country in the First World in September the Dorking Advertiser the brothers married they stayed on in now the Bat Caves. The stones were king Hary the 8th on whoos soul When Leopold Salomon bought War, their names commemorated on published a list of fifty-eight Mickleham Mickleham: Lancelot at Mon Repose, arranged in a chequerboard pattern, lys God have mercy. Ame Norbury Park in 1890, and the estate countless memorials in the countries men who had joined the army. This Horace in one of the newly-constructed very unusual in this part of the country. Sometime around 1541 Thomas was no longer entailed he was able to where they lived, worked and died. included their brother George Victor houses in Dell Close and Ted back at Elm Not only is this pattern visible on the Stidolph of Norbury bought a part of give permission to open up the chapel However, the names of those who (by then no longer living in Mickleham) Cottages until he moved to Downs View outside of the building, it can also be the Fredley property which probably with an arch into a new north aisle, survived their war service are not of the Royal Engineers. He is almost (which may also have been built by the seen from the north aisle, which was included the rights to the chapel. formed by extending the north wall by always so easy to find. With that in certainly the George V Batchelor who family). Georgina married and moved th only built in the late 18 century with Since 1326 there had been a private three meters. mind, this is the story of the Batchelor was awarded the Military Medal in to Dorset, whereas Queenie remained an archway giving access to the chapel. chapel in Norbury House, but with Over the years many embellishments, family of Mickleham who sent four 1917. single and moved to 2 Thorn Cottages Photograph: Andrew Tatham the dissolution of the monasteries in windows and memorial have been sons off to war. th in the 1950s. She died at Pinehurst The 7 Battalion arrived in France in 1541, Reigate Priory, which provided added to the chapel. In the next part th Nursing Home in 1990 and there is a George Sylvester Batchelor, a bricklayer, June 1915 and from the 30 September the priest for this chapel, ceased of this series we will look at many of bench in St Michael’s churchyard in and his wife Annie moved to 5 Chalkpit took part in the Battle of Loos, followed to function. The family then used the artefacts in the Norbury Chapel. Cottages in Mickleham after they by the Action of the Hohenzollern memory of her. The last remaining Wyddowson’s chapel which became Sue Tatham married in 1890. Their first son, George Redoubt on the 13th October. Both sibling was Ted who died in 1995. Eleven known as the Norbury Pew. Photo © Tate / CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 (Unported) Victor, was baptised at St Michael’s Horace and Percy were wounded members of the Batchelor family are in February 1891 and over the next during this period and Horace’s wounds buried in the churchyard and I wonder fifteen years five more sons and two were sufficiently serious that he was if George and Annie would have been View from the north aisle of the patterned daughters were born. Three of the boys declared to be no longer fit for service. surprised to know that, almost 130 stonework on the chapel wall above the arch. in particular were given rather unusual He was transferred to a hospital in years after they arrived in Mickleham, The altar tomb was placed against names: Lancelot Barrington, Percival Lincoln where he wrote to Edward a significant number of local residents the north wall; the niche in the wall Broughton and Edward Septimus (later Davies, the Mickleham Parish Clerk. still personally remember some of their above contained two kneeling brass known as Boy, Percy and Ted). By 1900 His letter, published in the Dorking children. figures with scrolls written in Latin George Sylvester, now a builder, had Advertiser, describes how he was hit But what became of Percy? He pursued issuing from their mouths. Several of become landlord of the William IV, by shrapnel and that 'the fellows all a very different career, spending a the brasses have been lost, probably where the family lived for the next ten kept wonderfully cool, though I guess large fraction of the 1930s and 1940s stolen quite some time ago. Under the years. They must have been difficult it takes more than a shell or two now living and working in Nigeria and figures are the words: years because, in 1903, son Leonard, to frighten us, for we are used to these the Gold Coast (now Ghana). Ships’ Here lyeth the body of William aged 11, fell out of a tree on Mickleham long since'. He was given a Silver War passenger lists show that he always Wyddolkson, citizen and mercer of Downs, fractured his spine and became Badge, awarded to service personnel travelled first class and his occupation London, and of the parish church paralysed. Further tragedy struck who had been honourably discharged was given as either accountant or of Mekyllham late Patron, and when Annie died in 1910, aged only due to wounds or sickness. These were company representative. In 1947 he here also lyeth ye body of Johne 48. Soon after her death the family worn on civilian clothes and prevented and his wife moved to Guernsey where hys wife, which dessecyd the XXVII left the William IV. The 1911 census the recipients from being accused of he died in 1986. View of church showing Norbury Chapel entitled 'Mickleham Church, Surrey c.1796 by Judith Long day of Septe'br the Vth yere of Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin'. Part of the Turner bequest held by the Tate. shows George and seven of his eight cowardice by avoiding military service. 12 13 From October 2018 Mickleham Parish Magazine >>> constructed and all services connected to each site. Pilgrims Way A HISTORY OF THE WESTHUMBLE & Close were about 60% completed, but the remaining roads had only a scattering of houses. Plots were being RESIDENTS’ ASSOSCIATION sold at around £10 per ft of frontage – Part 1 - Early Westhumble as we know it 1933 – 1947 about £250 – £400 per plot. Completed houses in Pilgrims Way were selling at hen I was asked to write a history Westhumble, as we now know it, was more numerous male workers (mainly £1,350 – £1,650. These were expensive Wof the Westhumble Residents’ mainly the Camilla Lacey Estate which gardeners and home farm labourers) – at that time, semi-detached houses Association (WRA) (originally the comprised virtually all the land between bedded down in Postern House. The in Morden and Sutton fetched £850 - Westhumble Association – WA) I found the railway and Chapel Farm. In 1931 maids had to rise at 5 am to clean the £1,000. it much more onerous than I had the owner Victor Freeman died and his house, light fires etc and retired at The war ended in 1945, and there was expected. I have read through all the executors found he was deeply in debt, 7 pm when the housekeeper locked a desperate need for more houses to available minutes and found that they, having lost most of his fortune in the them upstairs in our house to avoid replace those demolished by bombing. like most minutes, record the decisions great depression. This was the end of any hanky panky! However, she, with However, the country was in the grips made at committee meetings and not a way of life in the ‘Big House’. As an a twinkle in her eye, said the lads at of severe austerity with very few the stories behind those decisions. example, in 1968 an elderly lady called Postern House knew where the ladders cars, rationing and a lack of building Therefore, I have had to dig deep to at Burney Cottage, my house, and asked were! materials. This led to building licences research the background that led to to come in as she used to live there. It To return to our main story. In 1933 limiting new houses to 1,000 sq ft of the WRA being involved in the various turned out that in the 1920s she was Knight, Frank and Rutley sold the estate floor space. Many of these houses in problems. The net result is that my a tweenie (between floors maid) at to a Mr Dibden, but he died before Westhumble are still standing, although discoveries have led to what amounts Camilla Lacey and she regaled us with completion and the estate was then most have now been extended. to a brief history of Westhumble since stories of the then upstairs/downstairs split up and sold to various developers. The rapid growth of the community WW2. I have also added a few of my life. At that time, the unmarried female The net result was that by 1939 all the prompted several prominent residents to own recollections. staff lived at Burney Cottage and the estate roads had been Continued >>> take action to solve problems that needed urgent solutions. Westhumble did not Plan showing how the Camilla Lacey Estate have a parish council and they decided to was divided for auction. However the whole form a Westhumble Association. estate was bought by a young Property The inaugural meeting was held on 19th Developer, Lionel Dibden who had already July 1945 at The Railway Arms – now the developed much land around Sutton and Stepping Stones Public House, with 80 other areas of Surrey. He and his wife were groceries, meat and bread. When It took five years of negotiation for the killed in one of the early passenger airline residents attending. Sir James Jeans of we arrived in the ‘60s many of these present lights to be erected. Cleveland Lodge was elected president disasters in 1933. services had ceased. • A village hall: There was nowhere and Judge Lloyd-Jacob KC of Fredley Lot 1 – All the portion north of Chapel Lane, • Bus stop and shelter: The stop near the to meet in the village except at the as chairman. Rules were agreed (to including mansion, numerous buildings and corner of Westhumble Street and the Railway Arms which was not suitable for include members from Fredley which parkland. In the end the house with five A24 was request only with no shelter. children’s parties etc. It was proposed acres was bought by E J Baker founder of at that time was considered part of After much negotiation, a shelter and that Cleveland Lodge Barn (by the bridge Baker Motors Ltd who divided the mansion, Westhumble) and arrangements made compulsory stop were agreed in 1947. and now converted to a house) would be naming the smaller portion Burney House. to have the rules, membership cards suitable. It was occupied by the YMCA He also converted the old riding stables and headed notepaper printed. Sub- • NAAFI buildings in the field on the whose lease expired in 1946. However, – latterly the garage – into a residence committees were formed to deal with corner of Westhumble Street and the as Burney Cottage, and the guest house Sir James Jeans would only accept yearly specific issues. A24: These had been erected in 1943 became Postern House. The remainder of to serve the Canadian Army billeted in tenancies and it was considered unwise Lot 1 became Camilla Park. The WA flourished. By the end of the Mickleham and Westhumble prior to to spend a considerable sum to make it first year, membership had grown to 197 Lot 2 – That portion south of Chapel Lane, D-Day in 1944 and were now redundant suitable without a long lease. The need and at least ten committee meetings consisting of the Home Farm and all its and an eyesore. The WA pressed for for a hall rumbled on for a further 20 buildings. This land plus Camilla Park was were held to deal with the many urgent them to be removed. years without an acceptable solution developed as a new residential estate, matters: being found. • An open space (children’s playground): principally Camilla Drive, Pilgrims Way, • The need for a shop and sub-post Pilgrims Close and Burney Road. As there were young families moving Sir James Jeans resigned as President office: As few cars were owned and into the newly-constructed houses, a at the AGM in December 1946 over Lot 3 – A brick and tiled 'Block of Superior petrol was rationed until the early 1950s Modern Cottages' near the Drive Entrance, large plot at the very far end of Pilgrims the issue of the YMCA and Judge Lloyd- all shopping had to be done via a bus all vacant. These were bought by Anne Way was identified and could be Jacob took his place with Mr Burrell as or train. It was proposed to rebuild the Weaver's great-uncle Earnest Fitter. Anne purchased for £800. This was excessive Chairman. Michael Hallett ‘blue box’ (the kiosk in the station’s and Gerry live in one of these cottages today. – £400 was thought to be the value. The car park opposite the entrance to the ditor's note: The two maps and further One of the developers of Pilgrims Way was developer would not agree, and funds information about the development of the booking hall). The tenant however E Portwell Ltd, founded by John Portwine, who were not available. After three years the Camilla Lacy Estate was taken from The Manor was not interested and after two years with designer John Weller built the A C motor proposal failed. of Wistomble in the Parish of Mickleham, a car. They converted the Home Farm buildings the matter was dropped. It was not as local history by Ronald Shepherd, published into dwellings, and built two thatched houses dire as it sounds – in the 1950s there • Street lighting: The only light was on the in 1982 by the Westhumble Association. Now next to them for themselves. were house deliveries including milk, railway bridge and that was damaged. out of print.

14 15 From July-August 2018 Mickleham Parish Magazine >>> 20th century. The influence of Jekyll and a decorative but extremely before ending our tour in the library, and her book are apparent throughout complicated metal door lock. The where we could browse through a copy Mickleham & Westhumble Local History Group the house, from the combination of Skittle Alley was popular with our of Old West Surrey and be thankful stone and clay tiles on the group and contains the original lignum we no longer need to suspend kettles roof to the hole in one of the gables vitae balls. Running along the south over open fires and use warming pans Visit to made for an owl. side of the house it was often used in our beds as illustrated in the book. Inside the house, the Common Room, by Abinger villagers in the evenings. As we made our way back through the which now functions as a dining room, It was also used for village meetings garden to the car park in the sunshine was particularly impressive with after St James’s church was bombed in it was easy to see the attraction of a fireplace constructed from local 1944. Upstairs we wandered through Goddards as a holiday destination. handmade bricks, bottle glass windows a series of bedrooms and bathrooms Judith Long Update on other Research Projects n addition to the task group activities, the history of the school’s educational further research to write a series of Iindividual members of the group have development and related activities. articles on the History of Mickleham been engaged in their own research. In addition, Ben has written the first Church. The first three of these have Mick Hallett has written the history of draft of the Early Years of Mickleham been published in the parish magazine. the Westhumble Residents Association Village Hall. Here again the history of During their work on the churchyard and Barry Moughton has looked into the hall’s management and various and archives Judy Kinloch and Judith the history of Cleveland Court. activities over the years is awaiting Long have identified subjects of Goddards’ courtyard St John's Church, Abinger Ben Tatham who has been a governor further research. Angela Ireland is interest and through further research searching early 20th century parish have written individual articles about n a warm, sunny morning in June, woodpeckers were causing extensive extended the house and modernised of the school for many years has magazines for relevant information.. local individuals and families. our group assembled outside damage to the softer wood. the facilities because Mirrielees was produced the first draft of a History O of the School Buildings. We made St James’s Church in Abinger. Inside, In the churchyard we looked at the expecting his son and daughter-in-law In 2017 Sue Tatham gave the first of There is scope for much more copies of school records, logbooks we were welcomed by Tony Berry, the war memorial, designed by Edwin to move in, although it appears this her guided tours of St Michael’s Church individual research and we are hoping etc before they were passed on to Rector, and Peter Borrowdale, one of Lutyens and particularly interesting never happened. The ‘ladies of small and now she is bringing together the to generate further interest in this at the Surrey History Centre, and now the churchwardens. The interior has because it includes the name of means’ were moved to a converted information she amassed during her this year’s Annual General Meeting. we are looking for someone to tackle a very light and airy feel and much of a woman, Grace King, Dames des barn at Pasture Wood. Mirrielees died tour preparation as well as that from it is modern, for reasons that became Cantines Anglaises. These Cantines in 1914 and his widow leased the clear when Tony gave us an overview Anglaises in France were organised by property to Arthur Gibbs who bought it From our archives - then and now photographs of the history. A church in Abinger is the Women’s Emergency Corps during after she died. Arthur Gibbs was a keen recorded in the Domesday Book and WW1 to provide allied troops with local historian and a churchwarden at it is thought there may have been a meals, accommodation, cigarettes St James’s Church. He wrote a series Saxon church on the site before the and washing facilities. Grace King died of papers on the history of the church Norman Conquest. The oldest part of in Paris in 1917 and was awarded the which have been transcribed and can the current church is a 12th century Medaille des Epidemies by France and be found on the church website. Both wall opposite the entrance. Like the British War Medal. She was the he and his wife are also buried in the St Michael’s in Mickleham, St James’s daughter of an Abinger builder and is churchyard. After his death, the Hall underwent extensive alterations and buried in the churchyard with several family bought Goddards in 1953. They restorations, particularly in the 19th family members. were in the building trade and had re- century. Unfortunately, the church Following a pleasant lunch in the garden roofed Buckingham Palace. In 1991 suffered catastrophic damage on two of the Abinger Hatch, conveniently they gave Goddards to the Lutyens separate occasions in the 20th century. situated directly across the road Trust in memory of their son Lee. To In 1944 a flying bomb exploded from the church, we continued down keep Goddards properly maintained nearby and brought down the roof of Abinger Lane to Goddards where our it is now leased to the Landmark Trust the nave, the belfry and part of the guide was waiting. We learned that and used for holiday lets. walls, leaving only the 13th century Goddards was built by Edwin Lutyens Our visit was well-timed. The house Box Hill & Burford Bridge Station LB&SCR chapel intact. The organ and most of between 1898 and 1900 for Frederick was unoccupied and we were able London, and South Coast Railway became the furnishings were also destroyed. Mirrielees, a wealthy businessman to see the first-floor rooms, normally part of Southern Railway in 1923 In 1964, only thirteen years after who lived in a house nearby called off-limits to tour parties, as well as Note roof over footbridge the church had been painstakingly Pasture Wood, where Gertrude Jekyll the ground floor. Approaching the restored, lightning struck the tower was making a rock garden for him. He house from the rear we admired the and the ensuing fire caused significant wanted Lutyens to build a holiday home courtyard garden planted by Gertrude damage. Further restoration took place for ‘ladies of small means’, consisting Jekyll and surrounded on three sides and modern stained glass was installed of a Common Room with a cottage by the house. At the time the house in the east window in an eye-catching at each end, on a plot of land he had was built Gertrude Jekyll was writing Box Hill & Westhumble Station today contemporary design. More recently, acquired called Goddards. The house Old West Surrey, which describes the With Southwestern Railway trains to Waterloo and the cedar shingles on the church spire had no bathrooms and was intended rural way of life rapidly disappearing at Southern Railway trains to Victoria have been replaced with oak because for summer use only. In 1910, Lutyens the beginning of the Continued >>> 16 17 More Then and Now Photographs Mickleham School’s Buildings These photographs and notes were supplied by Ben Tatham who has been researching the history of the school.

Britain from Above (Aerofilms 1920) aerial photograph of Byttom Hill and the school. Construction of the new National School, replacing the original one on Byttom Hill, started in 1907 and its appearance had not changed by 1920 – the date of the top photograph. The fence down the middle of the playground was to separate the boys and the girls. The allotments behind the school are believed to have been a response to the food shortages in WW1 Going up Byttom Hill, Elm Cottages are on the left and further up on the right is the King Wiiliam IV, with the three Fernbank cottages attatched to the right. These have since been demolished

This detail from a much larger aerial photograph taken in 1980 shows the original buildings with the addition of a small office at the top left hand corner of the buildings – hidden by trees. It is not known when this was added – it was very small and was used by the head teacher and the administrative staff. The space is now used for the pupils’ toilets. The separate building partially hidden by trees near the top left corner of the building is the ‘temporary’ mobile classroom erected in 1965 and only replaced by the new school hall in 2015. School Lane is in the foreground.

This 2018 photograph was taken by the Diocesan building department to try out a drone for assessing the condition of school buildings. The three bays with the tall windows are the original school buildings. The rest of the buildings were added in stages between 1995 and 2015. Note: the name ‘St Michael’s’ was only added in 1980 during Gwyn Anderson’s time as head teacher. 18