"Notes and News : July / August 2008"
General Matters and Reminders.
Friends Evening : the next evening will take place on Tuesday , October 28th at Grayshott Pottery when Tim Winter from Haslemere will give a talk on Collecting Postcards to do with Local History.
The ‘Blue Plaque’ to commemorate Agnes Westons stay in Grayshott was successfully unveiled at ‘Ensleigh’ on May 10th. For more information on Agnes Weston please see our web site article.
New Projects and News.
The Clinic/Nurses Cottage, School Road : with the imminent demolition of properties in School Road the Archive Committee would be most interested in any photographs of the original nurses’ cottage and wooden clinic building previous to the present structure. The land was given by the Whitaker family in 1921 as a ‘Peace Memorial’ to the Great War.
‘Blue Plaques’ : in recognition of various personages and happenings in Grayshott it is proposed that in connection with Phil Bates/Grayshott Pottery and the Grayshott Society that two more plaques will be added this year. At ‘Amity’ Crossways Road , the site of the Post Office where Flora Thompson worked in the late 1890’s and at the ‘Fox and the Pelican’ originally owned by the Grayshott and District Refreshment Association whose management committee members included most of the notables of the district at the time.
Mission Chapel, Portsmouth Road : an article is being researched on this building which in more recent times has been used as a private dwelling and has become more visible with road works taking place at Bramshott Chase / Chase Plain. The structure is the last building on the right hand side going south, now somewhat altered , red cedar boarded and named ‘Southdown’.
Web site : the next article to appear will be extracts from the Grayshott Village Magazine, a short lived publication dating from 1983/4. Following this will be extracts from an account of Kenneth Hollywell’s career in the RAF which he joined in 1938 and gained considerable success as a pilot during the Second World War. Kenneth (or Holly as he was known) was Maintenance Officer at the Village Hall for several years after settling in Grayshott.
Finally, it is with great sadness that I have to note the recent death of the Archive’s Secretary, Dr. Mike Fasham, FRS. For too brief a time, Mike provided the Archive with sound advice and much help. We miss him and our thoughts are with his wife, Jos and his family.
Richard Peskett
July 2008.