Grayshott Village Archive

Headley Road looking towards Hindhead from outside the Fox and Pelican c.1964. The original houses Marlborough and Bryn Hawk on the left and Wayside on the right have yet to be demolished. The Alton Motor Company and Grayshott Garage are still selling Cleveland and Shell petrol.

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Headley Road c.1964

Founder member Archie Moore outside his premises in Headley Road about 1911. This is now the site of the Tesco store.  The house in the background is 'Marlborough', the site now redeveloped as 'Marlborough House'.  Archie Moore and family we long associated with business in Grayshott.  By 1911 the site was a motor garage in addition to their original stables and the premises remaining in the motor trade until redevelopment in the late 1960s.

 Photo courtsey Arlene Goheen, Vancouver, BC.

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Grayshott Fire Brigade

Larcome's butchers shop in Crossways Road c.1912, the shop is still existent today as Amery Vets and the front recognisable. Larcombe originally worked with Mitchell in Headley Road before starting on his own account at these then new premises in 1912. Of interest is that in the census and trade directories the name is spelt including a letter 'b', so possibly the spelling in the tile work, still visible today, is a mistake.

Three people in the picture are identified, extreme left - Ernest Larcombe, 2nd left - George Peskett, extreme right - Edmund Langridge.

 

Photo courtsey of Mrs. Eggleton

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Larcome's Shop

The Moorlands Hotel, Portsmouth Road, Hindhead. Of topical interest with the recent demolition of these once grand premisses. The hotel was built about 1895 by John Grover, the London builder who later came to reside permanently at Hindhead and is buried in St.Lukes churchyard. Conan Doyle resided here whilst waiting for and overseeing the completion of 'Undershaw' from January to October 1897. This view from the main entrance on the Portsmouth Road side dates from about 1921 when tourism was beginning to return after the Great War.

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Moorlands Hotel

Coxhead's shop, Headley Road about 1900. The shop which has recently closed after trading there since the mid 1890s was originally built as a single front building along with the next shop then trading as a fishmongers under the name of Hoy, later to become Woods in 1904. At this time the gap between was infilled and the side of Coxheads was extended to make both premisses double front shops as they are today.

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Coxhead's Shop