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Happy Daze

Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 15, 2024, 10:12 am

Remember the days when you had to shut the windows in the carriage when going through a tunnel to stop the cinders coming in from the steam train. Happy days for me going to visit my Gran in Oxted, Surrey. Was always a big adventure as a kid leaving Barnes station then changing trains at Clapham Junction. Used to take around three hours a journey I can now do in 25 minutes on my bike. Happy Daze.

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Posted by Tonupdave <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Tonupdave' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 15, 2024, 10:48 am, in reply to "Happy Daze"

I was on a school trip to Southampton and some chap spewed out the window in the carriage in front of us and it came in our ruddy window...
I also used the train from Hounslow to Waterloo whare I worked ..main memory was all the male computers with hats and suits with a brief case and newspaper.. just not the same now.. great memories

Tonupdave..T.U.D.

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Posted by Brickboy <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Brickboy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 15, 2024, 11:00 am, in reply to "Re: Happy Daze"

My grandparents also lived in Oxted and my parents too. I went back to scatter my parents' ashes the other week - and to remember a lot of the places I visited when I was very small. Oxted has a lot of millionaires these days!

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Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 15, 2024, 11:19 am, in reply to "Re: Happy Daze"

I was born there Simon but very poor

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Posted by 6TDen <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=6TDen' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 15, 2024, 1:09 pm, in reply to "Re: Happy Daze"

---- and look at you now.
Den

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Yep Den still poor

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Yes, my family likewise, Jerry. I looked for a poor part of Oxted the other week but couldn't really spot one!!

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My Gran actually lived in Limspfield Simon so just one mile away.

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Posted by ChazzyB <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=ChazzyB' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 15, 2024, 6:04 pm, in reply to "Re: Happy Daze"

Arguably, Limpsfield is more pleasant than Oxted itself. Limpsfield Chart more so.

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My dad's from Limpsfield would you believe. It's a long story but my Airbnb host when we stayed put me in touch with the village historian and hey presto, he had a 1936 photo of my dad and his brother. He's writing the story up for the local mag!

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Brilliant story!

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Heck, you and Jerry could be related by blood! Things could get very insular in the darkest Surrey hills.

DNA tests?

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If he mentions Wolfs Row where my mum grew up you could be right Chaz

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Ah, I don't know that Jerry. I don't actually know where in Limpsfield my dad grew up except his dad rented rooms above a laundry run by a drunk laundress and was always out looking for work.

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I have a recollection my eldest daughter went to sixth form at Oxted School.

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Posted by nek <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=nek' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 15, 2024, 6:06 pm, in reply to "Happy Daze"

you wouldn't want to be closed in a carriage like that with one of outr new arrivals would you?

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Posted by laverdabru <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=laverdabru' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 15, 2024, 7:53 pm, in reply to "Re: Happy Daze"

I remember that type of carriage from when we used to travel up from Somerset to visit an Aunt in Raynes Park, late '60's.
Barnes station had the most foul smelling loo's I'd ever used - until I started going to festivals a few years later.

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