Misc

Redhill Alphabetically

There are many pictures that do not fit into the neat 'High Street', 'London Road' or other categories of Redhill's area. These will gradually be listed here alphabetically by subject or road so that the many pictures I have that are not displayed elsewhere on the website get an airing.

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Airships


On July 1st 1913 airship 'Delta', one of three army airships - the others were 'Alpha' and 'Beta' - made a forced landing at Salfords with rudder problems. While repairs were carried out crowds gathered along with photographers who captured the scene. The above are two of at least three pictures of the airship and the crowds that flocked to the scene.

The gondola of the airship 'Delta'.	Airship 'Delta' photographed from the upper window of a house in South Albert Road, Reigate, on 10th October 1913

Batts Hill
One of the ancient roads in the area Batts Hill was an extension of Wray Lane, bringing the traveller from the top of Reigate Hill to the junction with Linkfield Street and the route on to Nutfield and Bletchingley. Considering that some roads in Redhill received little or no attention from the photographer in the 1st decade of the 1900s Batts Hill came in for more than its fair share of attention.

Scenes came either plain . . .	. . with a boy at the gate . . .	. . . . or a man at the gate.



With a lady . . .	. . . a horseman . . .	. . or with snow, as in this picture from a very chilly April in 1908.


The lodge, now Denmark Lodge, was not left out.	Nor were the more picturersque cottages at the bottom of Batts Hill . . .	. . . or Batts Hill House at its top.


Billingsgate Market


Billingsgate Market in Redhill? Yes, but only for two weeks in 1939. Many London firms realised that their business operations might be more secure if carried on away from the capital. Some came to Redhill and Reigate, one of the best-known being Billingsgate Fish Market. It came to the old brewery buildings at Linkfield Corner. The reporting of the matter at the time referred to the new location simply as 'a quiet country town' as there was good reason not to release precise information. Fish dealers' trucks lined Cromwell Road and the bottom end of Linkfield Street, and probably Linkfield Lane too. The trawler owner's Association and its allied bodies refused to send their trawlers out unless they were assured that catches would receive normal marketing. The porters were unhappy away from their normal sites and wanted to return to London, and the railway companies special fish services were not easily adapted to the small rail centre. On September 20th Mr Morrison, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, told Parliament that Redhill was too far from major railheads, and the product was too perishable to spend extra time in transit. Normal trading resumed in London on September 25th 1939. In the first picture above a police constable stops traffic as porters cross the top of Station Road to waiting vans, and in the second picture porters unload fish from vans in Linkfield Street.

Canada Road


Canada Road was built during WW2 to enable military traffic to be moved from the A25 to the A23 by a shorter route than going through Redhill. The road was camouflaged, and the concrete blocks were to support the camouflage supports.

Cavendish Road - see Redstone Hill Area

Chapel Road

The junction of Chapel Road and Redhill High Street, showing the Roman Catholic Chuch of St Joseph's with its presbytery beside it and school behind. Further up the hill can be seen Redhill Congregational Church. (Picture John Eede)	The Congregational Church Hall can be seen in this picture of the church. Redhill Library was housed there in the 1940s.	An older picture of the Congregational Church. No building had yet been erected on the plot in the foreground, although it looks as though it is pegged out. Chapel Road was built on ground purchased by the Railway Company which, having built the London to Brighton line, sold off the surplus.

Redhill Redevelopment

A 1980s view from London Road across land on which shops and the Sultan pub once stood and Cecil Road ran across at an angle. Here only the Surrey Mirror buildingand St Anne's remain. The foreground is now the site of Sainsburys. (Picture courtesy Brian Burrows)

Redstone Hill Area

A view taken from Hillfield Close showing the Fine Art Press building before it was demolished and replaced by houses. St Anne's stands proud in the background. (Picture courtesy Bob Sargent)	A view to Cavendish Road from Hillside Close (Picture courtesy Bob Sargent)	The tunnel entrance at the end of Cavendish Road



Redhill Junior Technical School staff and boys May 1931. Sent in three parts they are shown enlarged below. Picture sent in by Brian Burrows who says; 'The only names I know are, middle section, middle row standing 5th from left, my father, Tom. Front row standing 5th from left George Offen. Top row,5th from left, Victor Peters, who was killed in action in RAF, 1943'.

If anyone can add any names to these pictures please contact author

Traction Engines

Ryall and Edwards of Salfords using machinery driven by a traction engine to cut up logs at Friday Street in the 1920s. Brian Burrows, who sent the picture in, says - ' I can remember my Grandfather saying that when Ryall & Edwards employees were sent to fell trees, that because of distance and transport in the 1920s they used to Camp under canvas for 3 weeks at a time'. (Picture Brian Burrows)	T.Sanders steam saw operating at Buckland

Transport

A 447 at Caterham. A check on the registration number reveals that this vehicle was the first AEC Regal IV prototype, chassis U135974, completed in 1949. This historic vehicle is undergoing long-term restoration by London Bus Preservation Trust members at the Cobham Bus Museum in Surrey.


World War Two
	Making gas masks, Redhill 1939. The photo was taken by the Windsor- Spice Studios of Redhill, who were official 'war incident' photographers and who also recorded scenes of war effort work such as this. The picture belongs to Brian Burrows whose mother, then Margaret Morley, is the 3rd girl from the front in the left row with glasses. On the back of the photo she has written 'me making gas masks after work'. A similar photo taken from a different angle can be found in the book Surrey at War by Bob Ogley. Jack Sales, who lived in Frenches Road and worked for Windsor Spice during the war took many 'war incident' photos and this may be an example of his work (picture courtesy Briamn Burrows).

Carnival

Bill Gumbrel dressed as a dandy in a 1930s carnival procession in Garlands Road	The carnival in London Road in the 1960/70s. The pub on the left is the rebuilt Sultan.	Carnival in Hatchlands Road, year unknown

Clarendon Road


Masons Bridge Road

Winter 1987 (Picture courtesy Brian Burrows)

People


Bridge Road (Lower and Upper)


A fine old cast iron railing end post made by Marriages of Redhill stands at the junction of Upperbridge Road and Linkfield Street	Upper Bridge Road in the 1920s (Picture courtesy Tony Abrahams)


Employees of Ryall and Edwards, date unknown (Picture Brian Burrows)	Scouts 1974 Reigate Fire Station-Go-Karts Champions. Peter Burrows is in number 7 (Picture Brian Burrows)

Storm of 1987

Trees down near Redhill Hospital (Pictures Brian Burrows)

Wray Common

Posing before the WrayCommon windmill c1920-25 are \harry Troughton and his children Mary, Harry and Fred. (Picture courtesy Mrs Potts)


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