Banstead Village

Queueing for the wine - or so they thought... Germany, Easter 1960 – and a group of boys from the Picquets Way school, on a week-long trip to th...

The boys meet the bobbies It’s circa 1956, and a group of boys from Picquets Way on a country walk in Surrey enjoy an encoun...

All aboard for the day trip! Thanks largely to George Ford, the young geography teacher, and Ray Spencer, the sports teacher, boy...

Ferndale Road - then and now It’s VE Day in 1945 – and Banstead, like countless communities throughout the country, celebrate...

More VE day celebrations in Ferndale Road! Here’s the second of our VE Day celebration images taken in Ferndale Road, Banstead, in 1945 – t...

George Ford - Banstead teacher extraordinaire George Ford, a well-liked teacher at Banstead County Secondary Boys School, Picquets Way in the 1950...

Burgh Heath in 1909 An interesting postcard of Burgh Heath in 1909 – ‘View from Post Office’. The card was publish...

Banstead Village in 1904 A nice image from the turn of the 20th century: the Woolpack public house is on the left, and a plea...

The Beacon magazine - May 1955 In the 1950s and ‘60s, ‘The Beacon’ was the school magazine produced, designed, printed and pu...

Seven boys Seven boys (can you see them all?) on a tree branch – in those carefree days before Health & Safet...

A postcard from Banstead Vicarage A postcard, dated 9 October 1940, from Canon Skene of Banstead to the Archdeacon of Dorking: “I wi...

St Andrew's Church, Kingswood This postcard of St Andrew’s Church, Kingswood, is postmarked 15 July 1909 and is addressed to Mis...