Woking’s Pre-War Pictorial Past

Below is a list of some of the initial pages in this series – covering Woking Town Centre. Only those ‘highlighted’ have a link to a current page, but others shall be added periodically, so please visit again soon to see what is new.

Woking in the late Victorian Age – a brief look at how the new town around the station started to develop

WOKING TOWN CENTRE - STREET BY STREET

The Albion Hotel & the High Street

Woking Railway Station and The Broadway

Chertsey Road (Bank Buildings) – the south side of the street from The Broadway to Addison Road

Chertsey Road (Station End) – the north side of the street, from the Albion Hotel to Chobham Road

Chertsey Road (Middle) – the section from Chobham Road/Addison Road to Commercial Road/Duke Street

Chertsey Road (Bridge End) – from the junction of Duke Street & Commercial Road to Boundary Road

Chobham Road (East side of the road)

Chobham Road (West side of the road)

Church Street East – from the Bath Road/West Street junctions towards Chertsey Road

Church Street West – from Goldsworth Road to the junctions with Bath Road and West Street

Commercial Road (Public Buildings) – west from the Wesleyan Chapel to Percy Street

Commercial Road (West End) – from Victoria Gardens (Sparrow Park) to Church Path

Commercial Road (East End) – from Church Path to Chertsey Road

Goldsworth Road (East End) – from Victoria Arch to Church Street/Poole Road

Goldsworth Road (Central) – from Church Street/Poole Road to Goldsworth School

Guildford Road (North) – from Victoria Arch to the Railway Hotel (including Station Approach and Victoria Road)

Guildford Road (South) – from Heathside Road and the Railway Hotel to Turnoak Corner

The Hospital Carnivals – the street parades and carnivals raising money for the Woking Victoria Hospital etc.

The Basingstoke Canal (East) from Sheerwater Bridge to Wheatsheaf Bridge

The Basingstoke Canal (West) from Wheatsheaf Bridge to Langmans Bridge

Various Celebrations around the town – mainly Empire Day celebrations and the Peace Celebrations of 1919

Woking Recreation Ground (including the Woking Lido)

As well as the above, I also have in preparation…

Walton Road area (East of North Road) – all roads between the railway and the canal to the east of North Road up to the boundary with Pyrford (at the end of Eve/Arnold Roads).

Walton Road area (West of North Road) – all the roads between the railway and the canal to the east of Chertsey Road as far as North Road.

Wesco – the site of the Woking Electric Supply Company’s works in North Road

Goldsworth Area – the roads off Goldsworth Road, between the railway and the canal.

Heathside Area – the roads south of the railway and east of Guildford Road.

Maybury Hill Area – the roads south of the railway and west of the boundary with Pyrford

Mount Hermon Area – the roads south of the railway and west of Guildford Road

Oriental Institute site – the Royal Dramatic College, later the Oriental Institute and the Mosque

Martinsydes Aircraft Works – the successor to the Oriental Institute site (later James Walker’s factory)

The London & South Western Railway Servants Orphanage – late the Southern Railwayman’s Orphanage

St Peter’s Convent – and associated buildings on Maybury Hill

And at a later date I hope to include…

Brookwood

Knaphill

St Johns

Mayford

Sutton Green

Kingfield

Westfield

Old Woking

Pyrford

Byfleet

West Byfleet

Woodham

Horsell

(although these may change, and be added to, if I find too many pictures of an area for one feature)