The History of Reigate and Redhill in Surrey

Reigate – streets and buildings from over the last two centuries and beyond

• Bell Street
• Chart Lane
• High Street
• Market Place & Old Town Hall
• The Priory
• Public Houses of Reigate – Past and Present
• Reigate Grammar School – Staff and pupils 1946
• Reigate School of Art and Design in Blackborough Road – by Philip Lasky
• South of the Town

People and Historical Events of Reigate and Redhill

Events and groups from the past

• Mayors of the Reigate and Banstead Borough
• Lady Somerset, Frances Willard and Duxhurst – A Reigate Dynasty and the Temperance Movement
• Eliza Cook and Mill Street – A Victorian poetess
• People of 1887 – Pictures & profiles from Queen Victoria's Jubilee year
• Maltsters, Blacksmiths,Whitesmiths of Redhill and Reigate
• Cartes de visite and Cabernet Cards by local photographers – Victorian photos of people of Redhill and Reigate
• The King George V Jubilee 1935 – Events in Redhill and Reigate
• The Home Guard – The World War 2 local units
• The crash of a Flying Fortress on Reigate Hill in 1945 and the 2002 memorial to its crew
• The Jack Streeter Band – A local dance band playing from the 1920s - 1950s
• The Redhill Town Band
• John Linnell – A Redhill Artist
• Joseph Dakin – A Redhill Artist
• The Borough Police Force – History and archive photos
• The History of the Telephone Service – Redhill, Reigate and surrounding area
• The Photos of Victor Izard – Pictures from the 1950s by a local photographer.
• The Olympic Torch Relay – July 2012 – Redhill and Reigate

Families of Reigate and Redhill

• The Jupp Family of Redhill – A local family from Linkfield Street
• The Pook Family
• The Hull Family – Of The Mount, Pendleton Road, Redhill
• The Jinks Family of Redhill – Connection with St John's School
• The Thorndale Family – Information from Steve Thorndale
• The Shaw Family – Gave its name to Shaws Corner, Redhill
• www.chaletschool.org.uk – Phyllis & Sydney Matthewman & Elinor Brent-Dyer
• The Henderson and Chattington family Also Dawes, James, Cooling, Ronald, Skingley, Wells and Woods
• The Wright Family of Redhill – From Redhill to Jersey
• The Fueggle Family – Of Reigate and Redhill
• The Burtenshaw Family – Coach builders of Reigate
• The King Family – An early connection with Reigate police force
• The Mordan Family at The Stonehouse – A well known Victorian family in Reigate
• The Tanner Family – Jewellers, watch and clockmakers of Station Road, Redhill
• Oakwood House, Redstone Hill – A History by Don Burgess
• The Laker Family of Redhill – The Railway Hotel, Redstone Hill
• The Hill Family
• The Palmer Family of Reigate – Bessie Palmer's postcards
• The Burrage Family of Redhill – A family of writers
• The Trower Family – Farmers, Corn Merchants, Brickmakers and Gentlemen of Wiggie
• The Linter Family – And its business in London Road, Redhill

Redhill – A journey through Redhill's past in words and pictures

• London Road
• The High Street
• Station Road
• Acts appearing at The Market Hall
• Redhill Common
• Foxboro-Yoxall
• Public Houses of Redhill
• The Philanthropic Society – A Redhill Institution
• St John's Church – History and pictures
• St John's School – History and pictures
• St Anne's Story The Royal Asylum of St Anne's, Redhill
• People at St Anne's 1913-18 – St Anne's pupils and staff during World War 1 (Photos from the Perry family album).
• Faraway – Stories of Redhiil objects far from home.
• Hillsbrow School ‐ From the 1920s to the 1990s
• Ivy Burton's Redhill School of Dancing – It's principal and pupils
• A Certain Grave at Redhill Cemetery – a mystery unsolved
• The Origins of Redhill Railway Station – by Peter Manning
• The Roundabout on Earlswood Common
• Oakwood House, Redstone Hill – A History by Don Burgess
• Bowls Clubs of Redhill and Merstham by John Davison



Reminiscences of Local People

• The Sad Story of Charlie Fuller – A shortlived Reigate trader
• Wartime Schooldays by Raymond Fry – 1938-1945. An account of the war through a boy's eyes
• A Meadvale Boyhood by Jack Moore – 1906-1914 Life as seen before World War 1
• My Life so far – by Charlie Holloway Memories of a good life 1927-
• Twenty-Two Years in the Fire brigade 1939-1961 by Jack Moore – London, Reigate, Redhill, Oxted, Banstead
• Redhill in the Inter-war years by Kathleen Knight – High Street, shops and people 1918-1939
• Redhill Tannery 1934-62 - From Cow Hide to Leather – As told by Mr Sidney Harvey
• Boyhood in Redhill – David Young, Pennsylvania, USA, Living at the White Lion, Linkfield Streeet, 1941-50
• Redhill in the mid-1850s The Recollections of Mr T.R.Hooper – Life more than 150 years ago
• The Reminiscences of Mr and Mrs McMillen – 1855-1908
• Redhill Police Station in the 1960s – by Dave Vigar
• Jimmy Bridger – Redhill and Reigate shopkeeper for more than 50 years
• John Roberts – Redhill shopkeeper for more than 50 years
• The Police Orphanage in London Road – History, pictures, reminiscences