Thursley Village Pre 1958 Drone photograhy courtesy Jackie Malton Thursley Churchyard

The Dye House is a Grade II listed building (9th March 1960) constructed of timber framing with brick infill and has a steeply pitched roof with gables and dormer windows. From Elstead Then & Now : The seventeenth century could well have marked a high point in the village’s (Elstead) prosperity as a small agricultural unit, as a fair was held on the Green on St. James’ Day. In 1666 there was a place called the “Dyehouse” out on the Thursley Road, the tenant being one Henry Peto. In fact it was on the right hand side, descending the hill into Thursley from Elstead. It may be evidence of the cultivation of woad in the area. Guildford, Godalming and Farnham were all centres of the production of kersey woollen cloth, and the importance of the wool trade in medieval England has already been mentioned. The “Woolpack” and the “Golden Fleece” (pubs in Elstead) suggest the importance of the wool trade in the area, and as late as the nineteenth century, Elstead still had a worsted mill. The wool trade was dwindling in importance by the seventeenth century in the area, however, It was concern for the plight of elderly weavers which led Archbishop George Abbot to found the almshouses, or hospital, in his native Guildford. Mrs Gooch of Dye House Outdoor staff at Dye House, 1936. Mr Ives, the gardener; Charles Weeden, the chauffeur; and Mr Harrison, the odd job man. Indoor staff at Dye House, 1936. Marg Hall; Charles Weeden (chauffeur); Moyra, the kitchen maid; Sam Warner. Rock Garden and Pond The Dye House,1900, was owned by Mr R Payne of Pierrepont Farm, Frensham, and later passed to Mrs Gooch, his daughter. The Rock Garden, 1938, - Smallbook stream was dug by monks living there around 1600. Alf Pullen, coachman to the Gooch family, lived at Brook Cottage which was changed from Ivy Cottage in 1939. Charles Weeden, chauffeur to Sir Bruce Thomas QC, 1929 Rolls Royce which had silver interior fittings. From the 1936 Register of Electors Previous owners of The Dye House include: Thoden van Velsen From Country Life issue dated June 11, 1953: Front and rear of Knight, Frank & Rutley particulars (undated): Interior of brochure: The chestnut tree many years ago. The tree has now been transformed into a wonderfully imaginative play area for the owners' grandchildren.

The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition and fair that reached millions of visitors throughout the United Kingdom in the summer of 1951. Thursley celebrated the event on 4th May, 1951 The Festival of Britain Emblem, the Festival Star Ist Prize, Joan Sharland and other winners in the fancy dress parade of Festival Celebrations 4th May 1951 The Festival Queen was Joan Sharland, with attendants Joan and Margaret Baker. The chauffeur was Reg Cottle driving his Delage car Another view of Joan Sharland and Reg Cottle (in fancy dress!) Lionel Rapley, Sidney Hall, Marjorie Baker with Joan Sharland as she is crowned. Bo Peep and Balloon Lady (Mrs Cooper and daughter)

This Grade II listed building (28th October, 1986) is situated at the end of The Lane and is undergoing extensive renovation. It was formerly known as Cherry Tree Cottage. We are grateful to the current owner for supplying the report below that was prepared by the HCUK Group. 1912 2025 1912 This 'View at Thursley' is probably from a postcard. It shows the Shepherd's Cottage in the foreground and St Michael & All Angels in the distance. 1969 Surnames of former owners include: Winter; Twyman; Holman Page 1 of a 21 page report on Shepherd's Cottage by HCUK Group. The pdf of the report is below.

This was published in 1996 by the History of Thursley Society and includes profiles of 16 people or or living in Thursley. People include; the young Lutyens, H A L Fisher, Robert Goble and Monica Edwards. Many of the articles were written by Mary Bennett. CONTENTS   The Young Lutyens and his Thursley Houses  by Wing Commander D.Q.Watson.  The Rt. Hon. H. A. L. Fisher, O.M.  by Mary Bennett.                                    The Levy Family of Smallbrook Farm 1876 – 1939  by Betty Weeden         Russell Partridge Brockbank   Art Editor of “Punch”   by Peter Anderson.    Robert Goble.  by Mary Bennett.                                                                Karn’s - A Short History of  Thursley’s Grocery Store.                                Thursley In The ‘Twenties   by Mary Bennett                                             Life in Thursley by Sir Roger Stevens of  Hill Farm                                    A Memoir of Rev. A. K. Mathews, OBE., DSC.  Vicar Of Thursley 1968 - 1976.        Arthur Edward (Eddie) Gale, B.E.M.  Written by Jane Haviland in 1994.     William Karn Fosberry  1853 – 1943    by Edna (Eddie) Morgan                 Margaret L.Woods in Thursley   by Martha Vogeler  of  Fullerton, U.S.A.    Monica le Doux Edwards  1912 – 1998   by V K Lindley                            Rock Cottage and some neighbours  by Mary Bennett                                 Thursley In The ‘20s & ‘30s - some incomers  -  by Mary Bennett              A Farmhouse in Surrey  by Irene Gorringe       Here is the first entry: The entire book can be downloaded from the pdf below: Here is a brief autobiography of one of our most distinguished former residents, Sir Roger Bentham Stevens, GCMG: Sir Roger Bentham Stevens by Walter Bird. Bromide print, 8 February 1963, National Portrait Gallery x185466 In his own words Sir Roger traces the significant aspects of his life from his early years through his Foreign Office career to the last period when he became Vic-Chancellor of Leeds University. He wrote this essay called 'Fortune' a few months before he died on Ash Wednesday, 20th February 1980: it is available in the pdf below: We also have a number of articles in our archive which describe life in Thursley in the last century: This from Margaret Cooper (née Gale) who, as a young girl, was at Thursley School in 1920: Margaret (Mag) Cooper at Thursley School c1920 This is from Lucy Good (née Karn): Lucy Karn in November 1928, she later became Mrs Lucy Good

A Wander Through Thursley was an event held on the weekend of 16/17th June, 1990, and was a great occasion in Thursley's history towards the end of the last century. The weekend was organised by Gil Buckingham who lived at Olde Hall and was a very keen gardener. The scheme was confined to Thursley village as there were too many problems in including the gardens at Bowlhead Green and Pitch Place. The event raised £2,000 for the village hall. 24 gardens took part proudly displaying the daisy sign on their gate. A special daisy bus service ran up and down Highfield Lane. There were also village cricket matches, home made cream teas in the village hall, donkey rides, rare breed sheep, plant stall, peacocks, vintage and classic car collections, and exhibition of old Thursley and organ recitals in the church. From the Parish Magazine, August 1990 GIL BUCKINGHAM Gil moved to Olde Hall, Back Lane, Thursley in 1985. She had great plans for the house and garden and she started completely renovating the house in 1986, which was finally completed in 1990. As well as working on the house, Gil worked on creating her perfect garden: she believed the garden represented individual rooms in the same way as a house. She had a herb garden, a wild garden, an orchard and a formal garden which was used to entertain guests like a drawing room. Her knowledge of gardening was strengthened by two course she attended at Merrist Wood Agricultural College in Guildford. The first, in 1984, covered garden pests and diseases and the second, in 1986, dealt with general horticulture but concentrated on shrubs and flowers. Gil was an incredibly energetic and sociable person and threw herself into the life of the village. She sang in the choir, was Treasurer of the Fellowship, held the Christian Aid coffee mornings and was a member of the village hall management committee. It was for the last organisation that she co-ordinated "Wander through Thursley". Her great friend, Gail Leader had opened her garden and Gil loved the idea of gardens being open for everyone to enjoy. Sadly, shortly afterwords in July 1990, Gil became ill and after a long fight she died in January, 1992. From a conversation with Barbara Thorburn

The Three Horse Shoes after the breathalyser was introduced. Brockbank lived in Badgers in The Lane from 1951 to 1978. See also the biography of Russell Partridge Brockbank by Peter Anderson Russell did these two for Reg Cottle, the owner of the Red Lion Garage:

Derek Lutyens died in the service of his country in 1918. Some years ago, the bronze eagle on his memorial in Thursley churchyard was stolen. His nephew and namesake, Derek Lutyens, paid for its replacement. From the Lutyens Trust: A Lutyens Monument Derek Lutyens In the churchyard of Thursley in Surrey there is a monument marking the grave of my uncle and namesake, Lieutenant Derek Lutyens of the Royal Air Force, killed at the age of 23 on 8th May 1918. About 15 years ago the bronze RAF eagle that was its principal adornment, and not apparently firmly enough fixed to the stone, was stolen. This year it has been replaced and, it is to be hoped, the memorial restored to something like its former glory. As I only recently learnt, the design of the gravestone was almost certainly the work of my uncle’s uncle Edwin Lutyens. Derek Lutyens had transferred from the Royal Fusiliers to the Royal Flying Corps in mid-1916. He was not killed in combat but when serving at Farnborough with the Experimental Squadron of the RAF, as the RFC had become a few weeks before. This posting suggests that he was a talented pilot. The aircraft in which he died was apparently being flown for the purpose of pressure tests on its tail plane, and it was the failure of the tail plane that caused the crash. The civilian observer flying with my uncle was also killed. His body, at the time at least, was reported as not having been found. In the circumstances Derek was to have a memorial that is rather more elaborate than those of almost all the thousands upon thousands of his contemporaries who died in 1914-1918. Edwin Lutyens certainly rose to the opportunity, almost as if he realised it was a first rehearsal for the many memorial monuments he was subsequently to design. Restoration of the vandalised monument seemed a daunting task. I knew of no photograph of the stone in its original state, and had only my imperfect memory to rely on, while it seemed obvious that any authentic replica of the eagle would soon be stolen as well. Ultimately, however, through the Lutyens Trust, I learned that James Brazier, a member of the Trust, and Russell Morris, the Historic Buildings Officer for the Thursley area, not only had a photograph of the grave in its former state, but had been considering ways in which it might be restored. Respect for the monument’s setting as much as the attribution to Edwin Lutyens strongly argued for having a replica that was as close to the original as possible. In particular it should be of bronze. The problem of further theft came to seem more apparent than real when it became clear that all the bronze fittings on the stone, and not only the eagle emblem, had been poorly secured. Both the new eagle and its attendant inscription plates are now securely bolted to the stonework they once again satisfactorily adorn. https://www.lutyenstrust.org.uk/portfolio-item/a-lutyens-monument/ From St Michael and All Angels Church, Chiswick, WW1 Project:ry LIEUT L F D LUTYENS Lieutenant Lionel Francis Derek Lutyens RFC Died on Active Service 8 May 1918 Lionel F D (“Derek”) Lutyens was born at Maidnewton, Dorset on 19 November 1894, the eldest son of Lionel C Lutyens, b.1865, a Director and Land Agent, who was himself the third son of Charles Augustus Henry Lutyens, a celebrated Portrait Painter. Lionel (senior’s) elder brothers were Charles Benjamin (1853), Frederick Mansfield (1860) and Francis Augustus (1864) and younger brothers were Arthur Anstruther (1867) Edwin Landseer Lutyens, the celebrated architect (1867). In 1871, the family lived in 16 Onslow Square. Another brother, William Enderby was born in 1872. Derek’s father had grown up (as had Edwin) in Thursley, Surrey. At the 1901 Census, Derek was aged 6 and living with his parents, Lionel and Lucy at 4A Queen Anne’s Gardens, Bedford Park. Later they moved to 26 Queen Anne’s Grove. Derek was educated at Elstree and Aldenham School. It is not clear to what extent he undertook employment prior to the Declaration of War. His attestation suggests he was undertaking clerical work, though later records state that between May and August 1914 he was employed with Mr J Henderson in an engineer’s office at 7 Mincing Lane, London. Derek volunteered on 29 August 1914 as Private, 10th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, was rapidly promoted to Corporal before being sent for Officer Training. He was gazetted T/2/Lieutenant on 15 December 1914 (LG page 10693), in the same regiment, and was promoted T/Lieutenant 18 March 1916 (LG page 3031). He went to France with his regiment in 1915, and remained there as bombing officer until after the battles of Pozieres and La Boiselle. He transferred to the General List about November 1916, and to the Royal Flying Corps in 29 March 1917. He trained at the Royal Naval Air Service Training Station at Vendome in France, transferring to 64 Squadron as an Assistant Instructor in June 1917, and was eventually chosen as a pilot for the Experimental Squadron at the Royal Air Factory (now Establishment), Farnborough in August 1917. His RFC record states that he had completed 3 years of training in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, and that since joining the RFC he had undertaken 2 months work in Aerial Gunnery in Oxford and 8 months experimental flying on all types of aeroplane. Lieut. L F D Lutyens RAF was killed while on active service, on a test flight in Surrey on 8 May 1918. He was accompanied by a civilian, D H Pinsent as engineer and observer on Airco D.H.4 A7671 at or near Maplesham Heath. The machine was undergoing pressure tests on the tailplane which failed and the plane crashed and broke up at Trimley. Mr Pinsent’s body was not found for several days until discovered floating in the Basingstoke canal between Mytchett and Frimley bridges. Derek was buried in the churchyard at St Michael and All Angels, Thursley, where three generations of the Lutyens family had lived. The funeral was undertaken by Derek’s uncle, Canon William Enderby Lutyens. According to the late Derek Lutyens, namesake and nephew, the memorial “...gravestone’s design is almost certainly the work of my great uncle Edwin”…“ In the circumstances Derek was to have a memorial that is rather more elaborate than those of almost all the thousands upon thousands of his contemporaries who died in 1914-1918. Edwin Lutyens certainly rose to the opportunity, almost as if he realised it was a first rehearsal for the many memorial monuments he was subsequently to design”. Derek’s executor was William Frederick Lutyens, Company Director, Derek’s cousin, the son of Frederick Mansfield Lutyens, also an artist, who had lived for a time at “Longcot”, Newton Grove, Bedford Park, and died at St Mary’s Convent and Nursing Home, Chiswick in 1924. Frederick’s other son, Lieut. Charles John Lionel Lutyens died at Zillebeke on 3 October 1917 at age 21. He had served with the 156 Bde., Royal Field Artillery. Another of Derek’s cousins, Lieut. Cyril Arthur George Lutyens, Coldstream Guards, died at Passchendaele on 8 October in the same year and is commemorated at Tyne Cot memorial. Lionel’s eldest uncle, Charles Benjamin also lost two sons: they are commemorated at Bard College, Annandale, New York, being grandsons of its founder. They are Capt. Charles Graeme Lutyens, 6/East Lancashires, killed in Gallipoli on 9 August 1915 and Major Lionel Gallwey Lutyens MC, 28 Bde. RFA was killed in action at Langemarck on 6 January 1918. Thus, Sir Edwin Lutyens had lost no less than five nephews in the Great War. http://www.smaaawwi.org.uk/wwi/people/database-page/lieut-l-f-d-lutyens/ The funeral of Lieutenant Derek Lutyens from The Surrey Advertiser: From the Thursley Parish Magazine, June 1918:

The house was built before 1550 and is a four bay timber-framed medieval open hall building. It was Grade II listed on 9th March 1960 Historic Planning Permission Documents (list the cottage name as 'Sunset View Cottage') Report on the property by Domestic Building Research Group, April 1977 The whole report is in the pdf below: Sunset Cottage, photograph by Valérie Ferris Sunset Cottage, the old bakery. View of The Institute. Can also see the old walnut tree. Robert Goble used some of the wood for his harpsichord. From a photograph taken in 1938 Sunset Cottage in 1997 Anthony and Anna Kentish, 1997 Map of the village c1999 This map was given to the Macleans in 1999 when they moved in Sales details 1999: Two sets of sales details May 2003 : Sonya, James, Ben and Holly Maclean just before they moved to Hill House Farm in May 2003 Previous owners of Sunset Cottage include: Kentish; Maclean

Only photographs of this Grade II listed building (28th October 1986). It is the house where Sir Edwin Lutyens grew up and his first commission was directly opposite, a conversion to The Corner. Previous owners of Street House include: Francis; Wild

The Old Parsonage is a Grade II listed building, dating back to the early 15th century. It is a hall house with a timber frame, under-built in brick, with red brick infill above, and weatherboard cladding to the first floor left and red and grey tiles. The building was designated Grade II on March 9, 1960. This comprehensive report was commissioned by the current owners to provide dendrochronological evidence to date the primary construction phase of this building. by Edward Wilkins Waite (1854-1924) History changes: the coloured print was sold as an original woodcut c1901 and the black and white as an original print c1950! This photograph, almost certainly taken during WW2, shows the garden turned over to growing vegetables for the 'Dig for Victory' campaign This is the opening paragraph of an undated description of the house: In 1952 the Cosford Estate was broken up and Old Parsonage Cottages were Lots 16 and 17. The annotation on the relevant pages of the sale catalogue notes that they were 'Sold to tenant' and the tenants were listed as Mr C Hoare and Mr V C Rapley respectively: The house has attracted painters for decades past Note the huge Chestnut tree that was in the Churchyard and now no longer with us Mike and Amanda Roberts and family, 1997 A History of the Old Parsonage by Philip and Sally Gorton This history was commissioned by the present owners, Mike and Amanda Roberts and the brief extracts shown below, along with a pdf of a scanned version of the book, are reproduced by the kind permission of the owners and authors A 600 year-old house In 2011, to celebrate the house's 600th year, Mike and Amanda hosted a birthday party and a quiz - most questions are still relevant, how many can you answer? Edmund and Jane Haviland won the Limerick competition!: There's a fine Surrey village known as Thursley, Whose buildings we number as, firstly, St Michael's to pray in, Good houses to stay in, And, thirdly, the Shoes when we're thirsty.

An extension to this Grade II listed building (3rd May 1973) was Sir Edwin Lutyen's first commission (see weblink below). He lived in Street House, opposite the Corner, with his parents and joined two cottages to create this substantial house. Douglas and Kathlee Watson, 1997 Surnames of prior owners: E. Gray; C D Heatley (1895); Delaforce; Duncan Scott; Thomas; Hamilton; Watson; Wilkinson https://www.countrylife.co.uk/property/house-whose-owner-took-risk-budding-young-architect-called-edwin-lutyens-166482 Front and rear of Knight, Frank & Rutley particulars: https://media.onthemarket.com/properties/3858523/doc_0_0.pdf