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Surrey Completed Look up Requests / Re: Cranleigh
« on: Friday 07 February 14 16:43 GMT (UK)  »
Checking the 1911 census the form completed by Albert Hadland shows he lived in – Willscote – which is still there and is at the junction of what is Horseshoe Lane and what was then known as Elm Lane. It was and remains a school house.  There are then several houses referring to them being in College Road – all seemingly labourers’ houses – before the addresses change to being The Common.  On the official summary books all houses individually labelled as “College Road” are listed as being in Horseshoe Lane, so it may have been “College Road” was what they were unofficially known as.

The 1891 census has no reference to Horseshoe lane but does to College Road!

I will check the Cranleigh School records and see what references it throws up as there should be something buried in there.

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Surrey Completed Look up Requests / Re: Cranleigh
« on: Friday 07 February 14 11:00 GMT (UK)  »
The Francis Frith picture  APPEARS to be taken on Horseshoe Lane as you approach the Sanny Lane (formerly Elm Lane) entrance to the School.  There are houses there which date back to that time - Willscote for example which was used as the house for younger boys.

In all my research I have never seen references from the school to College Road or any variances thereof.  Horseshoe Lane (which runs from the Common past the front of the School) was a track until tarmac was laid around 1906 - we have a letter from a pupil who recalls falling into the wet tar on arrival at the school; incidentally, he calls it Horseshoe Lane.

It seems that if, for a period, part of this road was known, formally or informally, as College Road then it would be quite easy to check where it ran as many of the houses remain with, I believe, the same names they have had for a long time.

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Surrey Completed Look up Requests / Re: Cranleigh
« on: Thursday 06 February 14 21:54 GMT (UK)  »
Cranleigh School has never been known as Cranleigh College nor is there a College Road to the best of my knowledge in Cranleigh, Surrey

There was no back lane to the school. The road from the village to the school was and is Horseshoe Lane.

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Northamptonshire / Re: Henson family of Kettering
« on: Thursday 06 February 14 21:50 GMT (UK)  »
Peter Huxley Looker was educated at Cranleigh School in Surrey from 1934 to 1938. His father is listed as Charles C Looker of 67 Portsmouth Road, Surbiton. If you have any details of his death that would be appreciated.

Martin Williamson
Cranleigh School Archivist

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