- Hardcover: 200 pages
- Publisher: Howard Mallinson (13 Dec 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0954393406
- ISBN-13: 978-0954393403
- Product Dimensions: 30 x 21.4 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 664,899 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Howard Mallinson, has lived in Claygate for 20 years but he has long connections with Hinchley Wood. In 1947 his family moved from York, where he was born in 1942, to Guildford; and moved again in 1954, to Hinchley Wood where he spent the rest of his boyhood and his teenage years. He was confirmed at St Christopher's Church and was an active member of its Young Communicants' Guild. He met his wife, Irene, in Hinchley Wood; they were married at St Christopher's by the Rev Stephen Gunyon, and after a period of five years in Walton on Thames, they moved back to Hinchley Wood, with their adopted daughter, Hannah, to be joined later by their adopted son, Dudley, who was christened at St Christopher's. The family remained in Hinchley Wood until 1982. He has lived in two different houses, in Avondale Avenue and Claygate Lane, on the second Berg estate, and his wife lived in Cumberland Drive from where her parents moved to Montgomery Avenue. The author has worshipped at St Christopher's with a few gaps since 1955, having been recruited by the Rev Newton Jones. His wife is currently a Churchwarden. Such are the author's qualifications to write on the subject.
The author attended the village school in Burpham, near Guildford; then Farnham Grammar School and later, Tiffin Boys School, which he left in 1959 to train to be a Chartered Accountant. Later, during a sabbatical year, he stopped work to attend City University where he was awarded a Masters degree in business administration. He spent his entire career of 40 years in London, for the greatest part travelling by train on route 42, either from Hinchley Wood, or going through it.
Although found to be numerate at school, his great love was history: although he considers himself part of the luckiest generation, in a different age he would have been able to indulge his passion at university; instead, now that he is retired, he indulges it on his own terms, and with much relish.
His interests include, the Old Tiffinians' Association, playing golf and bowls, reading and cooking. He is a member of Claygate Parish Council.
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ABOUT THE BOOK Hinchley Wood has a character which is so obviously of the 1930s, but how did it happen? And who were the leaders who gave it shape; and brought about the creation of St Christopher's Church? These are the questions which Howard Mallinson has researched and written in this account.
When the station opened in 1930, this together with the improved road communications made possible by the Kingston by-pass, created a market for houses which were attractive to the London commuter. The book explains these influences and the impact of the Southern Railway's active promotion of their new electric train services. With the excellent location of Hinchley Wood, with its fast, frequent trains to the capital, the development of Hinchley Wood took off at speed, both through its intrinsic merits which were attractive to the 1930s market, and as a result of the housing boom.
The author explains the reasons why Hinchley Wood was built so quickly, essentially because four main builders were producing houses at the same time, and to an eager market which found the new homes more affordable than ever before. Accounts are given about the development of all the roads in Hinchley Wood and the numbers, year by year, of the new residents, together with an instructive analysis of the role of town planning of the new settlement, and its influence on housing densities, road layouts and shopping facilities, as well as some bad omissions in the town plan, in particular regarding schools and a church.
The author investigated the origins of the Hinchley Wood Residents' Association and explains and comments on all the major issues which were confronted by the Association in the 1930s.The central role of Edgar Royston Pike, to whom the book is in part dedicated, is covered in depth. The story of the schools of Hinchley Wood is given, including a sensitive account of how the war impacted on school life.
It is an important historical account built round contemporary records which will be enjoyed by any reader who appreciates social history.
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Hinchley Wood - built in the 1930s where it is because of how an 1883 railway was built...,
This review is from: Hinchley Wood: The Origins of a 1930s Settlement (Hardcover)
A fascinating book. Nowadays Hinchley Wood is a place without a pub, let alone a McDonalds! ;-) When it was set up, it was pure Margo and Jerry territory. How things change(!) Its "Residents Association" pre-dates that of Thames Ditton. It was set up as a "planned development". (Well, "planneder" than Stoneleigh, at least). Ever wondered why all the houses on the north side of the station have a "Mont" in them? Mr. Montgomery was the builder, and he lived there! The houses on the "other" side of the bypass by the petrol station were built by Berg's, who were based in Hinchley Wood and whose reputation still makes a house more saleable. The petrol station was called "Esher Filling Station" (EFS) because it predated Hinchley Wood! In the 1990s, credit card receipts from there still said "Esher". Read it!
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