Always in my heart, although I am a Reading boy by birth. Lots of relatives there at one time as my father was from Loop Road, Kingfield & my mother Board School Road just off Chertsey Road. Wonderful walks & cycling during the 1940s/ 50s when I was young. Example; from Boundary Road Common, across Chertsey Road where you would hear the saws working by the canal at Spantons Wood Yard, through the woods to Wheatsheaf Common then across Chobham Road to the Wheatsheaf pub. Great. When I finished National Service some years later I met my late wife (Marilyn) through my cousin Jenny & we married at her Parish Church, Christchurch, where my parents had married in 1938. We were together nigh 60 years & I often see her, in my minds eye, waiting, smiling at Woking station, on the town side, as I arrived from Reading to be with her, in our courting days during the early 60s. The town centre area has changed an awful lot since those days.
Thank you for this video, which was very interesting to watch. When I was a lad and lived with my parents (now deceased) I lived in Woking from 1966 to 1976. My first job was at a Solicitor's Office (long since gone) opposite the Railway Station, before moving to the TSB in Commercial Road. After a couple of years there I decided to try the Library Service, which was initially in a disused chapel in (appropriately named Chapel Street - also long since gone, I think) and later I joined the Library Service, working for Woking Library for five years. During that time, the Library moved into a vast new building that was far too big for it, situated in the Town Centre and opened by Princess Margaret. A few years later it was moved to a smaller building, where it remains to this day. Also, I was confirmed at Christ Church in the Town Centre in 1968. Another of my memories of Woking was of spending many happy hours train spotting on Woking Station! Anyway, enough about my past! 🙂
I really, left my heart in Woking Surrey, in 1982. it's indeed a very nice Town. I have spent a very good time of my life - Harven Schoo Of English, and more others.
Woking is great most of the time but it has a large Muslim community and at night time can be a bit funny because of that. My nephew years ago got mugged and people i have spoken to have said you need to know what places to stay away from in the evening's. But generally its a nice town to go to ❤
I've heard that there's a statue of a tripod in Woking to pay homage to The War of the Worlds, is that true? I skimmed through the video but didn't see
Wow what an utter dump woking has turned in to. So glad i do not live there anymore. This i am seeing is not the future or an improvement, it looks like commerciallised hell on earth. Andy. Scotland.
I was born in Woking Maternity Hospital in 1949, and lived in Addlestone until 1968 - you're right it does look like commercialised hell on earth now. Thankfully I can remember how it used to be like back in the day. Been in Wiltshire since 1972
lived in woking for around 5 years from 2013; luckily it was the south side of the railway line. other than occasionally having a coffee in Nero, I would get on a train to Guildford for all shopping. I always figured it was one of the less desirable surrey towns. the one positive about woking is that it has direct trains into clapham and waterloo.
