trying to find 1960s address in chertsey area

[kelty]

i am totally new to this kind of thing, coming into computors later on i n life ,please bear with me.I  noticed someone was enquiring about the caravan park at the foot of Woburn hill called Brackendene farm,I lived there in a caravan for quite few years in the 60s. It was a residential site and at that time ,a bit rough and ready to start with but improved as new management came in.I remember a person called Percy stamp used to run things at first, he was a good chap who would sometimes take some of us youngsters to maidstone and other places just for the company. He was
a genuine good sort of bloke. The caravan park was not a Gypsy site,it was run as a business by someone we never knew,we paid our ground rent for our plot which we kept tidy or a letter was issued as a warning.What happened to the place after we left in the late sixtys ,I don,t know,but if anyone remembers those times on Woburn Park Farm as it was then,i would be interested, especially
if they also went to stepgates secondary modern school at the time    regards Kelty


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[Amber rabbit]

You've reminded me that I found a couple more bits of information about Brackendene - Chertsey museum have a map from the 1960s showing the site and the "avenues" that the caravans were set out on. The rent book that they have is in the name of Ashfold or Ashfield.

Kelty, although I'm trying to piece together a bit of local history rather than family history, could I PM you with a couple of questions please?

[kelty]

hello amber rabbit  I would be delighted to assist you if  I can.   Kelty

[rosie99]

Kelty and Amber rabbit Welcome to rootschat

You will both need to have done 3 posts before you can PM each other 

Rosie

[Amber rabbit]

Thanks for the advice Rosie! I think you need to post another message Kelty then I can send you that message.

Once I have the time to pick up my neglected family history research there will be no stopping me 

[kelty]

hi  there ,regarding Brackendene farm again ,i would like to know what the place was originally,there is a picture posted that shows the water gardens running through the middle of the park,all the stonework bridge supports are man made, when i was resident there,pathways ran either side with evidence that there were some nice gardens here onetime,however even in my time there,all this had deteriorated,the picture shows much greater decline ,just what was the place in its heyday?does any one know?

[thewelshcockney]

hi to all
sorry i haven't been on site for a while, (computer problems),
just like to add the reason i was intrested in this caravan park was i was born there in the early 60s & members of my family lived there for many years afterwards but i couldn't find any info about it,

thewelshcockney

[Amber rabbit]

After a couple of years of searching, it's wonderful to find two people who lived in Brackendene!

It was originally formed one corner of Woburn Park, a famous 18th century garden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Southcote but the concrete gardens formations must be a 20th century addition.

[colliehouse]

Hi Kelty

Never would have believed I would have had a memory sparked but I also remember Percy Stamp. I didn't live on the caravan site but on the Meads and did come across him. Remember the caravan site well as I wasn't allowed to go there, so of course I did!

Sally