Banstead Village

World War II

Flying bomb damage 1944 This photo shows the damage caused by the flying bomb on the 8th August 1944. W Gilmour was the shoe...
Park Farm Banstead - POW camp Park Farm, Holly Lane, Banstead — a photograph taken in early 1950s. The site is now substantially...
Anti-tank gun pillboxes at Banstead Built in 1940, this pillbox has now generally been accepted as the largest anti-tank gun type built ...
Banstead Air Training Corps Believed to be Banstead Air Training Corps on the cricket field in the 1940s, the national ATC havin...
German POW Erich Kochan in Banstead In 1947, Italian and later German POWs appeared in the fields surrounding our smallholding. We felt...
Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of VJ Day From left to right: John Tickett, Liz Grover, Richard Anthony and Anne Anthony. On the 75th anni...
Flying bomb in Nork Way This is all that remained of 53 Nork Way after it was hit by a flying bomb on 3 July 1944. No 51 was...
WWII Surrey Bomb Site Map This image is a screen shot from an interactive county map just published online by the Surrey Histo...
VE Day Victory in Europe A VE Card issued by the 2nd Tactical Air Force, in this case to Robert Oliver Wilson, father of a ...
Banstead to Beaufighter This new 360-page hardback is now available from Banstead History. 250mm x 190mm fully-illustrate...
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