Banstead Village

Can we all concentrate on suggesting where in Banstead this location might be?

Could this picture be, Beckenshaw Gardens. Banstead.
I found a Diary of my mother's which stated we lived there short term , after I was born while the bungalow was being refurbished at Hengest Farm.
Cynthia GH
Hengest Farm

Note from LNW - that is in Woodmansterne. Based on the topography,my guess would be somewhere along Holly Lane

As regards Photo 464
I now find my parents lived for a short time at Northview
High st Banstead.
Hope this is of help establishing were photo was taken
Cynthia GH

Could this be Park Downs in the background?

My brother Noel, remembers that milk was delivered from there to us in Croydon Lane in the 1930s. He remembers the pony and milk-float and that he cadged a ride up Croydon Lane on the float on his way to school. He also remembers the farmer had two lovely daughters with long blond plaits whom he admired.

Could this be where Park Farm depot was in Holly lane?

Reply from LNW: I don't know Pam but I know a man who might - watch this space . . .

We are looking for somewhere in the district that has a high-rising bank of vegetation very close to buildings. The extension to the chimney in the background suggests that it is there to deflect air which is 'bouncing' off the steep bank. I don't think Park Downs was quite so close to habitation. Thinking on!

The electricy pole on the hill any help ?

Photograph 57 in the collection shows Park Farm in the 1950s – probably not much different from the 1930s. I can't see an angle that might produce a view like this (no 464). The high bank is almost like a railway embankment or a raised road. It is a puzzle!

This is a response to my enquiry sent to the Woodchips Conservation Volunteers who do considerable work in the Chistead area and are very familiar with the immediate area around Park farm:

Sorry, neither I, nor my colleague Andy, find anything to recognise in the photo. The slope in the background is very much steeper than the gentle incline of Park Down, and Andy suggests that the low wall between the road and the house appears to be built of limestone blocks that are not native to this part of the country. We're both fairly certain that the photo was not taken at Park Farm.

Regards

Brian

Thanks to Marks latest photo (898) Do you think we have at last got closer to where Ivan Gerdes-Hanson was in this photo?

Chipstead Valley Road. Background Banstead Woods maybe?

Google search says:

Historical family notes mention that the Gerdes-Hansen family also resided short-term at a property called Northview on Banstead High Street while their bungalow at Hengest Farm was undergoing refurbishment.

Topographic Guesses: The steep terrain strongly indicates the photo was snapped along Holly Lane or the steep dips separating Woodmansterne and Chipstead

Note from LNW:

Our super sleuth, Janice Chapple, thinks this location could be opposite the waterworks in Outwood Lane. There were a few very old cottages there. Donald Busfield mentions them too in his History of Woodmansterne.

The slope/hill behind is called White Hill where Janice used to sledge some 50s metres away from this spot.

Several others have mentioned this area.

If you have a better idea or knowledge of the location, do please add a comment.

If only the baby in the pram could talk!

Response from LNW: I expect they can by now.

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