But what of the amazing multi-gabled, timber-framed buildings with their complex roof structures for which he later achieved renown? Blunden was a deeply religious man of outstanding integrity. He was strongly influenced by the lovely rural surroundings that he found while working on houses in Newdigate, Rusper and other villages around Horley. He loved God and he loved Nature and having observed that nothing in nature was completely straight, he determined that his timber-framed houses should be likewise and so be in complete harmony with the trees around them!

Anderson, Douglas. Doug Anderson was involved with the Scouting movement from 1928 when he became a “Wolf Cub”. Later he became assistant cub master then in 1946 he became a master. He remained involved in the Scout all his life, and in 1997 he was still the president of the 6th Horley Group. Doug also served in the RAF during WW2. He is best known for his efforts to raise money to establish the Anderson leisure centre and swimming pool. Doug ran the family building business, “Anderson Building Contractors,” which operated from “Wheelwrights” in Horley Row. They built many houses for the council and renovated various old houses in Horley. PDF / EPUB File Name: Lord_and_Lady_Bunny-Almost_Royalty_-_Polly_Horvath.pdf, Lord_and_Lady_Bunny-Almost_Royalty_-_Polly_Horvath.epub Robinson, Barry. Barry was born 11 November 1908 in Lumley Road. He died in 1978.? Managing Director of Henry’s Garage in Victoria Road for 31 years and owned his own garage in Charlwood. He was involved in the Boy Scouts, St John’s Ambulance Brigade, the Fire Service, and during the second world war he joined the Civil Defence, and the council’s A. R. P. Training officer. Also during the war Barry was presented the B. E. M. by King George VI for rescuing a woman buried under rubble after a an air raid. He was a founding member of the Horley Rotary Club and their president. Also he found time to be a J. P. Monson, Sir William. Sir William (born 1567) he served in the Royal Navy 1585 to 1635. He was Admiral of the Downs and Narrow Seas from 1604 to 1615. He retired to Kinnersley Manor which he owned from sometime before 1624 to 1643 when he died aged 73.

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It is easy to see that this book is written in recent years (with a few small references to the Harry Potter craze) And I really hope that future readers will enjoy these little winks to popular culture as much as I do today(well in the far future...e.g. when I decide to have children and they are old enough to read) De Rutherwyk, John. He was a monk who was elected Abbot of Chertsey Abbey. 1307 – 1346.? As Chertsey Abbey owned Horley Church and much land in Horley, Rutherwyk was the landlord of much of the parish. Baker, George. George was in partnership with his brother Arthur, (above). They were surveyors and valuers and had an estate office in the store building in the High Street. Later they had their office in the new building on the corner of Massetts Road and Victoria Road (charity shop). They also ran the Horley Market in Smallfield Road. Phyllis became an ardent and successful tennis player and in 1930 became a member of the winning British Wightman Cup team that went to Forest Hill in the USA. At Wimbledon in 1931 she became the doubles champion with Mrs W P Barron (the Horley Mirror for 02.02.06 called her Dorothy Shepherd-Barron) and won the match 6-4. She travelled widely overseas to play tennis and at her 100th birthday party reported that when part of a mixed team, the Lawn Tennis Association always sent a married lady with them to act as a chaperone. She also played with some of the great players of the day including Fred Perry and Bunny Austen. Stapleton, Robin. Born 1946, the grandson of Harold Cooper, Horley Town Bandmaster. Robin is an International Conductor, he graduated at the Royal College of Music in London, and then continued his studies at the National Opera, Covent Garden, then he became their Conductor. He also conducted opera in many international venues. He was educated at Albert Road infants, Lumley Road, juniors, and then Balcombe Road Secondary School.

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Derek Arthur William Birnage was born at Wandsworth, South London on 13 June 1913 and died on 18 January 2004 at Burgess Hill. His father Frank was the editor of the “Sunday Companion”, a conservative evangelical paper that sold half a million copies a week during WW1.

In 1898, Blunden, moved with his mother and two elder sisters from Sudbury, Suffolk to Horley in Surrey where he was articled to architect and surveyor, Arthur Kelway Bamber, who had recently moved to Horley from Chelmsford. However, having become disenchanted with architecture, Bamber left Horley in the following year, later becoming an expert in the field of cement. Abandoned by Bamber, Blunden was forced to travel to London to complete his training with George A. Hall, a Fellow of the British Institute of Architects whose office was in Victoria Street, London. By the end of 1899, he had returned to Horley ready to accept commissions and by 1901, he had completed work on several houses, the designs of which were typical of the period. Mallinson, Edgar. Born in Westminster c1896. Lived in Albert Rd. 1901. His father was a house decorator. His brother Thomas started by selling papers at station newsagent, shop in Station Road. Changed name of shop during WW2 from “Mallinson of Horley” to “Mallinson of Britain” By 1871 George had taken over the Six Bells from his stepmother Ann and continued there until 1878 when he became the leaseholder of The Chequers. In 1891 he sublet The Chequers and took on the lease of the Albert Brewery in Station Road Horley. (In the 1891 census George is shown as a farmer living at Brewery House, Station Road.) He sold the business in 1894 and became a corn, coal and coke merchant until his death in 1897 aged 52. (A. O. Brown, et al.) Despite the carnage of 1st July, Lt Webber’s battalion, which was on the outskirts of Albert, was not touched by the battle. Ref. Surrey Mirror and County Post, Friday, August 4, 1916 & personal information gained by Brian Buss, and Parish Magazine et al.)

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In the 1960s, Danny first started to stand for the council. By 1964, when he stood as the Communist candidate for the Horley seat on Surrey Rural District Council, [sic] he was able to secure 20% of the vote. As he wrote in the Party press at the time: “In Horley and surrounding district we have been building on the democratic work for some years, and achieved a vote of 395 at the last election.” By the 1970s he was an elected Communist Councillor for the town, a position he held for six years, regularly topping the poll, such was his almost universal popularity in the town. He held his seat until he became too ill to meet the requirements of the job and retired.” (Michael Walker: Compendium of Communist Biography.) In July 1936 the Monotype Directors met for lunch at the Savoy Hotel, London to honour Frank Pierpont on his retirement. Sanger, ‘Lord’ George. Circus owner. Born Newbury Berkshire c1827. After selling the circus he moved to Park Farm, East Finchley, London. His farm foreman, Herbert Charles Cooper murdered him with a hatchet 28th November 1911. Then Cooper commited suicide two days later on the railway. He was educated at a Boy’s School in Karlshamm, Blekinge, Sweden, then University of Lund in Agriculture at Trelleborg. Sweden