Site last updated: 03/07/09 [more]
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Virtual Tour - A 1907 photo of the Church of England Soldiers' and Sailors' Institute and photos from Tarn Close in 1997 added [more]
Gallery - Military gallery: a cartoon of soldiers at Guillemont Barracks added [more]
Gallery - Miscellaneous gallery (2): photos of the Cove and Farnborough and St John's Ambulance Brigades from the 1950s added [more]
Gallery - School Days gallery: photos of Queens Road Council School from 1912; Tower Hill School from 1947; and school plays from Fernhill School from 1956 added [more]
Gallery - Military gallery: photos of soldiers at Connaught Hospital during WW1, Westminster and Cambridge University Officer Training Camps on Farnborough Common, troops from Marlborough Lines from 1915, a Royal Flying Corps soldier from the WW1, and a map of Guillemont Barracks in Cove from the early 1970s added [more]
Gallery - Sport gallery: photo of the Cherrywood Review at Farnborough Town football club from 1976 added [more]
Gallery - Miscellaneous gallery (2): receipt from Brands Removals from 1948 added [more]
Memories - High altitude suits and experimental 'secret' jets, and Letters home from a National Service Sapper at Guillemont Barracks - Autumn 1958 added [more]
Gallery - Military gallery: photos of Guillemont Barracks in Cove from 1957-58 added [more]
Virtual Tour - North Camp station, and the old RAE South Gate from 1960 and 1971 join the tour [more]
Virtual Tour - An undated photo of the Farnborough railway station, and photos from the early 1900s, 1969 and the 1980s added [more]
Gallery - Aviation (3) gallery: photos of various airships at the Balloon factory from the early 20th century added [more]
Gallery - Miscellaneous gallery (2): the Lord Fisher locomotive on the RAE railway and a train near Farnborough North station from 1961 added [more]
Virtual Tour - An undated photo of the RAE railway, and an undated photo of Farnborough North station and photos from 1960 and 1964 added [more]
Gallery - School Days gallery: 20 photos from Farnborough Grammar School and Cove Junior School from the 1930s, 1950s and 1960s added [more]
Blog - preserved for ever more! [more]
Memories - Testing the comet at the RAE; Treasures on a disused sewage treatment plant!; and memories from Wellingtonia School added [more]
Virtual Tour - Cherrywood Road, home to Farnborough FC, from 1975 and today [more]
Gone but not forgotten - the latest from the former site of Firgrove Court and the redevelopment of Queensmead added [more]
Gallery - Sport gallery: photos of Farnborough Town football club from the 70s, 80s and 90s added [more]
Virtual Tour - new entries: St. John's Church from the 1930s and 1958; Cripley Road from 1949; and Twelve Acre Crescent from 1958 all join the tour [more]
Virtual Tour - additions: Farnborough station from 1990 and the former sites of the National Gas Turbine Establishment (NGTE) from 1954 and Cove Court from 1958 [more]
Gallery - Miscellaneous gallery (2): local celebrations from the coronation in 1953 added [more]
Gallery - Entertainment gallery: a performance from the St. Christopher's Church Young Wives Club from 1959 added [more]
Virtual Tour - new entries: Farley House from 1975, Farnborough North station from 1964 and Oak Road from 1916 all join the tour [more]
Virtual Tour - new entries: Spooner's forge from 1903 to today, Wright Bros store from 1919 to today, and Taylor and Tanner premises from 1965 to today all join the tour [more]
Virtual Tour - additions: the latest from the Queensmead redevelopment added [more]
Gallery - School days gallery - Photos from inside the Hillside Convent School from the 1920s added [more]
Virtual Tour - additions: Hillside Convent School on Farnborough Road from the 1920s added [more]
Virtual Tour - additions: Hillside Convent School at The Sycamores from the 1920s added [more]
Virtual Tour - additions: the 60163 Tornado going through Farnborough Station in 2009 added [more]
Latest updates:
Gallery - Weather gallery: photos of the record snow from February 2nd added [more]
Videos - additions: all around town in the snow in Februrary 2009, Cody Centenary flypast from 2008, and the Farnborough Airshow from 1982 and 1966 added [more]
Virtual Tour - additions: the latest photos from the redevelopment sites of Queensmead and the Concept 2000 site added [more]
Worst eyesores - additions: photos of the HSBC building boarded up as demolition is pending added [more]
Gone but not forgotten - the latest from the former site of Firgrove Court added [more]
Family Histories - the Pepler family from the 1880s-1900s [more]
Gallery - Farnborough Airshow 2008: more photos from last year's airshow added [more]
Virtual Tour - additions: Farnborough station from 1971 and the former Solartron demolition from 2002 added [more]
Memories - Memories of the National Fire Service from World War Two added [more]
Family Histories - More on the Dodds family, Cove residents from the 1930s [more]
Memories - The Meads family and Fish Pond farm, and eight generations at Woodlands Road, Cove, added [more]
Gallery - Miscellaneous gallery (2): Auction documents for local farmland from 1861; and local media article about the history of Jersey Brow added [more]
Memories - Memories and photos from the 1947 production of Yeomen of the Guard by the Farnborough and Royal Aircraft Establishment Amateur Operatic Society added [more]
Virtual Tour - additions: the former RAE airsheds from 1916, and the boarded-up Tumbledown Dick Inn from today added [more]
Memories - Memories and photos from of a number of productions of the Farnborough and Royal Aircraft Establishment Amateur Operatic Society in the 1940s added [more]
Gallery - Aviation gallery (3): 1959 press release from the Westland Group about the SBAC Farnborough Airshow added [more]
Gallery - Miscellaneous gallery (2): local news items about Air Vice-Marshall Sir Bernard Chacksfield and Joan Maskell added [more]
Gone but not forgotten - new entry: photos of Greencroft School from pre-1914, the 1930s and today, and the latest from the former sites of Firgrove Court and Homelands added [more]
Memories - Memories of The Oaks, the Puddle and the Sweet Shop by the Rex Cinema added [more]
Virtual Tour - additions: the latest developments from the Concept redevelopment added [more]
Virtual Tour - new entry: Farnborough Recreation Centre from the 1970s joins the virtual tour [more]
Virtual Tour - photos from the start of the demolition of the former Royal Flying Corps barracks on Farnborough Road [more]
Virtual Tour - new entry: National Gas Turbine Establishment from 2007 and today joins the virtual tour [more]
Gone but not forgotten - new entry: Fish Pond Farm added [more]
Virtual Tour - new entry: Fowler Road from 1971, 1994 and 1999; and Tilebarn House from 1980 and today join the virtual tour [more]
Virtual Tour - new entry: Royal Flying Corps Barracks from the early 20th century and today added [more]
Virtual Tour - Farnborough Station from the 1960s added [more]
Virtual Tour - new entry: High View Road from 1913 and today added [more]
Virtual Tour - Elmsleigh Road from 2008 and Whitehall Farm from the 1920s added [more]
Gallery - Aviation gallery (3): British Army Dirigible No 1 airship, the Nulli Secundus, from 1908 added [more]
Download Toolbar - new feature: download the Historic Farnborough toolbar to your browser and get the latest site updates delivered straight to your desktop [more]
Virtual Tour - new entries: Cove Court, Cove Junior School and Elmsleigh Road all join the virtual tour [more]
Virtual Tour - additions: an early 20th century photo of Cove Road when it was flooded by Cove Brook added [more]
Gone but not forgotten - additions: the latest developments on the former Homelands site added [more]
Gallery - Miscellaneous gallery: changes to Alder Valley bus services in Farnborough from 1978 added [more]
Gallery - Aviation gallery (3): photos from the former site of the RAE in 1991 added [more]
Virtual Tour - additions: Farnborough FC and Cherrywood Road from 2008 added [more]
Gallery - Entertainment gallery: photos from the New Man Play in the 1940s, and a Williamsons shop outing from 1946 added [more]
Gallery - School days gallery: photo of the local Girl Guides, Brownies and Church Lads Brigade from 1939 added [more]
Virtual Tour - additions: Farnborough station from 1963 and the Queens Hotel from the early 1960s added [more]
Gallery - Military gallery: Soldiers at a Farnborough barracks from the early 20th century added [more]
Gallery - Maps/Aerial gallery: aerial photo of Farnborough airfield added [more]
Memories - Otis Redding and DJ Pete Murry at the Big C Club - No.1 Camp Road from 1966 added [more]
Family Histories - The Dodds family, Cove residents from the 1930s [more]
Virtual Tour - additions: the Farnborough miniature railway from 1937, Farnborough Common from 1936, and the former site of Cove Pond from 1938 added [more]
Gallery - Weather gallery: Cove Brook flooding in the early 20th century added [more]
Gallery - Military gallery: Soldiers en route from Farnborough to Aldershot from 1905 added [more]
Gallery - Miscellaneous gallery: photo from the Bramshot Halt rail crash in 1929 added [more]
Gallery - Religion gallery: photos of Reverend Hansford, vicar at St. John's Church in the 1940s added [more]
Gallery - Entertainment gallery: photo from the Farnborough Carnival in 1938 added [more]
Memories - The Big C Club - No.1 Camp Road in the 60s [more]
Gone but not forgotten - additions: photos of the former Cove Court from the 1930s added [more]
Gallery - School days gallery: photos of Cove Junior School from 1910 and 1937 added [more]
Gallery - Miscellaneous gallery: photos from Cove Court in the 1930s; and kennels from Ball Hill added [more]
Gallery - Cody Centenary gallery: photo from the funeral of Samuel Cody in 1913 added [more]
Memories - a series of memories and walking tours from Rafborough and Cove from the 1930s - Farnborough Grammar School [more]
Census data - 1891 census returns for Farnborough added added [more]
Gallery - Entertainment gallery: The programme from the opening of the Rex Cinema in 1937, and the programme from Farnborough's Salute a Soldier week in 1944 added [more]
Virtual Tour - additions: the latest shots from the Concept 2000, Queensmead and Firgrove Court redevelopments [more]
Virtual Tour - additions: Bramshot Halt station from 1964 and 2008 joins the tour [more]
Gallery - School Days gallery: life at the National Children's Home from the 1920s added [more]
Gallery - Farnborough Airshow 2008 gallery - more new photos added [more]
Memories - more memories and photos from Rafborough and Cove from the 1930s [more]
Gallery - Miscellaneous gallery: architectural drawing of the house of Lt. Col. J. Napier from 1900 added [more]
Memories - a series of memories and walking tours from Rafborough and Cove from the 1930s [more]
Gallery - Maps gallery: walking tours from the 1930s added [more]
Gallery - School Days gallery: Tower Hill Junior School pupils from 1937 added [more]
Gallery - Sport gallery: Farnborough Town FC updates from the mid 70s to the early 90s added [more]
Gallery - Farnborough Airshow 2008 gallery - more than 20 new photos added [more]
Virtual Tour - new entry: Cherrywood Road, the home of Farnborough Football Club, from 1975, 2003 and 2004 added [more]
Gone but not forgotten - new entry: Firgrove Court from 2008 added [more]
Memories - Southwood Camp from 1976; Tower Hill Infants School from 1937; and Rafborough and Cove from the 1930s [more]
Gallery - Maps gallery: a map of Cove from the 1930s added [more]
Gallery - School Days gallery: Tower Hill Infant School from 1937 added [more]
Virtual Tour - additions: Two photos from Southwood Camp from 1976 added [more]
Gallery - Military gallery: passing out parade at Southwood Camp from 1976, and soldiers on exercise added [more]
Gallery - Military gallery: a map of the former Southwood camp and two photos of Royal Engineers from 1970 added [more]
Gone but not forgotten - additions: photos of the former entrances to the Southwood Camp from the 1970s added [more]
Gallery - Farnborough Airshow 2008 gallery - more than 50 new photos added [more]
Gallery - Farnborough Airshow 2008 gallery - new gallery added [more]
Virtual Tour - additions: two undated and two photos from 1965 of the RAE railway added [more]
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Take a trip around Historic Farnborough and see how the town has changed and developed over the years at many easily recognisable locations.
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| Gone but not forgotten |
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Did you know that more than 100 locations in the town have been demolished or heavily redeveloped in the last century? We remember them here.
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What are your memories of Farnborough? Whether it's from the 1930s, the 1980s or from today why not share your memories of the town with us?
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| Family Histories | 1891 Census |
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Is your family history closely linked with Farnborough's history? If so, why not share a few details of your association, or take a look at 1891 census returns.
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