Historic Farnborough

Site last updated: 06/09/10 [more] New to the site? Read our quick guide to Historic Farnborough [more] Latest updates: Virtual Tour - additions: Queens Hotel in 1900, the former Harington Methodist Soldiers Home in 1967, the former Farnborough Grange in 1968, and the former Homestead Farm in 1967 all added [more] Gallery - Aviation (4) gallery: a flight of Royal Flying Corps machines at Farnborough in 1915 and the airship Nulli Secondus at Farnborough 1911 added [more] Virtual Tour - additions: Farnborough Street in 1910, the former Tournay Barracks from 1967, the former Duke of Connaught's Road from the 1900s, and Government House from 1910 all added [more] Virtual Tour - additions: Oudenarde barracks in 1895; Connaught Hospital in 1915, 1916 and 1967; Coombe Farm in 1967; the Thatched Cottage in 1964; Cove Court in 1950; St John's Church in the 1970s; and The Oaks in the 1890s all added [more] Gallery - Cody Centenary gallery: six photos of the aviator Samuel Cody and his planes added [more] Gallery - Entertainment gallery: photo of the Farnborough Boy Scouts "Pierrot Troupe" in 1918 added [more] Gallery - Videos: 15 videos from the Farnborough airshow from the late 1940s and 1950s and the newly former Farnborough FC added [more] Gallery - Farnborough Airshow 2010 gallery: more than 100 photos from the 2010 Farnborough Airshow added [more] Virtual Tour - additions: the Railway Hotel from 1903, 1912 and today joins the tour; and updates from the former site of the Farnborough Grammar School; latest Queensmead developments; and updates from the former sites of Homeland and the Queenshead, and from Knellwood added [more] Worst Eyesore - the latest updates from the redvelopment of the former HSBC building added [more] Virtual Tour - the latest updates to the former site of Brands Removals and the Concept Building, Farnborough Street, and Cherrywood Road added [more] Gallery - Sport gallery: action from Farnborough's 2009/10 promotion campaign in the Zamaretto Premier League added [more] Gallery - Weather gallery: photos of the snow and localised flooding from January 2010 added [more] Virtual Tour - The Grange from 1966 and Instone's Garage from the 1930s join the tour [more] Virtual Tour - photos of Malplaquet Barracks and Lynchford Road from 1969 added [more] Gallery - Miscellaneous gallery (3): Ministry of Transport report into the 1947 rail crash near Farnborough added [more] Gallery - Aviation gallery (4) extracts from RAE News in 1970 reporting on the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the RAE in 1940, and memories of Cody's final flight in 1913 added [more] Gallery - Miscellaneous gallery (3): 1960s local newspaper coverage focusing on the trip of Mr and Mrs Dodds from Cove to Australia; and a 1970 article on local blacksmith Dan Spooner on Victoria Road added [more] Gallery - Aviation gallery (4) extracts from the programme of the 1964 Farnborough Airshow added [more] Gallery - Miscellaneous gallery (2): 1960s local newspaper coverage focusing on Instone's Garage in Cove from the 1930s added [more] Gallery - Miscellaneous gallery (2): a series of local newspaper articles from the 1970s about the history of the RAE and the airfield and a 1986 article about the demise of the historic Balloon shed added [more] Gallery - Miscellaneous gallery (2): photos from the 1946, 1946 and 1947 RAE Technical College Harvest Camps added [more] Gallery - Miscellaneous gallery (2): images and newspaper coverage from the 1946 and 1947 RAE Technical College Christmas Revues added [more] Gallery - Miscellaneous gallery (2): photos of RAE apprentices from the late 1940s and their subsequent weddings added [more] Memories - Roaming Farnborough and back to Pinehurst corner and Elles Barracks added [more] Gallery - Miscellaneous gallery (2): local newspaper report on ex-Farnborough residents added [more] Memories - Memories of St Patrick's Church and North Camp added [more] Virtual Tour - the latest building developments from Queensmead, Farnborough FC, the former Concept Building, the HSBC building and the former site of Homelands added [more] 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]

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