Welcome to Historic Farnborough - the social and living history web site
Site last updated: 15/10/11 [more] New to the site? Read our quick guide to Historic Farnborough [more] Memories - John McVey and family - further photos added [more] Memories - John McVey and family added [more] Gallery - sport: an invitation to the Salesian College's sports day in 1947 an a house captain's badge from the Salesian College from 1947 added [more] Gallery - entertainment: a leaflet produced by the Farnborough Railway Enthusiasts' Group in 1957 added [more] Gallery - postcards: a postcard message from 1914 added [more] Virtual Tour - additions: a photo from the Wesleyan Soldiers' home from 1914 added [more] Gallery - miscellaneous (3): Aldershot and Farnborough Tramways amendment from 1882 added [more] Gallery - aviation (4): a leaflet produced by the RAE Radio Department as part of celebrations of the RAE's 50th birthday in 1955, a booklet produced for the 1958 SBAC exhibition at the Farnborough Airshow to mark 50 years of powered flight, and a SBAC flyer from 1958 added [more] Virtual Tour - additions: The National Gas Turbine Establishment from 1958 and Government House from today [more] Virtual Tour - additions: The Army Service Corps review on Farnborough Common from 1905 [more] Gallery - Cody Centenary: photos from the the publication "1908-1958 Fifty Years of Flying" added [more] Gallery - Maps/Aerial photos: aerial photo of the Royal Aircraft Establishment from 1947 added [more] Gallery - School days: extracts from the School of Humanities prospectus, Farnborough College of Technology 1976-77 added [more] Memories - The Loyal Edmonton Regiment at Morval Barracks added [more] Memories - St. Patrick's School, Peabody Road, South Farnborough added [more] Blog - additions: Did you mark the Royal Wedding or avoid it altogether? [more] Gallery - Royal Wedding 2011: new gallery added showing local colour on the day of the royal wedding [more] Blog - additions: What are your memories of Pinehurst Barracks? [more] Gallery - Postcard messages from the past gallery: 1914 postcard message added [more] Virtual Tour - additions: undated photos and photos from today of Whetstone Road and Silvester's Sweet Shop as they join the tour [more] Blog - additions: Origins of the Elephant and Castle in North Camp? added [more] Blog - additions: looking for lost Farnborough relatives and where was the White House in Cove added [more] Gallery - aviation (4): extracts from 1965 editions of RAE News added [more] Gallery - adverts gallery: an assortment of local adverts from 1965 from RAE News added [more] Gone but not forgotten - map references for Hook Cottage, Pinehurst Grange and the Rose and Crown pub added [more] Gone but not forgotten - map references for North Farm, Cold Harbour Cottages, Cold Harbour Wood, Hawley Road Manor House and Woodley added [more] Virtual Tour - additions: Norris Bridge undated photos and from 1980 join the tour [more] Virtual Tour - additions: Union Street photos from 1992-93 and today join the tour [more] Virtual Tour - additions: Farnborough Station and the former Railway Inn photos from 1992-93 and today added [more] Virtual Tour - additions: an undated photo of West Heath Corner and how it is today; an undated photo of the former Queenshead pub and from today; and an undated photo of Cove Junior School added [more] Gallery - adverts gallery: an assortment of local adverts from 1965 from RAE News added [more] Videos - additions: 1966 Southern Steam video added [more] Memories - Royal Engineers at Hawley Lake, 1960 added [more] Latest updates: Virtual Tour - additions: an undated Edwardian photo of the former Eelmoor Farm added [more] Memories - Bramshott Farm from the 1940s and the Hillside Convent School in the 1950s added [more] Worst eyesores - additions: recent developments from the former HSBC building added [more] Virtual Tour - additions: Elm Grove Road from 1967/68, Victoria Road from 1967, recent photos of the former sites of the Queens Head pub and the RAE added [more] Virtual Tour - additions: the former RAE railway from 1967 and 1968 added [more] Gallery - Miscellaneous (3) gallery: Induction leaflet from the Farnborough Railway Enthusiasts Club from the 1950s added [more] Virtual Tour - additions: Eelmoor Farm joins the tour, and an undated photo of Bramshot Halt railway station added [more] Memories - memories of Eelmoor Farm; Tilly Shilling at the RAE; Cove from the 1930s to the 1950s added [more] Family Histories - the Anger family and the Moon family from Cove to Australia added [more] Gallery - Aviation (4) gallery: Air Pictorial magazine report from 1966 on the Farnborough Airshow added [more] Virtual Tour - additions: an undated photo of the Wesleyan Church on Alexandra Road added [more] Gallery - Miscellaneous (3) gallery: 1921 'Picturesque Farnborough' photo album added [more] Memories - Memories of Pinewood House, 1921 added [more] Virtual Tour - new entries: the former site of the RAE southern site buildings join the tour [more] Virtual Tour - additions: the latest photos from the Concept, Queensmead, Queenshead and HSBC redevelopments; modern photos of the former sites of the RAE and Taylor & Tanner; and Trenchard House from 2010 all added [more] Gone but not forgotten - updates from the former site of the Royal Flying Corps added [more] Virtual Tour - additions: Cockadobby Hill from 1907; the old Town Hall from the 1920s; and an undated photo of Farnborough Station all added [more] Gallery - Aviation (4) gallery: undated photo of the Beta airship at the former Balloon Factory added [more] Memories - Memories of West Heath Farm added [more] Virtual Tour - new entries: the former West Heath Farm from 1950; Broomhill from the 1970s and 2008; the Elephant and Castle pub and North Camp Hotel from 1972 all join the tour [more] Virtual Tour - additions: Farnborough Rectory from 1967 and Cove Junior School from 1972 added [more] Virtual Tour - new entries: an undated photo of Rectory Road and today; the former Pinewood House from 1921; and the former workhouse, Wilmot House from 1967 all join the tour [more] Gallery - Imperial gallery: photos from the interior of Empress Eugenie's Farnborough Hill in 1900 added [more] Gallery - Aviation (4) gallery: the Astra Torres airship from 1913, wrecks from the collision of army biplanes in 1914, and the army mono biplane in 1912 added [more] Gallery - Miscellaneous (3) gallery: photo of the the foundation ceremony for the former Jubilee Hall from 1896 added [more] Virtual Tour - additions: an undated photo of the former Bramsholt station; Queens Road from 1967; Farnborough Street from 1967; Farnborough Hill from 1910 and 1956; and the former Jubilee Hall from 1897 added [more] Gallery - Sport gallery: photos from the Farnborough Town FC vs. Aldershot Town FC veterans game from 2003/04 season added [more] Gallery - Postcard messages from the past gallery: a new gallery giving an insight into people living in, passing through or linked with Farnborough through their postcard messages added [more] Virtual Tour - additions: photo of the old Post Office at the junction of Netley Street and Alexandra Road from 1907 added [more] 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]
Currently on the site.....and what we're actively looking for
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2241 images/artefacts of Farnborough from 1842 to 2011 139 virtual tour locations showing how the town has changed 127 lost locations that are gone but not forgotten
