Old Photo Gallery

NASA Jumbo 747 transport with piggyback Space Shuttle visits Stansted and circles right over Albury during European tour June 1983

Accidental fire started by combine harvester as harvest started on Albury Lodge Estate August 1981. 10 fire engines, 50 firemen and a squad of police and TV reporters watched helplessly as 200 acres of standing wheat burned down where it stood. Albury was on the anglia 6 o'clock TV news that night.

Albury End in snow March 1982

St Mary's Church circa 1930 (or earlier?)

Albury Hall, approx 1910-1930?

Albury Hall circa 1930. Was home of the Glyn family, taken over by the Army & RAF during WW2, accidentally set on fire and demolished in 1950.

Albury School photo 1924-25

Albury School photo names list, 1924-25

Clapgate crossroads circa 1930?

Clapgate crossroads looking North up the hill. Date?

Clapgate crossroads circa 1930? Shot from Patmore Hall Road, showing the Jolly Butchers pub to the right.

Patmore Hall - pre WW2

Patmore Heath & Buttons Pond

Patmore Heath pond and windmill, circa 1910? Windmill now gone.

Patmore Heath postcard from photo taken for John Caton - card sold in Caton's Stores. Date?

Another Patmore Heath postcard. Uniforms suggest date around 1915 - WW1.

Caton's Stores facing down the road towards the South.

Caton's Stores (now 'Stax' and 'High Hall' opposite High Hall Farm) taken from the road looking North. Date of picture uncertain, although the presence of the Shell petrol pumps and the TV aerial must provide clues (are those Martini boxes in the store behind the gates?). If you know more, please email us.

This looks to be the oldest photo of Caton's Stores, taken around the turn of the 19th century we'd guess, with some of the shop staff posing for the camera. This appears to be the shop door which subsequently had petrol pumps installed outside. Can anyone name any of the people? Please email us if so.

Caton's Stores south end following the installation of the petrol pumps. Photo taken by Olga Caton around 1950, showing a cousin of her husband (in black) whose father was born in the shop and subsequently emigrated to Australia and Walter Hutchin, who lived in Barncroft.

This is a photo of Old Cottages, Albury End with the porch of The Fox public house to the left, believed to have been taken around 1935.

This is a more recent picture, believed to have been taken around 1956, with The Fox directly ahead and Old Cottages on the right. The board next to the pub door is apparently showing the times for the cinema in Standon. The people in the picture are apparently Mr Godfrey and his niece, who lived in "Horsemans" at the time.

Army training with horses, Patmore Heath 1915.

First World War Army training exercises Patmore Heath 1915, showing 14th Battery.

Local Fred Sparks at the Patmore Heath water pump circa 1930.

1913 Mill Lane looking down to the Clapgate crossroads, showing the Hutchin family outside their house: Alice and Albert Hutchin with Daisy Debnam Slanley Hutchin.

Catherine Wheel pub, circa 1900?

Copy of Albury history with picture of windmill. At one time there were at least 3 large windmills in Albury - as tall as a 6 storey building.

More Albury history.

More Albury history