Maybury Casino History
The boundaries of what I think of as Maybury Hill, Heathside and Mount Hermon may not be the same as your interpretation, and any local authority or ecclesiastical boundaries may well have changed over time, so if you cannot find what you are looking for in this section, it may be in a neighbouring area or perhaps one of the more general sections.
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Northville was settled in 1825 by early residents from upstate New York. The city stays true to its’ Victorian roots with the craftsmanship of the downtown area and the celebration of the Victorian Festival every September. All third graders in Northville schools get enriched in the history and life of the early settlers. 1995 (Feb) Maybury Centre Review. The 4th Woking Scout Group Newsletter. Sheerwater Pylon & Post. When the Sheerwater Estate was first built, the local residents’ association produced a monthly magazine known as the Sheerwater Pylon.
For Instance I have included in this area all of the land south of the main London to Portsmouth line from the edge of the Bansbury Estate and Old Hill (currently the edge of the 'urban area'), down to the north-bank of the Hoe Stream and along to the ancient boundary with Pyrford. I have, however, included the whole of Woking Park (even the Leisure Centre on the south-bank of the Hoe Stream), as well as the Maybury Estate and roads off East Hill/Sandy Lane that would originally have been part of Pyrford.
I have tried to divide the archive into logical sections to make finding things easier, but this is not a comprehensive list of items in my archive, just an indication of some of the pre-2000 items I hold, so if you cannot find what you are looking for please ask.
Not everything has been scanned, but those that have are highlighted in blue on the list, so if you find something listed in white that you are interested in please let me know and I will try to get it up on this site as soon as possible.
Deeds, Sales Brochures Etc.
I have been lent or given various deeds, sales brochures, etc., for properties all over the Woking area, some of which I have scanned an put on this site. The following relate to this area.
Maybury Casino History Photos
Guildford Road
Heathside
Monument Road & Pollard Road
Mount Hermon
Old Hill, Egley Road
Old Woking Road
1944 Conveyance
1992 Plans for Hoe Bridge Farm
Items Relating to Local Businesses
A number of items relate to local businesses, such as brochures, magazines, invoices etc. They are listed here.
Cotteridge Hotel Brochure
1971 (Sep) James Walker & Co Ltd Bulletin
1882-1982 James Walker & Company Limited
Items Relating to Local Organisations
Some items relate to local charities and organisations and such as political parties, uniformed organisations, societies, and religious groups.
1940 History of the Southern Railwaymen's Orphanage (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4)
1993 St Francis Catholic First School (Final Year) Prospectus
Woking Boys Grammar School Magazines
(Summer 1953)(Summer 1954) (Jan 1955) (Jul 1960) (Jan 1963)
Woking Girls Grammar School Magazines
Maybury Casino History Pictures
(1970-71) (1972-73) (1973-74) (1974-75) (1975-76)
Special 50th Anniversary (1923-73) Programme for 50th anniversary
St Dunstan’s Parish Magazines
(May 1988)(Oct? 1991) (Jul 1992) (Oct 1992) (Apr 1993) (Jul 1993) (Jan 1994) (Apr 1994) (Jul 1994) (Oct 1994) (Jan 1995) (Apr 1995) (Jul 1995) (Oct 1995) (Xmas 1995) (Easter 1996) (Jul 1996) (Oct 1996) (Xmas 1996) (Easter 1997) (Oct 1997) (Xmas 1997) (Easter 1998) (Jul 1998) (Oct 1998) (Dec 1998) (Easter 1999) (Dec 1999)
Maybury Casino History Website
St Paul’s, Maybury Parish Magazines
1958 (Jan) (Feb) (Mar) (Apr) (May) (Jun) (Jul) (Aug) (Sep) (Oct) (Nov) (Dec)
1959 (Jan) (Feb) (Mar) (Apr) (May) (Jun) (Jul) (Aug) (Sep) (Oct) (Nov) (Dec)
1961 (Jan) (Feb) (Mar) (Apr) (May) (Jun) (Jul) (Aug) (Sep) (Oct) (Nov) (Dec)
Warren Beatty’s first movie in 15 years, Rules Don’t Apply, begins with a quote from its subject, Howard Hughes, whom Beatty plays: “Never check an interesting fact.” The film, out Nov. 23, spins a fictional yarn, and one which Beatty—who had been chewing on the idea for decades and also wrote, directed and produced it—has repeatedly insisted is not a biopic of the eccentric aviator, entrepreneur and filmmaker. But for all the insistence that audiences accept it as a fantasy, Beatty’s depiction of an aging, outlandishly idiosyncratic Hughes all but begs a revisiting of the subject’s behavior during his later years—which was often so strange it sounds fictional itself.
Rules Don’t Apply is less about Hughes than it is about two young people in his employ: a naive starlet named Marla Mabrey (Lily Collins), newly arrived in Los Angeles following a chaste Baptist upbringing in Virginia, and Frank Forbes (Alden Ehrenreich), a driver with entrepreneurial aspirations and a similarly uncorrupted youth. This being the sexually repressed Hollywood of the 1950s, their boss forbids romantic relationships among his employees. This being a Hollywood movie, they immediately fall in love.
As Marla and Frank’s forbidden affair percolates, Hughes is at once an unwelcome obstruction and the gatekeeper of their professional aspirations, a fairy godfather with the power to bless or bankrupt their dreams. At times, his concerns—such as Congressional hearings related to his aeronautical innovations—seem a distraction from the central narrative, but they paint a picture, and by all accounts a fairly meticulous one, of a man who continues to fascinate 40 years after his death.
As far as Hughes’ life story, Rules Don’t Apply picks up roughly where The Aviator, Martin Scorsese’s 2004 drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio, leaves off, though it fudges the timeline a bit (lest we forget, this is a work of fiction). When Beatty’s Hughes enters, he’s a man in his 50s, decades removed from inheriting his family’s fortune, earned in the oil tool business, at age 18. He has already produced many successful movies, set air-speed records with his ever more advanced aircraft and developed a reputation as a Casanova with such famous paramours as Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner and Ginger Rogers.
But Beatty’s Hughes is somewhere in the early stages of a long decline, the more advanced degrees of which we see in flash-forwards set in the 1960s. The billionaire spent the final decades of his life as an increasingly agoraphobic recluse, fueled in large part by obsessive compulsive disorder and chronic pain caused by a near-fatal airplane wreck in the mid-40s (the movie pushes this event back by a decade). When he appears, in the film’s opening and closing moments, bedridden and disheveled in an Acapulco hotel, his appearance is indeed drawn from the real Hughes’ regular refusal to trim his hair or fingernails.
Many of the peculiarities the movie’s Hughes exhibits are borrowed from real-life anecdotes. He did once halt production on a movie because he disliked the shape of an actress’ brassiere (Jane Russell, The Outlaw, 1943). He did, despite his wealth and access, prefer TV dinners over posh restaurants. He did send his staff into a frenzy, demanding that they procure banana nut ice cream despite the fact that Baskin Robbins had discontinued the flavor and would only sell the remaining barrels in bulk—only to find that their boss’ capricious cravings had already moved on to a new flavor.
Hughes also did, as in the film, hole up in the movie theater of a Las Vegas hotel he bought (he had a penchant for buying up hotels, restaurants and airports for his exclusive use) on a continuous loop for days, never leaving to eat or relieve himself. A dependence on painkillers often left him incoherent as his OCD left him almost paralyzingly germophobic. His body wasted away in accordance with his mind.
When Hughes died in 1976—on an airplane, as befits a word-class aviator—he left no will designating his wishes for a multibillion-dollar estate. A protracted legal battle would ensue over the decade to follow, and a yearlong posthumous psychological autopsy commissioned by the estate would find that his health issues, as well as his tendency to withdraw during times of anxiety, stemmed from an isolated childhood under the care of a mother who feared intensely that her son would contract polio.
As these tangled matters began to surface, late in 1976 TIME correctly predicted an ongoing fascination with the recently deceased tycoon, the mysterious nature of whom would no doubt lend itself to many artistic interpretations:
Fancy that—it took four decades, but Beatty’s Hughes has finally landed.