YESTERYEAR this week turns the spotlight on Salfords – a small community between Horley and Redhill.
The former secretary of Salfords School, now aged 90, has been sorting out some paperwork and thought readers would like to see some of the old photographs and notes from Salfords' past.
The material was gathered in the early 1970s, when the school was celebrating its centenary.
Mrs Peggy Sheppard moved to Salfords in 1954 from Waddon, Croydon, but had to wait a year while the house she had bought in Copsleigh Close was built.
When she first saw the plot, the area was green fields, she said.
"Salfords hasn't changed a great deal," she said.
"It's still a small village and I know everyone."
Mrs Sheppard left her job at the school in 1985 and has looked after the pictures and notes ever since, but has now handed them to Yesteryear for safe-keeping.
This week, we are publishing a few pictures from the small collection to show people just how the area has changed over the years.
Gone is the General Napier pub (where the Harvester restaurant stands today).
Also vanished is the Mill (in the vicinity of the Beefeater restaurant and Mill House pub).
The school used to be on the common at the junction of Woodhatch Road and the A23 Brighton Road but it was bombed in the Second World War and rebuilt on the other side of the main road.
