What else is called Ashtead?

• Authors
• Brewery - The Brewery Inn, Sayers Ashtead Brewery
• Brick Works
• Campanology - Ashtead Surprise Major
• Collies
• Fuchsia - Ashtede
• Horses / Races
• Photographers - Huck, John Payne Jennings
• Pottery
• Roads & Places
• Song
• Steam Engine

• Author - George Mogridge aka Old Humphrey
• Brewery - Ashted Brewery Co Ltd, Royal Oak
• Canal - Ashted Lock, Ashted Flight and Ashted Tunnel
• Coaches - Ashted Coaches of Stechford
• Football - Ashted Rovers AFC
• Photographers - Cottrell of Ashtead Row
• Roads & Places - including Church, Chapel and Picture Palace
• Working Men's Association - Ashted Working Men's Association

Authors

Brewery

The Brewery Inn appears to have started life around 1800 as a small beer house. Under George Sayer from around 1850 until the 1910s, it prospered as a combined inn and brewery

Sayers Ashtead Brewery was leased by George Sayer Junior to the Swan Brewery Co Leatherhead in 1913 whereupon it was changed into a mineral water factory lasting until 1934 It was sold in 1926 to Mellersh & Neale, who had become the new owners of the Swan Brewery in 1922.

George Baker, based in Barnett Wood Lane, was another mineral water manufacturer.

Brick Works

Ashtead Brick Works was run by J.L.P. Sanderson around 1902

Campanology

• Ashtead Surprise Major - A new method of ringing, the Ashtead Surprise Major, was composed in 1932 and first performed here in 1934.

Collies

There are over 20 dogs bearing the name Ashstead the most famous one is Ashstead Applause, but at least five others were champion dogs too.

Mr R. H. Roberts registered his address, 29, Ashtead Road, Upper Clapton, London E5 as his Ashtead kennel name in 1920; see also notes 9 and 11 below.

Taken from Supplement to "Our Dogs." December 12, 1924

Note that, as with many other references to the village, the name is sometimes spelt Ashtead and sometimes Ashstead

Extra Notes

8.

The Collie described by Lady Kitty Ritson (1887-1969) A Collie is the most intelligent and the most loveable of almost any breed of dog. A good Collie is a picture to look at, especially when in full coat. It is one of those breeds which originally bred for the work of herding sheep, became a show dog, and many specimens have been sold for immense sums - a thousand pounds and more This picture shows "Ashtead Blue Prince," who won a Challenge Certificate at Crufts in 1936 and a Reserve Certificate at eight months old. Source: "Dogs & Friend" series of 50, number 28, by Carreras Ltd. in 1936

Collie Concept Mrs. George H. (Bobbee) Roos, Published 1982 by Alpine Publications Contains information on Lucason of Ashtead O'Bellhaven

The Book of Dogs Stanley West, Published 1934 by Alexander Ouseley, 448 pages, hardback Contains over 340 photographs of dogs taken by Walter Guiver. Three of the five Collies listed are Ashstead Blue Ensign, Ashstead Applause and Ashstead Eminence

The New Collie Collie Club of America, 4th edition published 1996 by John Wiley, 256 pages, hardback, ISBN 0876051271 Contains information on Lucason of Ashtead O'Bellhaven

Fuchsia

Ashtede is a variety of fuchsia. It is registered with the American Fuchsia Society, number 4323

Ashtead Horticultural Society

Horses / Races

Ashstead had a half-brother Sharpcatcher who's foals Amelia and Moss Rose won the Queen's Plate in 1877 and 1879 respectively

In 1882 Apollo won the Kentucky Derby in the US, Apollo wins!. Apollo was sired by either Ashstead or Lever, horseracing.about.com.

It's interesting to note that according to Thoroughbred Times and Kentucky Derby.com that the Kentucky Derby was created by Col. M. Lewis Clark Jr. who was inspired by the our local Epsom Derby, and was initially run over the same distance.

In the Summer Meeting on 1926 on the first day (1 June) there was the Ashtead selling plate

In the Summer Meeting on 1967 the last race of the first day (6 June) there was the Ashtead Stakes

On the 6 June 1987 Kirowan ridden by G. Carter won the Ashtead Stakes

Photographers

• Huck; examples of his work in Ashtead in the 1860s. The usual portraits: and also St Giles church

Sadly Huck's first name isn't known, the reverse of the CDVs just say 'Huck', but he was possibly Richard Huck. There are a number of Hucks in the Ashtead area including John Huck in his will dated 14 July 1842 and Elizabeth Huck, described as "Widow of Ashtead" in her will dated 22 September 1851. The insciption of "Elizabeth Huck, Ashtead, Surrey, 1835" also exists in the 1835 edition of "The Gentleman's Pocket-Book Almanack", the book also has the inscription "John Huck, account of business 1883". There are also reference to an Elizabeth Huck who was the mistress at the Charity School, 1846/7 and National School, 1855, what we now know as St Giles. It is possible that this last reference from the Post Office Directory of 1855 referes to a different Elizabeth Huck or it had not been updated.

In Leatherhead there were two photographers called Huck: Robert, known to be a photographer in the 1870s and Richard (1823 – 1926), known to be a photographer in the 1880s.

Pottery

Ashtead Potters Ltd were active here in Ashtead between 1923 and 1935. Some examples of the pottery can bought from Bumbles, in The Street, Ashtead.

• Ashtead Potters Limited - an excellent resource
• Ashtead Potters Ltd - an excellent resource
• The Pottery Studio - a number of assorted items
• DecoWare
• National Gallery of Australia, Canberra - Jug of Rt. Hon. S.M. Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia

Roads & Places

• Ashtead Close, Clacton-On-Sea, Essex, CO16 8YZ, England
• Ashtead Close, Fareham, Hampshire, PO16 9TP, England
• Ashtead Close, Minworth, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B76 1YH, England
• Ashtead Court, Goodlettsville, Tennessee, USA 37072
• Ashtead Court, Mill Road, Cambridge, CB1 3UG, England
• Ashtead Court, Windlesham Grove, London, SW19 6BJ, England
• Ashtead Drive, Bapchild, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME9 9NF and ME9 9NQ, England
• Ashtead flight (locks), Birmingham, Warwickshire
• Ashtead Gap, Leatherhead, Surrey, England
• Ashtead Hill, near Gatton Bottom, Merstham, Surrey, see also another view
• Ashtead Road, Upper Clapton, London E5 9BH and E5 9BJ, England
• Ashtead Row, Birmingham
• Ashstead Street, Perth, Australia
• Ashtead Towers, Sutton Place, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN40 1PE, England
• Ashtead Woods Road, Ashtead, Surrey, KT21, England

• Ashtead, 132, Boundary Lane, Congleton, CW12 3JF, England
• Ashtead, 3, Ryecroft View, Wooler, NE71 6AT, England
• Ashtead, 83, The Street, Bapchild, Sittingbourne, ME9 9AD, England
• Ashtead, 89, Hepburn Gardens, St. Andrews, KY16 9LT, Scotland
• Ashtead, Brampton, Appleby-in-Westmorland, CA16 6JS, England
• Ashtead, Lamb Lane, Sible Hedingham, Halstead, CO9 3RT, England
• Ashtead, New Road, Argoed, Blackwood, NP12 0HF, England
• Ashtead Guest House, 9, Christian Road, Douglas, Isle of Man (no longer a guest house)

• Ashstead Fell, the Lake District, England
• Ashstead Gardens, Bournemouth, BH8 0EQ, England
• Ashstead Lane, Godalming, Surrey, GU7 1ST, GU7 1SU, GU7 1SX, GU7 1SY and GU7 1SZ, England, possibly named after a house known as Ashtead on the Busbridge Estate, sold in 1906
• Ashstead Lane, Matthews, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
• Ashstead Park Lane, Cudgewa, Victoria, 3705, Australia
• Ashstead Road, Sale, Manchester, M33 3NY, M33 3PX and M33 3SB, England
• Ashstead Road, Green Point, Cape Town, South Africa

• Ashted Road, Boxhill, Victoria 3028, Australia
• For more Ashted roads see Ashted, Birmingham

• Astede Place, Ashtead, Surrey, KT21, England

Song

• Marching through Ashtead, to the tune of Marching through Georgia. From The U.P.S. song book, by Private A.W. Lloyd, 'D' Company, 19th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Published in Epsom so probably c. 1914

Steam Engine

• A1 Locomotives - A steam engine called Ashtead ran on London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (known as the LB&SCR or Brighton Line). These 0-6-0 engines by William Stroudley were known as 'Terriers'. In their original yellow/ochre livery (sometimes called 'Stroudley Enhanced Green' or 'Improved Engine Green') they were also known as 'Marmalade Engines'. They were named after places within the LB&SCR area, though some are obscure like Preston a village near Brighton or Wandle a small river flowing from Croydon to The Thames at Wandsworth.
  

  1875	London Brighton & South Coast Railway	LB&SCR	53 aka Ashtead
  1900	London Brighton & South Coast Railway	LB&SCR	653
  1912	Rebuilt to A1X
  1923-28?	Southern Railway	SR	B653
  1931-36?	Southern Railway	SR	2653
  1937	Weston, Clevedon and Portishead Light Railway Withdrawn after hauling the very last train on 18 May 1940	WC&PR	4
  1940	Great Western Railway It was allocated to St Philip's Marsh, for shunting and harbour duties and was used in 1941 to shunt at Portishead power station and the US Army depot at Wapley Common and in 1943 was used to lift rails from the WC&PR	GWR	6
  1948	Western Region of British Railways	BR	Scrapped

  
  Ashtead has a number of siblings:
  • Those who know the Thomas the Tank Engine stories will know about Stepney number 55 who now lives on the Bluebell Railway. Stepney is Ashtead's twin - both were 'born' December 1875
  • Another brother, also at Bluebell Railway, is Fenchurch number 672
  • Another brother, Boxhill number 82 , was built at Brighton in August 1880, by 1911 the number was changed to 682, and was renumbered again to 380S in 1932. From 1909 he was a Brighton Works shunter and finally withdrawn in 1946. He was moved to Clapham Transport Museum in 1947, and went on display in 1961 after restoration. He now lives at The National Railway Museum, York.
  • Another brother is Waddon number 54. He now lives at the Canadian National Railway Museum, Delson/Saint-Constant, south of Montreal. His unloading from an ocean freighter in Montreal is covered in Railway Magazine November 1963.
  • Another brother is Martello number 62. He now lives at the Bressingham Steam and Gardens, Norfolk.
  • Two other brothers are Brighton number 40 and Newington number 46. They now live at the Isle of Wight Steam Railway.
    Brighton is now Newport number W11 and Newington is now Freshwater number W8.
    
  • Two other brothers are Poplar number 70 and Knowle number 78. They now live at The Kent & East Sussex Railway.
    Poplar is now Bodiam No. 3, having also been BR 32670 and Knowle is now BR 32678.
  • Yet another brother is Sutton number 61. Below is a model of him created by Sutton Model Engineering Club Ltd and shown on Village Day 29 May 2004.
    
    Sutton became BR 32661 and was scrapped in 1963. However a 'clone' still exists. Whitechapel number 50 was renumbered to 650, then B650, then W9 Fishbourne (replacing a previous W9), then 515s, then DS515, then BR 32650. Having missed out on the original (scrapped) BR 32661 Sutton the Borough of Sutton and Cheam bought BR 32650 (Whitechapel) and it was named Sutton number 50 and later The Kent & East Sussex Railway's W10 Sutton - using the W10 numbering of another Terrier. It is now awaiting overhaul at Spa Valley Railway, Tunbridge Wells.

• Dapol made a model of Ashtead, D-72, as Great Western Railway No. 6 in dark green GWR livery, which Ashtead wore from 1940

		The Brighton Terriers C.J. Binnie: Published 1969 by Ravensbourne Press, 50 pages, paperback Clear listing of every Terrier, though it does say Ashtead was renumbered 652, when it should have been 653 Has a picture of Ashtead as Weston, Clevedon & Portishead Railways WCPR No. 4;
		Kent and East Sussex Railway Stephen Garrett: Published 1972 by The Oakwood Press, 112 pages, hardback Has a number of photographs of Whitechapel, Stepney, Cheam and Sutton, some with their SR or BR numbers.
		The Island Terriers - The LB&SCR Terrier Class on the railways of the Isle of Wight M.J.E. Reed: Published 1989 by Runpast, 48 pages, hardback, ISBN-10: 0946184461, ISBN-13: 978-0946184460 Excellent early history of Sutton.
		LBSCR - Stock Book Peter Cooper: Published 1990 by Runpast Publishing, 60 pages, paperback Has 25 detailed pages devoted to William Stroudley and Brighton, Newington, Whitechapel, Waddon, Stepney, Martello, Poplar, Fenchurch, Knowle , Sutton , Bodiam and Boxhill, but, unfortunately nothing about Ashtead.
		Stroudley and His Terriers Tom Middlemass: Published 1995 by Pendragon, 128 pages, hardback, ISBN 1899816003 The definitative work on Terriers including 1½ pages and 4 photographs of Ashtead. Though he continually calls the engine Ashstead in spite of the photograph to the contrary.
Magazine		Model Railway News Published December 1954 'Ashstead' Locomotive
Magazine		Back Track Published Vol. 4 No. 6, November/December 1990 Excellent photograph of BR 32650, formerly Whitechapel number 50
Magazine		Back Track Peter Hooper: Published Vol. 5 No. 6 November/December 1991, p262-7 Article: Great Western [ex Weston Clevedon & Portishead Railway] 'Terriers' A truly impressive piece of detective work covering Ashtead's re-namings, re-paintings, movements and 5 photographs with it's various numbers. 1875: London, Brighton and South Coast Railway LB&SCR 53, Ashtead; 1900: re-numbered 653; 1912: re-built to A1X form; 1926: re-numbered Southern B653; 1935: given the boiler from 642 Tulsehill, making it the only A1X with a Stroudley (A1) boiler and re-numbered 2653; 1937: sold to Weston, Clevedon & Portishead Railways WC&PR and re-numbered No. 4; 1940: taken over by Great Western Railway GWR and re-numbered No. 6; 1948: taken over by British Railways and cut up. See also Steam Index - Back Track - recording britain's railway history See also No 4 0-6-0T - on the Weston Clevedon & Portishead Railway website
Magazine		Steam Days John Key: Published April 2008, p228-244 Article: The Stroudley 'Terriers' of the LB&SCR A very broad coverage including the history of most, if not all, the 'Terriers', with a couple of brief mentions of Ashtead covering it's demise at St Philip's Marsh shed in Bristol and a picture of it as WC&PR 4. As is common Ashtead gets a mention as Ashstead, there is also a confusion with the GWR numbers of Ashtead and Gipseyhill/Portishead.
	DVD: Region ?	Terrier Tail's Produced to coincide with the 'Five Terrier's' festival at The Kent & East Sussex Railway, this is a look at these small Stroudley A1X class of 0-6-0T steam locomotives in preservation, plus a brief view in the 1930s of examples at Lancing Coach Works. Engines are seen at the Bluebell Railway, K&ESR, Hayling Island, Isle of Wight Steam Railway, and Bressingham

• There is a postcard of a Mersey Railway 2-6-2 locomative No.18 (mis)labeled Ashtead, the engine's true name, at least according to its boiler, is Banstead.

• There was an engine called Leatherhead number 178, also a LB&SCR but it was a Stroudley B1 'Gladstone' class locomotive in the 0-4-2 format. It was built June 1890 and withdrawn December 1912
• There were engines called Epsom number 937 and Leatherhead number 939 (later 30919), but these were from the 'V' class, also known as 'Schools'. Built during the 1930s for use by Southern Railway in the 4-4-0 format.

  'Schools' Class Loco 'Leatherhead', Southern Railway For working moderately-heavy trains on which the larger six-coupled express engines are not required, or the use of which is deemed unsuitable by weight or other restrictions, the Southern Railway has a class of three-cylinder, four-couples bogie engines, named after public schools The most powerful 4-4-0 type engines in Europe, they are employed on express services on the London-Hastings and London-Portsmouth routes and elsewhere. They haul loads of ten and eleven coaches, weighing, with passengers, little short of 400 tons in all, at high speeds, over hilly roads, and have shown themselves capable of fast work. Source: "Railway Engines" series of 50, number 11, by WD & HO Wills in 1938

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  The Southern 'Schools' Including Leatherhead at High Brooms December 1956: Published 1963 by ARGO Transacord EAF 76