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Wray Park Road, REIGATE, RH2 0EG

Large mid 19th Century villa in Wray Park Road, seen here while being converted into apartments. Locally listed.

House on the corner of Wray Park Road and Brightlands Road, with an address in the former even though accessed off the latter. Built in the c.1970s along with nos 1 and 1a Brightlands Road, on the site of the former 45 Wray Park Road.

A Surrey County Council community day special school for children with severe or profound and multiple learning difficulties between the ages of 2 and 11 years. 

Part of the site of the Surrey Fire & Rescue Service, this mid 19th century building is locally listed. From 1939 to 1953 it was a home operated by Spurgeons, the Christian children's and families' charity. The directory on the back of the 1895 Godfrey Edition map of Reigate lists a William Henry J B Joyce as living there. This photo is taken from Wray Park Road.

Part of the site of the Surrey Fire & Rescue Service, this mid 19th century building is locally listed. From 1939 to 1953 it was a home operated by Spurgeons, the Christian children's and families' charity. The directory on the back of the 1895 Godfrey Edition map of Reigate lists a William Henry J B Joyce as living there. This photo is taken from Oak Road.

1960s block in Wray Park Road on what was the grounds of St Davids (see Image).

A sheltered retirement development dating from 1987.

The 1871 large scale map of Reigate shows Brightlands Road as a cut between Wray Park Road and Raglan Road, with only one large house in the road, surrounded by extensive grounds. This was Brightlands, situated where the modern house on the right of the photo now stands. It was only in the 1950s that the road started being developed further, with a few houses being built in the grounds of Brightlands, and it was not until the 1970s that Brightlands itself was demolished, to be replaced by the house seen here. The historic importance of Brightlands was that it was the home of the Victorian photographer, Francis Frith, whose photographic printing works was in Reigate - see Image For photos of the original house see http://www.francisfrith.com/reigate/photos/brightlands-c1885_r20312 and http://www.francisfrith.com/reigate/photos/francis-frith-at-brightlands-c1885_r20311 (the latter showing Francis Frith himself relaxing in the garden of the house).

A sheltered housing development on Wray Park Road, completed in 1988 and built on the site of the original Ellen Terry Home.

Development of 39 retirement flats on Wray Park Road, completed in 1988.