Old Police House

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The Old Police House was privately owned by a family called Clark until the early 1930s when the Police bought it. PC Bobbie Day occupied it for a few years. Then came PCs Standon and Trebelcock; the house was then sold and the next PCs, Collins and Simpson, lodged in Cheam House. The larger windows with the brickwork arch used to be the garage where bicycles were stored. One local resident believes there was a cell in the building!
In 1954 Mr and Mrs Clavey moved to the house. Janet Clavey sold smocked children's dresses from the old office/garage. Janet Clavey left and opened Jantons in Maggs Hill in the early 1970s. Ken Shakespear then took over the shop and run an estate agents business there; he was followed by Muspratt Estate Agents. The Claveys moved out in the late 1970s and the building was then owned for many years by Mr Boswell, who was a dentist there.