SERVICE CHRONICLES
HEADQUARTERS 

* Denotes where service still maintains a presence 

1948
Surrey County Council   top floor County Hall Kingston in County Health Dept,moved to annex in  Penrhyn Road, with a small nucleus devoted to the Ambulance Service, moved back to County Hall proper under Health and Welfare.  

1973
Moved to 13/21 High St Guildford,in preparation for the takeover by  Surrey Area Health Authority  

1978
Surrey Area Health Authority.    The offices at Guildford found to be too isolated so moved to the Horseshoes Banstead, into restricted offices on ground floor, still only a nucleus and not responsible for complete administration.

1984 
East Surrey Health Authority.   Change of authority, still not independent administratively  but still maintained a nucleus at Banstead

1994   
 Surrey Ambulance Service NHS Trust.   At last an independent administration, with offices located at the Banstead Headquarters.

 I do not know a lot about the administrative side of the service, other than that they have probably had to move  more than any other department, just looking at the above gives some idea of their movements.   Without these people working quietly and efficiently in the background, looking after pay, pensions and the day-to-day paper work that come with an expanding service, things that are sometimes forgotten, but without which the service could not operate so efficiently.   To achieve this end they too have had to come to terms with modern technology, replacing their typewriters with computers, and swapping their duplicator for photocopiers, and many more innovations that go to make up a modern office complex.   

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 Service Chronicles Continued