The Post War Period
Before the war Heathrow as an airport did not exist. From 1945 saw the build up of London’s international Heathrow Airport which became a large employer 
to the district as a whole, and many Chertsey people have been employed there. In 1950 Chertsey residents would have gawped at seeing Britain’s largest built aircraft droning slowly into the air over the town displaying the Union Flag painted on its tail. The one and only silver Bristol Brabazon flew long enough for it to be noted in the history books.
There was large scale flooding in the town in 1947 and elsewhere in the spring thaw of that terrible winter. 
A Museum was set up for a few years in the Old Town Hall in London Street in the 1960s and was open on Saturdays. The part-time Curator was Mary Daniels. Previously the upstairs of the building had been used as a library. In previous times Albert Blaker the Town Crier, and later his wife would cry the election results from the balcony on the day after a General Election. The River Thames froze over in the winter of 1963 and people skated under the arches of Chertsey Bridge as they had done in other periods of the great freezes.
Bing Crosby, 
the world’s richest entertainer came from ‘The Road to Hong Kong’ to Bridge Road one afternoon to the Lewis Tea Cottage (now demolished) in a break from filming at Shepperton Studios. His co-stars Bob Hope and Joan Collins did not join him for a cup of tea and cake.
Post war Chertsey saw the ‘Local Government Reorganisation’ of 1972 which robbed Chertsey of its District Council offices at 20-22 Guildford St, and local decision making town councillors, and some council officers who had always lived in the town. Other of the town’s utilities to go were the old Fire Station together with its adjacent chapel which doubled as a morgue, (supposedly haunted), the Police Station, the Gas Office, the Electricity Office. Aldershot & District withdrew its bus service, as did London Transport’s ‘Greenline’ bus service.
Finally the landmark ‘The Bell’ public house was demolished. It was the second pub of that name on the important medieval crossroads of Eastworth Rd and Guildford St. ‘The Families’ who had had such an influence on the town since Victorian times left one by one and their houses turned into offices or flats etc, or demolished.
One of the big houses of Chertsey converted into other than private family houses was an ‘English Empire’ house (The Cedars) ©1812 which was converted into a full-time Museum in 1970. Other notable additions to the town were a modern purpose built Library building, 
and later came a new housing estate in Galsworthy Road named after local artist and ex architect Frank Galsworthy. Also Sainsbury’s supermarket, the Chertsey Hall, and a private health club with swimming pool, and Gogmore Park.
Most of the surviving churches in the town became
‘The Combined Churches’ and a dedicated hall was built for them in the graveyard of St.Peter’s in Windsor St. Mr Ian Nairn writing for ‘Nicholas Pevsner’s Buildings of England’ (Surrey ) said of Curfew House in Windsor St, “The only building in Chertsey worth a real look”. Curfew House is still in private hands.