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A Childhood Revisited
So many memories, where to start? I was born 1961 and grew up in The Crescent, just off Weyhill Road.......the rattling trains full of gravel making the house shake, the outside toilet (visits in the middle of the night in winter were at olympic record level), Mrs Mabeys apple trees...scrumping i think it was called! The smell of the pig farm if the wind was in the wrong direction on a hot summers day, building camps in Gallaghers Woods and wow betide anyone who dared venture in! The Big Bonfire at King George Road playing fields, Portway School and its fantastic playground (Health & Safety bods would be quaking in their shoes now, but OMG was so fab!).
Does ...read more here
Contributed by Kim Burnett
Winchester Street Quaker Burial Ground
This picture brings back childhood memories of the 1940s. Behind the wall on the left was a Quaker burial ground, a small grassy area on which one was free to stand upon.Opposite the wall were thatched cottages which were destroyed by fire later in the same decade I believe. A friend of both me and my sister was living in one of the cottages at the time.
Contributed by Terry Clary
The Old Andover Grammar School
This building, now a museum was in the 1940s the home of a famous old Andover gentleman Mr A C Bennett. He wrote a book about Andover St Mary's Church and played the organ in the church. He was also my piano teacher at 2 shillings a lesson(10p) and I don't think anyone tried his great patience more than I did.
I remember well as a lad of 11 years walking up to that, what seemed, huge door and banging on it and hearing him shuffling down the stairs to let me in. He must have felt the cold at his age as he always wore several layers of overcoats.
In hindsight I wish I had practiced more instead of ...read more here
Contributed by Terry Clary
happy days
I was stationed in the RE's in Andover - Barton Stacey camp. Remember shopping in 'International Stores' supermarket as they had good looking girls ! I also recall being in a cafe when some of the Troggs came in. Happy days, must return for a visit some day.
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Saturday afternoon shopping
I do remember Andover about this time. We lived in Tidworth at the time and my father had a car with petrol allowance as he was a Barrack officer. We went to Andover, mum, myself and him every Saturday afternon and had to park centrally. It had all gone when we last went - just modern car parks now. He did a truly nineteen forties thing and sat in the car whilst we shopped. What a lovely childhood I did have there.
Joan Battershill (nee Norman)
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My time nearAndover
WE were married in July 1966. As I was stationed at Middle Wallop, after our honeymoon in London we caught the train to Andover and stayed for 2 nights at the White Hart (is that the name? Opposite the old bus station near the canal and post office). We hired a flat on Weyhill Road and decided we must have a washing machine, so with great reluctance bought one on HP - sinful in those days) at a place opposite Squire's electrical shop near the post office.
After a while we moved to rotten old Married Quarters in Middle Wallop and had our first child, Julian there. (He was born at the War Memorial Hospital in Andover - I would go ...read more here
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Memories of my two years
We spent two years in Andover, two of the children went to Eastfield School and one daughter was born there. If I remember right, I had to get the baby milk from a pub. I have been back a few times and my goodness what a change has taken place, hardly could find my way around. I remember the really pretty villages, all the thatch roofs, lovely memories.
Contributed by patricia perring
The Library
Before Chantry Way was developed, the town library was situated in the building on the right of this picture. The thrill of being able to indulge myself, for free, in books, books and more books still resides in me today. I swear I can still smell the distinctive aroma of the building once you stepped through its doors!
Contributed by Kim Burnett
Extracts From Andover & Hampshire books
This famous firm was developed from a combination of various
Romsey breweries in the latter part of the 19th century, when
rail transport made it possible to carry beer over considerable
distances. Strong’s became one of the main employers in the
town for about a hundred years, but the need for modernisation
caused brewing to cease in 1981; the operation, by that time
part of Whitbread Wessex, was finally closed in 1990. Part of the
site has been cleared, but the main buildings, some converted
to offices, remain — the heritage of late 19th-century and early
20th-century builders.
An extract from from"Romsey Town and City Memories".
With nine mill sites in the town, many enterprises used water to
power the machinery necessary for their businesses — corn, paper,
and cloth-fulling mills, saw mills, and tanneries. Most written material
about Romsey’s mills seems to relate to problems in obtaining that
most important item — water. Romsey’s mills depended on the
river Test and its branches for their power. Competition was keen,
and resulted in many legal disputes arising from millers upstream
diverting the water from those downstream.
There was a series of disputes in Tudor times at Sadler’s Mill: its
owner suffered from the work of millers upstream, who
‘with divers and sondrie lewde and desperate persons ... erected a
pilinge over athwart the mayne Channel of the Ryver and thereby
stopped turned and diverted the said Mayne River of Terste out of
his aunciente and common Course ...’
Troubles of this kind continued through the following centuries,
providing the legal profession with a steady source of income. As
late as the early 20th century, wooden stakes were still being placed
incorrectly to control the water flow. At that time, photographic
evidence was offered in court; an unfortunate river keeper was shown
standing in the faulty area to demonstrate the depths.
An extract from from"Romsey Town and City Memories".
All these roads are similar. The rough
roads have all been paved. Almost all
the houses are detached, and often
individually designed. The Local Area
Committee of the Borough Council is
doing its best to maintain the special
ambiance of the district. However, it is
a sad fact that developers are begin-
ning to nibble at any open spaces for
the building of flats. There is a Tree
Preservation Order covering this area,
which we may hope will prevent the
destruction of most of the trees.
An extract from from"Around Eastleigh including Chandler's Ford, Bishopstoke and Botley Living Memories".
This road goes to
Winchester. To the
centre right we can
just see the open-
ing of Mortimer
Lane, which leads
to Bishops Waltham
and to Marwell Zoo.
An extract from from"Around Eastleigh including Chandler's Ford, Bishopstoke and Botley Living Memories".
This is the Leigh Road
pedestrian precinct
between the High
Street and Market
Street. The railway sta-
tion can be seen in the
distant centre.
An extract from from"Around Eastleigh including Chandler's Ford, Bishopstoke and Botley Living Memories".