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wartime havant

Preston Watson was the wine and spirit merchants of the town. The premises consisted of a fine three-storey house with shop, a large coach house and two or three other houses on both sides of The Pallant that were used for mineral water production, bottling and storage. One of my favorite memories is helping to bottle and lable cider, taken from large hogsheads. In recent years these premises were demolished and the modern Waitrose super market stands where the old house and shop were. During the war, the firm was allowed to retain its Morris Commercal lorry for deliveries. Accompanying Mr Jack Shoesmith, the proprieter, and his sons on these runs all over the south Hampshire area was one of the ...read more here
A memory of Havant contributed by barry mahony

School days in War-time Havant

In the early 1940s I went to Manor House School, which is shown in the lower right hand corner of the 1932 aerial photograph. It was run by Dr and Mrs Wallace, and occupied the former Rectory in South Street (the site is now covered by a housing estate and the motorway to Portsmouth). Some of the names I remember at school were Sam Butt, Ray Tribe, Dinkie Bartholamew, Lewis Strong, R? Conyers (all more senior to me), Thelma Bugg, Jennifer England, John and Stuart Shoesmith, the Brown sisters and Denise Wilkinson. Fr Williams was one of the best teachers I have ever had: absolutely inspiring. Mrs Worrell, the doughty French Mistress, was a familiar sight around town riding her massive ...read more here
A memory of Havant contributed by barry mahony

Farlington the War Years

We moved to Farlington after being bombed out of Stanley Avenue in Portsmouth.
My first school was Bedhampton where most of the lessons were in the Airaid Shelter! I then went on to Manor House School at Havant where I stayed until the death of Mrs Wallace and the closure of the school.My education was completed at Havant Secondary School which I left in 1953.
I have many wartime memories of Farlington,seeing the Gliders going out for the Normandy landings,sitting on the front doorstep watching the battle of Britain with a sky full of vapour trails,the trains going past loaded with Tanks and Guns and the American Servicemen parked up on the A27 in their tanks,trucks and jeeps waiting
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A memory of Farlington contributed by Gerald Thompson

North Street, Emsworth and the Silver family.

I was born into the Silver family at Palmer Cottage, 25 North St in 1928 and attended the Council School and then Manor House School Havant in the mid 40s until joining the Grenadier Guards in 1946.  I was the Drum Major of the local Army Cadet Force serving with "Crusher" Crosby, Phil Collins (Westbourn), Ray Tribe (Bear Hotel Havant). Old council School pals: Nobby Wooden, Fred Heath, Eric Marshal, John and Roger Silver, John and Joyce Windybank and at Manor House, Ann Williams, Dinkie Bartholamew, Ray Tribe, Dave Hewitt (Waterlooville), Chum Cheeseman and Angels Eames nee Silver both of whom are my cousins and just missed one of Harry Stroud's daughters!!!!!  Believe 25 North St is now a hairdresser's but ...read more here
A memory of Emsworth contributed by godwin herring