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my younger days up redwood lane.
i can remember menia cottage from a very early age.its not there anymore knocked down to make way for modern and bigger houses.to me that little tinned roof bungalow was heaven i lived there with mum and dad and my 5 brothers and 3 sisters until i was 23.now we have lost another brother (andy) i wish we could go back to how it was then,you could trust anybody leave doors and windows unlocked day and night not worry about where our next meal was coming from.we never had a lot of money because you did not need it then, but we never went without we were always happy.
Contributed by norah wells
Great Dane
I remember the Great Dane in the picture. My Grandma had a Yorkshire/Manchester Terrier cross, and the two animals looked so incongruous when they met. My aunt Doris Greenslade lived in a tiny cottage owned by Walter Little Senior situated 100 yards to the left of the post office in the picture.
Contributed by Vernon Maldoom
This was my School!
I went to school here from about 1971 when I had just turned 6 until the age of 11 when I was sent off to the Amery Hill Secondary, in nearby Alton.
The school house and St. Andrews Church played a huge part in my life back then as I was also in the Church Choir, Brownies & later the Girl Guides lead by Miss Jennifer Lines - who I adored. I was one of two girls to get sick with Scarlet Fever at this school and there was a big hush up so as not to panic the "simpleton villagers" as the Doctor put it. Charming! I then got Coxsackie Virus and I was off school for a ...read more here
Contributed by Zaryn Hammersley
Hampshire memories
This was my School!
I went to school here from about 1971 when I had just turned 6 until the age of 11 when I was sent off to the Amery Hill Secondary, in nearby Alton.
The school house and St. Andrews Church played a huge part in my life back then as I was also in the Church Choir, Brownies & later the Girl Guides lead by Miss Jennifer Lines - who I adored. I was one of two girls to get sick with Scarlet Fever at this school and there was a big hush up so as not to panic the "simpleton villagers" as the Doctor put it. Charming! I then got Coxsackie Virus and I was off school for a ...read more here
A memory of Medstead contributed by Zaryn Hammersley
Extracts From Medstead & Hampshire books
A little church with a large
tower, it is dedicated to
St Cadoc, but it is said to
have been founded by
St David. The 15th-century
tower has four pinnacles and
large gargoyles leaning out
over its panelled buttresses.
The Somerset chapel on the
left is the last resting place
of several of the Earls of
Worcester, masters of
Raglan Castle.
An extract from from"Around Alton Photographic Memories".
The lad may be returning from the castle, which could be approached on this road at that time. The four houses on the right,
built in 1817, are now private residences. Two of them still have large windows by their doors to remind us that they used to
be the corner stores and Jones’s Refreshment Rooms. Most of the trees remain, but they have been severely cut back.
An extract from from"Around Alton Photographic Memories".
There is documentary evi-
dence that the Ship Inn on
the left dates from at least
1600, and its cobbled court-
yard remains today thanks
to a preservation order.
Opposite it, Davies & Jones’s
store seems to be a meeting-
point for the local boys and
their bicycles. As the High
Street disappears in the dis-
tance it becomes the
Monmouth Road.
An extract from from"Around Alton Photographic Memories".
The road is Station Road, which today
leads to the golf course. The church tower
continues to dominate this scene, but the
village has grown a lot in the last century,
with new schools, new housing and a new surgery.
An extract from from"Around Alton Photographic Memories".
The machicolated heights of William Herbert’s gatehouse and closet towers look down on
the moat which surrounds the famous Yellow Tower, the work of his father William ap
Thomas. King Henry VII spent some of his childhood at Raglan, where the two Williams
had transformed a fortified rural manor into a castle fit for a future king.
An extract from from"Around Alton Photographic Memories".