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Old Reading Room, Ploverfield
I think you need to get a bit further back in history to find anything about the Old Reading Room which you describe as "High Trees", Long Lane. In the thirties my parents rented Ploverfield Lodge Cottage which stood at the entrance of the driveway leading to Ploverfield, at that time owned by a family named Oliver. The Reading Room, as I remember it a wooden building with a corrugated roof, was included in the rental and we had it as a playroom. My father who was an expert model maker was repairing a model of an East Indiaman called Rienzi and partitioned off about a third of the hall with a chicken-wire fence for this very large model where he ...read more here
A memory of Old Bursledon contributed by Belinda Heathcote
A SPECIAL DAY
I have fond memories of the church as I got married in May 1973. I will never ever forget the beautiful atmosphere inside.
I keep saying I will go back and visit it but I do not know if it still open and being used, can anyone tell me?
Kind regards
PAULEEN
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Old reading Room
Does anyone have any info or memories of the Old Reading Room at High Trees Long Lane Bursledon ? I cannot find anything about it.
A memory of Old Bursledon contributed by sue lemon
Bursledon, The Hospital
I do not think this ever was a hospital in the usual sense. I am pretty sure it was a house called Brixedene (Brixedone?) in Blundell Lane, owned and lived in by a family called Thistlethwaite. During the war it was a children's home, although I do not know anything about who it was run by and I think after the war, perhaps after the introduction of the NHS in 1948, it was taken over and used as a convalescent home with some connection to the Royal South Hants Hospital. I may not have all the facts right, but one thing I do know - there was never a hospital in Bursledon. Any hospital treatment meant a trek into Southampton to ...read more here
A memory of Bursledon contributed by Belinda Heathcote
Extracts From Park Gate & Hampshire books
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".
(Gordon Daubney Cox)
Swithun Wells lived in the manor house of Eastley at a time when Catholics were heavily restricted. Mass was illegally
celebrated in a house he owned in Holborn, and he was executed in 1591. In 1970 he was one of 40 English martyrs who
were canonised. This statue is in the church of St Etheldreda in London, near where Wells was hanged.
An extract from from"Around Eastleigh including Chandler's Ford, Bishopstoke and Botley Living Memories".
(Gordon Daubney Cox)
Brambridge, the manor house of Eastleigh, is now in the Winchester District. It is sited off the old road from Eastleigh to
Winchester via Allbrook and Twyford. The lodge gates are still there, and it is from this road that the famous double avenue
of lime trees can be seen. The house dates from the 16th century, but it has been much altered. It is now approached from
Kiln Lane as shown here.
An extract from from"Around Eastleigh including Chandler's Ford, Bishopstoke and Botley Living Memories".