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Park Gate, St Margaret Mary Catholic Church c1960
Park Gate, St Margaret Mary Catholic Church c1960 Ref: P333001
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Year: 1930s
Old Reading Room, Ploverfield A memory of Old Bursledon, Hampshire 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 could work in peace. We had the rest - and soon became the most popular kids in the village. Christmas and birthday parties were terrific because we could rampage as much as we liked. The owner of Ploverfield, I think he was a Captain Oliver, died about 1937-8 and the estate was bought by someone who I think was called Stistead - or something similar, although we had moved by that time. I think the house was requisitioned for the army during the war and probably the hall was too but I was at boarding school at that time and we left Bursledon in 1947. I have no idea when or how the Reading room became called "High Trees" - perhaps the Lodge Cottage was sold off and renamed but it was certainly part of the Ploverfield Estate in the 30s and there was nothing called High Trees in Long Lane - in fact there was nothing else in Long Lane. The Lodge cottage was the only house/building between the junction of School Lane (not School Road - please!) and Long Lane and a house close to the top of The Cut leading down to Lowford. Opposite that house, owned by one of the clan of Fishers in the village, there was a footpath which lead across the strawberry fields and down the hill to the church, next to that was the recreation ground on the right. On the left there was a building which I think was some sort of non-conformist chapel which I seem to remember was little, or perhaps not used at all, then I think there were a couple of (semi-detached?) houses before the Church Hall. Past the Church Hall there were several more houses on both sides just before one came to where the road bent round to Oak Hill. Last edited: 15/12/2008 08:57 by Belinda Heathcote |
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 Old Bursledon, the Church c1965 (ref: O112043) |
Year: 1870s
A Special Day A memory of Old Bursledon, Hampshire 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 Last edited: 27/08/2008 10:09 by First Name Last Name |
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Old Reading Room A memory of Old Bursledon, Hampshire Does anyone have any info or memories of the Old Reading Room at High Trees Long Lane Bursledon ? I cannot find anything about it. Posted: 06/04/2008 15:05 by Sue Lemon |
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 Bursledon, the Hospital c1955 (ref: B304049) |
Bursledon, The Hospital A memory of Bursledon, Hampshire 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 the South Hants Hospital - in St Mary's I think. Last edited: 15/12/2008 08:56 by Belinda Heathcote |
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 Bursledon, the Bridge c1955 (ref: B304008) |
Year: 1974
Houseboats In The Picture Of Bursledon Bridge A memory of Bursledon, Hampshire In the picture are several houseboats moored up to the bank on the LHS of the picture; I used to live on the large white motor torpedo boat (originally called 'Hippocampus') when she was moved from the River Hamble to the River Itchen in 1974; I renamed her 'Whimsical Macgoffley'. She was built in Cowes at the J. Samual White Shipyard, launched in 1944, and was one of six MTBs used by the Polish Navy. (Her number was S-8 during WW2 and she was eventually returned to the RN as HMTB 427 at the end of the war). She was sold by the Admiralty in 1950 and as far as I know was moved to the berth near Bursledon Bridge at that time until 1974 when she was moved to the River Itchen, and moored next to the Railway Bridge in Priory Road, St. Denys until 1990 when she was scrapped. I have discovered most of her wartime history but would like to know anything about her when moored on the River Hamble. One of the other six Polish boats, S-10, was, for a time (1954/5) moored downstream and named 'M.Y. Taifun'; she had been used in the film 'The Ship that died of Shame', starring George Baker, Richard Attenborough, Bill Owen and Virginia McKenna and was up for sale. She eventually ended up in the Mediterranean and used for smuggling; the skipper being the brother of the comedien Jimmy Edwards, Hugh Edwards. She foundered off the North African coast and was lost during a smuggling trip in 1958. Any information, stories or memories of either of these boats on the River Hamble, would be most welcome. Posted: 28/12/2007 14:40 by Tim Deacon |
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