Bordon
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Bordon
This was a lovely quiet village when I first came here. Unfortunately, it is becoming run down and untidy. Pity, really. We seem to be having all the throw outs from other places. When the army goes (if they go), this will be a dumping ground for all types of undesireables.
Contributed by brian powell
The Mill
My mum used to take us all (seven of us) to the mill to paddle. It was always freezing, some would even be brave enough to swim. There was always a strong smell of pond weed, but we had great fun. When it was warm enough we used to pack a picnic and walk to Frensham pond which was a great treat. That was about 40 years ago now but I remember it like it was yesterday.
Contributed by barbara ingarfield
Weyford Junior School
This photo is of the temporary classrooms and main building of Weyford Junior School where I was a pupil from 1964 to 1969.
Contributed by Gerry Thorne
Hampshire memories
Bordon
This was a lovely quiet village when I first came here. Unfortunately, it is becoming run down and untidy. Pity, really. We seem to be having all the throw outs from other places. When the army goes (if they go), this will be a dumping ground for all types of undesireables.
A memory of Bordon contributed by brian powell
Extracts From Bordon & 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".