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Little Black Houses
This is where our godmother used to live. Her name was Fona, a really lovely lady, we'll always remember her. I was born here in the same little black house that Fona lived in, (she used to live next door, but moved into our house when we moved to Saville Crescent in Bordon). I don't remember Headley Down when I lived there as I was very young when we moved, but when I was older my elder sister used to take me there on a bus from Bordon, always on a Saturday. Fona would take us blackberry picking and we would play in the large back garden for hours. I remember there were loads of fir trees and the houses seemed ...read more here
Contributed by barbara ingarfield
Hampshire memories
Little Black Houses
This is where our godmother used to live. Her name was Fona, a really lovely lady, we'll always remember her. I was born here in the same little black house that Fona lived in, (she used to live next door, but moved into our house when we moved to Saville Crescent in Bordon). I don't remember Headley Down when I lived there as I was very young when we moved, but when I was older my elder sister used to take me there on a bus from Bordon, always on a Saturday. Fona would take us blackberry picking and we would play in the large back garden for hours. I remember there were loads of fir trees and the houses seemed ...read more here
A memory of Headley Down contributed by barbara ingarfield
the 1960'S
I CAN REMEMBER THE FISHING AT WAGGONERS WELLS, THERE WAS 4 OF US MY BROTHER AND I AND TWO FRIENDS WE USED TO FISH THE THIRD LAKE SOMETIMES WE WOULD STAY OVERNIGHT ALTHOUGH I DONT THINK YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO.
I CAN ALSO REMEMBER AN OLD GENTLEMAN IN A FLAT CAP NOT SURE WHO HE WAS OR WHAT HIS JOB WAS (BAILIFF PERHAPS ?) OR DID HE LIVE IN THE TEA SHOP PAST THE THIRD LAKE NOT SURE. I HAVEN'T BEEN THERE FOR YEARS AS I NOW LIVE IN NORTH OXFORDSHIRE BUT DO INTEND TO VIST VERY SOON.
DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHO THIS GENTLEMAN WAS ?
A memory of Waggoners Wells contributed by patrick sweeney
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 Headley Down & 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".