Aldershot, Hampshire

Aldershot County High School for girls

I finished school at A.C.H.S. in mid-summer of 1950. I know it has been torn down for housing, but cannot remember the name of the street it was on. We rode the bus from Cove, when we got off the bus in Cove we would meet the kids coming from the secondary modern school in Cove. They hated us because we... [more]

My stay at the Cambridge Military Hospital

I had my tonsils removed at the Cambridge Miltary Hospital in 1981 (aged 8).  The only memory I have of this time is of a little girl named Yvonne Cherry who stayed in the bed next to mine, she never had any visitors and spent the majority of her time looking in my locker.

My father, Eric James was an... [more]

The Cambridge Ghost

The Cambridge Military Hospital was apparently founded as part of the initiative begun by Florence Nightingale after the Crimean War to improve medical facilities for the Army. It was built on a grand, traditionally solid Victorian scale, and as I remember, had very long corridors, which seemed to be about a quarter of a mile long! At least, it seemed, standing... [more]

Hospital Stay

My son Thor had a branchial cyst removed when he was about 20 months old. The staff were wonderful. I stayed in the hospital all the time and beds were made available for the mums. For our meals we would cross over the road to go to the army canteen and the food was incredible. My son... [more]

Hiking in the 1970s at the Cambridge

I began my pupil nurse training at the Cambridge in 1970. I enjoyed my time there. I remember the corridors, indeed they were very long, some say a quarter of a mile lonf, and some say nearly a mile. I think I would say the latter. I was posted to Hong Kong in November 1970 and went back there in 1972.[more]

Wellington Monument

As a kid in the eighties, I used to mess around by the Wellington Monument, back then it was like a jungle all around it, and you couldn't really see it properly unless you were right in front of it. A group of volunteers did a brilliant job of clearing a lot of the bushes back, so now you can see... [more]

Aldershot cottage hospital - I was born here

Don't remember too much but I was born here 07/1968, now forty years on I still talk about where I was born. Jacki

Aldershot Cottage Hospital

How could I forget the Cottage Hospital?  I had my tonsils out here!  Strangely enough, after all these years I can still picture parts of the Children's Ward, one or two of the nurses, and the bed that I was in.  Hospital is never the most pleasant place to be but, if I remember correctly (and I am sure that I... [more]

Farnborough, Fleet and Aldershot

The Presbyterian church, whose towers are visible in the distance, was completed in 1869, although the building bears the date of 1863. Evidence of the first stages of commercialisation can be seen in the hoarding on the right which advertises 'Show Rooms'. The large building on the left is the Aldershot Institute, which had opened three years earlier in 1888.

Farnborough, Fleet and Aldershot

Diverging from High Street at the junction with Station Road, Wellington Avenue led directly to the 'Cathedral Church of the British Army'. Built in 1863 by the well-known architect of the time, P C Hardwick, it still maintains an imposing presence at the top of the town, despite the more indirect route to it now followed by Wellington Avenue.

Hampshire Photographic Memories

Named after the Duke of Cambridge, Queen Victoria's uncle, this most distinguished of buildings opened as a military hospital in 1879 and remained in use for 117 years. Originally, each regiment had its own ward, with access from a corridor which extended for a quarter of a mile.