Preston Candover
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Preston Candover Primary School
This was the year I left PC school to go to High School. I have immensely fond memories of school life here and the wonderful teachers, Mrs Cosier, Mrs Brady and Head Teacher Mrs Bruce. Lining up outside every morning for team games before school. doubtless to wake us up! The whole school chanting our times tables in unison which I think should be mandatory today in all primaries. It works. Singing those glorious old hymns in morning assembly. Having art lessons outside in the sun. Going on nature rambles and nature study competitions (mine was the coot and the horse chestnut tree for which I won a medal). Scottish and country dancing, rounders, tennis and plays performed in the ...read more here
Contributed by Ena Young
Preston Candover School House
I lived, with my parents and brother and sister, in the 'School House' from 1956-1963. My mother [Mrs Maud Slater] was one of the teachers and taught in the school until her retirement in 1978. The school and house were demolished in 1963/4 when a new school was built. Although for much of my life in PC I was at boarding school /the army I have wonderful memories of my boyhood in the fields and woods around the village and the happy hours spent working, during the harvest, on Manor Farm for 2/- [10p] per hour. My last,passing,visit to PC was in 1997 when I noticed a marked change in the character of the village from agricultural [in ...read more here
Contributed by Sean Slater
Hampshire memories
Preston Candover Primary School
This was the year I left PC school to go to High School. I have immensely fond memories of school life here and the wonderful teachers, Mrs Cosier, Mrs Brady and Head Teacher Mrs Bruce. Lining up outside every morning for team games before school. doubtless to wake us up! The whole school chanting our times tables in unison which I think should be mandatory today in all primaries. It works. Singing those glorious old hymns in morning assembly. Having art lessons outside in the sun. Going on nature rambles and nature study competitions (mine was the coot and the horse chestnut tree for which I won a medal). Scottish and country dancing, rounders, tennis and plays performed in the ...read more here
A memory of Preston Candover contributed by Ena Young
Preston Candover School House
I lived, with my parents and brother and sister, in the 'School House' from 1956-1963. My mother [Mrs Maud Slater] was one of the teachers and taught in the school until her retirement in 1978. The school and house were demolished in 1963/4 when a new school was built. Although for much of my life in PC I was at boarding school /the army I have wonderful memories of my boyhood in the fields and woods around the village and the happy hours spent working, during the harvest, on Manor Farm for 2/- [10p] per hour. My last,passing,visit to PC was in 1997 when I noticed a marked change in the character of the village from agricultural [in ...read more here
A memory of Preston Candover contributed by Sean Slater
Extracts From Preston Candover & 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".