West Meon

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Main Rd - Hill House

These are not really memories although I do remember my father talking a lot about Meonstoke with affection.
I have 2 old postcards and 2 old photos. The photos are of the building (I understand it was a Post Office at some date) in the picture above but when it was a private house. According to family tradition it was called Hill House and was built by William Cooper one of my ancestors. I do not know if that was true.
I do know from research that in the 1840s one William Cooper lived at Church Cottage while in the 1860s Mary Cooper (widow of one of the 3 Williams) and some of her children were living in ...read more here
A memory of Meonstoke contributed by Jo Ball

My Surname

I never knew there was such a place spelt exactly like my surname. I have been there twice in my life and purchased a book on Langrish.  It made very interesting reading.  I visited the village in 1987 and again in 2006.  I found some changes in the village.

Looking forward to visiting your little village again very soon.
A memory of Langrish contributed by Kenneth Langrish

Visiting

I had family who lived in Droxford, that was my Uncle Peter, Aunty Dot and my cousins Susan, Christine and John Miles.  Sorry John if you are reading this, it's your five mins of fame.  I loved going over there and was always made welcome.  I went to Droxford school with Mr Bark? and his wife.  She was ok but he in my eyes was not, but I am sure I wasn't the only one who thought that.  All kids think their head teachers are to beware of.  We the cousins would go for walks, either to Soberton or over to the water meadows.  One year my cousin was May Queen for Droxford, she really was very pretty, well I thought ...read more here
A memory of Droxford contributed by Vanessa Hillman(nee Miles)

Harriott Brothers - the Butcher's Shop

My Father was Arthur Harriott who owned Harriott Brothers Butchers Shop (which can be seen at the bottom left-hand corner of the picture) together with his Brother, Edward. We lived in "Old Sarum" which is the white house adjoining with my Mother, Molly and my Aunt Olive and Uncle Edward. One of my first memories must have been in about the late 40's when my Dad would wrap up parcels of meat and put them in a wicker basket in the iron frame fitted to a bicycle and delivered to the householders of Droxford by "the Boy".
I don't think I ever remember seeing my Father without a Craven A cigarette tucked into a corner of his ...read more here
A memory of Droxford contributed by Pamela Beeching