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Baughurst maps
Historic maps of Baughurst and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Baughurst maps
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Tadley| Brimpton| Crookham| Silchester| Woolhampton| Kingsclere| Mortimer Common| Bramley| Thatcham| Burghfield Common| Stratfield Mortimer| Sherfield-On-Loddon| Basingstoke| Cold Ash| Theale| Old Basing
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Memories of Baughurst
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Strawberry
I lived in Baughurst for a short while. I remember the fair. I could hear it from our back window. Also I had a very dear friend there and when our children were small we used to walk to Shyshack Lane for strawberries.
New School
We moved to Baughurst from Australia as my father started a new job at the AWRE at Aldermaston. My new school, the Hurst Secondary Modern, was a fairly new school. I spent the next 3 years there with mixed experiences, though I did have some very good friends who I have now lost touch with. The Baughurst estate was all owned by the AWRE and all the people who lived there were working at the AWRE site. Baughurst was a very pleasant place to live, surrounded by countryside with Tadley and Basingstoke not far away with exelent bus services. I remember some great summers there.
Hampshire memories
The T.B.L.C
The Tadley Bong Lugging Community started years ago and is still going.
Rookery Farm
My grandad came from Monk Sherbourne. He lived at the Rookery Farm. I used to go there as a child, the kitchen was huge, there were two doors, one went through to an apple store, the other must have been a well, the water ran under the house. It was my Aunt Berta who we used to visit. My grandparents the Allen family are buried in a family plot in the churchyard. Good days.
A Silvery Dust
What I am about to write was once classified information; but due to the BBC documentary I can disclose and inform you that I had a brother in law who is dead now, but I recall things of which he was to tell me as in confidence: I forget the exact year; but I think it was in the early 70s. Where he worked at the A W R E as a cleaner; what he described to me was documented on television quite a number of years later. The A W R E had an accident with some radioactive dust of which was stored in Barrels within a secure building. over a period of many years these barrels had rotted away and that these particles had intermingled with another Type of Radioactive Particle, the two combined together were the makings of a Nuclear bomb; except that the two components neglected being a solid mass rather than particles. A claxon had sounded where men like my brother-in law and a... Read more
Piano Teacher on Newbury Road
When this photo of Newbury Rd. was taken I was 9. I used to walk from my house on Coppice Rd. Kingsclere to Newbury Rd. where I took piano lessons. I don't remember the name of the teacher but she played the organ at St. Mary's, and she was the sister of Mrs. Fred Hopkins, who owned the store on George St. Her black spaniel always sprawled over my feet while I played. I think its the reason I always play the piano with the "loud" pedal. I have enjoyed the pictures on this site because its been over 40 years since I've seen Kingsclere. My sister, Sylvia Arbon, still lives there. I now live in Mississippi, USA
Scrumping
I lived at Lane End, Bramley no 6 in the circle. The white cottage in the picture use to have an apple orchard next to it. Me and my cousins used to try and get apples before the old lady got out of her house but she always caught us and told my gran .
the house where the car is ,is where my cousins lived the woolfords. sheila
