Bishopstoke, Hampshire

Fish and Chips

I remember very well Smarts fish and chips. Soaked in malt vinagar and wrapped in news paper. Hot and smelling so good.

I remember well Mr and Mrs Pellerade, I wished they were my parents because they were such kind and nice folks.

I remember Mrs Pellerade had a china cup, held up to the light and the face... [more]

Fish and chip shop - Smart's Fish Saloon

Ref: Smarts Fish Saloon, Bishopstoke - it was as a boy in the early forties that we visited this shop to buy fish and chips and more often to buy a pennyworth of scraps which sometimes had a few chips in with them. At that time we had to take our own paper to wrap them in.  We then took them... [more]

Number 2 Montague  Terrace

Barbara Brian.  I loved reading your memories of Montague Terrace and I thank you for them. Were you the young Miss Andrews that rode that posh bicycle and lived behind the shop and did your dad at times teach tap dancing in the shop store that had large placards built against it? I remember Mr Andrews very well, a little man... [more]

Smart's Fish Saloon.

Re Smart's Fish Saloon. My parents Peter and Wyn Pellerade owned this from 1952 to the early 60s when it was demolished to make room for flats. The site never got used but has recently been developed into a doctors surgery. This was in the ancient rights of Bishopstoke, the original post office. It was a beautiful... [more]

Nanny Blake/Baker

Spring Lane where Edith Baker lived and helped with the birth of many of Bishopstoke's babies.

I would love to receive stories of her.

Nurse Emery and Caretaker Collis

I remember Nurse Emery on her pushbike delivering both of my brothers at home.  We lived in St Mary's Road, behind the church.
I also went to Bishopstoke infants school and was duly frightened by the caretaker, a Mr Collis with a built up boot on his foot - scared me half to death when I was a kid.
Miss Starr... [more]

Dorset Dairies

Jacqueline Jackson, if you read this email me please waxrose@libertyseniorliving.com.au  Would your great grandfather be a Harry Hann? He was the owner of Dorset Dairies next to my birthplace in Factory Road, Eastleigh. I went to school in Chamberlayne Road, Eastleigh in 1941-48 and Peter Symonds, Winchester in 1948-1953 with Harry senior's sons, Harry jnr and his older brother James (later... [more]

Bathing in the River

Montague terrace was home to many children. I remember the Allen's, John, June, Barry, Hazel, Ivan & Valerie. The White's, Maurice and Barbara, The William,s and Smith,s, Joan, Roy, Margaret, Jeffrey, and at least three younger ones. Plus Pauline Sollet, Valerie & Johnnie Butt. We all played in the road outside of Andrews Hardware shop. I was born on... [more]

Around Eastleigh including Chandler's Ford, Bishopstoke and Botley Living Memories

We have turned into Riverside, a delightful waterside road. On the right is the Anchor Inn, at this time owned by the brewers Strong & Co of Romsey. It has now been converted into flats and a doctor's surgery. We have reached the era of fish and chips, wrapped in newspaper and eaten possibly in the street or in Smart's Fried... [more]

Around Eastleigh including Chandler's Ford, Bishopstoke and Botley Living Memories

Spring Lane, originally called Back Lane, branches off from Riverside and can be seen at the top centre turning back into the main road. This is the centre of the old village. Next to the post office (right) is the old Methodist church, now replaced by a new building. Near here is a butcher's shop over which early Methodists once met.... [more]

Around Eastleigh including Chandler's Ford, Bishopstoke and Botley Living Memories

At Bishopstoke the River Itchen divides into a number of waterways. There are two mill streams, one known as the Barton River, from which water is provided for the Itchen Navigation Canal, and this branch, which follows the Fair Oak Road with Montague Terrace on the right of the picture. All the streams rejoin the river further south. The house left... [more]