The Village c1955, Bishopstoke
The Village c1955, Bishopstoke Ref: B693002
Memories of The Village c1955, Bishopstoke
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 4 bedroom cottage with the shop space of three rooms on the side.
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 of a lady would appear.
I remember Mrs Pellerade had a Hoover, I had never seen one before and the noise frightened me.
I hope Sandra and Margo, are well and happy, I remember you both very well.
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 to the old churchyard to the large yew tree with a wooden seat underneath and finished them off. I think the yew tree may still be there, at this time it was called Densleys Fish and Chip Shop, obviously the owners before it became Smarts Fish Saloon. I then lived in Church Road and spent much time in the rec, and under the yew tree doing what all boys of that age did - climbing the tower and chasing the girls of course. I wish I was that agile now!
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 that wore a sports jacket, cap and glasses. I may have the wrong Miss Andrews, I hope it's you.
First may I tell you who I am and perhaps you may remember little Freddie Cannock from number 2, whose father kept his little car in your father's yard just by the old mill. My father has only just died at over a hundred.
We moved into number 2 in about 1932. At that time Mr Andrews was the first shop on the... Read more
Bishopstoke & local memories
Read and share memories of Bishopstoke and Hampshire inspired by Frith photos.
Holly Cross Scool
I would like to get any e-mails from former class mates from the time I was a student there, I remember the bomb shelters that we used to go in and try to find our way out in the dark. We lived in Chandleford, the refugee camp. We left England in 1954 for USA. I must say that now at the age of 72 I miss Eastleigh and the UK. So please anyone that can remember me,. send me a e-mail: rjk2823@yahoo.com Thank you so much.
Dorset Dairies
Jacqueline Jackson, if you read this email me please waxrose@me.com 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 Sir James, CEO of Scottish Nuclear and recently passed). Our family's Sunday walks took us up through Bishopstoke and into the woods, I recall the tip up that way during the war being full of Yankee scrap, comic books etc and of course the camp set up on the Rec in Eastleigh where we found countless discarded pennies. Well, enough for a lolly ration. And now I think about it and my current mobility it was a long walk. Oh yes, and as for Benny Hill, my mother spoke to me about his visit to former customers, which I supposed was Dorset Dairies in Eastleigh, and him paying their... Read more
The Anchor
G & G Wellman had the Anchor Inn before The Leigh Hotel.
KNIGHT'S DAIRIES
I Have just found out that my great grandfather owned dairies in Bishopstoke and that Benny Hill worked for him. I am 61 now, and have lost the majority of older relatives, that there is so much I would like to find out, but no-one to ask. I was actually brought up in Nightingale Avenue, but my dad was a Stoke boy.
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 the top floor of that shop and my grandparents Harry and Lucy Andrews owned it. My mum was Joan who also lived and worked in the shop.
We, the children, spent the summers paddling in the river which had a concrete base and was shallow in summertime. Us older ones would go down river a little and swin through 'the hole' well it came up to my chest if I walked through. The mums would get through the railings and using drain holes as steps climb down and clear all weed from the concrete base as soon as the lock closed the water flow down. Then even the little... Read more
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 was my teacher, she also taught my 2 brothers and then later on taught my two eldest sons.
My grandfather also told me that in the Mount grounds there was a plant or a tree taken from every country in the world........anyone else hear this?
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.
Stoke Park Woods
I lived in Stoke Park Road near the woods about 1965-1974. Best years of my life I believe. I used to go into the woods to play with other kids from the area. Oh for having those days of my youth all over again....
