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Isington| Bentley| Binsted| Rowledge| Kingsley| Wrecclesham| Lower Froyle| Upper Froyle| Frensham| Lindford| Headley| Bordon| East Worldham| Holybourne| The Bourne| Churt| Headley Down| Farnham| Hartley Mauditt| Crondall| Long Sutton| Waverley| Passfield| Tilford| Alton| Upper Hale| South Warnborough| Runfold| Bramshott| Shalden
Blacknest area books
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Hampshire memories
Binsted School
I can still remember the day I started school. My Mum walked me from Isington to Binsted, I didn't know exactly where I was going and when we got to the school we had to go up these steps that were overhung with trees, it reminded me of a green tunnel.
I was shown my coat peg - it was a red ball! Then my Mum left me, she never told me where she was going or why I wasn't allowed to go with her. I felt really lost and lonely. My cousin Dianne helped me make friends that day and she kept an eye on me until my Mum came to pick me up.
My Mum Annie Spreadbury
My mum was born in Wintney Hartney near Binsted and went to school here.
These are her memories.
The school was staffed by nuns (maybe two). She remembers that one of them was very handy with the cane on knuckles! But she also remembers the kindness. She came from a typical large, poor family, which was rent apart when her mother died when Mum was only 9. In the winter she would be given a baked potato by the kind nun. This would keep her hands warm all morning, and be eaten at lunchtime.
Relationships
I met my husband at the Bull Inn, Bentley and we lived and worked there together for 2 years before we moved up to Newcastle to raise our 2 wonderful daughters. I am just wondering if Mary and Peter are still running the old place?
Binsted When I Was A Child 1950/60s
SUMMER IN BINSTED
I remember summer!
It was more than one week in May
I remember it lasted six whole weeks
I remember summer!
It started with a train journey -
I remember great clouds of steam!
Haymaking, harvesting
Mice running for their lives!
Corn stooks, threshing
Juddering and jarring
Playing cricket non-stop
Stalks scratching little legs
Mr Bunce’s horse and cart
Secrets in the village shop
Long walks and church bells
Visiting the cousins
Rooks cawing, cows milking
Farm sights and country smells
The river where I learnt to swim
The little general shouting
He may have ruled a battlefield
But not my life and limb!
Hop picking, green fingers
Great fires, drying rooms
Swinging over slatted floors -
And still the smell lingers!
I remember summer
It ended with a train journey -
I remember great clouds of smokey steam!
Kingsley School Hampshire
I went to Kingsley School as an infant in 1978 and left before it closed, at some time in the 1980s. I remember the headmistress Mrs Morris, who became Mrs Vincent, who smoked in the classroom!, and the wicked infant teacher Mrs Caine who used to have a replica gun lighter in her draw and large knife to sharpen the pencils, she would threaten us all that she was going to shoot us or stab us! and we were only babies! The dinners were vile but we were forced to eat every last scrap even if we threw up on our plates! Even the cooks would go easy on the portions if they knew we didn't like what was on the menu. But despite the bad memories, I suppose there were some good times as well, just a shame that we weren't taught more about the school's history, and the visiting Father Eerica wasn't weird (later convicted for paedophilia!), it was a good job we all grew up ok I... Read more
Cross Road Stores
The store on the cross roads in Lindford was named Cross Road Stores. My parents bought Cross Road Stores in I think 1962-63 and ran the stores for about 4 years, the stores and the house were very old, I was about 7 or 8 years old when we moved to the stores. The house was 3 floors high, there was an extension built on the back of the house for a garage and a store room, and the garden at the rear which at that time went right up to the next house, which was owned by the milkman Mr Souter. In the rear garden there was an old green house and an apple orchard, some years later my father sold off most of the rear garden and a house was built on the ground. I have cine film my father took during our time in Lindford showing the 1963 snow and cars being pushed, and other times spent there. Happy times.
Cross Road Stores
I lived at 49 "The Triangle" in the prefabs, just up the road from the stores past the Royal Exchange Pub, from about 1958 -1965. When I first moved there the store was owned by Mr Pears and we called it Pears's Stores. I was friends with Alan Jones whose parents owned the shop down the road to the right in the picture. I went to Mill Chase and 2 other schools in the area (I can't remember the names) from 1955 until I left school in 1960. Reading other comments from the area, I too remember the Butchers Shop, The Mill (I used to swim there) and the Fish & Chip shop where every Saturday we would have Fish & Chips and scratchings. They were little pieces of the batter etc. and they were free. Please get in touch if you remember me.
