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Burcombe maps
Historic maps of Burcombe and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Burcombe maps
Burcombe photos
We have no photos of Burcombe, although we do have photos of these nearby places:
Barford St Martin| Great Wishford| Compton Chamberlayne| Stoford| Bishopstone| Bemerton| Coombe Bissett| Harnham| Broad Chalke| Salisbury| Fovant| Teffont| Old Sarum| Wylye| Britford| Bowerchalke| Bodenham| Wilsford
Burcombe area books
Displaying 1 of 12 books about Burcombe and the local area. View all books for this area
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Wiltshire memories
Great Gran
My great-grandparents lived at Barford, they lived at the Dairy, Dairy Road. I visited there not long ago to find their graves, Harry and Harriet Fry, which I did. I also visited a lady called Wyn Fry a few years ago, she was married to my gran's brother. But then I never heard from her. I tried to find out what happened, can anybody help me?
Chipperfield's Circus
In fact these are not Lotmore Cottages, which were along the road that leads to the River Wylye, immediately left in the photograph past the front of the Royal Oak pub on the left, about 50 metres down on the right. I know this because I lived in Lotmore as a small boy, in the first of two semi detached cottages. There was a hilly field opposite that led up towards Grovely Wood. Chipperfield's Circus used to rest in this field when not on the road. Sometimes there were elephants there. Old Mr Chipperfield made me a wooden dog on wheels which we called Chipperdog. Lotmore was demolished many years ago and some late 50's council houses now stand on the site.
Broad Chalk Garage
My uncle Fred Moon had this garage from the mid 1930s till he retired, he was also the village blacksmith. He was a great prankster, if a rep came to the garage that did not know Fred and asked for Mr Moon, Fred would look round and say "He must have gone to Salisbury and he won't be back till late". He used to take me for long walks up on the local downs and also to the watercress beds. We also used to visit a Kate Penny who had a shop at Bower Chalke. My Uncle Hugh Moon also lived at Broad Chalke.
SORRY, BUT WE USED TO CALL IT GIBBS AND SPEW
Yes, I worked there when I was 15 with two other boys. I remember Tony Fletcher and Alan Blackman (are you still out there?). It was a dark warm place when on full tilt, it looked like London in the fog. I remember the characters like old Seth, he could drink beer straight from the fermentation tank whilst it was still hot, yes, it was free, we used to have a ration of two pints a day hence I was legless after my first, then I used to save it till the weekend to sell to the oldies who could drink as much as they could get. Seth was a bomb, he loved the gee gees but it would take him 26 minutes to go to the bookies and back so he devised a way of getting out. I didn't know where he did work in the brewery, only that every now and then he would come to where I was on the barrel wash, it was a monster to... Read more
The Town Path
Have seen this view many times in my younger days back in the late 1920s and early 30s, just after crossing the footbridge over the river, when on my way to see my dear old gran at Harnham. I can still remember the smell of the old mill.
Street Where I Live
Nice to see that not a lot has chnaged since this photo was taken to what it is like to day.
More cars and people now of course.
The Old School
My place of work. I have done a lot of work on collecting archive photos and making electronic copies of some of the many fascinating letters and articles written by the old girls 1880's to present.
