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Charter Alley maps
Historic maps of Charter Alley and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Charter Alley maps
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Tadley| Silchester| Bramley| Basingstoke| Kingsclere| Oakley| Brimpton| Sherfield-On-Loddon| Crookham| Mortimer Common| Old Basing| Woolhampton| Stratfield Mortimer| Burghfield Common| Overton| Thatcham
Charter Alley area books
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Hampshire memories
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
The T.B.L.C
The Tadley Bong Lugging Community started years ago and is still going.
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.
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.
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
Bramley School Days
I have strong memories of the church as every day at 10 we had to walk down the church path to pick up the milk also.our playground backed onto the graveyard so when there was a funeral we had to come inside which we thought was most unfair.After school we would wonder around the grave yards which was a big no no by the vicker . I have strong memories of the church after being in Australia for some 40years the internet has brought back memories.Any body who went to the church or school i would welcome contact. Andrew Locke
