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Clayford maps
Historic maps of Clayford and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Clayford maps
Clayford photos
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Clayford area books
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My School
I go to Ferndown Middle School.
Visiting Ferndown
(Not just 1955, probably most of the 1950s.)
When my mother was a little girl, she was looked after by a nanny, who in her later years lived at Fairways, a bungalow at the end of Carroll Avenue. In the 1950s when I was very young, we used to visit what seemed a large bungalow in a very large garden full of pine trees and bracken, where my brother and I used to play while the adults gossiped. Years later, long after Nanny had moved away, probably 1967 or 68, when we went back to see what the place looked like, it was half demolished, and new houses were being built on the site. A sad day for us.
Ferndown Zoo
I don't remember the year but I think it was in the 1950s. Where exactly was the Ferndown Zoo? I have a photo of one of my cousins taken with a goat. I really don't remember much about it, I just know I went at least three times. Please help.
Wartime in Ferndown
I have so many memories of growing up in Ferndown during the Second World War, when it was just a village. Collecting pigswill and old papers to aid the war effort. Scouting adventures with scoutmaster Doug Gabe. Playing games on the common and collecting tadpoles and newts in jamjars. The bomb that fell in Victoria Road, and the night when incendiaries rained down - a neighbour beat "ours" out with the hydrangea he pulled up from the front garden! Carol singing. Being told off for throwing stones at the church bell. Ajax, the lion at Ferndown zoo that made national headlines because its roar was too loud. Those were the days. We lived at Delkeith in Dudsbury Avenue, niow the site of Delkeith Court. I left Ferndown in 1954 to do National Service, and didn't return for years, by which time it had exploded into a town that I hardly recognised. It was so different that I wrote a book about what it used to be like (Ferndown, the Back... Read more
Zoo
The zoo was in Ringwood Rd near the junction with Church Rd. It closed in 1955 after complaints about Ajax the lion. Now the site of homes in Longacre Drive.
Ferndown
I was born in a cottage called Oak Cottage on the Ringwood Road between the Angel Inn and the Rambler Garage as it was then. I was 9 when the Second World War started and remember the Southampton buses bringin the evacuee childen to stay in Longham and Ferndown. We went to Ferndown school in Church Road which has now been demolished and is now council offices. The school now is at the back on the land where the trenches were dug during the war which were to keep us safe. The Village Hall is still there and the British Legion is a nice modern building next door were we play skittles once a month. I remember when the evacuees came we went to school in the mornings and they went in the afternoons untill things got sorted out. My best friend at school was Eddy Grubb whose whole family came down from Southampton and lived near us and went back after the war, but we are still friends... Read more
Gaunts Common
My sister remembers cycling to Gaunts Common just after my great-grandfather died, my great-grandmother stayed at a house there, there was an old railway carraige in the garden which was used as a caravan, and my grandmother stayed there for a while. The owners were probably Steele-Bartlett-Sweatland or Chalk, all family names. Also there was a photo of my great-great-grandfather Edward (Ned) Steele, a gamekeeper in the Drusillas at Horton. Does anyone know where the house was and who owned it? The time would have been after June 1941. Any info would be welcome.
