WATERCRESS BEDS. W.ASHLING
I well remember the watercress beds at West Ashling as I started work there the day after I left school. Mr Pusey and his wife (he married Miss Florry Hair) were my bosses. I remember a Charlie Hotson and Harry Earl who also worked there. I left in 1960 to join the Royal Air Force Fire and Rescue. My father Jack Young worked at Hambrok for Miss Nancy Hair all his working life. John Young.
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RE: RE: WATERCRESS BEDS. W.ASHLING
reading your coments about the Hair/Hare family was very interesting. The two ladies you talk about Florry & Nancy were the daughters of a man called Charles Joyce. The Hare family came down from London and bought in the middle of the 1800s That was James Hare and his Wife Elizer and started the watercress farm then. My Grandmother/s father George Hare [But for some unknown reasom was registered as Mayhew his mothers maiden name] "Bit suspect" Anyway my grandmother lived at Hair springs as it is known now from somwhen after she was born in 1871 untill she married my Grandfather in 1890 at Funtington church.
The ancesters of those Joyce family still have the watercress beds to this day
Comment from George Larbey on Friday, 16th January 2009.
RE: RE: Watercress Beds, West Ashling
I was curious when you named Charlie Hotson and I was wondering if it was my uncle that I am trying to find out about, he died in Huddersfield in 1979, he was born in Havant, Hants in 1914, his full name was Charles Reginald Hotson and he was a jockey at some time in the 1930s or 40s. If anyone has any information about him I would love to hear it.
Comment from Susan Burry on Tuesday, 19th April 2011.
RE: RE: WATERCRESS BEDS. W.ASHLING
reading your coments about the Hair/Hare family was very interesting. The two ladies you talk about Florry & Nancy were the daughters of a man called Charles Joyce. The Hare family came down from London and bought in the middle of the 1800s That was James Hare and his Wife Elizer and started the watercress farm then. My Grandmother/s father George Hare [But for some unknown reasom was registered as Mayhew his mothers maiden name] "Bit suspect" Anyway my grandmother lived at Hair springs as it is known now from somwhen after she was born in 1871 untill she married my Grandfather in 1890 at Funtington church.
The ancesters of those Joyce family still have the watercress beds to this day
Comment from George Larbey on Friday, 16th January 2009.