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Emery Down & Swan Green
I have just read about a memory relating to Emery Down Church and it has made me think about my childhood again. My grandparents lived in Northerwood Avenue, Swan Green in Lyndhurst and we regulary stayed there as children. When we stayed with my grandparents we used to have to walk up the hill and visit my great grandmother who lived in Silver Street in Emery Down. We used to stop half way up and sit on an old bench. Opposite my great grandmothers house (Ship Cottage) was an old well that was boarded over and my sister and I would always wonder what it would have been like having to get your water from a well. We always used to pop along to the local post office stores in Silver Street and buy our tea. Usually we had fish fingers and always a block of neapolitan icecream which was in a cardboard box. We used to go off for forest walks near... Read more
Emery Down Church
At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 I was evacuated to Emery Down from Portsmouth.
I was billeted with a very nice couple who lived in a cottage quite close to the church. The church was the centre of the village community with a thriving congregation and I was soon invited to join the choir, together with the other evacuees.
It is a beautiful little church situated at the edge of the forest adjacent to the village green, my abiding memories will always be the simple sanctity of the services and the pervading perfume of the honeysuckle that surrounded the churchyard.
The New Forest Inn
The New Forest Inn is rather curiously decorated with wood on the front. This is said to be part of a caravan from which an old woman sold alcoholic drinks before the pub was built.
Hampshire memories
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My partner owns the cottage to the left of the main Romsey road, that is Ivy cottage, next to Puckpit cottage the side of which adjoins cadnam road, Joyce purchased this in 1997 when she left the Isle of Wight and took up lectures post at Southampton Univercity.
Joyce wanted to be in Lyndhurst as she grew up their, but also her mother lived in the village and it would be nice to be near her and Barbara could also see her grand daughter, Hanah grow up at the same time.
Barbara lived on the oposite side of the road, at number 56 and the cottage seemed the ideal place to raise Hanah and look after her mother, the strange thing was that Joyces great grand mother used to live in Ivy Cottage when joyce was a young girl and their is one picture of her outside the cottage in th 1960s.
We all now live in the same house in Lyndhurst No:12 Romsey rd, and Joyce... Read more
Grand Hotel Missing Archway
My mother says the two white pillars at the entrance to the Grand Hotel once supported an archway.
During WW2 the Royal Navy housed sailors in the hotel who were bussed out each day. The bus was too tall to go under the archway and so they decided to blow up the arch. The resulting explosion shattered every window in the hotel and was heard all over the village!
Church Fresco
Painted by Victorian artist Frederick, Lord Leighton
Memorys
Came to Minstead for a weeks break to help my wife rest and recover from breast cancer.
Stayed in a very nice thatched cottage.
We live in a village in Saddleworth that is beautiful, but Minstead the village the people and most of all the church just made it so nice.
Just to sit in the garden of the Minstead cottage at night and look at the stars in the calm night was so nice.
Although it can't cure my beautiful wife's dreadful cancer, it did help just to walk down tree and flower covered lanes and be in such a peaceful place.
My wife has always had horses but had to let them go due to her illness so to see so many beautiful animals was great, I'm sure a ride through the forest would just take her back to happier and healthier times, maybe next year as we will be back.
I would highly recommend a walk back in time when people and feelings mattered.
A walk through... Read more
