The Hatches
Living in Mytchett and going to the Infant school in Frimley Green during the war years, I had the choice of walking two ways home, Yes we walked then, not picked up in the family car. Through the Hatches to Mytchett via Farnborough North or past the green along Mytchett rd and Home via Hamesmoor rd. Towards the end of the war there were work gangs of Italian prisoners of war at work in the Hatches. They were very friendly.
There were air raid shelters in the school playground and we spent a fair bit of time in them. If the weather was very bad in the Winter we would be put on the Yellow bus( from Camberley) to Days stores in Mytchett and then I would walk through the Potteries lane to home
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I lived in Frimley Green from 1956 to 1980 and used the Hatches to walk to Farnborough, and also catch the train at Farnborough North station. There used to be signal boxes at both ends of The Hatches. When the one at Farnborough North was demolished, I remember the signal box sign being left for weeks by the side of the footpath, then one day it dissapeared, presumeably to a collector! Before the extraction of gravel, the land on the left hand side of the footpath (from the Frimley Green end) was open land, although a bit boggy when it rained, and you could walk as far as the embankment of the Farnborough-Brookwood railway line. There was still evidence of a connecting line from the "main" line to the Frimley-Ash Vale line then, although the track had been removed. On the right hand side, I seem to recall a small railway that was used to transport the gravel the short distance towards the Farnborough North - Blackwater Line. Where the footpath over the Hatches crossed the River Blackwater, was a popular spot for us as kids, trying to catch "tiddlers" in the stream.
Comment from Keith Huxted on Tuesday, 30th March 2010.