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Hardway maps
Historic maps of Hardway and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Hardway maps
Hardway photos
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Gosport| Alverstoke| Portchester| Lee-On-The-Solent| Portsmouth| Stokes Bay| Fareham| Southsea| Stubbington| Hill Head| Southwick| Drayton| Titchfield| Farlington| Purbrook| North Boarhunt| Wickham| Binstead| Quarr Abbey| Fishbourne| Denmead| Park Gate| Osborne House| Waterlooville| East Cowes| Cowplain
Hardway area books
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Hampshire memories
Cold
This has bad memories for me. When I was a student of Bridgemary School in the first two years in the summer we had to go down by coach to the baths to learn to swim (at 57 I still cannot swim). It was always cold and we had little floats to help (not me), but it was no fun. This put me off pools for a long time.
Not A Good Way to Teach Swimming!
As a pupil at Gosport High School, I had to attend swimming lessons first thing in the morning each week in the open-air, unheated pool at Gosport, in the school term following Easter. It was (literally) freezing cold and a horrible experience!
On the first day, never having been in or even having seen a swimming pool before, I was pushed in to the deep end and clearly remember my panic as I struggled to the side and somehow got out - no-one came to my assistance, or even noticed.
No real attempt was made to teach us to swim and we just prayed to survive to the end of the session, when we had somehow to dry our frozen bodies and get dressed in a tiny cubicle - my hands had no feeling - they were blue with pink spots.
I hated every minute of the school's poorly-supervised, sadistic and clearly stupid approach to teaching children to swim, resulting - for me and many... Read more
Happy Days For me at This Place
I loved it here, swam all day, had lots of fun. I just wish it was still here today as it was a great place for many of us from Gosport.
Place of my Birth
I was born in Gosport in 1959. As the daughter of a sailor we left a couple of times but always returned. I married at St Marys Alverstoke in 1980. I have very fond, maybe a little rose-tinted, memories of Gosport when I was growing up. From the late night bus trips to Lee, riding the ferry to Portsmouth for my first job, the many rowdy afternoons at Gosport and Fareham RFC (where I met my husband). I still love coming back to Gosport even though the High Street has little more than charity shops. You just cannot beat fish and chips down at the ferry regardless of the season or weather.
Duncan Black
I used to come to Alverstoke with my mother, father and sister to visit my great aunt May Mackie from 1953-1970's. I used to love playing mini golf here with my family. I lived in Alverstoke for a year when we first arrived back from Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) in !953 and lived with my Grandmother Mrs Violet Isabel Black. My relatives Mackies and Blacks lived in this area for quite a while and one relative Sir Frederick Field was Vice Admiral of HMS Hood in 1924. These wonderful pictures of Alversoke brought lots of memories back for me
Bury Hall
I have just started researching my family history. My great grandfather was Jacob Abraham and was gardener for John Brett Purvis and then Richard Purvis at Bury Hall. I would love to see a picture of Bury Hall and or Bury Hall Lodge. Does it still exist? My father Isaac Abraham worked at the Royal Laboratory at the age of 12!
Broken Arm
My little brother broke his arm while playing by the church, as a big gust of wind picked him up and blew him into the wall, believe it or not.
