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Heckfield maps
Historic maps of Heckfield and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Heckfield maps
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Hartley Wespall| Rotherwick| Hartley Wintney| Eversley| Sherfield-On-Loddon| Phoenix Green| Hartford Bridge| Stratfield Mortimer| Hook| Bramley| Elvetham| Finchampstead| Nately Scures| Winchfield| Mortimer Common| Yateley| North Warnborough| Burghfield Common| Greywell| Silchester| Old Basing| Dogmersfield| Pilcott| Fleet| Winnersh| Wokingham| Church Crookham| Basingstoke
Heckfield area books
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Hampshire memories
School Days
Hello, I was born in 1946. Due to my father's illness I was placed as a child in a social services home/school. The house was very large with a huge staircase, I thought it was 'Wellington's house'. I learnt farm work, and went to local craft fetes and won a prize for making a lampshade. I believe an Australian man 'Bill' and an english woman 'Barbara' were two of the adults who ran the place. I remember happy thoughts, but I cannot get any information from social services at all. Turgis green I remember as I walked on it. I remember the house always clean and I do have good thoughts of it. If anyone has info, my name was Ann Mulcahy, now Harford.
Emma Jane's Birthplace
My G.Granny was EMMA JANE SUMNER, she was born at Rotherwick, Hampshire on 1st. January 1866. This lady made a great impression on me and I used to visit her at her home in Tilehurst, Berkshire as a child. Jane, as she was known, was around 6 feet tall and had a very regal appearance with her silver white hair coiled high on her head. I last visited her at 'Iona', Firs Road, Tilehurst when she was 80 years old and a few months before her death. She gave me a brooch from her dress which I had admired and this I will treasure always.
School at Tylney Hall
I attended Tylney Hall School from 1950 to 1956 and used to go into Rotherwick village every Sunday to go to church which was compulsory for everybody except if you were RC or Jewish. The church then was a lovely place to go with yew trees right round the building and also very well kept, not like the last time I visited when it looked a bit run down and neglected and apparently only used one week in three (what a shame to waste a lovely building like this). Hook was also a regular place to visit as it was the only place to go for your sweets as Rotherwick did not have a shop by then and we were not allowed in the pub, what a pity.
Bramly Army Camp
I was one of three children of a soldier stationed at Bramley Army camp. I remember being taken to my first day at school in Bramley village school in 1930 and I refused to go through the school gate. Therefter I went on a school bus with my elder sister to Basingstoke, to Fairfield School, until I was nine years old. My father was discharged from the arrmy in 1934 when the whole family moved to York, North Yorkshire, where my father got a job. I remember going with my dad to the Pigeons pub in Bramley villlage on a Sunday for lemonade and crisps.
Living in
When I moved to live on the Cricket Green with my parents in 1947, the previous tenants were called Bacon, and for many years afterwards, people would say "Oh you live in Bacons' old house" - my mother would seethe! My brother Richard was born in 1948 and our younger brother Patrick arrived in 1950, always doing his own thing, and was delivered by my mother on the kitchen floor - the baby born in a bucket, as he was reminded for many years. When I married in 1965 at St Thomas More RC Church in Mildmay Terrace, we borrowed a piano from the Stewart family at Longfield Cottage - ours was the second wedding held at the church. Many happy memories of childhood and beyond of Hartley Wintney - my children spent many holidays with their grandparents, playing on the green, feeding the ducks on Causeway Pond and blackberrying on Hazeley Heath with their Grandma Vaughan. I learned to score for cricket matches, something I thoroughly enjoyed until marrying... Read more
Born in The Village
I was born in the village in a nursing home, that was in January 1949, just up from the old police station on the opposite side of the A30. Then I grew up in 13 Mildmay Terrace with my mother, father, grandmother and grandfather, their name was Alfred and Hilda Denton. When I was about 4 we moved to 7 Weir Road and Dad kept chickens at the top of the garden. I have a lot of happy memories from that time. My brothers and sisters were born at 7 Weir Road.
Hartley Wintney.
I have very happy memories of staying with my grand-parents in Hartley Wintney right next to the common aged 5yr-7yrs. My grand-father kept chickens and we were allowed to feed them and collect the eggs. Did anyone know my grand-father? His name was William James Benwell?
