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Hedge End maps
Historic maps of Hedge End and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Hedge End maps
Hedge End photos
We have no photos of Hedge End, although we do have photos of these nearby places:
Botley| West End| Bursledon| Old Bursledon| Swanwick| Sarisbury Green| Fair Oak| Netley Abbey| Park Gate| Woolston| Hamble| Bishopstoke| Southampton| Shedfield| Eastleigh| Warsash| Waltham Chase| Bishops Waltham| Wickham| Titchfield| Swanmore| Hythe| Chandlers Ford| Dibden Purlieu| Fareham| Stubbington
Hedge End area books
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Memories of Hedge End
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Ferris
Not really a memory but just wondering if anyone can recall my nan, Millicent Ferris, nee Barfoot. I didn't really know her but my father has told me stories about her and if anyone knew her, either from Hedge End or even when her and Granddad had the shop near Bitterne, it would be great - any photos even better!
My email is: donnamilee@yahoo.co.uk
Thanks,
Lee Ferris.
Hampshire memories
The Bugle Inn Today
This great pub has things happening every day - super food and fine beer. The website for the Bugle Inn is www.thebugleinnbotley.co.uk
Josephines?
Not really a memory but I wonder if any of you folk remember a florist shop called Josepine's in Botley, I believe it was on the Hedge End road. She was a Barfoot and a sister of my nan, I think!
Any memories would be great ... a photo magnifico.
I have family in Hedge End and my Grandad had a shop called HG or WG Ferris in the Bitterne area, this info is all new to me so I will be down to Botley soon and have a pint at the Bugle where I've learnt my dad was a regular.
My email is: donnamilee@yahoo.co.uk
Thanks,
Lee Ferris.
Houseboats in The Picture of Bursledon Bridge
In the photo are several houseboats and yachts moored up to the bank on the LHS of the picture; I used to live on the large white motor torpedo boat (originally called 'Hippocampus') which can be seen between the wreck and the large wooden, armour plated 'LCS' ('Landing Craft/Support'), when she was moved from the River Hamble to the River Itchen in 1974. I renamed her 'Whimsical Macgoffley'. She was built in Cowes, on the Isle of Wight, at the J. Samual White Shipyard, launched in 1944, and was one of six MTBs (numbered S-5 to S-10) and manned by the Polish Navy. (Her number was S-8 during WW2 and she was eventually returned to the Royal Navy as HMTB 427 at the end of the war). She was 'up for disposal' by the Admiralty on 18th December 1945 and sold sometime after that date to a Mr. A. Aitcheson. In 1949 she was on the berth shown in the photo which was at 'Deacon's Boat Yard', downstream from Bursledon... Read more
Bursledon, The Hospital
I do not think this ever was a hospital in the usual sense. I am pretty sure it was a house called Brixedene (Brixedone?) in Blundell Lane, owned and lived in by a family called Thistlethwaite. During the war it was a children's home, although I do not know anything about who it was run by and I think after the war, perhaps after the introduction of the NHS in 1948, it was taken over and used as a convalescent home with some connection to the Royal South Hants Hospital. I may not have all the facts right, but one thing I do know - there was never a hospital in Bursledon. Any hospital treatment meant a trek into Southampton to the South Hants Hospital - in St Mary's I think.
Bursledon Railway Bridge
This picture is of the railway bridge over the Hamble, looking up stream from the road bridge which carried the A27 over the river. A little way to the right of where this picture was taken was the Red Lion Inn.
I remember watching steam trains crossing the bridge on trains from Brighton/Portsmouth to Salisbury/Bristol in the early 1960's. Local trains were Diesel units - the line not being electrified until much later.
Now there is a third bridge - beyond the railway bridge - which carries the M27 over the river!
Bursledon Bridge
This picture is of the two Bursledon bridges over the River Hamble - the A27 road bridge in the foreground and the rail bridge behind it. Sarisbury Green is further up to the right on the A27 at the top of the hill. The photo is taken from the Bursledon side of the river loooking over towards Swanwick Shore, Lower Swanwick.
