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Historic maps of Hooksway and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Hooksway maps
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Didling| East Harting| South Harting| Compton| Stoughton| West Marden| Trotton| Bepton| Cocking| Singleton| Iping| Chithurst| Stedham| Charlton| Funtington| Midhurst| West Lavington| Heyshott| Finchdean| Buriton| Woolbeding| West Ashling| Petersfield| Easebourne| Rowland's Castle| Goodwood| Adhurst St Mary| Sheet| Westbourne| Steep
Hooksway area books
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East Harting Stores
My name was Carol Upfield and my father was Albert known as Bert. I remember going to see my grandfather in the shop when I was about three, I am now 65, but my father and his brothers and sisters were I beliave born there. I lived in Nyewood until I was five, next to Les and family. My dad's other brothers Reg and Jack lived down the road. My Aunt Freda Dowsett, Dad's sister, lived at Hollis Farm, Hollis Lane and Rosie Edwards his youngest sister at the end of the lane. Most of my family have lived and worked in this area since the 1700s and maybe before. My grandfather Walter John owned the house and shop, you can see it in the distance in the photo of East Harting, the white building on the left. It was in future years called The Upfields. I do have a few photos of the the house. It is now called Hameford House. Just wonder if anyone has any history or photos?... Read more
School Years 1960-69
Hi I attended the Primary School here from 1960-1967. My name was Laura Carter. My teachers were called Miss Symons & Mr Williams. I have lovely memories of wandering the fields around Pays Farm where my Dad worked, and long walks on the downs. I had a lovely happy childhood and remember clearly playing marbles in the playground, walking up to the church hall for an awful school dinner! and even being made to eat everything on the plate. I have a whole school photo taken in about 1966 but unfortunately remember very few of the children names. Does any else share these memories?
Family Connections
Hi, My family on my mother's side all come from South Harting, my grandfather was Fred Chambers who passed away in 1982, my grandmother is May Chambers who is nearly 90 now. My mother is Linda Dyke (nee Chambers), and I have an aunt, Jen Johns (nee Chambers) who still lives in the village. My grandparents had an old boy who lived with them, we alll knew him as Joe, I think his real name was Harry James (Pook is a surname for him that rings a bell, but I can't be too sure.), he died in the late 1970s. I hope these memories/names help with any research into South Harting, a lot of the old timers from my upbringing are no longer with us and village history needs to be kept alive.
Dunkantix.com
You are referred to dunkantix.com and 'So Many Secrets' which are the memoirs of Ben Dunk relative to West Dean Estate in West Sussex and his family, the Sticklands and Dunks who resided and worked at Home Farm, West Dean Park from 1899 to 1944.
446 Bepton - The Lovely Old House
I stayed a number of times at this address whith my father's relatives, an Aunty Nance and Uncle Jack (possibly a Howick connection).
Thatch Cottage, Singleton
We bought a thatched cottage, in much need of renovation, next door to the butchers shop. It was a tied Goodwood Cottage previously occupied by Mrs Myrtle Ticehurst who remained a tenant when she was widowed in WW1. We lived in a caravan in the front farden for nearly a year while work was carried out - I loved that old cottage so much I was prepared to put up with the dificulties in order to eventually live there. The neighbours, except for 2 brothers, were absolutely wonderful and without their help and support life in a caravan with 2 small children would have been much harder. Sadly we had to move on after only two years but I have always remembered Singleton with great affection and I still have the original copper that was removed from the wash boiler in the old kitchen and I also acquired a tapestry of Pond Cottage which hangs on the wall of my present home.
Great Grandad Strickland - Stickland
Escaping from his mammoth wife, Gran Con, who could eat a whole chicken at one sitting, Great Grandad Stickland fled Street in Somerset and took lodgings in the F&H. He suffered nightmares, and the person who slept in the same lodging room used to turn him over. One night he did not and that night he died. Perhaps he thought his wife had caught up with him. He was a grand horsemen and part of a Welsh family called the Sticklands (changed to Strickland by the Army in the Second World War). He is buried in Chichester, the poor man's grave was found in the 1970s and now forms the family grave. We have one picture of him and Gran Con. He had three daughters and 2 sons, they where all very proud of their dad and although Gran Con had the 'Strickland temper', she was well loved, her grand daughter remembers staying with her in the cottage in Street in Somerset. Please excuse the English, I suffer from dyslexia.
