The Grand Hotel c1955, Lyndhurst
The Grand Hotel c1955, Lyndhurst Ref: L123039
Memories of The Grand Hotel c1955, Lyndhurst
Grand Hotel Missing Archway
My mother says the two white pillars at the entrance to the Grand Hotel once supported an archway.
During WW2 the Royal Navy housed sailors in the hotel who were bussed out each day. The bus was too tall to go under the archway and so they decided to blow up the arch. The resulting explosion shattered every window in the hotel and was heard all over the village!
The Royal Navy
PM739377 SIR!. Yes. I was stationed in the Grand Hotel during my training in the RN to become an Electrical Artificer,The song I remember most was "Underneath the spreading chestut tree" which was often played in the little cafe in the High Street where we spent a lot of our "shore leave". Our practical work was in a Government Training Centre at Southampton, Totton I thnk, so we had to be bussed there and back. I remember the weather in the summer of that year was excellent and the people of the village very welcoming...I really enjoyed myself there ...Happy Days..I have some other memories logged in CHRIST'S HOSPITAL and HORSHAM
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Painted by Victorian artist Frederick, Lord Leighton
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Hi
My partner owns the cottage to the left of the main Romsey road, that is Ivy cottage, next to Puckpit cottage the side of which adjoins cadnam road, Joyce purchased this in 1997 when she left the Isle of Wight and took up lectures post at Southampton Univercity.
Joyce wanted to be in Lyndhurst as she grew up their, but also her mother lived in the village and it would be nice to be near her and Barbara could also see her grand daughter, Hanah grow up at the same time.
Barbara lived on the oposite side of the road, at number 56 and the cottage seemed the ideal place to raise Hanah and look after her mother, the strange thing was that Joyces great grand mother used to live in Ivy Cottage when joyce was a young girl and their is one picture of her outside the cottage in th 1960s.
We all now live in the same house in Lyndhurst No:12 Romsey rd, and Joyce... Read more
