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Memories of Minstead
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The Old Cottage
The cottage on the left of the photo was The Old Cottage and my grandparents (my father's parents) were living in it at the time the photo was taken.
After my grandfather's death my parents, my brother and sister and I together with my mother's mother moved down from Birmingham and living with my grandmother until we moved into our new house. My grandmother only died in 2006 and is now buried at Minstead churchyard.
It was a lovely house and I have wonderful memories of it.
Memorys
Came to Minstead for a weeks break to help my wife rest and recover from breast cancer.
Stayed in a very nice thatched cottage.
We live in a village in Saddleworth that is beautiful, but Minstead the village the people and most of all the church just made it so nice.
Just to sit in the garden of the Minstead cottage at night and look at the stars in the calm night was so nice.
Although it can't cure my beautiful wife's dreadful cancer, it did help just to walk down tree and flower covered lanes and be in such a peaceful place.
My wife has always had horses but had to let them go due to her illness so to see so many beautiful animals was great, I'm sure a ride through the forest would just take her back to happier and healthier times, maybe next year as we will be back.
I would highly recommend a walk back in time when people and feelings mattered.
A walk through... Read more
Hampshire memories
The New Forest Inn
The New Forest Inn is rather curiously decorated with wood on the front. This is said to be part of a caravan from which an old woman sold alcoholic drinks before the pub was built.
Emery Down Church
At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 I was evacuated to Emery Down from Portsmouth.
I was billeted with a very nice couple who lived in a cottage quite close to the church. The church was the centre of the village community with a thriving congregation and I was soon invited to join the choir, together with the other evacuees.
It is a beautiful little church situated at the edge of the forest adjacent to the village green, my abiding memories will always be the simple sanctity of the services and the pervading perfume of the honeysuckle that surrounded the churchyard.
Emery Down & Swan Green
I have just read about a memory relating to Emery Down Church and it has made me think about my childhood again. My grandparents lived in Northerwood Avenue, Swan Green in Lyndhurst and we regulary stayed there as children. When we stayed with my grandparents we used to have to walk up the hill and visit my great grandmother who lived in Silver Street in Emery Down. We used to stop half way up and sit on an old bench. Opposite my great grandmothers house (Ship Cottage) was an old well that was boarded over and my sister and I would always wonder what it would have been like having to get your water from a well. We always used to pop along to the local post office stores in Silver Street and buy our tea. Usually we had fish fingers and always a block of neapolitan icecream which was in a cardboard box. We used to go off for forest walks near... Read more
The Local 'Copper'
The policeman seen standing on duty outside the public house has been indentified as PC 65 H R Hood. He was the village 'Copper', spending 15 years of his service in Cadnam. This was a favourite traffic duty spot in those days, as this was the main crossroads of the Southampton to Bournemouth and the Winchester to Lymington highways. Even though in those days there was less traffic, it was never the less a very busy road with many hazards.
Overnight Stay...
I stayed at Twin Oaks one night in October 2008. I arrived very late after escaping from some motorway works madness, but my hostess was very welcoming and supportive. She explained that the twin oak at the front of the building is much admired, especially by the Francis Frith company photographer when this photo was taken. I was visiting because my g g g grandfather was living in Cadnam in 1841. James Peckham, son of Moses, was born at Sherfield English nearby, and he and his family lived in the area for decades. His daughter, Sarah, married a Henry Humby and they lived in Bartley. I was told that there are still Humby's living in the area, but time did not allow me to follow up on that lead. The Sir John Barleycorn situated opposite Twin Oaks, is a fine building with attractive premises and fine fare on offer. It is well used by the locals. I visited The White Hart Inn whose original building is still distinguishable beneath the... Read more
