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Station Road Early 1950s

A Memory of New Milton.

The Town Library was located across the road from Burgess' news agent/bookstore, the source of my Tiger and Eagle weekly comics - as a young library member I plowed my way along the Biggles Air Ace library shelves, and through the Enid Blighton's Adventure series which my brothers also shared with me - these books sparked our young imaginations and no doubt were the inspiration of many of our adventures - I don't remember a public washroom anywhere, but there was a WW2 brick and concrete bomb shelter in front of the library, a real eye-sore - as a kid I was dared, and I went inside but it stank of things better not described, and was a repository of every broken bottle in town - later on the shelter was sealed up and eventually broken up and removed. I once saw a wartime report of German fighter planes strafing the town, so that shelter may have seen proper use.

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More memories - Station Road ran roughly north/south, extending northward over the railway bridge and beyond the Fern Hill swampy area (and Fern Hill Girls School where my sister Kathy Williams attended), and southwards past the Waverley Cinema to Milford eventually. Although there were other minor shopping streets, Station Road was our 'Main Street' where real shopping was done. It was a major event when traffic lights suddenly appeared indicating that we were now a 'big' town.
By Edward Williams on Thu Mar 31st 2016, at 3:33 pm
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Even more memories - If you continue north on Station Road, past Fern Hill, you eventually come to a picnic area around the bridge over the Wooten Stream - our family went there as a family outing on bikes a couple of times each year, and we kids would paddle and fish for tiddlers - one year an unknown photographer took a picture of our paddling activity that later was on display in our neighbourhood chemist shop where we found it - proceeding even further northwards, the road lead to the Rising Sun Inn on the edge of the New Forest - we kids were somewhat older before we really took advantage of this locale.
By Edward Williams on Fri Apr 1st 2016, at 3:41 pm
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