Preston Candover, Hampshire

Preston Candover Primary School

This was the year I left PC school to go to High School. I have immensely fond memories of school life here and the wonderful teachers, Mrs Cosier, Mrs Brady and Head Teacher Mrs Bruce. Lining up outside every morning for team games before school. doubtless to wake us up! The whole school chanting our times tables in unison which... [more]

Preston Candover School House

I lived, with my parents and brother and sister, in the 'School House' from 1956-1963. My mother [Mrs Maud Slater] was one of the teachers and taught in the school until her retirement in 1978. The school and house were demolished in 1963/4 when a new school was built. Although for much of my life in PC I was at... [more]

Hampshire Revisited Photographic Memories

Forty years before this photograph was taken, war memorials like Preston Candover's (centre right) were being erected in villages up and down the country to commemorate the young men of these communities who were called to fight in two world wars. Today, these sad monuments to a lost generation are a reminder of the sheer waste and futility of it all.... [more]

Hampshire Living Memories

In the days when supermarkets were uncommon, Canterton Stores would have provided villagers with almost everything they required. In the middle of Preston Candover is the Victorian church, St Mary's. There are two large Georgian houses and some nicely thatched cottages. It is still a peaceful village, although there is more traffic.

Petersfield - A History & Celebration

The cenotaph in the High Street commemorates those who died in battle but whose remains lie elsewhere. It is of unusual and classic appearance; it was designed by the architect Harry Inigo Triggs, who had travelled and studied in Italy. The detailing is borrowed from the eight blank panels in the Medici chapel in Florence; on these panels are carved the names of the town's dead of the First World... [more]