Bishopstoke

Number 2 Montague  Terrace

Barbara Brian.  I loved reading your memories of Montague Terrace and I thank you for them. Were you the young Miss Andrews that rode that posh bicycle and lived behind the shop and did your dad at times teach tap dancing in the shop store that had large placards built against it? I remember Mr Andrews very well, a little man that wore a sports jacket, cap and glasses.  I may have the wrong Miss Andrews, I hope it's you.
                                      
First may I tell you who I am and perhaps you may remember little Freddie Cannock from number 2, whose father kept his little car in your ...read more here
Contributed by Frederick Cannock

Fish and chip shop - Smart's Fish Saloon

Ref: Smarts Fish Saloon, Bishopstoke - it was as a boy in the early forties that we visited this shop to buy fish and chips and more often to buy a pennyworth of scraps which sometimes had a few chips in with them. At that time we had to take our own paper to wrap them in.  We then took them to the old churchyard to the large yew tree with a wooden seat underneath and finished them off. I think the yew tree may still be there, at this time it was called Densleys Fish and Chip Shop, obviously the owners before it became Smarts Fish Saloon. I then lived in Church Road and spent much time in the rec, ...read more here
Contributed by IVOR BAILEY

Fish and Chips

I remember very well Smarts fish and chips. Soaked in malt vinagar and wrapped in news paper. Hot and smelling so good.

I remember well Mr and Mrs Pellerade, I wished they were my parents because they were such kind and nice folks.

I remember Mrs Pellerade had a china cup, held up to the light and the face of a lady would appear.

I remember Mrs Pellerade had a Hoover, I had never seen one before and the noise frightened me.

I hope Sandra and Margo, are well and happy, I remember you both very well.

Contributed by jackie Baker

Smart's Fish Saloon.

Re Smart's Fish Saloon. My parents Peter and Wyn Pellerade owned this from 1952 to the early 60s when it was demolished to make room for flats. The site never got used but has recently been developed into a doctors surgery. This was in the ancient rights of Bishopstoke, the original post office. It was a beautiful 4 bedroom cottage with the shop space of three rooms on the side.
Contributed by Mrs M Holloway

Nurse Emery and Caretaker Collis

I remember Nurse Emery on her pushbike delivering both of my brothers at home.  We lived in St Mary's Road, behind the church.
I also went to Bishopstoke infants school and was duly frightened by the caretaker, a Mr Collis with a built up boot on his foot - scared me half to death when I was a kid.
Miss Starr was my teacher, she also taught my 2 brothers and then later on taught my two eldest sons.
My grandfather also told me that in the Mount grounds there was a plant or a tree taken from every country in the world........anyone else hear this?
Contributed by Lindsay Cossey

Nanny Blake/Baker

Spring Lane where Edith Baker lived and helped with the birth of many of Bishopstoke's babies.

I would love to receive stories of her.
Contributed by jackie baker

KNIGHT'S DAIRIES

I Have just found out that my great grandfather owned dairies in Bishopstoke and that Benny Hill worked for him. I am 61 now, and have lost the majority of older relatives, that there is so much I would like to find out, but no-one to ask. I was actually brought up in Nightingale Avenue, but my dad was a Stoke boy.

Contributed by JACQUELINE JACKSON

Bathing in the River

Montague terrace was home to many children. I remember the Allen's, John, June, Barry, Hazel, Ivan & Valerie. The White's, Maurice and Barbara, The William,s and Smith,s, Joan, Roy, Margaret, Jeffrey, and at least three younger ones. Plus Pauline Sollet, Valerie & Johnnie Butt. We all played in the road outside of Andrews Hardware shop. I was born on the top floor of that shop and my grandparents Harry and Lucy Andrews owned it. My mum was Joan who also lived and worked in the shop.
We, the children, spent the summers paddling in the river which had a concrete base and was shallow in summertime. Us older ones would go down river a little and swin through 'the ...read more here
Contributed by Barbara R Bryan