Church Crookham
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Andover Town Walk Guide
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Southampton Photographic Memories
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Winchester Photographic Memories
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Claremont - Aldershot Road
The house on the right hand side of this picture was called Claremont. We lived
there in the early 60s. There were two cottages to the side. In one of those cottages lived a girl called Elizabeth Holland, she used to babysit us. They had the most wonderful vegetable garden. We had fires in all the rooms, but also had paraffin heaters. I would go to the garage which you can just make out in this photo to buy paraffin. The Verne was just to the left. This was a most exciting walk, as there was a newsagents where I could buy comics, Bunty, Judy and Princess. The butcher shop always had bones for the dogs. Further on down Aldershot Road ...read more here
Contributed by jane webb-sankey
Hampshire memories
Claremont - Aldershot Road
The house on the right hand side of this picture was called Claremont. We lived
there in the early 60s. There were two cottages to the side. In one of those cottages lived a girl called Elizabeth Holland, she used to babysit us. They had the most wonderful vegetable garden. We had fires in all the rooms, but also had paraffin heaters. I would go to the garage which you can just make out in this photo to buy paraffin. The Verne was just to the left. This was a most exciting walk, as there was a newsagents where I could buy comics, Bunty, Judy and Princess. The butcher shop always had bones for the dogs. Further on down Aldershot Road ...read more here
A memory of Church Crookham contributed by jane webb-sankey
Addition to Cove in wartime
The two stores at the bridge across from West Heath Farm run by Jim Blunden (who had a daughter Pam Blunden) were stores we frequented every Friday, namely the one next to the railway track. This was run by Kath Owen. Her husband had been killed during military exercises in Aldershot, but Kath continued to run Owens Sweet Shop. I remember we used to buy bags of sherbert and suck it out with a licorice straw. Does anyone else remember going to Owens Sweet Shop? My name back then was Anne Ainsley, and I lived at The White House, 16 Minley Rd.
A memory of Cove contributed by Anne Terry
The Village
Going ‘down the village’ pretty much referred to the stretch of Cove Road, between Hazel Avenue and Marrowbrooke Lane, where most of the shops were. Once upon a time Cove must have been the typical English village: two houses, three pubs and a church. The ‘Tradesman’s Arms’, the ‘Anchor’ and the ‘Alma’ were all together, right beside the vicarage and St Christopher’s church. The two houses must have fallen down in the interval because the pubs and the vicarage looked older that anything else around. The church was odd because it looked very recent and I always wondered if there had once been an older building on the site.
Along one side of the Tradesmans Arms there was a ...read more here
A memory of Cove contributed by Alan Hickman
Extracts From Church Crookham & Hampshire books
The name of the
bridge reflects the
local trade which once
existed in the area
and, as in 60080 (page
84), the level nature of
the towpath was an
attraction for walkers
100 years ago, as it was
for cyclists. This part
of the canal is also
popular with anglers.
An extract from from"Farnborough, Fleet and Aldershot".
The premises of Mellersh & Son, grocers, can be seen over on the left of this picture. Note the rather rough surface of the road at Church Crookham. This was not uncommon at that time; although cars were on the increase, many roads were still little more than broad tracks.
An extract from from"Hampshire Revisited Photographic Memories".
The top-hatted
gentleman on his
cart is thought to
be Mr May, known
as ‘Cabby’, who
was presumably
seeking customers
for his horse and
trap. The scene
today has been
transformed by
the construction
of a roundabout to
ease traffic flow.
An extract from from"Farnborough, Fleet and Aldershot".
The church was built in 1840-1 to serve the needs of a growing population at a time when the nearest church was three
miles away in Crondall. It cost £3,351 to build, over a quarter of which was raised by local people, the remainder being
supplied by the local gentry.
An extract from from"Farnborough, Fleet and Aldershot".
Left takes you to Fleet and right to Farnham. Is the lady going to catch a bus to Farnham? The first car on the left seems to be parked on the bend; the driver might have got away with this in 1960, but today this would be highly irresponsible. On both sides of the road the white lines seem to go past the central reservation – this would not be so today.
An extract from from"Hampshire Living Memories".