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Re Bodenham village
Our Gould family moved from Buggs Farm to Bodenham and lived next door to the Post Office in a long row of cottages that can still be seen from the main road. They must have moved somewhen shortly after 1901, g granny was still living there in the late 1920s. One of the sons, Horace was working on a farm or farmed at Odstock in 1923 or thereabouts. Do you have any recollections of the family? G Grandad died in 1923.Our 2nd cousin ( her father and Horace were brothers) aged 86 yrs, clearly remembers staying with Granny, and we have photographs taken of them outside the front door, Granny in long skirts down to here ankles. Posted: 29/10/2008 20:05 by Sheila Pack |
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Year: 1930s
My Family
My father's family lived in Charlton from the late 1880s to the mid 1900s. My grandfather was a shepherd & after farm foreman for a Mr Charles Reid whose brother Bertie also had a large farm in the Charlton area. The village had a school which I attended in my early years & a village shop & bakery also selling haberdashery, my cousin Dorothy Dorothy West worked there. The baker was a Mr Duffy, the owner of the shop was a Mr Hodges. I was in the church choir. The vicar was a Mr Winterton & by the vicarage you could cut through to the Trafalgar Estate across beautiful meadows, in the meadow there was a lovely walnut tree where you could gather nuts when in season. There was also a pub & blacksmith. My father, also William Goodridge, left in 1909,serving in the Royal Marines for 22yrs and came back again in 1931. He had a house built called "Medina", named after a ship he served on. It was on the border of Bodenham & Charlton on the Bournemouth road. My memories start from then. I was 5yrs old. I loved the country having come from Portsmouth. I later went to Bishop Wordsworth School in Salisbury & eventually setteled in Havant in 1968 after spending most of life in the Royal Marine & Royal Military Police. I hope these memories will be shared by others of around my generation I am now 62yrs young & a great-grandad. Last edited: 15/04/2008 08:52 by Roy Goodridge |
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