Ludgershall
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My parents were married here
My parents were married here in August 1953. My mother was raised in the area; my father was in the RAF and had been brought up in the RAF, so had travelled widely.
Contributed by Shirley Davis
Spray Leaze
We moved to Ludgershall, this street (No 5, third house down) in 1975. My father was with the MOD and worked in the REME workshop in Ordnance Road in Tidworth. By then the road although still a close, was much longer than it shows here with lots more houses. As a boy it was a great place to grow up, as you were right on the edge of the country side with so much to do. There was a triangle of unused land just a bit further down Biddesden Lane which we knew as the common. Each autumn we would build a bonfire to compete with the huge one that was built each year at Wood Park for November 5th.
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Contributed by daren wilson
Hampshire memories
Spray Leaze
We moved to Ludgershall, this street (No 5, third house down) in 1975. My father was with the MOD and worked in the REME workshop in Ordnance Road in Tidworth. By then the road although still a close, was much longer than it shows here with lots more houses. As a boy it was a great place to grow up, as you were right on the edge of the country side with so much to do. There was a triangle of unused land just a bit further down Biddesden Lane which we knew as the common. Each autumn we would build a bonfire to compete with the huge one that was built each year at Wood Park for November 5th.
read more here
A memory of Ludgershall contributed by daren wilson
My parents were married here
My parents were married here in August 1953. My mother was raised in the area; my father was in the RAF and had been brought up in the RAF, so had travelled widely.
A memory of Ludgershall contributed by Shirley Davis
Extracts From Ludgershall & Hampshire books
This was a favourite hunting lodge of Henry III. Royal requirements were that a number of additional domestic buildings were erected, including apartments for the queen, the king’s son and heir, and members of the household. King John ordered new kitchens to be built both here and at Marlborough. ‘In each kitchen shall be made a hearth for the cooking of two or three oxen’.
An extract from from"English Castles".
This is a typical lodge house
of the Ailesbury Estate variety;
it bears Gothic features such
as the ornate barge-boards
and detailing to the eaves.
This lodge has fish-scale tiles
that were popular in the later
19th century. Labourers work-
ing nearby have obviously
been drafted in to add a rustic
charm to the picture.
An extract from from"Marlborough Photographic Memories".
This fine old 17th-
century farmhouse, built
in a mixture of materials,
stone, brick, tile-hanging
and long straw thatch,
is typical of the area
around Marlborough.
It was known as Brown’s
by 1718. By the middle
of the 20th century it
was being used as an
outhouse, and it was
demolished in 1961–2
to make way for more
modern farm buildings.
An extract from from"Marlborough Photographic Memories".
We are looking towards
Back Lane. This is a street
mainly of 16th- or 17th-
century timber-framed
cottages. In the garden of
No 2, on the bottom left of
the picture, a plague pit was
found with the remains of
five skeletons, a legacy of
the Black Death in 1348-
9. The lady wearing a flat
cap looks like she means business!
An extract from from"Marlborough Photographic Memories".
Thought to have
been built in the late
17th century, this fine
old mill house, once one
of ten in the Ramsbury
area, was turned into
a dwelling as late as
the 1960s. Now called
Moon’s Mill, it was
previously known
as Upper Mill in the
18th century, Gibbs’
Mill, and Edwards Mill in
the mid 19th century.
An extract from from"Marlborough Photographic Memories".