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Growing Up In Fareham
I was born in Brighton Sussex. After travelling from station to station, as my father was in the RAF (I'll miss out that part of the story), My mother Eileen,sister Shirley & I moved to Fareham after the 2nd WW, I was 9 yrs ...Read more
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Training
I went to Blackdown 4/12/52, went home for Christmas, finished ny 6 weeks training then moved to Bicesta before going on to the canal zone in July. The digs in Blackdown were great, I enjoyed my time there.
A memory of Deepcut in 1952
Does Does Anyone Remember Me? I Lived On Alta Road
We used to live at number 20 (next to the junior school), there was myself, Geoff, Geraldine, Liz my siblings and my mum and dad, my dad was called Kenneth Douglas and was a WW2 warrant officer, my ...Read more
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Going To School In The Abbey
I was lucky enough to pass the 11+ and attend the Ramsey Abbey Grammar School, What a picturesque place to be educated, although 11 year old children did not necessarily appreciate it. Going into the main building always ...Read more
A memory of Ramsey in 1951 by
Heolddu Comprehensive School.
I attended Heolddu Comprehensive school from September 1980 to May 1985. For the first two years I was going to the one that was in Park Cresent, formally known as Bargoed grammar school. Mr Keri Edwards was the head ...Read more
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Radlett Prep
I attended Radlett Prep between 1958 and 1965. It was located in a converted three floored Edwardian house on the corner of Hillside Avenue and Aldenham Grove, and has since been converted back to a private residence. Aldenham Grove was ...Read more
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Memories Of Parsons/ Blackdown/Deepcut/ And Chilwell Barracks
I was stationed at Parsons barracks for two weeks before we moved to Blackdown camp for basic training. I did a course on office work and did touch typing which lasted for ten weeks. During ...Read more
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Blackdown Camp 1928 Searchlights
I have photos taken in the late 20s at Blackdown of my father Sapper Claude Harper. He was a 'mechanical engineer ' and twenty two years old, he later went over to France in 1939 with the BEF, any info would be gratefully acknowledged.
A memory of Deepcut in 1920 by
Deepcut Village
This image is actually taken from Deepcut Bridge Road, around the junction of Woodend Road, with the barracks away to the left. Blackdown Road is a few hundred yards behind the photographer here. The shops in view are now a hairdressers, and fast food places!
A memory of Frimley
1953 Raoc
i done three months training in almer barracks blackdown concrete building in march 1953 i remember a sergeant swanson but not much more there was a camp picture house i remember watching james cagney in the roaring twenties we also go ...Read more
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Blackdown Camp - now Blackdown Barracks - is at Deepcut on the high heathland north of the Basingstoke Canal.
Blackdown is a great sandstone hill 918 feet high, and Blackdown House is a Tudor-style manor house of 1640.
Blackdown is a great sandstone hill 918 feet high, and Blackdown House is a Tudor-style manor house of 1640.
Wellington, about ten miles south-west of Taunton at the foot of the Blackdown Hills, is an attractive market town with its focus where South, Fore and High Streets meet.
Here we can see clearly the banded masonry along the south front, which was designed to impress, and the Eagle Tower, the Queen's Tower, the Chamberlain's Tower, and the Black Tower.
This old tower windmill is on Old Windmill Hill between Blackdown Barracks and Elizabeth Barracks in Deepcut and Pirbright Camps.
One of the huts of Blackdown Camp, with a group of soldiers and a bowler-hatted civilian.
The summit of Blackdown is several hundred feet above sea level, but it has strong connections with our maritime history.
Tucked away under the hills of Hindhead and Blackdown, and close to the edge of the county, this little village was the home of the novelist George Eliot, who wrote much of Middlemarch here in 1871.
One was the gap between the Blackdown and Brendon Hills, and the other was the coastal route, which used the old ford at Axmouth; this was part of the Roman Fosse Way, which ran all the way to Lincoln.
Tucked away in the hills of Hindhead and Blackdown, and close to the edge of the county, this little village was the home of the novelist George Eliot, who wrote much of 'Middlemarch' here in 1871
Yarcombe is situated in a beautiful fold of the Blackdown Hills, one of the least spoiled parts of East Devon.
One was the gap between the Blackdown and Brendon Hills, and the other was the coastal route, which used the old ford at Axmouth; this was part of the Roman Fosse Way, which ran all the way to Lincoln.
This unusual picture shows the interior of one of the army buildings at Blackdown Camp.
As a break from a succession of market towns, the route heads north-west to Buckland St Mary, situated just north of the A303 and at the east end of the well-wooded Blackdown Hills.
In the mid 19th century the wealthy Rev John Lance built himself a large vicarage and replaced the small 15th-century church with one so large that it was nicknamed the 'Cathedral of the Blackdown Hills
From there they fall away in a picturesque series of steps, rising again to the same level as Leith Hill at Hindhead and Black Down.
