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Family Connections.
My late husband's father and uncle owned the grocery shop known as Hook Brothers. This shop was forced to close when Barclays Bank took over the building in the early 1960s. The closure meant that links were severed with noted local residents such as the Mountbatten family at Broadlands.
A memory of Romsey in 1955 by
Broadlads Estate
My grandfather farmed Bushey Leazes farm on the Broadlands estate until his retirement. I loved that farm, playing in hay lofts, milking the cows, they had guard geese that would come down the long lane from the farm and not let you ...Read more
A memory of Romsey in 1949 by
Schooling
We moved from Chelmsford to Radcliffe in 1968 - I was 2 years old. I went to Lorne Grove Nursery and my memory of that was the Rocking Horse Toy. I hated sharing it!! I was about 3 or 4 and I remember being so upset at being taken ...Read more
A memory of Radcliffe on Trent by
The Lees Of Callow End
My father's mother's family (Lee or Lea) lived in a cottage called Brook House, near Broadlands Farm. We have a picture of Brook House painted in about 1910, in which it seems as if the cottage may have been part of the ...Read more
A memory of Callow End by
Eric & Nellie Olding
James....... it was Eric & Nellie Olding that lived in Salisbury Buildings. His Brother Jimmy lived in Beechwood Avenue and then Broadlands Avenue.
A memory of Waterlooville by
The Passing Of Trixie Olding.
Mabel (Trixie) Olding passed away on the 14th January 2012 at Two Beeches Nursing Home Wallis Road, Waterlooville at nearly 96 years of age. Prior to her being admitted to Two Beeches NH, Trixie lived for many ...Read more
A memory of Waterlooville by
Hopfields
I lived at the RN & RM Children's Home, "Hopfields", Stakes Hill Road, from 1951-57, attending Waterlooville Primary, Stakes Hill Road, transferring to Cowplain Secondary Girls in 1952. My two younger brothers, Matthew and ...Read more
A memory of Waterlooville in 1951 by
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My parents moved to Enfield in 1936 when I was 6 years old. we lived in Norfolk Rd Ponders End. I loved Saturday Minors at the Picture Palace ( The Plaza ) seeing Buck Jones the cowboy and ...Read more
A memory of Enfield by
The Farm On Broad Lane
I was four years old and lived with mum in a caravan parked in this farmer's field along with other caravaners. Mum and dad would have paid rent to the owner of the farm. I was the only youngster around and had no choice ...Read more
A memory of Burtonwood in 1959
A Memory Of Westbury Village 1
The two principal grocery shops in Westbury village, as it was still usually called, in the late 1950s and early 1960s were the Co-operative grocery by the corner of Church Road -- the Co-operative butcher on ...Read more
A memory of Westbury on Trym in 1957 by
Captions
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While there was still plenty of sailing, by the mid fifties pleasure cruisers were a well-established part of the scenery on Broadland rivers.
Holiday cottages line the bank, and in the background is a typical Broadland windpump, used for keeping the surrounding fields drained.
Rowing and sailing boats on the reed-fringed River Bure make a typical scene of Broadland tranquillity.
A tranquil evening scene showing the peace and solitude to be found in broadland as a yachtsman prepares for the night.
This reed-fringed part of the Bure and its riverside inn is typical of Broadland.
By the time this photograph was taken trading wherries were extinct, but a few built for pleasure still sailed the Broadland waterways.
This is one of the most popular of the Broadland river inns, equally accessible by road or river.
Horning is one of the prettiest villages in Broadland: almost all the houses along the river have waterways and boathouses of their own.
An enormous horse-chestnut tree dominates this photograph of a typical Broadland village: reed cutting is still carried out here.
Here we see a typical Broadland brick tower drainage mill.
Situated to the south of the town, overlooking the Test, Broadlands is an imposing porticoed house remodelled in classical style by 'Capability' Brown and John Holland in the mid 18th century.
Broadland is strewn with relics of previous ages.
The bridge has endured the excesses of the Broadland waters for many centuries, yet it required continual repairs and bolstering up - buttresses have been added to keep it in service.
Ludham sits on 'high' ground, which in Broadland can be just a few feet above sea level.
Ludham sits on 'high' ground, which in Broadland can be just a few feet above sea level.
Hoveton is one of the centres of Broadland, and is crowded in the summer months.
Broadland is strewn with relics of previous ages.
Set in the heart of Broadland, it has been called 'Little Venice'.
Boats have been available for hire in Broadland since at least the 1880s, and motor launches first became available in the years following the First World War.
At Hickling, where the Broadland waters fan into expansive shallows, there is a pleasing jumble of red tiled and thatched buildings clustering around the old Pleasure Boat Inn.
Set in the heart of Broadland, it has been called 'little Venice', with soft green lawns spreading down to the water's edge.
Built of local oak, the gaff-rigged wherry was precisely designed for Broadland conditions, and fleets of them once plied between Yarmouth and Norwich.
If you feel energetic, a climb to the roof of the tower will reward you with a magnificent view over broadland.
In these days, square-rigged trading wherries such as this one plied the Broadland waterways carrying all manner of goods, from grain and flour to coal and timber.
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