Selborne
We lived on the outskirts of selborne, my parents and three brothers and sister, at Lower Noar Hill Farm and Homestead Farm. My great-grandparents, grandparents and parents farmed the land between Selborne Common and Noar Hill for more than 70 years. Before us it was the Ganders, who later emigrated to Canada for health reasons. My other grandparents lived in Goslings Croft in the village.
My father was secretary of the Selborne Cricket Club for more than 20 years and actively involved in the youth club and parish council. My grandparents delivered milk by horse and cart to the villagers in the 40s and 50s. In our time there was the greengrocers owned by Grace and Roy Hayward, and of course Bubbles in the middle of the village. Mr Gallop was the butcher and in the early days there was I believe also a 'supermarket' in what became in my days the antique shop near the Plestor. I opened my first PO savings account in the PO (and bookshop) opposite the Queens Hotel.
As children we had the run of all the area, Noar Hill common; Selborne Common, the village, and had enormous fun on the zig-zag, the Big Slide (for those who know), the bottle dump, the river etc. What bliss which today probably doesn't exist for children of today with parents afraid of everything.
Most of my deceased family are buried in the churchyard at St Marys, great grandparents, grandparents (maternal and paternal), uncle (Waller, Buddin, Sargent).
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RE: RE: Selborne
we have lived at lower noar hill farm for the past twenty years and would love to hear more of your childhood memories
Comment from Jacqueline Lipscombe on Sunday, 14th December 2008.
RE: RE: Selborne
I'm Carolyn's sister and have very fond memories of Lower Noar Hill Farm and Homestead farm where we grew up. I was born in 1960 (there's a picture of me as a babe being held by my parents in front of the front door, as it was then, of Lower Noar Hill Farm). We lived at Lower Noar Hill Farm and grand parents (dad's parents) at Homestead Farm just across the road.
We sold LNHF in 1974 and built a new house at Homestead from which we moved in 1977.
My parents have stacks of photos from the '60's onwards of the farms which one day will be digitised (I hope).
I had my bedroom in the hip whose window looked at over towards Homesteads. Downstairs, directly underneath my bedroom was the kitchen, hall with bathroom, dining room and living room separated by a large chimney and bread oven. The front door was in the passage between these two rooms.
Comment from David Waller on Friday, 9th January 2009.
RE: RE: Selborne
I went with my cousin to see Selborne recently and what a lovely old village it is. Our ancestors, the Bicknells, came from Selborne and we hoped to find Bicknells still living there, our ancesters were living in Blackmore. In the churchyard the first gravestone was a Bicknell, then we went to the Selborne Arms and there was a painting on the wall of a Bicknell, and one of the locals (whose family apparently went back to the fifteenth century in Selborne) told us that apparently he was still alive and frequented the Selborne Arms so we hope to go back there some day and hope we can meet him, apparently he is quite a character as he looks in the painting. I hope to hear from someone who knew or knows a Bicknell.
Comment from Ann Tedder on Wednesday, 4th November 2009.