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Home of Gt.Grandparents
This is May Cottages and the home of my gt.grandparents James and Jane Childs. James was a shepherd on the Adhust Estate for John Bonham Carter and Jane looked after the sick and the poor here for 36 years. She also raised 6 of her own children including my grandfather William Childs.
Hampshire memories
Bowyers
I lived at Bowyers in Steep Marsh for five years and ran Country Riding Stables with my parents. We had 20 horses and ponies and I taught so many children to ride. They were really happy days and even now I regret giving it all up and moving on. I tried to find SteepMarsh on my way home from Portsmouth last year and it has all changed so much I did not recognised it. I just could not find the village at all. i loved to ride up over the hill at the back of Mrs Blackers Farm. We used the broiler houses opposite Bowyers to house the horses in the winter. We also rented a small field called venables on the other side of the village. i would love to know if any of this still remains after all these years. Does anyone remember Country Riding Stable??? ritahay@talktalk.net
Churcher's College - Petersfield
I was a at school as a boarder at Churcher's College from 1945 to 1951. The immediate post war years in England were a time of great hardship and rationing. I remember vividly the bad winter of 1947, when Heath Pond froze over and we all went ice skating on it. I remember the hilarious scenes of ducks trying to land on the ice and skidding out of control. The following are a portion of my memoirs of life at Churcher's during that period.
CHAPTER THREE
School Years - Churcher’s College - 1945 - 1951
In September of 1945 mother and I travelled down to Petersfield so she could enroll me in school. Churcher’s College was founded in 1722 by the will of a Richard Churcher who made his fortune in the East India Company and left money to educate a number of boys in the Village of Petersfield. His very specific intentions were expressed in his Will. The College was to provide free board and lodging... Read more
Family Connections to Steep Going Back to 1708
Having researched my family history I was expecting that most of my family were from Bepton and Midhurst, however whilst several family members were laid to rest in Bepton churchyard, I have found that in fact we have long standing family links with Steep from the 1920s going back to Abraham PIERSON in 1708. Virtually all our family have been PIERSONS though some married local girls so there are of course links to other families. Dan PIERSON married in 1913 and then joined HMS Bulwark when the First World War broke out. It seems that in 1914 whilst loading ammunition at Sheerness in Kent the whole ship exploded and there was a terrible loss of life. I am keen to find out more about Steep, where the streets and houses were and of course the PIERSON family who have been there for more than 200 years. If anybody has any old photos of the village in Victorian times or perhaps knew somebody called Pierson I would be very glad to... Read more
Liss Infant School
I remember nothing of the school except the day a German plane flew low over the playground. The teachers quickly got us under cover but I could see my mother standing out in a field in a yellow rain hat. I did not know at the time that my father had seen the plane coming in low to strafe us and had run to an anti-aircraft gun (a bren gun?) in a vain attempt to shoot it down. He was at Longmoor Camp. Does anyone else remember this and did the playground actually get shot up? We only stayed in Liss for a short time. We were in a guest house or boarding house I think. The year would have been about 1942-43 as I would have started school only a short time before.
I do hope someone will read this and be able to clarify the school incident. I had a war full of such incidents and would like to get them into order and written down... Read more
Vicarage Evacuee 1939-1945
When I was 3 years old, it was the beginning of the Second World War. My parents lived in busy warfilled, threatened Portsmouth, and decided that I would be safer far away. My mother had joined the WRENS and my father was required to work rather than be called up. So at age 3, I was sent to the Vicarage at Buriton and I stayed there until the war ended when I was 9 years old.
Swiss Cottage
My Grandparents lived in Swiss Cottage for many years. We used to stay there as children. When we first went there was no electricity and limited water. We had to go to bed with oil lamps and all food was cooked on the Aga in the kitchen. I loved it there. My sister and I would spend hours wandering in the Queen Elizabeth Forest. We also spent a lot of time feeding the pigs in the pig farm at the end of the garden.The house was actually two houses the (I don,t know if it is still.) We didn.t like the house next door as much as my grandparents. It was a geat place to visit and I wish that they had stayed. Magical.
