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Sopley, Dorset
Sopley maps
Historic maps of Sopley and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Sopley maps
Historic map of Sopley
Illustrated Victorian map of Dorset
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Sopley books
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Around Eastleigh including Chandler's Ford, Bishopstoke and Botley Living Memories
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Hampshire Living Memories
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Hampshire Revisited Photographic Memories
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2 Sopley photos appear in 1 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Sopley
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RAF Sopley was very special. My station from July 1957 Till June of 1959. The post office in Bransgore was aspecial place for all airmen. The cat and fiddle, as well as the crown were special meeting places. My vist in September to the Station inasmuch with permission from Sue, I walked the site many of the old buildings in place.... [more]
Shared on 04 November 2007
Dorset memories
I loved this charming village, I remember the 'fishmonger' and the 'greengrocer' bringing their wares from door to door with their 'horsedrawn' carts (yes, even in 1956). I used to walk her dog with auntie Joan to this very post office to mail letters and get 'bits and pieces". Auntie Joan always loved the small country places, she... [more]
Shared on 16 November 2007
The Post Office brings back many happy memories. In 1954 to 1957 I served in the RAF at Sopley. Some of us would walk to the Post Office to send letters home & meet friends we had made in the village. If anyone remembers the good times we had...
Thankyou. - B Haywood
Shared on 07 August 2006
How lovely to find some photographs of The Flying G, but I am surprised that there are no other comments when so many people went there. I went there twice, once in 1966 and again in 1967. The first time I was studying at St Godric's in London and Maureen Smith was going there in the holidays. She was a very... [more]
Shared on 24 February 2009
I was born in a bungalow on the corner of Coxstone Lane in 1962 and my nanny lived in a thatched cottage called Brookside in Coxstone Lane. I had some very dear friends on that lane, I would love to know what happened to them all.
Shared on 27 June 2008
I rember walking up to the High Street as a small child, there was a shop, I think it was a hardware or ironmongers, at Christmas time the shop was always lit with lovely fairy lights. There was also a supermarket called Pricerights and another shop called Coxs and Hicks which sold a full range of clothes and soft furnishings, wool,... [more]
Shared on 27 June 2008
My mum Barbara Wiltshire [nee Pritchard] was brouhgt up here with her 11 brothers and sisters. She is always reminding us that she had to walk 3 miles to school and one of her brothers used to bunk off and hide in the woods until it was time to come home, sadly she has dementia now, which took hold of many... [more]
Shared on 02 September 2008
Having lived at Downton from 1958, I grew up opposite Downton Holiday Camp.
My father owned the builders next to the pub and I bought my first car at the garage 2 doors to the right. Somewhen in the mid 1960s I met the new landlady's daughter, Diane! Well, despite the age gap (I was about 7 and she was 15-ish)... [more]
Shared on 06 May 2009
Extracts From Sopley & Dorset books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Sopley, inspired by Frith photos.
New Forest Photographic Memories
Sopley probably gets its name from soc leag: land granted the right to hold a court of socmen. The sign above the inn says that Louisa Brinson is 'licensed to sell beer, wines, spirits and tobacco'.
This is an extract from New Forest Photographic Memories.
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New Forest Photographic Memories
Standing on a little hilltop, Sopley Church overlooks the course of the Avon. The building was established in 1270; just inside the doorway are stone carvings of the local squire and his wife, who endowed this lovely place of worship.
This is an extract from New Forest Photographic Memories.
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Petersfield - A History & Celebration
The cenotaph in the High Street commemorates those who died in battle but whose remains lie elsewhere. It is of unusual and classic appearance; it was designed by the architect Harry Inigo Triggs, who had travelled and studied in Italy. The detailing is borrowed from the eight blank panels in the Medici chapel in Florence; on these panels are carved the names of the town's dead of the First World... [more]
This is an extract from Petersfield - A History & Celebration.
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