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Born in Little London

Little London, Old Houses c1955 Ref: H235007

Little London, Old Houses c1955
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I was born in Salisbury Hospital in August 1953, my parents lived in Little London, Heytesbury until 1955 when we moved to a new bungalow in Newtown, Heytesbury. The house we lived in is on the left looking at the photo pass the wall to the Vicarage.

A memory of Heytesbury, shared by Steve Sharpe.

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Living in Newtown, Heytesbury

Newtown c1955
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Having lived in Little London, Heytesbury for the first 2 years of my life in 1955 we moved to a brand new bungalow in Newtow, Heytesbury (on opposite side of road to houses shown). The houses shown in this picture were all built by the Heytesbury Estate and were sold off over a number of years. At the time this picture was taken they had no bathrooms or inside toilets.

A memory of Heytesbury, shared by Steve Sharpe.

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Race You to The Water

Lake Pleasure Ground c1965
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I am ordering a copy of this picture to send to my dear childhood friend, Peta Fenner. Peta celebrates her 50th birthday soon and it is quite possible that both her and I are in the photo. We would spend many days of our summer holidays playing in the paddling pool. The big pool was always cold and swamped with older children and we would have to build up courage to venture there. Our childhood was filled with laughter. We would giggle at anything and everything. From peering through the holes in the wood partitions separating the cubicles at the end of the pool. To laughing at how courting teenagers behaved. I remember us nearly wetting ourselves laughing at dog ends and kinky boots. We once dared each other to wear our swimming hats through the town on our homeward journey from the park. Not a good idea as we both had long hair and removing the rubber hats later was very... Read more

A memory of Warminster, shared by Christine Mabbett.

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Warminster 1963

When I was 18 years old, back in that horrible winter of 1963, I used to live for a while with my aunt and uncle, Norah and Pat Kelly, who ran The Weymouth Arms in Warminster. At that time they were also involved in the running of another pub in Warminster called The Globe or Old Globe. I used to walk there every day, open the pub up, set the coal fire going, do any cellar work required etc and serve all of the smashing old codgers with their cider. By this time the fire was nice and hot and so was the poker that they used to mull their pints with. As you may imagine I have very fond memories of this old pub and have tried to find it on the net no luck, no luck that is until today when I found a pub called The Snooty Fox, this place looks like how I remember the globe and would dearly love to think that I have... Read more

A memory of Warminster, shared by Ted Cole.

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Crickets & Formaldehyde

Longleat House c1955
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My mother lived in Warminster as a child and had lots of friends in the area. One worked at Longleat and she lived in what was called 'The Inkwell House' in the grounds. We went for tea. There were lots of very strange things pickled in jars & they weren't onions! The long grass outside was full of crickets. What happened to crickets in England and what happened to my mother's friend and the ink well house?

A memory of Warminster, shared by Penelope Welch.

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