Station Road Early 1950s
A Memory of New Milton.
The Town Library was located across the road from Burgess' news agent/bookstore, the source of my Tiger and Eagle weekly comics - as a young library member I plowed my way along the Biggles Air Ace library shelves, and through the Enid Blighton's Adventure series which my brothers also shared with me - these books sparked our young imaginations and no doubt were the inspiration of many of our adventures - I don't remember a public washroom anywhere, but there was a WW2 brick and concrete bomb shelter in front of the library, a real eye-sore - as a kid I was dared, and I went inside but it stank of things better not described, and was a repository of every broken bottle in town - later on the shelter was sealed up and eventually broken up and removed. I once saw a wartime report of German fighter planes strafing the town, so that shelter may have seen proper use.
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