Nostalgic memories of Bishopstoke's local history
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For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.
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Jacqueline Jackson, if you read this email me please waxrose@me.com Would your great grandfather be a Harry Hann? He was the owner of Dorset Dairies next to my birthplace in Factory Road, Eastleigh. I went to school in Chamberlayne Road, Eastleigh in 1941-48 and Peter Symonds, Winchester in 1948-1953 with Harry senior's sons, Harry jnr and his older brother James (later Sir James, CEO of Scottish Nuclear and ...see more
G & G Wellman had the Anchor Inn before The Leigh Hotel.
Barbara Brian. I loved reading your memories of Montague Terrace and I thank you for them. Were you the young Miss Andrews that rode that posh bicycle and lived behind the shop and did your dad at times teach tap dancing in the shop store that had large placards built against it? I remember Mr Andrews very well, a little man that wore a sports jacket, cap and glasses. I may have the wrong Miss ...see more
I Have just found out that my great grandfather owned dairies in Bishopstoke and that Benny Hill worked for him. I am 61 now, and have lost the majority of older relatives, that there is so much I would like to find out, but no-one to ask. I was actually brought up in Nightingale Avenue, but my dad was a Stoke boy.
Montague terrace was home to many children. I remember the Allen's, John, June, Barry, Hazel, Ivan & Valerie. The White's, Maurice and Barbara, The William,s and Smith,s, Joan, Roy, Margaret, Jeffrey, and at least three younger ones. Plus Pauline Sollet, Valerie & Johnnie Butt. We all played in the road outside of Andrews Hardware shop. I was born on the top floor of that shop and my grandparents ...see more
I remember Nurse Emery on her pushbike delivering both of my brothers at home. We lived in St Mary's Road, behind the church. I also went to Bishopstoke infants school and was duly frightened by the caretaker, a Mr Collis with a built up boot on his foot - scared me half to death when I was a kid. Miss Starr was my teacher, she also taught my 2 brothers and then later on taught my two eldest ...see more
Spring Lane where Edith Baker lived and helped with the birth of many of Bishopstoke's babies. I would love to receive stories of her.
Ref: Smarts Fish Saloon, Bishopstoke - it was as a boy in the early forties that we visited this shop to buy fish and chips and more often to buy a pennyworth of scraps which sometimes had a few chips in with them. At that time we had to take our own paper to wrap them in. We then took them to the old churchyard to the large yew tree with a wooden seat underneath and finished them off. I ...see more
I remember very well Smarts fish and chips. Soaked in malt vinagar and wrapped in news paper. Hot and smelling so good. I remember well Mr and Mrs Pellerade, I wished they were my parents because they were such kind and nice folks. I remember Mrs Pellerade had a china cup, held up to the light and the face of a lady would appear. I remember Mrs Pellerade had a Hoover, I had never seen one before and the noise ...see more
Re Smart's Fish Saloon. My parents Peter and Wyn Pellerade owned this from 1952 to the early 60s when it was demolished to make room for flats. The site never got used but has recently been developed into a doctors surgery. This was in the ancient rights of Bishopstoke, the original post office. It was a beautiful 4 bedroom cottage with the shop space of three rooms on the side.