Bordon, The Wood 1919

Photo ref: 68815

Voilà je m'appelle Maryse Bossard née Simon. J'habite en France. Exactement en Normandie. En 1972 nous avons reçu des correspondants anglais venant de l’école de Bordon. Moi j'étais à l’école de Condé sur Vire. J’ai reçu Deidre Gibson J’ai un souvenir inoubliable de cette petite fille. Elle était adorable. Mes parents avaient une petite ferme. Elle adorait les animaux. Moi aussi je suis allée à ...see more

I lived at the address which was the house on the corner of hogmoor Road and Station Road. The house was wood not tin as stated and was painted cream. Corrals coal were the owners and a coal yard was at the rear of the house,. . adjacent on hogmoor Road were sheds which were used for the garage of the 2 lorries of corrals. In the corner of the house was a cafe referred to as dirty mags. In about 1948 a tank of the 3dg,s ...see more

On this corner, where there’s now a pair of detached bungalows built, there used to be in the 1960s/70s a purple/red tin building which was called The Penny Cafe. Further down Hogmoor Road was a coach firm run by Mr Brown. He operated the school buses around the villages to take children to Mill Chase, Bordon Junior School in Budds Lane and Bordon Infants School in ...see more

Teachers in the 1970s Mr Pearson - an elderly man whose dentures moved around in his mouth when he spoke. He was great fun and shared his family cinefilms with us during the lessons. It was great fun when he played them backwards. Miss Davies(later Mrs Paskell). I think she married a soldier as she moved away to Shipton Bellinger. She had 1960s/70s hairstyle - blonde hair with back combing and ...see more