Denmead, Martin Avenue c.1960

Photo ref: D181021

Unfortunately the Baptist Church has now been demolished to make way for new houses.

My mum still lives in Denmead she is 100 years old,I recently stayed with her for few weeks due to my brother going into hospital .. The memories of my childhood came flooding back . Playing around the lanes and all of the walks we went on as children , the different shops there now all gone . There was Nethercotts the Top of Anthill The tuck shop on the green paper shop the cobblers Buttons hairdressers ...see more

My husband spent some time in the village in 1964. He rented a house called "Tamarisk", it has left a lifelong memory he has spoken lovingly about the village. It has always been somewhere where he would have liked to return to, but as life goes on things get in the way. Now some fifty odd years later we have named our house Tamarisk . He believes that it was a short walk from the public house called "The Harvest Home". ...see more

I lived in the village, my friend then was Sally Lunn, her parents owned the shop. We used to have great fun there in the garden. I was Julie Newton then.