Amesbury, High Street c.1955
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Photo of Amesbury, High Street c.1955

A Selection of Memories from Amesbury

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Amesbury

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I was brought up in cholderton as a child and went to Stonehenge secondary school when I was 11 in 1963 . My name then was Anne Howcutt and I vividly remember when the Beatles came to film Help at Larkhill,a lot of my friends saw n got their autographs,I remember standing outside their hotel for hours to catch a glimpse,think it was the Antrobus but never got to see them
Amesbury such lovely town there is plenty of village shops. Methodist church on the corner of the road. bus station and there is co-op supermarket which has been built . I used to know a gentleman who name is Stephen he lives where the housing estate is now on the hill . up and till 2009 I was visiting this lovely town and spent some wonderful times.
My auntie, Rosina Corps, lived in the house next door with her mother and two other sisters, Elizabeth and Mary.
Yes, I remember Amesbury War Memorial c1950, it was moved to Amesbury Church to make way for a new road through Amesbury. I also lived on the new council estate which was built after the war, I lived in Antrobus Road. Antrobus Road was one of the first to be built and it was surrounded by fields and we used to take a short cut across the fields instead of walking up the hill to the top of Antrobus ...see more