Nostalgic memories of Nether Wallop's local history
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Hello, After a long telephone conversation with my nan I would like to try and find out some more information on her family for her. They lived in nether wallop around 1941 to we are not sure when. It was her mother and father and her two brothers and a sister Douglas John way Lilian Barbara way The children were John Jane Joan and geoff. Lilian who we think was known as Barbara was killed in a ...see more
I have connections in the Wallops as I was born at Craydown, Over Wallop in Aug 1945. My parents were married in nearby Broughton Baptist Chapel with my father an R.A.F. Corporal and my mother a LACW in the W.A.A.F. Both served in the Equipment Section. I have always thought that they were at R.A.F Middle Wallop as this was always mentioned to me as a child. I have recently re-read my parents ...see more
I served my apprenticeship as a plumber with Fred Mouland at Nether wallop - it lasted five years and we worked all over the village. We worked on the church tower and removed a lead sheet signed by two plumbers who laid the roof in the 1700's and we replaced it on the tower and put our own signed sheet with it. We used to live in Salisbury Lane and I went to the primary school in the village.
I remember Mr Cherrington, the local bobby, riding his bike through the village and smiling benignly at us kids. I believe his son was in my class at school. I can remember one evening in the summer time having been just put to bed when an official police vehicle arrived at the front door - very much to my mum's consternation. It transpired that Mr Cherrington, along with a police official of some kind, had ...see more
My father was a primary teacher at Wallop school until 1962, my grandfather lived in Nether Wallop, Henry Muspratt.
Wonderful times.
In addition to those aleady mentioned, I seem to recall that there was a Miss Fennel in one of the shops, and a Mr.Edgar Davis and his wife Joan (nee Cards) They lived on the edge of the aerodrome at Middle Wallop I lived in Broughton, next door to Mrs Cards and Leslie, Joan's brother. When the schools amalgamated during the war,there waere several Clarks came to Broughton, and the boys from the "Five ...see more
I have the happiest memories of my early childhood in the Old Thatch and Wallop in the 1970s. Nothing changes in the village. Even the village hall doesn't look like it's had a lick of paint over the years! My grandmother's home before given to my father and mother. A shame it's been so modernised in recent years.
I lived in Nether Wallop with my father and mother from 1952 -1961. My father was a teacher at the primary school. Magic times.
My uncle, Sir Howard Button. bought 2 cottages, Mallows and Yew Tree Cottage and a house, Straw Hall, in 1915.
I have an album of photographs of the cottages from 1915 - 1926.
My uncle let us (my parents, my brother and myself) and other members of the family use the cottages for their holidays. Straw Hall was used by 2 of his relations. We holidayed there from about 1930 to the beginning of the ...see more
My father was the local postman until he had a serious accident at Middle Wallop. One of my memories of Nether Wallop was him telling me how it had snowed so hard on one occasion that when he delivered mail in School Lane where the wind blew in off the aerodrome he was dropping the mail through the upstairs windows of the houses there. Also being able to walk down to Mrs Salter's shop to buy 6 pennorth of sweets. I ...see more