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When I moved with my family from North Boarhunt we came here to Portchester.  Little was I to know, but I would be getting married in the beautiful church in the castle grounds.  It was a lovely setting, with the lych gate and ...Read more

A memory of Portchester in 1972 by Vanessa Hillman(Nee Miles)

I was born into the Silver family at Palmer Cottage, 25 North St in 1928 and attended the Council School and then Manor House School Havant in the mid 40s until joining the Grenadier Guards in 1946.  I was ...Read more

A memory of Emsworth in 1930 by Godwin Herring

The large house to the right of the picture is called Barclay House, it's also St Keverne garage.  We moved there in late 1979 and lived there for 3 years, having to leave it behind and move back to the north west due to family ...Read more

A memory of St Keverne in 1981 by Marvin Hall

I hold the Lordship of the Manor of Tilstock and have many maps and papers relating to its history. The Manor covers 2550 acres (just over 4 square miles) and has existed since before the Norman Conquest, when it was part of ...Read more

A memory of Tilstock in 2009 by Raymond Lescott

My father must have arrived in Church Crookham around 1942. About a half dozen Canadian officers were quartered in an extremely 'modern' house, called The White House. My father, a young Captain, always spoke of that ...Read more

A memory of Church Crookham in 1942 by Ted Gale

I remember the playground - I went for a walk past it yesterday as it happens, although I felt it had changed. I remember the big slide (I thought I had just got bigger but no it was a huge one). My grandmother would ...Read more

A memory of Clapham in 1969

In the Easter of 1959, I was six years old and that is when I moved into Church Croft, Church Street, Davenham. On the day that we moved, I recall my dad telling the driver of the removal van that he ...Read more

A memory of Davenham in 1959 by Lynn Quigley

I was born in 1942 and brought up in Walthamstow in NE London. We were a working class family and Dad always managed to provide us with 2 weeks' holiday somewhere. How we came to holiday in Wroxall is still a bit of a ...Read more

A memory of Wroxall by Roy Beiley

Greyhounds 1939, when did it close? Martinware end of Havelock. Dominion. Most us lived north. See southallknowhere site

A memory of Southall by Yvonne Butler

Rod Swift remarked (in a previous memory) about falling in the pond - well I was one of these. Rod must be my cousin's son, as my aunt and uncle lived in the house referred to. Around 1953 on an icy cold day in winter, a crowd ...Read more

A memory of Lingfield in 1953 by Jean Chambers