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I was a Chiddingfold child. My father was from Milford (Cozens) and his mother and father owned the little newsagents/grocery shop on Manor Road. My mum was from Shackleford (Reffold) and I didn't move far away - Godalming, ...Read more

A memory of Chiddingfold in 1970 by Nicola Cozens

I was the last Postmaster to run Hambledon PO. I am very sorry to say that apart from a few very kind people in the village, no one offered any help or support when I needed it. All I mostly received was criticism from the ...Read more

A memory of Hambledon in 2000

My mum use to have the tea rooms when I was a child called The Copper Kettle. I think it was around the late 60's early 70's, it had the tea rooms at one end and a transport cafe at the other, and we lived above it. I remember ...Read more

A memory of Hambledon in 1970 by Shani Clarke

I lived in Stakes Hill Road between 1957 and 1970. I used to play with Tamblyn Thornton who Lived in South Africa Lodge and Alex Robertson who lived in the flint cottage in front of South Africa Lodge. Our house was No 54 ...Read more

A memory of Waterlooville in 1960 by Richard Martin

Earliest memories... staying home from school (Church School now Russell Hall) in the winter because the boiler had burst. Swinging on my gran's gate on Highfield Terrace, and playing with a teaset and dolls pram in her house, and ...Read more

A memory of Queensbury by Margaret Stork

This is the original Heroes pub (double-fronted building on left of photo), named after the soldiers returning from the battle of Waterloo who set up camp at Waterloo having marched from Portsmouth docks on their way to London. It ...Read more

A memory of Waterlooville by Meryl Davidson

My family first came to live in Studwell Lodge, which they bought from the Bruce family,  when my father retired from farming in Berkshire at the age of fifty five. It was then 1959 and I, ...Read more

A memory of Droxford in 1960 by Charles Skipwith

My Grandmother, Grace Mary Enticknap (later Gravett) was born in Hambledon in 1906. I have just found this out researching my family history, and am so excited to find these old photographs of the village - and nearby ...Read more

A memory of Hambledon in 1900 by Lucille Parker

I went to Pendeen School in the early forties. It was on the left just a short distance down Stakes Hill Road. I lived in Keydell Avenue, Horndean and travelled by Southdown Buses 40, 41, 42 and their respective a's and b's. Entering ...Read more

A memory of Waterlooville by Pete Long

The double fronted building in the photo was the Queens Hotel. The building to its left is the Wellington pub, the Heroes stood on the corner of Hambledon Rd, and was moved the old doctors surgrery (Dr Cooper) oppisite Hulbert ...Read more

A memory of Waterlooville in 1930 by Frank Money