Here Around 1979/80

A Memory of Bursledon.

I stayed here when i was around 7 years old so around 1980 (could be 79). i was on the ground floor in a room facing lawns which had open doors on to the patio with six or 7 others. upstairs was for teenagers with which we couldn't go up there. i was there for around three months and it was a fantastic time and the staff were really nice. i even remember a staff member bringing in a big bag of action man toys and was giving them out to us one night. it must have been a summer stay as part of my memories is sneaking out with others and going round the corn fields near the river.

There was a school at the back which my only memory is someone reading stories to us at the end of the day, plus a snooker table in its own small building to the left.

The inside of the house was amazing and having come from a council estate it was like living in another time and place and i was sad to leave the place.