Lordswood Area Hotel Riding Stables
A Memory of Lordswood.
I remember growing up in the area beyond the sport's centre at Coxford road was no more than a dirt track that lead down to the forestry commission.The woods before the houseing estate a were immense you could literally get lost a child's play heaven.The Lordswood Hotel then later a night club of sorts in its hay days had a riding school. Locals would learn to ride there going into the woods and forestry commission tracks. You could go from soap sure alley in Rownhams
to the driove in chilworth .Called soap suds alley as the washing was done there from st Evox house by local women who lived in the cottages .The stables were built around the core buildings of the stables and carriage house to the hotel when it was a large private house.At the back of the stables was the old grooms house / room.When the M27 was being built we would ride along its length at the week end when no work was taking place Health and Safety didn't exist then.Sadly the stables and grazing and orchard to the rear became housing estates growing to swallow up aldermoor farm and then the establishment of lordshil estate up to Rownhams .
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Puzzle Foxtrot Gem Spot Surprise Darky
A palomino who I think was Pickles and others I can’t bring to mind
I used to cut wood for the Hotel fires before I went to school I was given free riding for this chore we looked after the horses feeding and grooming them we had our favourite horses mine was Puzzle a 15 hand brown and white gelding that went like the wind other names I remember that were there most days were Janice Barry and Linda
Happy memories The pony called Surprise was named a foal appeared in the field one morning and we carried her up to the stables she wasn’t expected
Janice looked after her I was only 14 when I first went riding I’m 76 now
One more thing the picture shows the house in original form as a hunting lodge it was changed late 1800st to Swiss chalet style which was what it wss like when I first saw it Has anyone got a picture of what I remember