Waltham Chase, Post Office And Stores c.1950
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Waltham Chase originated as a medieval hunting ground not far from Bishop's Waltham. A number of Victorian redbrick houses survive, intermingled with more modern housing. Notice how quiet the road is. Is the lady making her way to the post office? A local contractor, Fred Dyke, owned steam-driven vehicles; lumps of red-hot ash would fall from the fire basket under the boiler onto the road.

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I recently visited, Bishops Waltham, Waltham Chase and Shedfield. Bishops Waltham town centre was how I remembered it from the 1970s. Waltham Chase had changed quite a bit, I was sorry to see how un-kept the house my grandparents lived in had become. I had intended to take a photograph, but decided my memories would have to do. There was a new road, which went from Forest Road back onto the main road to Wickham. I ...see more
My grandparents lived at 1 Northcott Villa Forest Road. Opposite them was Hector Coombs the shoe mender. My grandparents didn't have electricity, and my grandfather's radio ran on an accumulator. We used to take this to be charged, and collect the charged one. Also somewhere down Forest Road was a bakers, we either walked to collect the bread or it was delivered in a green van by a girl I think she was called ...see more
I can almost see Bull Lane from there. We lived in 'Summerfield' half way up that lane. I remember Mr Wilbey's Ironmongers. He had a massive walrus moustache, and a shop that was a genuine museum in itself. There was Woodwards Store halfway up the main street, and I think W.C.Chase ran the Post Office Stores in this picture. There was another shop almost opposite , and the number 69 bus to Fareham ran from a few ...see more