Nostalgic memories of North Tidworth's local history
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For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our web site to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was when the photographs in our archive were taken. From brief one-liners explaining a little bit more about the image depicted, to great, in-depth accounts of a childhood when things were rather different than today (and everything inbetween!). We've had many contributors recognising themselves or loved ones in our photographs.
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Displaying Memories 11 - 20 of 27 in total
I attended the Castle School, in 1966; sorry if you didn't looked like a Walker Brother, no chance. I am sure you ate my mum's school dinners, she was the cook. Good times, take care.
I lived in Tidworth in Wylie Road from 1966 to early 1968. Of course we were an army family.
I remember some guys; Woody (Nigel Wood) & his elder brother Steven (also known as Woody).
There was Gilly & Crow who hailed from South Tidworth. I remember the cinema & the bowling alley. There was a local band known as 'The Poppy People' who had a regular gig at - if my memory serves me well ...see more
My brother, Terry Vivash attended Tidworth Down School from 1948 until around 1950 when he was accepted for the Adcroft School of Building in Trowbridge. Terry passed away in 2007 but, amongst his effects I found a certificate awarded to him as a member of the Tidworth Down School 4X400 relay team which came first in the county sports at Trowbridge. The school or rather its successor is now ...see more
I was born at 601 Zouch cottages (which may possibly be in this photograph) in 1955, the address was changed later to 46, Nepal Road, I think probably in about 1960 and my Nan and Aunt lived at 8, Nepal Road down the hill. I funnily enough also remember Barbara Harris (lovely redheaded girl if I remember correctly who lived half way between my house and my Nan's) and I certainly have ...see more
My father was in the Army stationed a Bulford in the Command Supply Depot. We lived in one of the houses in a complex called The Albany now (Aldi). I attended the C of E school at Hampshire Cross and later Tidworth Down school. I remeber the construction of the swimming pool, the brains behind that was Tom Tuxford who sadly is no longer with us. One of my biggest friends was John West, I also knew his sister ...see more
I can remember running along this road from Tidworth Down Boys School to the Ram pub and back to the school with the PE teacher a Mr Williams shouting at us from his car. This would have been in the late 1960s.
I lived in Sidbury Circular Road but when we moved in it was Nuns Walk and we lived in the last house, then they built the estate and renamed the road.
My first school was the Garrison school opposite the Garrison theatre
I attended this school in September of 1953 until December 1954, when I left and went to Salisbury College of Further Education. My father was in the army and we came back from Germany in July 1953 to live in married quarters at Clarendon Terrace, the regiment being in Bhurtpore Barracks. We went to Jordan in Feb 1956 but came back to UK in August 1956 because of the dangerous situation out ...see more
I moved there when I was six, to number 56, right at the end, the last house in the road.I left there in 1982 after 14 very happy years. I can still remember most of the familes who lived there at the time, I have great childhood memories.
I remember playing cricket on the green here. The cinema across the road was where we once listened to Norman Wisdom - from the outside, we couldn't get in aged 12! I visited this road July 2009 for the first time since then, and was horrified that a Tesco now stands where we played. But Furze Hill Road remains exactly as it was when I watched England win the 1966 World Cup. New windows on the houses of course, but the hill at the top of the road, then just grass, now has trees all over.
I attended this school circa 1965. Remember the woodwork class on far right of building seen here. Football in the foreground field. The bus back to Tidworth, living in Furze Hill Road.
