Tidworth In The Mid 1950's
A Memory of North Tidworth.
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 there. We returned to Tidworth in July 1957 to Clarendon Terrace again, the regiment going into Aliwal Barracks. I got a job at W.H. Smith in Station Road and worked there until July 1959 when my Dad left the army and we moved to Rutland. I still go back to Tidworth every few years as I still have friends there from those days, I now live in Canada. There have been many changes over the years, but Tidworth basically remains the same, except for the barbed wire!! And of course, all the old MQs have gone, and the new ones look so much better. I will be visiting Tidworth again next spring.
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I was quite young, about 6 I think and went to the primary school at the corner of the road where the shops are. We lived at 14 Furse Hill Road, the last house before the big hill that I loved to climb. I did go back there about 30 years ago and when I got off the bus nothing had changed apart from the school no longer there. I asked the ppl in out old house if I could take pic of it and they invited me in to have a look around. I then took a bus to Bulford camp where my dad was stationed but could not go in of course. I live in Essex and went by coach so it took a long while but certainly worth it. Oh and I was pleased to see the tiny church was still there too.