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The 1960s (Year: 1965)
All these gleaming new box-like buildings had replaced the lovely Victorian and Georgian architecture seen in some of the slightly older pictures here. Ironically, Woolworths, seen here on the right, is the only one of these founding tenants to have remained in the same building ever since .... until this week!

A memory of Waterlooville in Hampshire by Meryl Davidson

The Heroes
This is the original Heroes pub (double-fronted building on left of photo), named after the soldiers returning from the battle of Waterloo who set up camp at Waterloo having marched from Portsmouth docks on their way to London. It was near the junction with Hambledon Road and this photo is looking north. When the pub was knocked down, its replacement was build about 300 yards further north. Must have been round about 1960?

A memory of Waterlooville in Hampshire by Meryl Davidson

Baptist Church
The building with a clock tower on the right was the old Baptist church. It was knocked down in the early 1960s in order to widen the road (which was of course the main Portsmouth to London road in those days) and was replaced by the modern baptist church about half a mile further north along London Road (between Avondale Road and Billet Ave).

A memory of Waterlooville in Hampshire by Meryl Davidson

Cowplain Shops (Year: 1972)
Like David, I remember Carters' Sweet Shop. I was a regular customer in the early to mid 1970s, when I attended Padnell Infants and then Padnell Junior School. Mr Carter handed it over to his daughter, who I think was called Alison, but the shop eventually closed in the early 1980s.

I also remember the fishmongers van which used to park once a week on the corner of Kings Road in front of what I think was then the Post Office.

And there was a toy/model shop, which later became Coxons Gift Shop, a couple of shops to the ...Read the full memory

A memory of Cowplain in Hampshire by Meryl Davidson

Speckled Apples (Year: 1940s)
Paul talked about the Home & Colonial. I think it was "Masons" used to be next door in the market place. I remember getting a 'penny dip' on the way back to school (Ridding Lane Primary). Mum would have gone potty if she had known we did that after a good meal at home. The other thing was the market vendors would always let us have 'speckled apples' for nowt, just for the asking.

A memory of Wednesbury in West Midlands by Robert Heeley

Lime Tree Walk (Year: 1948)
Boys were not allowed to cycle on the school premises so I had to walk this leafy lane twice daily. I was scooting my bike homeward towards the Wellesley Road entrance one afternoon, expecting to hear a prefectorial shout ordering me to walk, when an air gun pellet struck me painfully between the shoulders. Looking round I saw a group of embarrassed sixth-formers seeking to dissociate themselves from a red-capped prefect holding an awkward bundle. In my anger I mounted my bike and rode the remaining 50 yards to the exit without further penalty.

I sometimes settled in the shade ...Read the full memory

A memory of Croydon in Surrey by Leslie King

Easter
I used to roll coloured hard boiled eggs on East Heslerton Hill with my sister and cousins on Easter Sunday. When they were all broken we used to have egg sandwiches and our teas at Gran's, who lived at the bottom near the church. When it was the Silver Jubilee we had a great village get-together. We lived at East Heslerton with our gran, grandad and auntie for many happy years.

A memory of East Heslerton in North Yorkshire by Pam Abbey

My School. (Year: 1968)
This is the school I taught in from September 1967 to July 1968.

A memory of Solihull in West Midlands by Mireille Heinzle