Bursledon, Old Bursledon Village c.1965
Photo ref:
B304341
Photo ref:
B304341
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A Selection of Memories from Bursledon
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Bursledon
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I was there for about six weeks in 1964, but I don't think it was a Hospital, I was four years old, I don't know why I was there, I just have a very uneasy feeling just looking at the photograph. I don't think it was a very nice place.
My memory is ! I was 12yrs old with an eating disorder ! I got sent there and I couldn't understand why I was , not a nice place
This isn't really a memory because I was too young at the time. I was born in a timber bungalow called "Midway" on Lowford Hill, Bursledon in April 1942. Dad was working at the Follands aircraft factory at that time, building war planes. Mum, my older brother Guy, and I moved to Findon Valley in West Sussex in 1944 following a near-miss from a VI Flying Bomb. Fortunately it landed on vacant ground across the ...see more
The boat at the left of this view is the Velsheda at that time a houseboat. What a come down from racing in the Americas Cup before the war! I remember my uncle taking my father and I out in his 18ft boat for a cruise up the Hamble and pointing her out to us in the early 1960's. Thank goodness she was rescued and after millions spent now sails once again in all her glory.
I think it was on ...see more
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