Fordingbridge, Bridge Street c.1955
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F178025
Photo ref:
F178025
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Situated on the north-western edge of the New Forest, Fordingbridge was once famous for the manufacture of canvas and sail cloth. A major fire destroyed many properties in 1702, but today the town is a popular holiday base for tourists. The restored and widened medieval bridge by The George Inn gave the town its name.
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A Selection of Memories from Fordingbridge
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 Fordingbridge
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My family moved to Fordingbridge in 1948 when I was 7. All three boys went to the Primary School and I was the last Head Prefect and House Captain of the Red Team before the older children went to the Burgate school. I have good memories of my first kiss. Monica Kensington and Hazel Oxford pushed me into a hedge a gave me my first smacker. When the snow came we made sleds and went over to the ...see more
A few days after starting school, I paid my first remembered visit to Fordingbridge Fair. A funfair visited Fordingbridge every year during the first week in September. It was situated in Church Square and in the land opposite and a few stalls were placed in the open space at the junction with Back Street, now called West Street. Cars park there now! The fair was already a shadow of its pre-war self in 1955, ...see more
I lived in Ashford Road for the first 20 years of my life and my mother still lives in the same house; she has lived there since 1933. I was born in 1950 in the new cottage hospital at the top of the road. I went to school at Fordingbridge Primary and Burgate Secondary. I remember the snow of Boxing day 1962; we were playing in the field next to the river at Ashford Road when it began in the late afternoon.There ...see more
I grew up in Fordingbridge between 1949 when I was born and 1967 when I left for University. I have so many memories that I couldn't possibly put them all down here, so I am just selecting a few good or striking ones. Anyone who remembers the town will know that it once had two chemist shops, four pubs (or more) four grocers, three butchers, a shoe shop, a gents' tailors and of course a proper ...see more
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