Further Memories
A Memory of Basingstoke.
Further to my previous memory of Basingstoke,and a reader mentioning Odys groceries shop, I too remember it well, also Yerburys hairdressers in Winton Sq and Giffords store.As well as that there was a tea shop on London Rd, The Good Hostess and on Hackwood Rd I remember Nancy Noyes bookshop. My grandparents had their golden wedding at the Venture in 1961.I also have fond memories of mapledurwell where a friend of my father was manager forACHutton a road haulage contractor who carried mainly Lansing Bagnell products all over the country.
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Basing Road hospital (where Hampshire Clinic BUPA hospital is now) where I visited my maternal grandfather as he was in need of 24 hrs care the last couple of years of his life. The old fairground in Essex Road (by the Victory Roundabout now) and a hall where we organised rock and roll dances with friends who had a rock group and a skiffle group. Great fun. .... Ban the bomb marches from Aldermaston.... The pet shop in Wote Street run by Mr Wagstaff who let me buy 6 chicks. Took them home in a shoe box...mum took them back as we had no where to keep chickens...I was about 9 or 10. Great concerts/gigs at the Haymarket. 3 cinemas too. Loads of memories of growing up in Basingstoke...