Purbrook

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JR Robinson and Maison Drayton

The farthest shop on the left was owned by my grandparents and I lived there until I was 3 with my parents, Ivan and Betty Robinson. They sold prams and baby goods. My mother Evelyn Betty McTurk did her hairdressing apprenticeship in the hairdressers next door, Maison Drayton, and continued working there for some years. I remember the parade of shops as being a very busy lively place.
A memory of Drayton contributed by Lynne Wood

199 Havant Road, Drayton

I was born on 6th feb 1944 at 199 Havant Road, Drayton and had a happy childhood there with my 5 sisters and parents.    My father was a painter and decorator and we lived in the house until the late '50s. I believe the house is now a home for the elderly, how things have changed. I went to Portsdown school and the to the high school between Drayton and Cosham.I now live in Northern Ireland but have great memories of the area and going to the George to get my uncle his quart of mild and bitter.
A memory of Drayton contributed by john cowan

Farlington the War Years

We moved to Farlington after being bombed out of Stanley Avenue in Portsmouth.
My first school was Bedhampton where most of the lessons were in the Airaid Shelter! I then went on to Manor House School at Havant where I stayed until the death of Mrs Wallace and the closure of the school.My education was completed at Havant Secondary School which I left in 1953.
I have many wartime memories of Farlington,seeing the Gliders going out for the Normandy landings,sitting on the front doorstep watching the battle of Britain with a sky full of vapour trails,the trains going past loaded with Tanks and Guns and the American Servicemen parked up on the A27 in their tanks,trucks and jeeps waiting
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A memory of Farlington contributed by Gerald Thompson

The 1960s

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 contributed by Meryl Davidson