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Greengrocers 1899-1934 East Street: Mark & Annie CROUCH

My Great Grandfather Mark Crouch ran a greengrocers shop from the front room of his thatched cottage in East Street from 1899-1934 and then after he died his wife Annie continued as a grocer/greengrocer until 1934.  I have a photo (date unknown but would probably be late 1920s - early 1930s) of Annie standing in the doorway of her shop which had a bow front and A.CROUCH over the window, but I don't know if the same building exists today (2008).  Mark's son Edward (my grandfather) and his wife Ada and family lived first in a bungalow on Monks Hill and then for many years at the former old Boys' School in School Lane, which had been converted into 2 bungalows. ...read more here
A memory of Westbourne contributed by Ruth Hooper

QUEEN'S CORONATION

I WAS BORN AT No 2 THE SQUARE IN 1938 AND REMEMBER DECORATING THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE FOR THE QUEEN'S CORONATION.  I MARRIED IN 1959 AND MY FIRST FLAT WAS AT THE CHANTRY IN FOXBURY LANE.  I SERVED IN THE ROYAL AIR FORCE FOR 33 YEARS AND NOW LIVE IN DEVON.  ONE OF MY YOUNGER BROTHERS NOW LIVES IN NEW ROAD (WHITE HORSE LANE IN THOSE DAYS).  MY WIFE'S GRANDMOTHER, MRS HAWKINS, LIVED DOWN WHITE HORSE LANE AND GRANDAD HAWKINS (ALBERT) USED TO OWN THE OLD BAKERY WHICH WAS IN MY DAYS "WATSONS" AND IS NOW THE CO-OP IN WESTBOURNE SQUARE.  GRANDAD HAWKINS DIED IN 1930.
A memory of Westbourne contributed by JOHN YOUNG

Nutbourne Post Office Stores

My memories of Nutbourne start when we moved to the Post Office in 1966-67, I was aged around 12 years old. I moved to Nutbourne with my father and step-mother, my younger brother boarded at little green school in Compton. My father came to the UK during WW2 from Czechoslovakia and fought with the RAF.
My bedroom was above the shop at the front of the building, at the time we lived there the road in front of the shop was then the main Portsmouth to Brighton road and very busy day and night,. It took me a long time to settle at night because not only did I have the constant noise from the traffic to put with but I ...read more here
A memory of Nutbourne contributed by Paul Vychodil

manor farm

I remember hand picking blackcurrants where my mother and father lived and worked for Mrs Rhys-Jones. That was soon taken over by machine and then ended when Mrs Rhys Jones died.  The farm was sold and the blackcurrants torn up. My parents still live there and I visit often.
A memory of Nutbourne contributed by karen williams