Alverstoke

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The Tower & The Blue Bird Cafe

I remember the Tower Cinema in the late 1940s, the Saturday afternoon kids' show. Later in the early 1950s I went three times a week, as there were three programes each week, Monday to Wednesday then Thursday to Saturday and old films on a Sunday. We did not have a TV until the mid 1950s. Once I had left school I went to the Tower Ballroom on a Saturday night and to Bert Sharp, also once a month on a Thursday there would be a special dance with Art & The Band Wagoners, this band did all the American air bases and played all the latest music and featured the song that was top of the hit parade. The one I ...read more here
A memory of Lee-On-The-Solent contributed by Bob Davis

Lee Pool

Although I used to take my two children to the pool from Stubbington when we lived there in the 1960s my memory is of the 1940s when it was an adult pool with a high diving board.  
A swimming gala was put on by the Navy and we sat on the bank facing the sea.  At one point a uniformed Navy chap stood on the end of the diving board and made some sort of announcement.  To my horror he suddenly pitched forward and fell into the pool!  Whether it was part of the entertainment or not I never found out and wasn't really old enough to appreciate it if that was the case.  I thought he was drowning. In ...read more here
A memory of Lee-On-The-Solent contributed by Gaynor Boyd

Up the Tower

I went up the Tower sometime in the '50s I think. I paid all of sixpence at the little kiosk just inside the entrance. A lift whisked us up to the top. I am so glad now that I did as I have a wonderful memory of the view from the top. It was a beautiful day so you could see for miles. What an attraction it would be today.
A memory of Lee-On-The-Solent contributed by Gaynor Boyd

Change of use

I can't remember when Pier Hotel ceased to be an hotel but in 1965 it was already a Residential Care Home run by Hampshire social Services.
When we moved from Stubbington to Lee in 1977 I went to work in Pier House and stayed for 20 years retiring in 1997.
The site hasn't changed much although it had many alterations to the inside over the 20 years I worked there.
A memory of Lee-On-The-Solent contributed by Gaynor Boyd