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Houseboats in the picture of Bursledon Bridge
In the picture are several houseboats moored up to the bank on the LHS of the picture; I used to live on the large white motor torpedo boat (originally called 'Hippocampus') when she was moved from the River Hamble to the River Itchen in 1974; I renamed her 'Whimsical Macgoffley'. She was built in Cowes at the J. Samual White Shipyard, launched in 1944, and was one of six MTBs used by the Polish Navy. (Her number was S-8 during WW2 and she was eventually returned to the RN as HMTB 427 at the end of the war). She was sold by the Admiralty in 1950 and as far as I know was moved to the berth near Bursledon Bridge ...read more here
Contributed by Tim Deacon
Bursledon, The Hospital
I do not think this ever was a hospital in the usual sense. I am pretty sure it was a house called Brixedene (Brixedone?) in Blundell Lane, owned and lived in by a family called Thistlethwaite. During the war it was a children's home, although I do not know anything about who it was run by and I think after the war, perhaps after the introduction of the NHS in 1948, it was taken over and used as a convalescent home with some connection to the Royal South Hants Hospital. I may not have all the facts right, but one thing I do know - there was never a hospital in Bursledon. Any hospital treatment meant a trek into Southampton to ...read more here
Contributed by Belinda Heathcote
Hampshire memories
Bursledon, The Hospital
I do not think this ever was a hospital in the usual sense. I am pretty sure it was a house called Brixedene (Brixedone?) in Blundell Lane, owned and lived in by a family called Thistlethwaite. During the war it was a children's home, although I do not know anything about who it was run by and I think after the war, perhaps after the introduction of the NHS in 1948, it was taken over and used as a convalescent home with some connection to the Royal South Hants Hospital. I may not have all the facts right, but one thing I do know - there was never a hospital in Bursledon. Any hospital treatment meant a trek into Southampton to ...read more here
A memory of Bursledon contributed by Belinda Heathcote
Houseboats in the picture of Bursledon Bridge
In the picture are several houseboats moored up to the bank on the LHS of the picture; I used to live on the large white motor torpedo boat (originally called 'Hippocampus') when she was moved from the River Hamble to the River Itchen in 1974; I renamed her 'Whimsical Macgoffley'. She was built in Cowes at the J. Samual White Shipyard, launched in 1944, and was one of six MTBs used by the Polish Navy. (Her number was S-8 during WW2 and she was eventually returned to the RN as HMTB 427 at the end of the war). She was sold by the Admiralty in 1950 and as far as I know was moved to the berth near Bursledon Bridge ...read more here
A memory of Bursledon contributed by Tim Deacon