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Chandler’s Ford Saturday Guessing Game (19)

November 24, 2018 By SO53 News 17 Comments

The photos in the past two weeks focused on Hursley Road. Today’s photos are slightly different.

1) Where was this?

Clue: Letters

What was this building about? What is it today? Image credit: Eastleigh and District Local History Society
What was this building about? What is it today? Image credit: Eastleigh and District Local History Society

2) A rather beautiful road in Chandler’s Ford. Do you recognise this place? It seems rather neat and peaceful. No parked cars on the kerbs, no dog mess…

A road in Chandler's Ford. Image credit: Eastleigh and District Local History Society
A road in Chandler’s Ford. Image credit: Eastleigh and District Local History Society

3) Of course this is Halfway Inn on Winchester Road. People have been talking about it recently. Happy news?

Please share your memories. It would be lovely to know what has changed in this place over the years.

Halfway Inn in Chandler's Ford
Halfway Inn in Chandler’s Ford. Image credit: Eastleigh and District Local History Society
Halfway Inn Christmas. Image credit: Eastleigh and District Local History Society
Halfway Inn Christmas. Image credit: Eastleigh and District Local History Society

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  1. Doug Clews says

    November 24, 2018 at 10:29 am

    Would still like to see the answers to Nos. 2 & 3 in Game 17 please …

    My guess at No.3 this week (19) is Kingsway, but the bungalow on the right is throwing me … Absolutely no idea on 1 … don’t recollect anything looking like that from 1938 onwards, but I guess there was, somewhere …

    Keep ’em coming Janet.

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    • Fiona Sturman says

      November 26, 2018 at 5:22 am

      I wondered Kingsway, but don’t think it is. Don’t know where it is tho!

      Reply
  2. Fiona Sturman says

    November 26, 2018 at 5:28 am

    My mum was born and bred in Chandler’s Ford. She used to relate that when she was little her mum would become very nervous when they had to walk past a pub in the day because of the drunk men rolling around on the pavement outside! I never did ask her which pub she was referring to, so I don’t know if it could have been this one! This would have been in the 1930s!

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  3. Janet Williams says

    November 26, 2018 at 9:32 am

    The answer to the first image: “The post office (on the left) in the old hamlet of Middle, in what is now Chestnut Avenue, from a Wilsteed postcard of around 1910. Prior to 1867 this had been the post office for North Stoneham, Eastley and Swaythling.”

    The post office (on the left) in the old hamlet of Middle, in what is now Chestnut Avenue, from a Wilsteed postcard of around 1910. Prior to 1867 this had been the post office for North Stoneham, Eastley and Swaythling. pic.twitter.com/Z3Y6NEt4Um

    — Eastleigh History (@Eastleighistory) November 16, 2018

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    • Janet Williams says

      November 26, 2018 at 9:35 am

      Another confirmation from Elliot, who knows the area well.

      Deliver to this house every now and then.. the last house of chandlers ford before chestnut avenue becomes an eastleigh post code.. pointless knowledge https://t.co/m3uXZp0BOd

      — Elliot (@ElliotsTweets) November 16, 2018

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    • Doug Clews says

      November 26, 2018 at 10:43 am

      The saying goes ‘It is great to be wise after the event’, but in all honesty I thought, and nearly suggested, that it looked as though it should be in Chestnut Avenue, somewhere near Stoneham Lane, but I have never known that to be Chandler’s Ford … that’ll teach me !!! …

      (I’m still smiling though)

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      • chippy says

        November 30, 2018 at 12:04 pm

        Doug, I also thought it was the Stoneham Lane / Chestnut Avenue junction, but wasn’t confident enough to say. I’d forgotten that the area was once called Middle.

        The semi-detached thatched cottages in Stoneham Lane at that junction (next to Kingdom Hall), of course are not old at all. They were built in the early 1990s. The site was formerly the church hall for North Stoneham church.

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        • Doug Clews says

          November 30, 2018 at 1:57 pm

          Hi Chippy …

          I feel better now, knowing I am not alone ! …

          I had/have never heard of ‘Middle’, and I am having great difficulty finding anything on the internet about it … any thoughts or pointers please …

          Cheers !

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          • chippy minton says

            February 22, 2021 at 6:47 pm

            I understand that Middle is short for Middle Stoneham, as the hamlet lay between South Stoneham and North Stoneham. This, of course, has a huge plot hole in that Middle appears to be beyond North Stoneham. My theory is that North Stoneham was originally centred further up Chestnut Avenue, around what is now Nightingale Avenue and Asda. The centre of North Stoneham moved to the other side of Middle when the church was built.

            But I have no idea why the village of South Stoneham is called Swaythling.

          • Doug Clews says

            February 23, 2021 at 1:55 am

            Hi Chippy …

            I have found Middle Stoneham mentioned in 3 or 4 places, but nothing really about it … in my searching, these sites were visited and are of interest (You’ve probably seen them already)

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swaythling

            https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HAM/NorthStoneham

            https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol3/pp478-481

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Stoneham

            Stay safe and keep smiling (Not necessarily in that order)

            Doug Clews

  4. Janet Williams says

    November 26, 2018 at 12:51 pm

    According to the source from Eastleigh History, the second image is Keble Road.

    Keble Road, Chandlers Ford. Date unknown pic.twitter.com/NzzNCFIppk

    — Eastleigh History (@Eastleighistory) August 14, 2018

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    • Janet Williams says

      November 26, 2018 at 12:54 pm

      We’ve an old article about Keble Road, written by Hugh Benham:

      John Keble: Keble Road and Keble Close in Chandler’s Ford

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  5. Ray Mansell says

    December 1, 2018 at 12:37 am

    Number 2 shouts Keble Road to me.

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    • Ray Mansell says

      December 1, 2018 at 12:44 am

      Oh, now I see there are already other responses. At least my guess was correct!

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      • Janet Williams says

        December 1, 2018 at 8:05 pm

        Hi Ray,

        Great answer!! I wouldn’t have known the answer simply looking at the phone. Do you have some photos to share with us as well? Feel free to send them to me, and I’m happy to share them.

        Would you like to share your answers in this new article? Chandler’s Ford Saturday Guessing Game (20)

        Have a lovely weekend!

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        • Ray Mansell says

          December 1, 2018 at 9:09 pm

          No photos, I’m afraid, just images inside my head! I grew up on Leigh Road, and used to get my hair cut at Vic Poynter’s barber shop on the corner of Keble Road and Bournemouth Road.

          I also know (knew – haven’t seen him for decades, since I now live in the USA) Hugh Benham. We both went to Barton Peveril, and I was in the choir at St Boniface for a long time, part of it when Hugh became the organist.

          Ray

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          • Janet Williams says

            December 1, 2018 at 9:27 pm

            Brilliant information, Ray. Thank you very much.

            I’ll pass on this comment to Hugh. Hugh’s the best organist and we’re so blessed to have him. Such a humble and gentle man.

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