1) There are not many brown road signs in Chandler’s Ford. Here is one – but we have erased its white letters for you to guess what the ‘tourist information’ is about. Do you know where the sign is found?
2) Where is this new big project taking place in Chandler’s Ford? What was this place used to be?
3) Where was The Cottage? What’s your memory of it?
Put your answers in the comment below. Thank you.
1]Brown Sign advertises HILTONBURY FARMHOUSE.
2]The New Development is in BROWNHILL RD., Previously a private school.
3]The building shown was the old off-licence in Oakmount Road, a building now replaced by Waitrose.
Martin, 100%! Congratulations! 🙂
Do you remember the name of the private school?
Here is the brown sign.
I got 2 out of 3 this week! I don’t remember The Cottage. When did it go? I guessed that answer as the Halfway Inn.
Didn’t get any this week , can’t remember the cottage although must have passed it many times looks like the 1970’s again .
As you have already said Janet, Martin is quite correct with ‘The Cottage’ … it was originally a Strong & Co. off-licence, run in my day by the Kebby(ie) Family … the son, a tall gentleman, was the village ‘Lamplighter’ and used to cycle round the village twice a day, with his long pole, turning the gas street lights on and off … being absent from the village since 1966, 1 & 2 were beyond me, but I would love to know where exactly the private school is/was in Brownhill Road, and what it was called, as I do not recall one there at all …
Keep smiling … Doug Clews
Thanks for the information, Doug.
The school was a private school called Woodhill School. Daily Echo had a report about it:
Woodhill School: School to close due to ‘difficult economic climate’
p.s. Also, where is the Hiltonbury Farmhouse sign located, as I don’t recognise that road junction
Hi Doug,
The sign is at the roundabout at the bottom of Hursley Road, and Bournemouth Road.
Thanks for info re school … I have never heard of it, so presumably started after 1966 … thanks also for photo of the Hursley Road/Winchester Road junction … I recognise it now … the traffuc lights put me off as in my time, the nearest were Winchester by-pass/Twyford Road, or Burgess Road/The Avenue the other way