BURLEY VILLAGE MAGAZINE - Articles 1980
April P10 AWARD OF MERIT
Miss Applebee (aged 106) has received yet another mark of appreciation this time from U.S.A. A special messenger brought over a small brass plaque inscribed as follows:-
“Association for Intercollegial Athletics for Women
Award of Merit
Constance M. K. Applebee
For outstanding Service and Devotion to Women’s Sports
A.I.A.W. Jan. 8. 1980"
Award of Merit
Constance M. K. Applebee
For outstanding Service and Devotion to Women’s Sports
A.I.A.W. Jan. 8. 1980"
April P19 LOCAL SHOPS
ERB in February number, p 11, is right about the duty of residents, quite a bit of the “trouble” is that it is nice to have an outing occasionally – family or 2 or 3 neighbours; then on reaching different type shops, it is easy to buy a pramful. Merchandise is not better or cheaper in a wire basket/pram taking one shopping expedition with another. But the profits go to commercial giants in a world widely different from Burley. As ERB says we should make a real effort to shop with the Burley retailers who live in Burley and support local events and charities. They are to be found in Burley Street, Pound Lane, Lester Square as well as in the Village Centre. Pharmacist Lester is the newest of these.
Another bit of the “trouble” is that petrol is not expensive when taken into account alongside present rates of pay and index-linked pensions. Only a minority of residents, are in neither of these categories. The “trouble” used to crop up when there were practically no cars in Burley and before country buses were invented. The then smaller population of Burley liked occasional outings with visits to different shops, and market stalls, Holmsley Station gave a wonderful service of clean punctual trains, a cheap day on Wednesdays to Ringwood was 9d. return 3rd class, 1/1d 1st. Bisterne Close people would walk to Ringwood sometimes meeting someone with a pony & trap and getting a lift back, or if no room a lift for the shopping bags. One would see them walking up Crow Hill to lighten the pony’s load on the rough gravel, then the only road surface. Bournemouth’s shops made an exciting expedition, Holmsley – Ringwood, change to Platform 3 for the single-line branch train via Hurn, which station is now the Avon Causeway Inn, stopping at the attractive private halt at Avon castle with rustic seats and a bower of rhododendrons. In the railway building era private halts were commonly given to landowners who let the lines through their land. Then the open-top tram down to the shops. Beales, Brights etc seemed wonderful shops (Beales is still privately owned I think; we still have the account my parents opened in 1908). So perhaps we can have something of an anti-wire basket shopping campaign and channel our desire for expeditions towards cinema-going, theatre-going and other urban attractions rather than shops with prefix either SUPER or HYPER and “Special Offers” which in fact swell the profits of the Giants rather than offer bargains and savings to the shoppers.
Long-stay Resident
Another bit of the “trouble” is that petrol is not expensive when taken into account alongside present rates of pay and index-linked pensions. Only a minority of residents, are in neither of these categories. The “trouble” used to crop up when there were practically no cars in Burley and before country buses were invented. The then smaller population of Burley liked occasional outings with visits to different shops, and market stalls, Holmsley Station gave a wonderful service of clean punctual trains, a cheap day on Wednesdays to Ringwood was 9d. return 3rd class, 1/1d 1st. Bisterne Close people would walk to Ringwood sometimes meeting someone with a pony & trap and getting a lift back, or if no room a lift for the shopping bags. One would see them walking up Crow Hill to lighten the pony’s load on the rough gravel, then the only road surface. Bournemouth’s shops made an exciting expedition, Holmsley – Ringwood, change to Platform 3 for the single-line branch train via Hurn, which station is now the Avon Causeway Inn, stopping at the attractive private halt at Avon castle with rustic seats and a bower of rhododendrons. In the railway building era private halts were commonly given to landowners who let the lines through their land. Then the open-top tram down to the shops. Beales, Brights etc seemed wonderful shops (Beales is still privately owned I think; we still have the account my parents opened in 1908). So perhaps we can have something of an anti-wire basket shopping campaign and channel our desire for expeditions towards cinema-going, theatre-going and other urban attractions rather than shops with prefix either SUPER or HYPER and “Special Offers” which in fact swell the profits of the Giants rather than offer bargains and savings to the shoppers.
Long-stay Resident
Long-stay Resident
June P15 TRAFFIC THROUGH BURLEY
After reading the South-West Hampshire Structure plan and the decision that Burley is definitely not to have a by-pass, I wonder how much longer we shall be able to enjoy the idyllic scenes and sounds portrayed in “Nature Notes” in our Parish magazine every month.
With the closing of so many other entries to the Forest from the A.31 and with the huge notice on Poulner Hill now advertising the fact that there is no right turn coming from the West for eight miles after Picket Post, it seems inevitable that there will be even more traffic coming through the village in future. I have just kept a census of cars, lorries and coaches at different times of day over a period of several days coming through Burley Street in both directions, and find that an average of well over 600 vehicles an hour pass through between 2 and 5 p.m. Bank Holiday (5th May) was a relatively quiet one, with thirty caravans during one hour, but one wonders what the next and ensuing holiday months will be like. Having lived where a quiet residential area was turned into a nightmare when the M 1 was extended through its shopping centre to link up with the London docks, houses having their front gardens lopped off, curves in the road straightened out and the shopping area turned into a six-lane highway with huge lorries charging through at all hours, I wonder if Burley should not be joining the ranks of the protestors with more vigour. It would be a sad day if Sandy Shoot and the Library corner were to be straightened out in order for traffic to get through more quickly.
With the closing of so many other entries to the Forest from the A.31 and with the huge notice on Poulner Hill now advertising the fact that there is no right turn coming from the West for eight miles after Picket Post, it seems inevitable that there will be even more traffic coming through the village in future. I have just kept a census of cars, lorries and coaches at different times of day over a period of several days coming through Burley Street in both directions, and find that an average of well over 600 vehicles an hour pass through between 2 and 5 p.m. Bank Holiday (5th May) was a relatively quiet one, with thirty caravans during one hour, but one wonders what the next and ensuing holiday months will be like. Having lived where a quiet residential area was turned into a nightmare when the M 1 was extended through its shopping centre to link up with the London docks, houses having their front gardens lopped off, curves in the road straightened out and the shopping area turned into a six-lane highway with huge lorries charging through at all hours, I wonder if Burley should not be joining the ranks of the protestors with more vigour. It would be a sad day if Sandy Shoot and the Library corner were to be straightened out in order for traffic to get through more quickly.
S.V.