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Aerial Photo Of Ganger Camp 1947 Ganger Camp Photos Plan Of Ganger Camp
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The first memories I have of the Woodley area were the huts of Ganger Camp, an ex P.O.W (site No 41) which was used as temporary housing by the local Romsey & Stockbridge Council. I moved into one of the huts in 1947. Some of the huts were made of concrete panels and some with felt exteriors. When I first lived in Ganger Camp there were still some ex P.O.W's living in some of the huts. They were mainly Italian and Polish. There was still a guard house on the site and a massive water tower. The water tower was very often climbed by the children that lived their. In 1958 the Council started building proper brick house’s on the site, these gradually replaced all the huts and became Woodley Close. In one of the photos below the top half of Ganger Camp had been demolished. The black huts can be seen in the distance along side a smaller water tower. In the middle 60,s the Great Woodley estate was starting to be built with prices starting from £2,999. A shopping precinct was also built at Warren Gardens.
Entrance to Ganger Camp, Braishfield Rd. 1957 (Now Woodley Close)
Top end of second row at Ganger Camp Woodley Romsey
Concrete dwellings at Ganger Camp
Valda Reeves in the "Front Row" of Ganger camp, Woodley Romsey
Some Young Ladies At Ganger Camp, Woodley Romsey Jenny Woods, Janice Gerrard, Beryl Woods, Jackie Woods, Susan Murphy and ?
The Scivier family with John Osman (Right) at Ganger Camp, Woodley Romsey
Eileen Connell & daughter Annette at Ganger Camp Woodley
"Front Row" huts at Ganger Camp, Woodley Romsey in 1958
Kids at Ganger Camp Woodley Romsey on Coronation Day 1953
Water Tower at entrance to Ganger Camp Woodley, by Braishfield Road
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Fifty one years ago one of the largest helicopters in the world, a Vertol H21 from the United States Air Force, made a force landing in a field next to Ganger Camp (Woodley Close).
It spent nearly 21 hours grounded. The red and silver 22-seater twin rotor machine, came from Braintree in Essex. It had left its base with a crew of four to fly to Exeter. It refuelled at Greenham Common, and took a different course to avoid bad weather. Visibility then got so poor that it made an emergency landing in Woodley, Romsey. No one got hurt. A nice gesture by the Americans was to let dozens of local children go on board to have a look around. They entered the helicopter at the front end and left through a door at the rear. |
Vertol H21 from the United States |
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