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Photos of 2ESD Workshops, Liphook - Sue Hodgkinson (17th Nov 2010 - 12:53:29) Does any one have photos of 2ESD Workshops before they were demolished? Or does any one know where I might find photos?

Re: Photos of 2ESD Workshops, Liphook - Ian B (23rd Nov 2010 - 16:49:55) Suggest you might try the bramshott andliphook preservation society @ 12 london road, liphook.

Re: Photos of 2ESD Workshops, Liphook - Sue Hodgkinson (28th Nov 2010 - 21:52:25) Thank you Ian - I will certainly give them a try.

Re: Photos of 2ESD Workshops, Liphook - Alan Pearce (5th Dec 2010 - 20:32:32) As an historian, and currently researching my family history, having lived in the station house throughout the second world war, I would love to know to what the queery refers to. Does it have anything to do with the ordanance depot that was operative until the end of the first Gulf war? - this was of course, rail served. If this was not the case, where and what was 2ESD Workshops? Please, someone must have an answer! Thanks, Alan Pearce

Re: Photos of 2ESD Workshops, Liphook - Sue Hodgkinson (26th Dec 2010 - 19:14:09) 2ESD Workshops were sited where the current Sainsbury's complex has been built.

Re: Photos of 2ESD Workshops, Liphook - Jaybee (27th Dec 2010 - 09:05:58) Please let me know for what purpose the photographs are required.

Re: Photos of 2ESD Workshops, Liphook - Alan Pearce (30th Dec 2010 - 12:47:49) Thanks Sue for explaining the whereabouts of this site, it is, as I suspected the same place as the OSU. It was, of course, all located in the big field that stretched from the rear of the station goods yard almost up to the Haslemere Road. All part of the Chiltlee Manor grounds. At the extreme north-eastern end of the site, bordering the Haslemere Road and with access roads to the main site, was a hutted camp area. Incidently, do many photographs or plans exist of this vast site? There were several hundred civilian workers employed within, not all local I'll grant you, unfortunately camera films were hard to come by in the war, and I was but a mere young lad!! I too, would like to rekindle memories. Thanks, Alan Pearce

Re: Photos of 2ESD Workshops, Liphook - sue hodgkinson (11th Jan 2011 - 10:53:03) Photos are available from the Bramshott & Liphook Preservation Society - they were allowed to take photos prior to the demolition of the site

Re: Photos of 2ESD Workshops, Liphook - sue hodgkinson (11th Jan 2011 - 10:54:34) Jaybee, the photos are being used for my memoirs. I used to live in Liphook and my father worked at 2ESD until August 1966.

Re: Photos of 2ESD Workshops, Liphook - Alan Pearce (11th Jan 2011 - 14:03:40) As mentioned in my previous posts, I am an ex-resident of Liphook, also compiling my past and family history. I am a member of the Bramshott and Liphook Preservation Society, and would like to avail myself of these photographs, but I now live in rural Norfolk, so making it rather difficult to just pop round the corner and place an order! Perhaps, in the fullness of time, someone can advise me on the quantity, sizes and prices of same, to include postage please. Now to Sue - or anyone else for that matter, that can pass on personal accounts of the workings of the 'depot', I would be pleased to communicate with them. When we left Liphook in mid 1945, the site was well under construction, with all the work associated with the rail connection to the main line complete. As previously stated, my father was very closely involved in the railway side of the operation, so naturally that side of things within the site are paramount to putting the past together. If anybody can help, or knows someone who knows someone else,(etc,etc), please get in touch. Any expenses whilst doing so, would be met. Whilst digging for information, do these names ring a bell with anyone:- Mr. Joy and Mr. Wakefield. They were both Leading Porters at the station during the war, (on opposite shifts), and at least one of them - if not both, lived in the railway cottages on the Midhurst Road, just over the railway bridge on the right hand side. These railway owned cottages still stand, unlike those that stood in the station forecourt. They accessed the station by way of the orchard and allotments that stood between the down platform and the side gate to the cottages, not over the bridge. Older residents may recall, or at least heard, Mr. Wakefield announcing trains, for it was often related that his 'booming' could be heard in the village!! Thinking caps on please Ladies and Gents. Thanking anyone in anticipation. Alan Pearce

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