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Blimey!! - Eneida (25th Jul 2007 - 17:46:53) I came across this website while wasting my time on the computer.....has anyone actually seen him then?? www.zurichmansion.org/villages/bramshott.htm Eneida here he is www.ghosthunting.org.uk/...

Re: Blimey!! - ellen (25th Jul 2007 - 19:34:14) Have not seen no.....but would love to...fancy a visit one very dark night? X

Re: Blimey!! - Steve Read (25th Jul 2007 - 20:38:00) Had the privilege of meeting the man once many years ago. As kids we used to raid his conker tree, he came out one day and asked us in for a drink of squash and put it too us that if we would like any conkers from his tree rather than beat the living daylights out of the tree we could borrow his ladder and climb up. "A bit more civilised" is the way he put it, funny how you remember things but he struck me as a real gentleman. Bit different today, probably would have had an asbo stuck on me or been shot at by the owner. By the way anybody know the answer to the spam sum, took me ages to get on tonight.

Re: Blimey!! - tim (25th Jul 2007 - 21:01:20) ed, Having looked at the pics graveyard 1,2 and 3 and noticing the frost on the ground i would say the photographer took some pretty impressive shots of his breath, in the cold night air!

Re: Blimey!! - Finchie (29th Jul 2007 - 09:10:10) From the Bramshott entry in Wikipedia "Bramshott is also rumoured to be haunted, with 16 regular ghosts including a long-dead cat and a pig". Must be true then ! After the occassional drink, arriving at the station in that very small timeframe when Apple Cars grab some sleep, I have been forced to walk this Bramshott route many times. Boris' house is the least intimidating as there are street lights there. There is not alot that intimidates me - but I have to say there are other parts of the walk I do at a very healthy jog with my eyes closed ! End result is by the time I get home I am completely sober and it takes me half an hour for my heart to return to normal (and that's not because of the jog) !!! There are also two cats that have 99 lives, a grey one and a ginger one. Both enjoy playing chicken in front of my Chelsea Tractor (I need one - the road is narrow with potholes, and I have to drop the kids off to school somehow :-). Cheers, Finchie

Re: Blimey!! - liz (30th Jul 2007 - 12:32:51) Anyone interested in the Bramshott ghosts might like to read the article by June Wright in the last Liphook Magazine. Includes most of the ghosts I had heard of and one or two I hadn't. It might also explain some of Finchie's fears!

Re: Blimey!! - Eneida (30th Jul 2007 - 14:24:04) Hi Liz, I read that article and found it fascinating!! How about someone organizing a guided tour of Bramshott on the night of Halloween.....might be fun :D Eneida

Re: Blimey!! - karen f (30th Jul 2007 - 14:51:56) I too read the fascinating article in last months community magazine and it just confirmed what I had already been told over the years, Bramshott is one of the most haunted villages in Hampshire (if not the most) and made me absolutely sure that I wasn't going to buy the house in Church Road that I looked round twice. It was the part about the curtains moving for no obvious reason on Christmas Eve that clinched it for me......I wouldn't have got a wink of sleep!! karen f

Re: Blimey!! - Steve Read (30th Jul 2007 - 18:39:49) If you want a spooky one, have a walk up through the Hangers and out at the cementry just on dark. Then down to Karloffs and up Tunbridge Lane to the Headley Rd. Bet you will be glad to see the street lights on the Headley Rd, providing we have not had a power cut.

Re: Blimey!! - Duncan (30th Jul 2007 - 23:45:59) Steve I know we spent a lot of time up there as kids but why were they called the Hangers? And what about the bomb pits, near you, walked through there the other day, only a fraction of the size i remember!

Re: Blimey!! - JM (31st Jul 2007 - 10:05:13) Hi What about walking down the 'Hollow' (or 'Ollor' if you're Liphook born and bred) of course this is now otherwise known as the 'rupp'. 'Bramshott boys' will remember this short cut. This is apparently where the coach and horses takes a short cut after its ghostly glide down Rectory lane, it then proceeds on its journey to Portsmouth via the lower Tunbridge Lane avoiding the Toll house on the A3. Adams Cottage is one of the most haunted houses in Hampshire - I defy anyone not to run past there at night. Have you ever noticed the chill in the air between there and Yew House/Limes Close!!!!!! Anybody taking a walk through the Churchyard should beware of the 'talking tombstone' it gives out more of a moaning sound than a whisper - could just be the wind through the broken slabs - still if you're game try it in the dark - I dare you. I lived in Bramshott for most of my life and have very happy memories of my childhood there, unfortunately the heart went out of Bramshott when the little shop and post office closed almost at the same time the school closed and went into Liphook - Passfield beware you too could become a retirement haven! Then you will have to employ a child catcher - have you noticed how few children live in Bramshott - sign of the times I suppose.

Re: Blimey!! - liz (31st Jul 2007 - 10:31:19) 'Hangers' are hilltop or hillside woodland, often in Hampshire and usually on chalk downland. 'The Hangers in Bramshott don't quite fit the definition but I understood that's where the name came from. We used to walk through the churchyard and hangers to the Carnival and back (almost halloween!). I wouldn't do it now - far more scary things than ghosts! (And I don't think what we thought were 'the bomb craters' were anything to do with bombs!)

Re: Blimey!! - Eneida (31st Jul 2007 - 14:17:01) I've got an old book about British villages which includes Bramshott. It begins by saying: "Peace and quiet played little part in Bramshott's past. From Roman times until the 18th century the village was a centre for the mining and smelting of Wealdon iron; and in the 16th and 17th centuries, when the industry was at its height, the woods were stripped by charcoal-makers, the land was pockmarked with excavations for ore......." Do you think your 'bomb craters' might be part of these ancient works?? Eneida

Re: Blimey!! - liz (31st Jul 2007 - 15:52:32) Wrong kind of rock through the Hangers unfortunately but could material could have been taken to build the nearby aquifer etc. I suppose.

Re: Blimey!! - Steve Read (1st Aug 2007 - 19:55:39) Duncan, The bomb pits are smaller now than when we were kids. They have been filled up with all the burnt out nicked motors. LOL. I remember the old shop and post office at Branshott, always called in on the way home from the school. Anybody out there who can name the house where you were allowed to fish after doing half an hours gardening for the owners first. Clue: You could cross over to watch the barrels being made. Answers on a postcard and no phoning a friend.

Re: Blimey!! - duncan (1st Aug 2007 - 23:47:25) Joe Phillips lived next to the shop in 'Chez Nous', not called that now ,went fishing with Dean a few times, but never had to do any work that i can remember.

Re: Blimey!! - liz (2nd Aug 2007 - 07:39:31) Can't remember anyone paying for fishing either Steve, I think you was had! - As they say.

Re: Blimey!! - JM (2nd Aug 2007 - 09:44:35) Hi Steve Would that be Coopersbridge farm? If I am correct the grounds there were once quite spectacular - designed by Capability Brown or someone of that calibre and era. Anyone who has never done Bramshott gardens should, because you would never believe the history of some of the houses and the gardens are lovely. The whole expierence will make it clear why people love to live in Bramshott despite its ghostly inhabitants.

Re: Blimey!! - barbara (2nd Aug 2007 - 10:18:35) please tell me where the tollhouse on the A3 was? Also why do I have to do maths now before I submit an entry?

Re: Blimey!! - JM (2nd Aug 2007 - 12:02:38) Hi Barbara The toll house was that lovely pink house which is in the the layby that used to be the old A3 just after Radford Bridge.

Re: Blimey!! - Barbara Easton (2nd Aug 2007 - 12:46:02) thanks for info any more local history would be good, as not a lot is written about liphook and the area, where was tintown? was it Bramshott or Liphook or both?

Re: Blimey!! - JM (2nd Aug 2007 - 13:55:21) Hi Tintown was at Bramshott chase - it was for the Canadian soldiers during first world war. Liphook preservation society could tell you all about the history of Liphook - why not look them up

Re: Blimey!! - Barbara Easton (2nd Aug 2007 - 14:27:09) Thanks again for info perhaps you should write a guide to liphook!

Re: Blimey!! - Steve Read (2nd Aug 2007 - 22:43:46) Coopers Bridge, correct. Yep we had to do half an hours gardening before they would let us fish the pond. Not bad getting all your weeding done for free. Does anybody know what happened to the monastery up at Downlands, is it still there or whats in its place? Just curious as it years since I've been up that way.

Re: Blimey!! - duncan (2nd Aug 2007 - 23:23:06) The Preservation Society have a series of books in print all very interesting. One is Bramshott, Liphook and the Canadians, tell you all about the army camps at Bramshott. Available in some local shops

Re: Blimey!! - liz (3rd Aug 2007 - 08:26:25) Monestry became a convent then a nursing home and is now upmarket flats with associated new housing. You will have seen them advertised as 'Ludshott Manor'.

Re: Blimey!! - JM (3rd Aug 2007 - 09:24:33) Hi Yes Ludshott Manor is now 'up market' housing but I must say that I approve - they took the Manor back to the original building (they took down all those nasty add ons) and have improved the look of place no end. I see that Downlands (Mr and Mrs Polands old estate) is on the market - only a cool 9 million!!!!! Watch that space I reckon!

Re: Blimey!! - liz (3rd Aug 2007 - 13:46:04) Yes Ludshott Manor has been done up quite well on the whole but I think the huge brick pillars at the entrance are a bit 'Essex' - but at least they don't directly affect the manor.

Re: Blimey!! - barbara (6th Aug 2007 - 16:46:28) Where is downlands? These places are very private obviously! Also there is an application in for change of use at Inwood Stoves in the square to a restaurant perhaps you will get a skinny latte after all. PS does a skinny latte mean I will lose weight or is it just an excuse to charge a fortune for a cup of instant coffee with milk?

Re: Blimey!! - liz (6th Aug 2007 - 17:11:24) Go up Church Road in Bramshott, past the church into Rectory Lane towards Waggoners Wells. Downlands is the very large Georgian house on your left before the T junction at the end. (Left to Waggoners, right to the A3, although I think that road is closed at the mo'. The estate reaches up to Ludshott Common and back to the Liphook Road (to Headley) and Gentles Lane at Passfield.

Re: Blimey!! - liz (6th Aug 2007 - 17:14:42) Sorry, its me again. Wasn't Inwood Stoves a cafe many years ago? I was only very, very, young of course! - Used to get the escapees from Forest Mere (at least that's what my Grandma told me).

Re: Blimey!! - j (6th Aug 2007 - 17:34:33) LOL maybe it is made with skimmed milk instead of semi skimmed

Re: Blimey!! - Steve Read (6th Aug 2007 - 19:32:16) Now I'am confused, I knew Mrs. Poland well and obviously where her house is. The monastery I'am refering to used to be the turning after where the school was on the left. Follow that all the way, over the river and up on the left hand side. Where they used to hold the Downlands Horse Trials many years ago, or have I lost it?

Re: Blimey!! - Dick (6th Aug 2007 - 21:17:25) Liz, I don't ever remember a cafe on the site of "Inwood Stoves". It was known as "Bromleys" when I was a nipper and they sold, among other things, Stationery. Steve.. The old Monastery as we knew it, has now been turned into luxury flats and you don't have to shave the top of your head to get in there now, just cough up half a million quid. I used to deliver the newspapers to Boris Karloff. He gave me my first ever 50p tip, one Christmas. Just as I was putting the paper in the letter box, he opened the door. Frightened the bloody life out of me...... But he was a smashing bloke.

Re: Blimey!! - JM (7th Aug 2007 - 00:08:50) Hi Steve, you are correct and the lane is Woolmer Lane - it takes you all the way to Ludshott Manor (the monastry as we Liphookites call it) and then if you carry on you end up on Ludshott common but if you go left it brings you to the farm, where all the chestnut trees are and if you stay with that lane you come out on the bottom road where Bramshott Court is (where the Quaker ghost is). The land surrounding the monastry is all part of the 'downland' estate. I believe Mrs Poland moved into one of the 'smaller' houses on the estate when she sold the big house that Liz is talking of. As I said watch that space because lots of land (green belt - weve heard that before). Ludshott Manor is where the first Catholic chapel was in the Parish, however I think the story goes - that the C of E residents were not happy with Lord McDonald and burnt it down - he refurbished it but then left land for a Church where the Catholic Church is on the Headley Road. My sister and I had a very similar experience of Boris Karloff as you Dick - we were picking celendines from his bank (there was no wall then) and he came out of his french doors wearing a silk smoking jacket and he said 'Good morning girls' now anyone reading may think yeah so what! but he had a presence and a very deep voice! I froze and my sister ran back up the road shouting something about the monster. Laughable now but 40 odd years ago not so funny, there was no kids TV as today and we were all quite sheltered. Totally agree though Dick he was a gentleman (but do you think he got a kick out of scaring us - just a little?). Have you ever noticed that wall is the same shape as a coffin? Who remembers Lady Rankioller (think thats how you spell it) and that lovely navitity scene she used to put out each Christmas, first at Covers and then on the Headley Road, what about Mrs Stanley - you could catch her chatting to the tramps as they made their way to Portsmouth on the A3 - very generous lady and always had time for most people. Talking of characters who remembers the 'Bird Man'?

Re: Blimey!! - liz (7th Aug 2007 - 08:42:11) Downlands Horse Trails was held on the Downlands estate (which surrounds Ludshott Manor and its land so perhaps that's why Steve is confused). Some of the best viewing of the horsetrials was from the bridge at Spring Pond down Woolmer Lane (which is left after what was the school in Bramshott). Could be wrong about the cafe (on Inwood Stoves site) but it would be interesting to know if anyone else remembers it, but the horsetrials I am certain about! I can remember a Mr & Mrs Morley and then Mr & Mrs Brown running Bramshott stores, plus the old bakery building (not in use even then and subsequently demolished) and the Karloffs. But no birdman, sorry!

Re: Blimey!! - karen f (11th Aug 2007 - 22:38:32) Quite seriously, who wants to organise a tour of all these places for us 'newish' but very interested Liphookians. I am fascinated by all of these stories, when I was a child I used to visit the churchyard with my grandparents (who lived in Church Road, Bramshott) and take walks through the lanes and recently my mum has confessed that she did see several ghosts in her bedroom (at Church Road) when she was a teenager!! I would be very interested in visiting some of the places mentioned in the postings but not sure I would be happy to go after dark!! Who else would like a guided tour!? Karen F

Re: Blimey!! - Eneida (12th Aug 2007 - 11:49:52) Hi Karen, I'm always fascinated by the history of places I live in and would love to join you on a guided tour....but perhaps not in the dark on the eve of Halloween ;) Eneida

Re: Blimey!! - oscar (13th Aug 2007 - 10:19:19) I can remember Mr and Mrs Duffey had Bramshott stores untill it shut . Used to go in there after school .. And fishing at Coopers bridge with Steve ! Also Conford park and Passfield mill ! The only Cafe i remember was in midhurst road where the chinese is now, run by the Spensleys . Always used to put the monkey spanner on the juke box!! Cant remember a "birdman" OSCAR....

Re: Blimey!! - Barbara Easton (17th Aug 2007 - 13:14:06) Perhaps someone at the preservation society might organise something, I would go and also pay a small fee for the walk these places are all fascinating to hear about!

Re: Blimey!! - Eneida (17th Aug 2007 - 14:31:12) That's a good idea Barbara! Perhaps someone could organise a Charity Ghost Walk with donations going to a good local cause. Or would Health & Safety have to get involved and complicate everything? Eneida

Re: Blimey!! - Boris (18th Aug 2007 - 01:16:47) Barbara, Perhaps you might like to grab that bull by the horns and do that.

Re: Blimey!! - karen (5th Sep 2007 - 19:15:52) Hi everyone Have been away on holiday and just catching up with your comments. Has anyone organised the charity ghost walk yet? Just thinking, we could donate the money to the Carnival Committee (a very good local cause). The committee has to raise a majority of the funds need to stage the carnival themselves by holding events throughout the year, so this would be another fun way of earning them (us) some pennies! Obviously very biased as I am on the commitee! No doubt you are all warming up for the sponsored walk on Sunday 16th?! No, not yet, well you still have time to get your sponsorship form - meet at the Deers Hut 8.45 am. Come on guys, it's for the village! karen

Re: Blimey!! - Eneida (5th Sep 2007 - 20:04:47) Hi Karen, Yes....that would be a brilliant idea...I thought Barbara was going to organize a Ghost Walk :) BTW just been reading the latest Community Magazine...very interesting article about St. Mary's Church....loved all the old adverts for the shops that used to be here, obviously lots of people wore boots :D and there was also a letter to the Editor about another ghost!! I just love the magazine....I suppose I really should send them a cheque!!!! Eneida I just love

Re: Blimey!! - Barbara Easton (7th Sep 2007 - 10:30:44) I have made enquiries with a local historian I know Jo Smith from Headley who might do it, hopefully there will be enough people because he may charge for doing it- I am not a member of the Preservation society but if anyone reads this who is they could suggest someone for me to contact who wouldnt charge!

Re: Blimey!! - John (28th Oct 2007 - 11:44:57) Hello folks. I spent a few weeks of the summer of 1983 sleeping out in Ludshott common and surrounding Bramshott parish area and fell head over heels in love with the area. I was a teenager living in Farnham at the time. In relation to ghosts, I am schizophrenic. I see all sorts of stuff, and to me it’s just a distraction though. When I first contracted schizophrenia I decided to do something about sifting reality from fantasy. I had heard that the area was a bit haunted, and I was pretty terrified with the idea, but I decided to jump in. 83 was a fine year. Well, you get that lovely strawberry smell of combined heather, pine and bracken, with the sun on full tilt, and I was intoxicated from the start. I slept like a babe in the wood. Because I loved the area so much my illness reduced. I got less “voices”, and less unwanted images. I read about all the local stories, and asked the elder people about what had happened there. I was quite taken the stories; witches, cauldrons, devil’s jumps, well hung highwaymen, Boris, workhouse, Led Zepelin etc. I also noticed the people there were pretty spirited. The accent is pretty nice, and even kids my age were livelier than I knew in the suburbs of Farnham. It was a peak experience. I made great friends in Headley Down. I love the stories, though I am pretty much a scientist as a result. My interest in the nature of the Hindhead area, got me into studying botany, and I am now a scientists and professor in Hong Kong. I seriously know the difference between fantasy and reality. Reality is great, but fantasy is intoxicating, even when its unwanted. And there are always those parts of fantasy, that as if by magic, can become reality. There’s nothing more practical than a good theory, and nothing more practically inspiring than a good story.

Re: Blimey!! - Sue Hodgkinson (10th Feb 2015 - 17:35:05) Dick - some years since you posted on this site enquiring about the Cafe on the site of Inwood Stoves. Well when it was Bromleys Stores the ladies there did turn part of the shop into a small tea house. Not a cafe, more a place to have tea and a slice of cake. My friend Diane Hector and I sat there one time feeling very grownup. We were no more than 16 at the time!

Re: Blimey!! - Terry (10th Feb 2015 - 21:42:33) I vaguely remember Bromleys having a section to the left of the shop where they for a while served tea and cakes. Who remembers the Galleon Tearooms where HSBC is now? It was also once the Post Office.

Blimey!! Ghosts - Gary (6th Mar 2018 - 19:04:14) Any new liphook bramshott ghost info....?

Re: Blimey!! - Gordon Ede (6th Aug 2018 - 14:37:14) I went to school at Bramshott School back in the 1940s, my father and his two brothers had gone there before the first world war. While I was there we celebrated 100 years of it being a school, Before it was a school the school house was a pub, reputed to be used by smugglers hence the tale of a tunnel to the church, unlikely, what is it 200 yards away? When I started at the school I was living with my grandparents at Marshes Hollow. walked to school at first then Dad bought me a bike, so cycled in from then on. Sometimes on the way home , a couple of us would cycle down to Radford Bridge cafe and go round to back the door to beg for a crust of bread and butter, we were never refused. After a year or so we moved to Downlands where my mother worked for Mrs Poland in the house, we lived in the two rooms above what had been the dairy. I became friendly with David Poland, many a game of billiards in the billiard room, etc, etc. Used to walk down Rectory Lane to school every day. Many times went down the hollow to the shop. Never saw a ghost though.

Re: Blimey!! - J (20th Oct 2018 - 08:50:33) Back in 2007 there is mention in this thread of an article in the community magazine about the Bramshott Ghosts. Does anyone have a copy?

Re: Blimey!! - Paul Robinson (20th Oct 2018 - 15:00:40) Back issues of the Community Magazine can be read at the Heritage Centre. Paul Robinson

Re: Blimey!! - J (21st Oct 2018 - 08:29:54) Thank you, I will take a wander along there sometime and hopefully get some good spooky stories! :)

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