Exploring Hampshire: The Village of Liss (My birthplace)
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- I am on a mission to find the exact place where I popped out into the world.
I am with novelist and actress, Elizabeth Housden, in the old village of Liss in Hampshire. She is taking me on a walk through the older part of the village, not to be confused with the newer, Victorian version that built up around the railway station. We pass the beautiful St Peter's Church, the Spread Eagle pub, where at one time the village stocks were, a hollow oak and then approach the the cottage hospital that some years ago, I was born.
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Watching this in 2023... One year and pm after having, sadly left England... Kiss is where I first stood... London road in the jolly drover... So lovely... Many walks up and down the Hillbrow road... Good fish and ships right on the way to the railway station... It's worth to see St Mary's church... And the parks and the surroundings...
High parts of Liss and the woods through which you can walk till Rake and other villages.
Plenty Grey squirrels, and so naturally beautiful places.
Miss it.
Lovely to find out that the Grange, in Petersfield hospital, was to tribute this hold hospital in Liss.
Petersfield is were I lived, right next to Swan Street...
THANKS RICHARDS FOR THIS VIDEO.
I am newly staying here for work am happy to see this video
What a charming, beautiful little village to have connections to! Loved all the historic build!!!
Very good, recently discovered all my family pre 1900 were from here and this has been my first look around :)
I was born there in 1960 , great to see my birth place.
Long way from Australia
Yes a very long way - thanks for watching.
I was born in liss, 1958, my uncle lived at west liss. I remember the Grange, visited many babies there from relatives
I lived there 14 years.
My maternal Great Grandparents Thomas Hooper & Eunice Perris lived at Berry Grove Cottage at Liss from 1907 - 1918, then several years in Greatham, and then at Alms Houses Liss 1922-1928. Eunice died in 1927 and Thomas moved to Petworth Ssx to live with family until died 1937. They are buried at St Mary's Liss. Great to see part of the village in your walk.
Fabulous to know you are connected in some way to Liss.
My Great Great Grandparents had a pub here in Liss in about 189?
Wow real beautiful place to be born and if I lived in that beautiful house and saw u vloging and videoing the house I'll call you in to give you a tour and some cake and tea or if you like coffee.
Well that would be very kind of you! :) I like coffee and tea and cake!
Having turned 60 last Dec I always hoped of going 'back 'ome '(leaving S.E. Canada) and living in a small village like this. Sadly it never happened when I tried to relocate and stayed with relatives in NW England in 2009 for 6 months, the job market took a nose dive so no go. Sometimes emigrating is not all it's cracked up to be.
Nice content , used to worked in a bakery in Liss , and live and worked in Empshott looking after racehorses
Lovely place Richard. Thank you.
A pleasure as always Geoff! Thanks for watching.
Thank you, interesting.
I too was born in the Grange but in 1948.
Our old family doctor Dr Pope lived in a house you walked by between the Spread Eagle pub and the Grange. He gave me a [life-saving?] tetanus jab one Sunday evening there as I was steadily seizing up!
Mai Zetterling, the actress lived up by the church in West Liss.
I went there a couple of times in the 1960's with her son Louis Lemkow who also caught the no 6 bus to Churchers College, the then local grammar school. The bus stop was outside the village shop almost opposite the church lane entrance.
A bit further down the road was my uncle's dairy farm at the Brown Teapot where I learnt to milk his Guernsey cows by hand. The farm is now under the A3 roundabout.
Glad you are all right now!
I see your examining the tree next to my favourite place to get fried chicken burgers
I've lived in Liss since Nov 96.
Looks like a lovely place.
There are relatives of HG Wells buried in St Peters churchyard plus some graves which are believed to be for knights from the Crusades.
Are there indeed. How interesting. Thanks for sharing that info. :)
In 1963 I was snowed in at my boarding school feeling great in meters of snow drifts in the wilds of Montgomeryshire. It was one of the coldest winters on record. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_1962%E2%80%9363_in_the_United_Kingdom
Ah yes - I was always told the year of my birth was a bad year - thanks for the wiki info too! :)
Morning Richard !
Good morning! I am in Hampshire in this video! :)
Yes Liss is very near to where I live
I thought it was! :)
Another fine video. St Peter’s church must have an interesting history to be a Presbyterian church - it’s clearly medieval; maybe Winchester diocese made it redundant and it was bought?
That is a great question - I sadly do not have the answer. :(
Grange Liss is now a nursing home.
Thanks for letting me know.
I was born in the Grange in 1951.
Well done - we share that birthplace!
I was born at the grange in 1972.
Oh wow! How brilliant - thanks for saying so!
I just come across this video and I was lucky enough to live in the old post office for a short while between 2008/2009. I was just wondering as I went to the Spread Eagle regularly at the time, the landlady told me it was haunted, is that true?
I don't know if it is haunted, but like so many pubs there is bound to be a tale or two.