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Hi, just catching up on old Ringwood threads! we live at the farm that was Hurst Farm in 1942, and the main course of the River Avon was known, and marked on maps, as the Mill Stream.The town mill (Bartletts) was situated just North of the church under the course of the present A31, but it was demolished in the 1930s when the first bypass was built. The sluices are still visible and can be visited if one is feeling intrepid. The other mill on the Bickerley may also be a candidate but I think both had the Mill Stream name.

Good afternoon, I was looking at a Facebook page I frequent (Aircraft of the Cold War) and came across this message from a gentleman named Tom Leone, from North Carolina, USA. I was wondering whether we might be able to help as it seems a very worthwhile request: Mr Leone is aware of my posting.
 Hi fellas, during WW2 my dad was an Instructor pilot under the Arnold Scheme at A place called Darr aerotech in Albany
Ga. He instructed British flight cadets how to fly in American aircraft. He had one Cadet, Ken T Orton, who left a photo of himself and his address at the time(Twickenham) he later went KIA in 1944 in Burma flying P-47’s. I came upon his photo and would like to send it to his family. Have not been able to find them. Anyone help?

When I was a milkman, a Dutch couple on my round named their little girl Iona Marina which always made me smile, being a child of the '70s.

Funny how these things go, I was only thinking about this thread this afternoon. I was rummaging in a shed on the farm and in a box of 78s found a copy of The Donkey Serenade 

If you cross a rusty car with a hedge, do you get a British Leylandii??