Valerie Panks’s childhood memories of Broomhill compound and an East Boldre childhood
Author: EBOH
Valerie Panks was born at Stoney Cross. Her grandmother (Mrs Rostigina) lived for many years in the Compound on the forest at East End. Her parents also lived there briefly but then moved their family to Stoney Cross and eventually to Broomhill Cottages in East End. She attended East Boldre school. She has memories of the people living on the forest at the Compound and of playing on the forest as a child.
After she married, she lived in Beaulieu and Sowley until moving to another house in Broomhill Cottages in East End.