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Liphook square - AF (12th Mar 2024  21:14:13) Just a thought why is the square called the square, there is no square. The Liphook spider would be more accurate

Re: Liphook square - Bush (13th Mar 2024  07:00:24) La Lipiazza?

Re: Liphook square - geoff (13th Mar 2024  09:00:17) Have you never been to Times Square, the most visited place on the planet? Well it's not square either and if they can get away with it why not Liphook.

Re: Liphook square - Joe (13th Mar 2024  10:12:22) I imagine that before the roundabouts were built and it was cobbled it would have looked more of a traditional square. I think road alterations have had a big influence on the appearance too.

Re: Liphook square - Russ (13th Mar 2024  10:23:29) When the A3 came through and the longmoor road joined the headly road the Anchor annex ran around the edge of longmoor road and the Haselmere road was a T junction. No flower beds it was much more of a square and when the stage coaches changed at the Anchor it was the hub of the village. Unfortunately it’s being devastated by traffic which is such a shame and the powers to be don’t seem to care.

Re: Liphook square - M (13th Mar 2024  12:20:53) Cars, Lorries and Buses don't like Squares, only Circles........ hence the roundabouts!

Re: Liphook square - Liphook Heritage Centre (13th Mar 2024  15:09:39) The Liphook Heritage Centre located at the Millennium Centre has a lot of information and photos of The Square and much more. liphookheritage.org.uk shows the opening hours and further information. Well worth a visit!

Re: Liphook square - Nikki (14th Mar 2024  13:19:54) My coffee shop would need to be renamed to Number One The Spider! Doesn’t roll off the tongue as well ha ha! numberonethesquare.co.uk

Re: Liphook square - D (14th Mar 2024  14:16:03) You beat me to it, Russ. I am right now looking at an aerial photograph of Liphook when the annex was still standing (mid seventies ish). I always, as you say considered the square the area in front of the Anchor and the annex which would have stretched from the newsagent to what is now the top of Headley Road. I would walk past the Anchor to school and alongside the annex before doing a sharp left onto the top of Headley Road. As you say, Longmoor Road t-jucnctioned with Headley Road at the time. I remember seeing artic lorries negotiating the sharp left hand turn from Portsmouth end with ease, but I think drivers had both more skill, foresight and common sense than they do today. Shame it was demolished it was a beautiful building, but the powers that be do seem to pick and choose what they keep in our conservation square.

Re: Liphook square - Russ (14th Mar 2024  15:00:33) Yes D so different today. The annex only went as far as the corner about where the flower bed is it was all open along the front you could park all the way along around the tree. The entrance in longmoor road wasn’t there just the annex. Army lorries and tanks all the time going to the ESD opposite Hiscocks and a big tank lorry wash about where the end of Sainsburys is . But of course we didn’t have the volume of traffic then it’s gone completely crazy now completely ruining the square.

Re: Liphook square - Russ (14th Mar 2024  16:23:30) Just remembered back when it was all open in front of the Anchor my wife parked by the tree she had only just passed her test and we had changed our car to a large Austin 1800 she miss judged pulling away and ended up stuck on the tree stone work I had to go and jack it off bless her cotton socks.

Re: Liphook square - PR (14th Mar 2024  17:19:00) What lovely posts, of memories. I recall, having escaped the clutches of the dreadful Churcher's College and being thrown out in 1967 for being ' Too Stupid ' hitch hiking home. Picked up by an MGA, we blasted down the old A3, shortly after driving at a sensible pace through Liphook, we were over taken by an Austin Healey 3000, my kindly lift looked at me and said ' How I would like those extra 1500 cc ' Happy Days,

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