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Old A3 through Liphook - Steve miller (31st May 2024  21:33:03) Can anyone on here remember the A3 running through Liphook before the bypass. I used through the Village in 1980 and seem to recall traffic lights at the junction with Haslemere Road but I am not sure how it worked at the Longmoor Rd/Headley Road junction. We moved to Liphook in 1988 and my wife is adamant that there were mini roundabouts in place then but I am not convinced!

Re: Old A3 through Liphook - Russ (31st May 2024  22:39:12) Steve go to the heritage centre you can see all about liphook there. No traffic lights anywhere in liphook never used to have crossings either. Used to be able to ride my pony through liphook with dog running on the pavement no problem.

Re: Old A3 through Liphook - Darren Langford (1st Jun 2024  00:04:02) The mini roundabouts on the A3 came along late seventies following the demolition of the Anchor Annex. Don't remember any traffic lights where you describe.

Re: Old A3 through Liphook - Ian (1st Jun 2024  08:41:43) Remember the traffic jams coming back from Hayling Island! Lived in Guildford at the time, traffic jams at Petersfield, Liphook, Hindhead, Milford, Charterhouse!!!! Used to be a nightmare journey.

Re: Old A3 through Liphook - Russ (1st Jun 2024  10:02:33) Yes Ian how times have changed remember watching the traffic on a Sunday evening queued back up over cold ash hill and back right across the golf course. Buses coaches cars . Tower road a sandy track with a gate half way up shut once a year to keep it private. The avenue only went half way then it went into a farm Mr Swinsteads . Tunbridge crescent a sandy track with pigs in a field the mead a chicken farm. How liphook has changed the trouble is the traffic has come back three fold and the original roads can’t take the volume the side roads are much busier than before the infrastructure has not kept pace.

Re: Old A3 through Liphook - er (1st Jun 2024  12:14:29) Previously, long ago of course, the A3 London to Portsmouth Road was the main (if not the only proper road) and so was continuous, with the famous Liphook bend winding round the two pubs through the 'Square'. Camp Haslemere Road was then at best a side lane off it, as would have been Longmoor Road and Headley Road, the dentist was then a private house (a lovely old lady lived there) with much bigger garden and the Anchor had a railway line and annexe in its garden. Much of this is before my time but I've seen photos probably at the Heritage Centre, worth a visit if your curious, also to digress more (my apologies), Hollycombe Steam have one of the old engines that I think sat in the Anchor garden for a while but was actually used on the Longmoor line, not sure if they've got it going yet, a lot of heritage round here based on Liphook strategic location midway between London and the Naval Dockyards, a lot of famous people stayed at the Anchor too! I'm happy to be corrected on any of this my memory is not so good nowadays!

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