This paper describes an attractive area for walks and its history. Remarkably, it manages to feel isolated and is like an island cut off from the rest of the world even though it is in a well-populated area. Nothing is signposted and therefore it is an adventure to explore it, and by the time one becomes familiar with it, the season will have changed to give an entirely new experience.
Written by Barry Chinchen
This describes four military camps built during the second World War.
These are
- Dutton Lane
- Chickenhall
- Camp C17 in Chestnut Avenue
- Camp C27 in Bournemouth Road
My name is Alice May Cawte and I was born on 9th January 1927. I can't remember much about that day of course but I was told by my dear mother that it was in Gosport. She and my Dad had rooms over a shop in the High Street. The shop was owned by a lady who sold all kinds of things that fishermen would need.I am now 76 years old and have visited the High Street which has of course changed and largely rebuilt post war and the site of the fishermen's shop is now aclothes shop, Q & S.
I was bom on the 24th August 1904, at No. 4 Common Road, Chandlers Ford, but the family moved to No. 9 Mount View, Eastleigh, so I started school at Winchester Road Infants with Miss Glanfield as the Headmistress. When I was old enough, I transferred to Chamberlayne Road School where Mr. Whetmore was the Headmaster. In Class I, Mr.
THE SOUTHAMPTON CHORAL UNION
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE FIRST 25 YEARS
After watching on 20th October, on BBC 2 TV, "A Living Antique", about Hilliers of Winchester, I was prompted to put pen to paper and record some of my own recollections about my first job with the firm in 1938. I was 15 years old and due, somewhat reluctantly, to leave St Thomas Church of England Boys’ School, Winchester, where I had spent four happy years.
ln his book, 'Eastleigh's Yesterdays', (1935), Drewitt stated his firm conviction that Ad Lapidem, a station of some kind which was situated on the Roman road about halfway between Venta (Winchester) and Clausentum (Bitterne) was Stoneham; and that the site was not that of the existing villages of North or South Stoneham but was that of Woodside.
Many of us love a day at the Races! The evocative names of the racecourses: Epsom, Newmarket, Newbury, Salisbury and so on, conjure up those glorious sunny days when you followed your
favourites with tingling excitement as they galloped at full speed towards the winning post.Perhaps you recall that your horse was usually bringing up the rear and almost invariably you lost
that bet you placed with complete confidence on the ‘dead cert’! Sometimes, and rarely, you had the thrill of a successful day financially. Always you had the pleasure of a day in the fresh air with
In early Victorian times the ecclesiastical parish of Hursley covered an enormous, though not densely populated area, taking in not just the present boundaries, but also Ampfield, Otterboume, much of Chandlers Ford, and parts of what is now Braishfield.
The Revd. John Keble became vicar in 1836, and even with the help of his curates,found the distances too great. Otterboume already had a very old church in Kiln Lane,which Keble replaced in 1838 with a new building nearer the centre of the village, one
of his curates becoming the first incumbent.
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