Andover, Hampshire

A Childhood Revisited

So many memories, where to start? I was born 1961 and grew up in The Crescent, just off Weyhill Road.......the rattling trains full of gravel making the house shake, the outside toilet (visits in the middle of the night in winter were at olympic record level), Mrs Mabeys apple trees...scrumping i think it was called! The smell of the pig... [more]

Winchester Street Quaker Burial Ground

This picture brings back childhood memories of the 1940s. Behind the wall on the left was a Quaker burial ground, a small grassy area on which one was free to stand upon.Opposite the wall were thatched cottages which were destroyed by fire later in the same decade I believe. A friend of both me and my sister was living in one... [more]

Mother's brother and sisters

Just after the war Dad, Mum and I would travel every other weekend to visit aunts and uncles and cousins on our Norton motorbike and sidecar. We usually based our visit with Aunt Flo and Uncle Stan (a wartime despatch rider, now back with his wife), they lived at 27 Wellington Road at the top end of a steep road about... [more]

The Old Andover Grammar School

This building, now a museum was in the 1940s the home of a famous old Andover gentleman Mr A C Bennett. He wrote a book about Andover St Mary's Church and played the organ in the church. He was also my piano teacher at 2 shillings a lesson(10p) and I don't think anyone tried his great patience more than I... [more]

Hampshire Photographic Memories

The Town Hall dates back to 1826; the building's Greek Doric style makes it one of Andover's most distinguished landmarks. Either side of the market place in front of it are various 19th century buildings, some of which were quite new when this photograph was taken.

Hampshire Photographic Memories

The Town Hall dates back to 1826; the building's Greek Doric style makes it one of Andover's most distinguished landmarks. Either side of the market place in front of it are various 19th century buildings, some of which were quite new when this photograph was taken.

Hampshire Photographic Memories

The name of the town was first recorded in AD 955 as Andeferas. Andover was a municipal borough as long ago as the reign of King John, and later became an established centre for the wool trade. Various Iron Age sites and encampments illustrate the area's wealth of history.