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Odiham, Hampshire
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Historic maps of Odiham and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Odiham maps
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Odiham books
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Odiham Then and Now Photographic Memories
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Around Eastleigh including Chandler's Ford, Bishopstoke and Botley Living Memories
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Hampshire Living Memories
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3 Odiham photos appear in 2 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Odiham
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Julian's hunt story is almost right. I was living at the Chalk Pit at the time, and still do. It was about 1981, on a Saturday lunchtime, when the hunt came over the top, but it wasn't on Boxing Day. The hounds were chasing Hares. The leader of the hunt knew there was a main road so directed the hunt across... [more]
Shared on 05 October 2006
The chalk pit at Odiham looks much the same today as it did over 100 years ago, except that most of the buildings are no longer there. An old story I heard in the The Bell Pub, mentioned the local hunt gathering in the Bury Square on boxing day some years ago. They left in the direction of the Chalk Pit... [more]
Shared on 09 June 2006
Hampshire memories
My husband and I took his father, Ken Benwell, back to North Warnborough today, for his 90th birthday. He was born on 25th April 1919 and lived there until he was three years old. He then moved to Suffolk with his parents. He has never been back since.
He recognised Perrys Cottages straight away, as the place where his grandparents once... [more]
Shared on 25 April 2009
Lord Wandsworth College - John Edgar Smith born 27 March 1922
I wonder if you may have known John Edgar Smith (School No. 293) in the 'thirties'?
My beloved John always spoke very fondly of his years at Lord Wandsworth College, Long Sutton, as . . . 'some of the happiest years of my life'!' Because his father had died, before he was born on 27th March 1922, John became eligible... [more]
Shared on 13 March 2009
My G.Granny was EMMA JANE SUMNER, she was born at Rotherwick, Hampshire on 1st. January 1866. This lady made a great impression on me and I used to visit her at her home in Tilehurst, Berkshire as a child. Jane, as she was known, was around 6 feet tall and had a very regal appearance with her silver white hair coiled... [more]
Shared on 18 October 2008
I have very happy memories of staying with my grand-parents in Hartley Wintney right next to the common aged 5yr-7yrs. My grand-father kept chickens and we were allowed to feed them and collect the eggs. Did anyone know my grand-father? His name was William James Benwell?
Shared on 10 September 2009
I was born in the village in a nursing home, that was in January 1949, just up from the old police station on the opposite side of the A30. Then I grew up in 13 Mildmay Terrace with my mother, father, grandmother and grandfather, their name was Alfred and Hilda Denton. When I was about 4 we moved to 7 Weir... [more]
Shared on 29 August 2009
When I moved to live on the Cricket Green with my parents in 1947, the previous tenants were called Bacon, and for many years afterwards, people would say "Oh you live in Bacons' old house" - my mother would seethe! My brother Richard was born in 1948 and our younger brother Patrick arrived in 1950, always doing his own thing, and... [more]
Shared on 19 October 2008
Extracts From Odiham & Hampshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Odiham, inspired by Frith photos.
Hampshire Revisited Photographic Memories
A hundred years ago, when this picture was taken, Odiham looked very different. Go there today and you will find a delightful little town with handsome buildings, lines of busy shops and pubs and many cars parked at the roadside - all of it creating a colourful, bustling community. Just to the north of Odiham runs the Basingstoke Canal, completed in... [more]
This is an extract from Hampshire Revisited Photographic Memories.
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Odiham Then and Now Photographic Memories
The bold square brick tower was built onto a 13th-century base c1656 after an earlier tower had collapsed. The west doorway of the tower was remodelled in 1897 to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. The porch of the doorway on the south wall was removed about this time. Adjacent to it between the two windows are two pre-Reformation mass clocks; they are sundials, but their... [more]
This is an extract from Odiham Then and Now Photographic Memories.
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Odiham Then and Now Photographic Memories
The former plaster on the external walls was removed by misguided restoration work in 1889, which has exposed the unknapped flint. This would have come from the local chalk downs, and the stone for the windows, tracery and doorways perhaps came from Bentley, some five miles to the south.
This is an extract from Odiham Then and Now Photographic Memories.
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