Abbotts Ann, St Mary's Church 1899 (ref. 43696) | Most village churches near Andover are older, altered or rebuilt Victorian. St Mary's, rebuilt in 1714, is a larger
Georgian exception, seating 170 in box pews and gallery. The chandelier came from Andover's St Mary's when
that church was rebuilt from 1842. The Georgian font is from another church. Hanging inside are paper Virgins'
Crowns, each marking a past village spinster or bachelor - the most recent was put up in 1973.
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Andover, Charlton Village 1908 (ref. 60101) | In recent years, land to the west of the village has been developed for sports and
recreation. To the north-east, houses have been built up to Charlton Nature Reserve. While
the centre still retains its charm where the river passes through, the village is now almost
continuous with Andover.
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Andover, Beech Avenue, Harewood Forest 1899 (ref. 43702) | During World War II the forest was laid with temporary roads and was used as a bomb dump and collection point
for tanks and other equipment in preparation for the D-day invasion of Europe. Since the war it has returned to its
original state with deer and foxes and a variety of other wildlife roaming the woods.
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Andover, Winchester Street 1904 (ref. 52143) | Morris's building, on the
left, has boldly rounded
eaves closers and
moulded brick strings of
better quality Victorian
work. The design of
the ground floor now
suffers sadly from the
modern shop fronts. The
insubstantial building
next door lasted well into
the 1980s, when the
best fish suppers in town
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Andover, Bridge Street 1913 (ref. 65316) | The bridge was not always
as level, strong and wide as
this. In 1758 the old bridge
was restricted to pedestrians
and horses by a bar and
lamp directing wagons and
coaches behind the railings
into the ford. When a strong
bridge was built, the ford
became redundant; the
Methodist Church has stood
there on the ramp since 1905.
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Andover, the River and Town Mills c1950 (ref. A49038) | In this picture, Anton Mill, some distance down-
river beside Barlows Lane, can be compared with
the Town Mill. This pleasant Georgian building was
taken over by Hovis in 1914. Flour milling was run
down; by 1953, the production was animal feed.
In the early 1960s the mill was demolished and the
site redeveloped by Locomotors to produce security
and other special vehicles, but Frith's fine picture
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Andover, the River c1960 (ref. A49066) | Seen from the bridge, Andover Co-operative Society Ltd was in Bridge Street with a long river frontage. It would all
be rebuilt about 1970. Eventually another ladies hairdressing salon would overlook the river. Parking was still free.
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Andover, Bridge Street 1904 (ref. 52145) | Before 1865 in Andover,
coal had been unloaded
on the canal basin
quay. By 1904 the quay
had gone and larger
quantities of heavy
goods were being
handled on the railway
sidings, which had
replaced the canal basin.
Here by the bridge was
the office of the Andover
Coal Company.
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Andover, Bridge Street c1960 (ref. A49084) | A man leans on the bridge
rail beside the Methodist
Church. Next door, Frank
May, Auctioneer and Estate
Agent, is now Redwoods. A
lone Austin A35 has the street
to itself, while the door of the
Star and Garter is still locked
tight. On the right is the Free
Public Library, the Art School
above and Florabunda's
flowers below. General
Shubrick's clock over the door
came from the Round House
when the Andover Turnpike
Trust was wound up.
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Andover, High Street c1955 (ref. A49069) | This view is from an upper floor window in the Guildhall. Woolworths has yet to appear on the right, in place of
Parsons and Hart's three buildings - it was to break the Victorian rhythm of shopfronts. Plummers were still in the
High Street in the 1960s. Next to Lloyds Bank, W H Smith has long since given way to C & M DIY. There is talk in
2001 of upgrading the market street for the comfort of the silent majority, the town's pedestrians.
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Andover, High Street 1950 (ref. A49030) | The George Hotel is entered through the old
coaching arch under a 20th-century leaded
window. From 1586 an Elizabethan inn thrived
here as one of Andover's larger coaching inns, but
now, through the arch, only the Georgian rebuild
of the hotel remains, with hardly a yard
and nothing of the stables.
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Andover, High Street 1950 (ref. A49031) | The ground floor
frontage and canopy
below E Reynolds
Leather Warehouse sign
would soon be ripped
out to make way for a
hard-edged modern
shop front. In the 1980s,
a 'period' canopy would
appear beyond with
some degree of success.
Harvey's newsagent and
sweetshop (beneath the
lamp on the right) has
now changed hands.
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Andover, the Newbury Road from the Angel Inn c1950 (ref. A49048) | The archway frames the old
coach road from London. In
1435 fire consumed the town,
leaving little but the Church
and Priory. Across the road,
the Angel's medieval College
Inn was ashes. It was rebuilt
ten years later on this side of
the road. In its heyday, the
Angel Inn's frontage stretched
30 metres north from the
Chantry Centre's upper High
Street entrance.
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Andover, High Street c1955 (ref. A49055) | It was from the window on
the gable on the left, above
the Angel's coaching arch,
that magistrate Bethell Cox
read the Riot Act to the mob
of agricultural workers in
November 1830, and was
called a 'fat slug'. The rioters
went to Anna Valley and
wrecked Taskers machines,
but stopped at midnight as
the Sabbath hour struck. On
Monday morning the Lancers
from Winchester rushed out
in force, ending the disorder.
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Andover, High Street 1901 (ref. 46346) | With a bustle of children
and hardly an adult in
sight, it looks as if the
Grammar School in New
Street (before being
remodelled as Church
Close) was out for the
day; there was little need
in those days to watch
out for traffic!
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Andover, St Mary's Church c1960 (ref. A49102) | Architect Augustus F Livesay's design is a fine example of Early Victorian Gothic. The walls are of Caen stone and
squared flints, the latter a mark of quality. Unfortunately, the stone was not all laid on its natural bed and so tends
to spall badly. A workman was killed when some high-level walling collapsed during building. Sydney Smirke,
brother of the architect for the British Museum, was employed during completion as an additional expert.
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Andover, St Mary's Church c1960 (ref. A49075) | Seen here from beside the War Memorial, shortly after the Garden of Remembrance had been created in 1947, St
Mary's Church stands in sharp silhouette. Andover people can be justly proud of their church.
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Andover, the War Memorial c1960 (ref. A49081) | War memorials face the church across the Garden
of Remembrance, a fitting place for six plaques on
curved walling for World War II, 1939-45, and the
Cenotaph for World War I, 1914-20. The unusual
date accords to a battalion of the Hampshire
Regiment that, sent to Archangel, remained in
Russia fighting revolutionaries until 1920.
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Andover, British School 1906 (ref. 54624) | The British School of 1859, demolished in the late 1960s, was much like the National School, now Andover
Primary School (C of E Controlled) which still thrives today in lower East Street. PLB Architects of Winchester
extended East Street School in 2000 for Hampshire County Council, creating a pleasant polychromatic
construction popularised by William Butterfield in the 1850s. The building is a fine example of its type,
sympathetically adapted for today.
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Andover, Dene Road 1904 (ref. 52139) | Off London Street, just before the King's Head, Dene Road is seen here dropping into London Street at the corner
beside the King's Head. The thatched cottage on the left still stands. The thatch has long gone and the road is now
kept clean.
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