Kingsclere, Market Place c1960 (ref. K140073) | There are grey and red brick buildings here. The cottages straight ahead were built in the 1860s. On the left is the Crown Inn, where a gruesome event took place in 1944. US Army units were based around here, and ten US soldiers walked into the Crown and got drunk. Two US military police asked them for their passes. When they failed to produce these, the ten men stormed back to camp, helping themselves to rifles. On returning to the Crown they checked that the policemen were still inside and then opened fire, killing them and Mrs Napper, the landlord's wife. Nine of the soldiers were charged with murder and given life imprisonment. The tenth was discharged from the Army and given ten years hard labour. |  Add your own Memory
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Silchester, the Clock c1965 (ref. S632028) | In the north of the county sits Silchester. This modern clock tower is part of Silchester House, built in 1820, but the clock tower is more modern. Silchester House is an attractive gabled rambling building with decorative chimneys. It is stuccoed - a fine plaster has been used for coating the walls. Two Roman soldiers hold the bell - appropriate for this town which was a Roman settlement. | Add your own Memory
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Bransgore, the Crown Inn c1960 (ref. B695010) | Perhaps the bicycle belongs to a customer who has nipped into this New Forest pub for a quick pint of Strong's best bitter. It must be a hot summer's day, because all of the windows are open. This pub was part of the Strong & Co group that controlled 215 inns. It employed 600 staff in and around Romsey, and its bitter appeared in almost every pub in the south of England. Strong's was taken over by Whitbread in 1969 and ceased trading in 1979. In April 1999 Hampshire Brewery re-launched Strong's best bitter. Today this pub belongs to Brewers Fayre, and has a children's' menu and disabled toilets - these would have been unavailable in 1960. | Add your own Memory
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Abbotts Ann, the Village c1955 (ref. A4006) | A 1930s Rover saloon is parked on the road. A trout stream flows through the water meadow here. This village, three miles from Andover, is renowned for awarding virgins' crowns at the funerals of chaste villagers who were members of the village church and born here. The crowns are made of hazel twigs decorated with black and white paper rosettes and hung with five parchment gauntlets. The last crown was awarded in 1974. | Add your own Memory
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Aldershot, the Bathing Pool c1950 (ref. A31009) | This was reputedly the largest and finest open-air bathing pool in the country. It covered ten acres, and contained well over one million gallons of water. Situated in the Aldershot Park estate (bought by the council in 1920 for £21,000), it was originally a lake; it was drained, and dressing rooms and lawns were added, costing £20,000. In 1948 the modern pentathlon of the XIV Olympiad was hosted here. | Add your own Memory
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Aldershot, Union Street c1960 (ref. A31129) | Parked outside Timothy Whites (left) is a 1954 Austin A40 Cambridge saloon. There were over 600 Timothy Whites chemists across the UK. In 1968, Timothy Whites was purchased by Boots, the self-service chemist. This premises is now a fashion shop. Today, Union Street is pedestrianised and home to many clothes shops and some antique shops. The occasional soldier can still be seen marching down the street. | Add your own Memory
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Alton, Crown Hill c1960 (ref. A39097) | The second shop down on the left at 55 High Street is Stoodley & Sons, the jewellers, established in 1861 and still trading in Alton today. Eight buildings down on the right is the Bakers Arms, and on its left is Kerridge's garage, demolished in 1963. The river still flows in a tunnel under the road and the buildings. | Add your own Memory
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Alton, High Street c1955 (ref. A39003) | The first building on the left is vacant, but it later became R E Goodfellow, a butcher's. This now allows access to the car park behind the manor house, some doors along. The post office is four doors down on the left. It still has a date stone of 1901 beneath the roof. The first car on the right is a 1956 Ford E83W Utility. | Add your own Memory
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Alverstoke, the Village c1955 (ref. A42003) | This scene is largely unchanged today, with the lamp-post still pleasingly in the middle of the road, but there are road markings now. At No 47 was Alverstoke Antiques, cabinet makers and French polishers. The house on the left is no longer red brick. It would have been rendered not many years after this photograph was taken. In 1967, a new 4-bedroom house in nearby Gomer Lane cost £3,300. | Add your own Memory
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Andover, High Street c1955 (ref. A49069) | Its name refers to its position on the river Anton. In 1945 its population was 16,000, but today it is three times that. High Street remains unchanged, and is still used for markets on Saturdays. Much of the northern half of the street is pedestrianised. Perhaps some of these cars came from Wessex Motors that sold Morris, MG, Riley, and Wolseley cars in nearby Bridge Street. | Add your own Memory
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Anna Valley, Tasker's Works c1955 (ref. A53008) | This was the iron works that made such things as the bridge over Micheldever Road. About 900 people were employed here during the Second World War, when the firm manufactured aeroplane trailers large enough to carry aeroplanes for the RAF. The firm shut in 1968. Today modern housing can be found running alongside the river. | Add your own Memory
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Barton On Sea, c1955 (ref. B690020) | To the left of this photograph lies a golf course; over time more land has had to be purchased owing to erosion. In front of the chemist is a 1950 Daimler Consort saloon. The novelist Elizabeth Goudge lived with her parents in nearby Barton Lane. She wrote that Barton was 'a flat green plateau that is now a vast bungalow town'. | Add your own Memory
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Basingstoke, Winchester Street c1960 (ref. B31048) | Basingstoke was bombed three times during the Second World War. Will the Austin A40 driver stop and buy some cigarettes from Hankin the tobacconist, the second shop on the left? Sally's, selling china and glass, the last shop on the right, is trading in Joice's Motor Coach Works where business ceased in 1950. Fire damaged the buildings in the 1960s. Today Winchester Street is pedestrianised. | Add your own Memory
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Basingstoke, Market Place c1955 (ref. B31026) | George Formby made a film here in 1944. Cars are parked by the town hall; it was home to the Galaxy Club from 1964 to 1966, and Screaming Lord Sutch and his Raving Savages, Lulu, and John Mayall's Blues Breakers featuring Eric Clapton, Mick Fleetwood, and John McVie all performed here. Fleetwood and McVie formed Fleetwood Mac. When the Spencer Davies Group performed here, tickets cost 7s 6d. Other performers were the Troggs from Andover and David Bowie. The Town Hall is now the Willis Museum. The Market Place is pedestrianised, and there is a market on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Lloyds Bank is still on the far left. The road with no entry signs (right) is Wote Street, home to the Haymarket Theatre. | Add your own Memory
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Bentley, the Village c1955 (ref. B775005) | To the right is the fresh new Triumph Herald 1200 coupe. It had a 25-foot turning circle. The A31 runs through the village, which stands between Farnham and Alton. Lord Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout, lived at Pax Hill from 1919 until his death in 1941; the house is now a nursing home. The Alice Holt forest is nearby. | Add your own Memory
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Bishops Waltham, High Street c1955 (ref. B612068) | The owners of these parked cars must be shopping. The first building on the left was Barclays Bank; today it is still Barclays, but it has had a fresh lick of paint. Houchin Street and Basingwell Street to the east of the High Street were cleared in the 1960s for car parks.H W Veck & Sons, a carpet retailer, has been trading here since 1928. | Add your own Memory
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Bishopstoke, c1965 (ref. B693050) | This village lies along the Itchen, where many old buildings can be found - the wide river fills one side of the road. Since the 1960s the village has expanded with new estates. To the south is a new development with its own shopping centre. Stoke Park Wood lies to the east of Bishopstoke. | Add your own Memory
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Bordon, c1960 (ref. B143005) | Well-controlled cows cross the quiet road. To the left, bicycles have been left unlocked leaning against a wall. Try doing that today expecting them to be there on your return! Now Bordon has grown to the size of a town. Two miles south is Woolmer Forest, and in the middle of it is the Army's Longmoor Camp. | Add your own Memory
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Bordon, Chalet Hill c1960 (ref. B143036) | This street has become estate agents' row - at Nos 4, 14, 18a and 24 Chalet Hill that is just what you will find. They have not taken over entirely, because there is a pet shop at No 10 and a hairdresser at No 20. The A325 Chalet Hill junction has a history of traffic accidents. | Add your own Memory
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Botley, the Square c1955 (ref. B544011) | Little has changed here today. There is a car park to the right, and traffic lights with a pedestrian crossing where the buses are in this photograph. Next to the Dolphin Hotel (left) is the pedimented market hall. Today there are a variety of shops here, ranging from specialist boutiques to a picture framer just down from the market hall. Behind the photographer is Botley Mills, which produced Botley self-raising flour. | Add your own Memory
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