Andover
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Andover books (28 available)
Andover Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Andover Photographic Memories
Paperback
Andover - A History and Celebration
Hardback
- 81 photos on Andover appear in 6 Frith books - View photos of Andover
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Andover memories
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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 of the cottages at the time.
Contributed by Terry Clary
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 did.
I remember well as a lad of 11 years walking up to that, what seemed, huge door and banging on it and hearing him shuffling down the stairs to let me in. He must have felt the cold at his age as he always wore several layers of overcoats.
In hindsight I wish I had practiced more instead of ...read more here
Contributed by Terry Clary
My time nearAndover
WE were married in July 1966. As I was stationed at Middle Wallop, after our honeymoon in London we caught the train to Andover and stayed for 2 nights at the White Hart (is that the name? Opposite the old bus station near the canal and post office). We hired a flat on Weyhill Road and decided we must have a washing machine, so with great reluctance bought one on HP - sinful in those days) at a place opposite Squire's electrical shop near the post office.
After a while we moved to rotten old Married Quarters in Middle Wallop and had our first child, Julian there. (He was born at the War Memorial Hospital in Andover - I would go ...read more here
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Memories of my two years
We spent two years in Andover, two of the children went to Eastfield School and one daughter was born there. If I remember right, I had to get the baby milk from a pub. I have been back a few times and my goodness what a change has taken place, hardly could find my way around. I remember the really pretty villages, all the thatch roofs, lovely memories.
Contributed by patricia perring
Extracts From Andover & Hampshire books
Built by Douglas Hoyland
in 1912, this terracotta
building to the west of
Andover has
Perpendicular-style
windows and a bell
turret over the crossing.
An extract from from"Hampshire Churches Photographic Memories".
The factory buildings in this picture have gone, and today this sprawling village is popular with those who work in Andover and commute daily to London. Ann or Anna was originally the name for the shining stream now known as the Pillhill Brook, a tributary of the River Anton. The people of the Stone Age lived by the water.
An extract from from"Hampshire Revisited Photographic Memories".
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.
An extract from from"Andover Photographic Memories".
The buildings on the extreme right in this picture have all gone, now replaced by modern shops. Many of the units on the left, including Young & Son, have also disappeared. However, the chimney to the left of the church is still visible, and the buildings below the tower are still there, though the prominent chimneys are now semi-hidden by the trees.
An extract from from"Hampshire Revisited Photographic Memories".
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!
An extract from from"Andover Photographic Memories".