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Andover Town Walk Guide
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Southampton Photographic Memories
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Winchester Photographic Memories
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Godshill memories
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The Post Office
My father Oliver Hiinwood was postmaster here from 1903 to 1961. He used to take photographs of the village and send them to Frith's to be developed and then sold the postcards in the shop. The photograph shows the garage where we kept our car and to the side of that was a bakehouse where bread was baked daily. The person walking towards the shop is the Revd Frank Walter Hyne-Davy who was vicar of Nether Wallop.
A memory of Nether Wallop contributed by Mrs Eileen Wilmott
Family connections.
The photograph shows my great-aunt's tea room/restaurant. She was Mrs Matilda Howells, known in the family as Aunt Tilly. I can clearly remember visiting the tea room on many occasions as a 9/10 year old child with my mother Adelaide who was Aunt Tilly's sister. Her husband (Uncle Jack) did all his own baking in a huge wood-fired oven at the rear of the premises and meals for the tea room were cooked in an equally large wood-fired range in the kitchen adjoining.
A memory of Lyndhurst contributed by Leslie Hobbs
Family connections.
My late husband's father and uncle owned the grocery shop known as Hook Brothers. This shop was forced to close when Barclays Bank took over the building in the early 1960s. The closure meant that links were severed with noted local residents such as the Mountbatten family at Broadlands.
A memory of Romsey contributed by Mrs J K-Hook
Smart's Fish Saloon.
Re Smart's Fish Saloon. My parents Peter and Wyn Pellerade owned this from 1952 to the early 60s when it was demolished to make room for flats. The site never got used but has recently been developed into a doctors surgery. This was in the ancient rights of Bishopstoke, the original post office. It was a beautiful 4 bedroom cottage with the shop space of three rooms on the side.
A memory of Bishopstoke contributed by Mrs M Holloway
Extracts From Godshill & Hampshire books
The green and the surrounding roads and houses may look a little different today, one hundred years after this
photograph was taken, but one landmark remains reassuringly constant and permanent: Hawkley’s famous church,
partly screened by a curtain of yew trees. The tower can be seen from miles around.
An extract from from"Hampshire Churches Photographic Memories".
The picturesque village of Buriton stands in the shadow of Butser Hill, and by the pretty, tree-fringed pond lies the
church, with its 13th-century tower watching over the tranquil scene. The low font is Norman, as are the arches,
which stand on pillars carved with water lilies, foliage and scallops.
An extract from from"Hampshire Churches Photographic Memories".
The curtain of trees to the
right of the church is almost
as high as the tower. The
church is large, and
includes three Norman
doorways and a sweeping
horseshoe arch. The
pinnacled 17th-century
tower was modelled on the
tower of Battersea church in
London. Crondall’s church
accounts mention the
fourpences paid for ferrying
masons across the Thames
in order to study the model.
An extract from from"Hampshire Churches Photographic Memories".
The low tower of Bentley church can just be seen against a curtain of
trees in this photograph. The base of the tower is over 500 years old,
while the top is more recent. Yew trees lead to the church door, and
inside is a Norman font with an arcaded bowl resting on four pillars.
An extract from from"Hampshire Churches Photographic Memories".
South Warnborough’s old church has something in common with the church of St
Mary the Virgin at Greywell. Both of them managed to preserve their roodloft,
unlike most of Hampshire’s churches, which lost them during the Reformation. The
church has a bell turret and two windows containing Tudor glass. The 13th-century
chancel is filled with tombs of over 25 members of the White family.
An extract from from"Hampshire Churches Photographic Memories".