Chilworth, Village 1906
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Children at play in the village of Chilworth, outside Southampton. One of Chilworth's buildings, originally designed to house the squire's hounds, became the village post office six years before this photograph was taken. One hundred years earlier, the church was described as 'little better than a hovel, with a belfry like a pigeon-house', though its 12th-century bells were among the oldest in Hampshire.

A Selection of Memories from Chilworth

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Chilworth

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I started my first job at 16 as a trainee food and wine waiter at the Percy Arms in 1960, and I lived in rooms above the hotel, in those days it was a first class restaurant. The head waiter was a guy called Bernard. The owner was a lady and she used to have dogs that would wander around the restaurant. I visited the hotel in 1987 and the hotel had change to a more casual fast food restaurant. I moved to Sydney, Australia ...see more