Winchester, Westgate 1906
Photo ref:
55860
Photo ref:
55860
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Westgate has many of the hallmarks of a medieval defensive work, including 'murder holes' from which heavy weights or boiling oils and molten lead might be dropped during an attack, while the slits below the shields were used for firing early guns. A portcullis would have dropped down to close off the archway.
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A Selection of Memories from Winchester
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 Winchester
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This was a pub in Winchester near the train station. I used to go there around 1966 to 1972 ish. Wondering if anyone else remembers the place. I was at sea and spent many hours there whilst on leave. Philip duncombe.
The boy in the photograph is my grandfather, Herbert Ward, who was born in Winchester in 1911.
I started work at the Hampshire Chronicle offices in the High Street as a cub reporter in the early 1960's under the benign eye of Monica Woodhouse and news editor 'Jock' Coutts. It was a great place to be - we reported on every court from magistrates to assizes, every council from parish to county, we did passing-out parades at the Green Jackets barrracks. Winchester has a cathedral, a public school, a prison ...see more
Considering I spent 5 years as a day boy at Peter Symonds' my memories are scant to say the least, probably the most significant was the Annual Founders Day service at the Cathedral, the covered passage from the High Street past the school outfitters by the Cross and into the precinct of the Cathedral, the majestic city hall building further down. At the station a long walk up the hill to school, the bakers shop just ...see more
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