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Dunsmore People And Happenings Remembered
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION In 1995, when the first edition of this history was published, it seemed incredibly optimistic to have had three hundred copies printed for a market which ...Read more
A memory of Dunsmore by
The Boat Club, Acton Bridge
Laurie, I remember vividly those days as if they were yesterday, strange to see the Jan mentioned which dad bought from the Faircloughs which was moored at Widnes Docks.Do you remember our trip down the ship canal ...Read more
A memory of Acton Bridge by
Lord Mayor Treloarcripples Hospital And College Hayling Island
I spent some six months at the Hayling Hospital in 1950, receiving treatment for TB of my neck glands. I was originally at the Treloar Hospital in Alton and returned there at ...Read more
A memory of Hayling Island in 1950 by
Lindsey Cottage And The White House
In 1949 my mother and I moved to Bentworth when my mother became the Health Visitor for Alton. We first stayed at rooms in the White House which was diagonally across from the Dugdales in the Big house at ...Read more
A memory of Bentworth in 1949 by
Very Fond Memories Of Lmtoh Ward 5
I was in St Giles Hospital, Camberwell, and was transferred to Lord Mayor Treloars Orphopaedic Hospital, Alton because the surgeon was a good friend of the main Consultant Surgeon at Alton who was, I think Mr ...Read more
A memory of Alton in 1959 by
This Was My School!
I went to school here from about 1971 when I had just turned 6 until the age of 11 when I was sent off to the Amery Hill Secondary, in nearby Alton.
A memory of Medstead in 1971 by
History Of Clayton Family 1700s
Descendants of George Clayton Generation No. 1 1. GEORGE1 CLAYTON was born 1788 in Pickhill, West Roxby, Yorkshire England. He married ANN MUDD 08 December 1806 in Pickhill, West Roxby, Yorkshire England. She ...Read more
A memory of Pickhill in 1860 by
Re Tony Bros Ice Cream
I remember Tony Bros ice cream parlour off Acton High Street. On some Sundays my father would take me for a treat for a cornet or wafer scooped out of the big drum on the counter, it was always after giving our dog ...Read more
A memory of South Harefield by
Visiting My Father's Birthplace
In 1972, when a mere slip of a boy of 40 summers, my late wife, two children and I flew from Australia on our first trip to Europe. Whilst in London, we travelled by train to visit my cousins Peter & Val ...Read more
A memory of Portsmouth in 1972 by
Childhood Memories
My granny used to live in Hole House, Lane Little Leigh, her name was Ellen Frances Hough, and I remember she used to live next door to Mr and Mrs Astbury. My dad used to take me there on a Friday night and pick me up on a ...Read more
A memory of Little Leigh in 1961 by
Captions
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No doubt it looks tame to the present generation reared on the terrors of Alton Towers, but to a boy in the 1950s it was quite scary enough.
Beyond that was Trickey's Domestic Stores - 'the handiest shop in Alton'.
The ivy-covered house on the left was Rawdon House, occupied by Dr George Mellersch Jones, MA, MRCS,LRCP Lond, surgeon, medical officer and public vaccinator for No 2 district of the Alton Union.
Today Alton is one of the country's leading tourist attractions.
At Fullerton the River Test meets the River Anton and then passes Stockbridge and Romsey to enter Southampton Water.
This part of Alton includes various 18th-century buildings as well as some from an earlier period.
Viewed from the old railway bridge, here is Vine Cottage by the River Anton where it joins the Test at Fullerton Junction.
Located in a lovely corner of Hampshire, close to the rivers Anton and Test, and near the sprawling woodland of the Harewood Forest, this church includes two 14th- century arcades, one of
At the entrance to the Alton House Hotel, on the right, is a sign showing that it was RAC approved.
Anstey lies in the eastward part of the parish of Alton.
Adjoining the bridge is the Cricketers, owned by Crowleys of Alton, which closed as a public house the year the photograph was taken.
Perched high on its hill, Alton Castle dominates the area.
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.
The second building on the left has a sign showing it to be the office of 'The Hampshire Herald and Alton Gazette' at 9 Normandy Street.
In 1964, there was a sale of the furniture and other contents by direction of the Alton Group Hospital Management Committee.
The scenic A32 runs through Droxford, which lies between Alton and Gosport.
Just before this picture was taken, the County Licensing Committee of Quarter Sessions decided that it, along with four others in Alton, would be closed.
By the time it was bought by Sir George Samuel Brooke Pechell in 1867, it had become Alton House.
The 19th-century hop kilns in the background formed part of King & Palmer's brewery in King Street, which was bought by Crowleys of Alton in 1895.
No doubt it looks tame to the present generation reared on the terrors of Alton Towers, but to a boy in the 1950s it was quite scary enough.
The white gate at the bottom of the neat garden near the camera opens onto the Alton to Medstead road.
French soldiers were held as prisoners at Odiham during the Napoleonic wars, living in a camp dug out of an old chalk pit on the Alton road.
Forty years before this picture was taken, a gruesome murder took place in Alton - that of Fanny Adams, an eight- year-old child.
The police station was demolished after the opening of the new station in Acton Road in 1967 - the site is now a wooded traffic island.
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