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The village sign was erected in 1922 and depicts St Christopher, the patron saint of travellers, and a small child, traditionally, the infant Jesus, crossing a ford.

Hawkcombe and Whitehall Cottages are there today, but a bridge now replaces the ford where the child and dog are standing.

But in the early decades of the 20th century, this small footbridge and the adjacent, spectacular ford provided the only means of passage across the water at this point.

Before this sandstone bridge was built in 1686, horses and carts crossed the Eden at the 'wath' or ford, which was the longest over the river, hence the name Langwathby.

Leaving town by the line of the present existing Old Bedford Road, it crossed the river by a ford on the town side of Little Moor.

The first school in Chandler's Ford was in Hursley Road near St Boniface Church; it moved to a more substantial building in Bournemouth Road, but eventually the Junior School was located to a site off

A new Ford Cortina saloon cost £669, and a Zephyr £933.

The name Melford probably derived from 'mill on the ford'.

The name means 'the ford which could be passed by a yoke of oxen' - thus the sign has an ox standing in water, framed by horns.

Outside there is a fine array of contemporary cars, including a Morris Minor and a Ford Consul.

St Mary's parish church, on the left of Ford Road, is largely obscured by trees now, but the church clock still rings out the time to the people of Upton.

It was built in 1900 as a workhouse for the Hursley District Council at the northern end of Hursley Road.

Wainwright the chemist's (right) is an old Eastleigh firm that until recently survived in the centre of the town, but this branch has become a showroom for heating appliances.

The ford was replaced by a bridge over the beck in the winter of 1966/67.

The nearest crossing over the Trent was at Darlaston, which until 1663 was too narrow to take horse-drawn vehicles: they had to take their chances fording the river.

Wilford, meaning 'willow ford', was the meeting place for the Anglo-Saxon administrative area later called Wilford Hundred.

This 1890 bronze statue of General Gordon of Khartoum on camel-back was the work of E Onslow Ford, and commemorates his illustrious career.

This unidentified ford is possibly located where the A55 expressway now passes the town.

In the background, a notice on the shop advertises a 20hp Ford car for hire.

Next but one is Stead and Simpson's shoe shop and Dewhurst the butchers, then Cleale's garage with its Ford and AA signs.

It looks as if the Ford Zephyr on the right has an L-plate on its bumper - perhaps the owner of the house is learning to drive.

Ringwood's market brought country folk from far and wide to the town with their goods, and the market became famous for the sale of New Forest ponies.

This is the spot where the Romans built their ford to cross the River Lune; today the new Millennium Footbridge has been built here.

Outside there is a fine array of contemporary cars, including a Morris Minor and a Ford Consul.