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If you visit St Cross Hospital and ask—even today—you will be given a portion of bread and a beaker of ale. A delightful custom. May it long continue!

From one of these fine thatched cottages John Hassell plied his trade as a porter.

A portable water slide and raft were very popular too. These were the great days of Cleveleys Hydro, with its 18-hole golf course and hydropathic baths.

Beyond Corts Limited can be seen the dominant dome of the Opera House, demolished in 1960, where each year the Christmas pantomime was staged, and appreciated with thunderous applause.

Here we can see a portion of the gardens of Bank House in the days before they became accessible to the public. Note the thatched summerhouse.

This measures 26x16x10 inches and is thought to have been a portable altar that once belonged to an early missionary from Iona or Ireland.

Beyond Corts Limited can be seen the dominant dome of the Opera House, demolished in 1960, where each year the Christmas pantomime was staged and appreciated with thunderous applause by generations

This was done to celebrate the millennium and the life of Henry Cort, who lived on the outskirts of Fareham. He pioneered a method of forging iron during the Industrial Revolution.