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wartime havant
Preston Watson was the wine and spirit merchants of the town. The premises consisted of a fine three-storey house with shop, a large coach house and two or three other houses on both sides of The Pallant that were used for mineral water production, bottling and storage. One of my favorite memories is helping to bottle and lable cider, taken from large hogsheads. In recent years these premises were demolished and the modern Waitrose super market stands where the old house and shop were. During the war, the firm was allowed to retain its Morris Commercal lorry for deliveries. Accompanying Mr Jack Shoesmith, the proprieter, and his sons on these runs all over the south Hampshire area was one of the ...read more here
Contributed by barry mahony
School days in War-time Havant
In the early 1940s I went to Manor House School, which is shown in the lower right hand corner of the 1932 aerial photograph. It was run by Dr and Mrs Wallace, and occupied the former Rectory in South Street (the site is now covered by a housing estate and the motorway to Portsmouth). Some of the names I remember at school were Sam Butt, Ray Tribe, Dinkie Bartholamew, Lewis Strong, R? Conyers (all more senior to me), Thelma Bugg, Jennifer England, John and Stuart Shoesmith, the Brown sisters and Denise Wilkinson. Fr Williams was one of the best teachers I have ever had: absolutely inspiring. Mrs Worrell, the doughty French Mistress, was a familiar sight around town riding her massive ...read more here
Contributed by barry mahony
Hampshire memories
wartime havant
Preston Watson was the wine and spirit merchants of the town. The premises consisted of a fine three-storey house with shop, a large coach house and two or three other houses on both sides of The Pallant that were used for mineral water production, bottling and storage. One of my favorite memories is helping to bottle and lable cider, taken from large hogsheads. In recent years these premises were demolished and the modern Waitrose super market stands where the old house and shop were. During the war, the firm was allowed to retain its Morris Commercal lorry for deliveries. Accompanying Mr Jack Shoesmith, the proprieter, and his sons on these runs all over the south Hampshire area was one of the ...read more here
A memory of Havant contributed by barry mahony
School days in War-time Havant
In the early 1940s I went to Manor House School, which is shown in the lower right hand corner of the 1932 aerial photograph. It was run by Dr and Mrs Wallace, and occupied the former Rectory in South Street (the site is now covered by a housing estate and the motorway to Portsmouth). Some of the names I remember at school were Sam Butt, Ray Tribe, Dinkie Bartholamew, Lewis Strong, R? Conyers (all more senior to me), Thelma Bugg, Jennifer England, John and Stuart Shoesmith, the Brown sisters and Denise Wilkinson. Fr Williams was one of the best teachers I have ever had: absolutely inspiring. Mrs Worrell, the doughty French Mistress, was a familiar sight around town riding her massive ...read more here
A memory of Havant contributed by barry mahony
Extracts From Havant & Hampshire books
E J Beach, Proprietor,
boldly announces the
board above the pony
and trap, apparently
hired for a drive during
one of those Edwardian
summers that never
seemed to end.
An extract from from"Petersfield Then and Now Photographic Memories".
Rose growers in these villages must have benefitted from passing horses if the state of this road is anything to go by! This is
all part of the country life that has surrounded Petersfield for centuries; may it always be so.
An extract from from"Petersfield Then and Now Photographic Memories".
Is the woman in
the top window
cleaning it or simply
determined to be in
the photograph? The
one-time butcher’s
shop was, at the time
of this photograph, an
antiques shop. It would
have been known to
H G Wells when he was
a boy at the nearby
stately home, Uppark.
An extract from from"Petersfield Then and Now Photographic Memories".
Familiar to many, the
church nestles in the
shelter of the South Downs.
Large horse chestnuts now
break the roof line but the
cottages still lie tranquil
within the church’s reach.
H G Wells walked from
Portsmouth to Harting to
meet his mother coming
from this church.
An extract from from"Petersfield Then and Now Photographic Memories".
The flagpole still stands guard over the War Memorial and the flag is flown on appropriate
occasions. The thatch has been removed from one of the cottages and the little wicket gate
next to the road has been removed for safety reasons. You can still see the line of the gate in
the brickwork.
An extract from from"Petersfield Then and Now Photographic Memories".