Nether Wallop
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Nether Wallop memories
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Snow time
My father was the local postman until he had a serious accident at Middle Wallop. One of my memories of Nether Wallop was him telling me how it had snowed so hard on one occasion that when he delivered mail in School Lane where the wind blew in off the aerodrome he was dropping the mail through the upstairs windows of the houses there. Also being able to walk down to Mrs Salter's shop to buy 6 pennorth of sweets. I was married in St Andrew's Church in 1968, I met my wife at the Nether Wallop post office where she worked for Mr Munn. My sister Margaret Hayward to this day still lives in Aylwards Way. I live in Australia ...read more here
Contributed by mike hayward
Water Colour Painting
I have two beautiful original water colour paintings of Nether Wallop. One is of St Andrews Church and the other is of a thatched cottage leading up to the church.
Both are signed E Flower 41 and I was hoping someone may be able to help me find out more about this artist.
Contributed by Peter Barclay
First memories
My father, Richard (Dick) Cherrington was the village policeman in Nether Wallop during World War 2 and I was born in the Police House in the village in August 1944. My first memories ever were of an apple tree in our garden which my brother could climb and I couldn't - I was not very happy about that! I recently went back to the village and met the former village blacksmith and his brother. They both remembered my father, especially as he turned up at the smithy's brother's wedding reception uninivited whilst he was on duty! He had a piece of cake a cup of tea and left. If I could afford it I would buy ...read more here
Contributed by Adrian Cherrington
The Square
I was the village policeman, 1986-1991. I used to stand on the bridge in the photograph on the days of a wedding to ensure the newly-weds could get out onto the main road without waiting, and to help guests leave 'in convoy' where necessary so as to follow each other to the reception. Weddings often attracted guests 'from the city' who would invariably still be driving around an hour later, having got lost 'in the country'!
On a sadder note, I would do the same on the occasion of a funeral at St Andrews to allow the chief mourners to be on their way without any hold-up.
Each year, the square was the scene of the church bazaar, I ...read more here
Contributed by Doug Dickson
The Old Thatch
Ah, The Old Thatch. I remember it well, for this is where I grew up from the early 1940s until 1956. By today's standards it was grim: no heating, no running water, no flush loo - nothing. Yet it was a wonderful place in which to grow up and I will never lose my love for that old cottage. I still visit Nether Wallop whenever I can.
Yes, that is indeed the Rev Hyne-Davy in the picture, as Eileen Wilmott says, but I have an idea that photo was taken by my father, who dabbled in a bit of village photography. I may be wrong: it may have been taken by Mr Hinwood.
How well I remember the Hinwoods at ...read more here
Contributed by BRIAN RIVAS
Now
Do you see the thatch cottage by the bridge? My son and daughter-in-law and our grandchildren now live there, since 2002. It is such a lovely place to bring up children I would love to hear from anyone who could let us know any history to their house.
Contributed by Josephine Green
The Post Office
My father Oliver Hiinwood was postmaster here from 1903 to 1961. He used to take photographs of the village and send them to Frith's to be developed and then sold the postcards in the shop. The photograph shows the garage where we kept our car and to the side of that was a bakehouse where bread was baked daily. The person walking towards the shop is the Revd Frank Walter Hyne-Davy who was vicar of Nether Wallop.
Contributed by Mrs Eileen Wilmott
Extracts From Nether Wallop & Hampshire books
This famous firm was developed from a combination of various
Romsey breweries in the latter part of the 19th century, when
rail transport made it possible to carry beer over considerable
distances. Strong’s became one of the main employers in the
town for about a hundred years, but the need for modernisation
caused brewing to cease in 1981; the operation, by that time
part of Whitbread Wessex, was finally closed in 1990. Part of the
site has been cleared, but the main buildings, some converted
to offices, remain — the heritage of late 19th-century and early
20th-century builders.
An extract from from"Romsey Town and City Memories".
With nine mill sites in the town, many enterprises used water to
power the machinery necessary for their businesses — corn, paper,
and cloth-fulling mills, saw mills, and tanneries. Most written material
about Romsey’s mills seems to relate to problems in obtaining that
most important item — water. Romsey’s mills depended on the
river Test and its branches for their power. Competition was keen,
and resulted in many legal disputes arising from millers upstream
diverting the water from those downstream.
There was a series of disputes in Tudor times at Sadler’s Mill: its
owner suffered from the work of millers upstream, who
‘with divers and sondrie lewde and desperate persons ... erected a
pilinge over athwart the mayne Channel of the Ryver and thereby
stopped turned and diverted the said Mayne River of Terste out of
his aunciente and common Course ...’
Troubles of this kind continued through the following centuries,
providing the legal profession with a steady source of income. As
late as the early 20th century, wooden stakes were still being placed
incorrectly to control the water flow. At that time, photographic
evidence was offered in court; an unfortunate river keeper was shown
standing in the faulty area to demonstrate the depths.
An extract from from"Romsey Town and City Memories".
A quarter of a century apart, this and the previous
view of the High Street show how little it changed
throughout the 20th century, with the exception of
traffic problems and an increased number of tourists.
Apart from the introduction of a pedestrianisation
scheme and some new shop fronts, it remains much
the same today.
An extract from from"Winchester Pocket Album".
Beyond the water meadows of the River Itchen is the Iron Age
hillfort of St Catherine’s Hill, the site of a maze which perhaps
was used by penitent local monks, who would be blindfolded as
they attempted to trace its paths. The view from the hill is one of
the finest in Hampshire.
An extract from from"Winchester Pocket Album".
Westgate dominated the western defences of the old
city. It dates originally from the 12th century, and
was reinforced during the Hundred Years War in
anticipation of an attack by the French. The entire
structure stands on the site of an earlier Roman fortification.
An extract from from"Winchester Pocket Album".