Fareham
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Fareham books (21 available)
- 3 photos on Fareham appear in 2 Frith books - View photos of Fareham
- Read extracts and see photos from these books on Fareham and Hampshire
Fareham memories
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Fareham Market Day with the Animals!!
I can remember watching in awe as the cattle was walked to the market (now a car park) through the High and West Street..pigs, sheep, cows, chickens etc and standing up on the temporary fencing reaching over to stroke the sheep, hearing the market auction man selling the cows...to this day I never understood a word he said...but they all got sold somehow...I can still remember the smell...no rubber gloves and handwashes in those days....didn't do me any harm...just gave me great memories!! Followed by a trip to good old 'Soothills' for their famous pasties and Lardy Cakes!! and still going strong and just as popular (if not more) these days.......
Contributed by Jean Oxtoby (Wigmore)
Embassy Cinema
I returned from 2 years in Malta where I had been a Nanny to 3 little girls who were all about to go to boarding school. I needed a job quickly so applied for and got the job as an usherette in the Embassy Cinema. At the time my future husband was a second projectionist there. I only worked there for few months until I found another Nanny's situation. My abiding memory is of the film that was playing at the time I started there: 'Ferry to Hong Kong'. It is a wonder I didn't get seasick I saw it so many times! They were a happy few months and led to marriage which ...read more here
Contributed by Gaynor Boyd
Ragworming!!
I used to go to the 'Creek' as it was called then, with my father and join a whole host of Bait diggers...the main bait was Ragworms, which are a bit like centipedes and they bite!! This was before it became polluted mind you!! On one occasion my wellington boots ended up stuck in the mud and as I tried to walk (totally unsuccessful) I ended up falling face first into the mud and was caked from head to toe and it absolutely stunk!! My mother was not amused!! Not just at my misfortune but also my father who in her words 'had let it happen!'
Contributed by Jean Oxtoby (Wigmore)
Hampshire memories
Embassy Cinema
I returned from 2 years in Malta where I had been a Nanny to 3 little girls who were all about to go to boarding school. I needed a job quickly so applied for and got the job as an usherette in the Embassy Cinema. At the time my future husband was a second projectionist there. I only worked there for few months until I found another Nanny's situation. My abiding memory is of the film that was playing at the time I started there: 'Ferry to Hong Kong'. It is a wonder I didn't get seasick I saw it so many times! They were a happy few months and led to marriage which ...read more here
A memory of Fareham contributed by Gaynor Boyd
Extracts From Fareham & Hampshire books
There is evidence that the earliest bricks in Fareham come from Portchester Castle. Roman builders mixed crushed seashells from Portsmouth Harbour with clay from the creek to produce bricks for
the fort. At No 72 High Street, which was owned by the family building firm of Croad, there is a small hole in the quarter-inch-thick pane of the bay window facing
north. This was caused by a bullet from a Messerschmidt 109 firing a machine gun down the High Street during the Battle of Britain.
An extract from from"So You Think You Know? Fareham".
Tucked away at the mouth of the little River Wallington is Fareham - much busier around the 18th century than when this picture was taken. In the 18th century it was a port shipping out Hampshire grain in exchange for French wine. Fareham was also known for its bricks of local clay - 'Fareham reds' were used in the Albert Hall in London. The High Street is one of the finest Georgian streets in Hampshire.
An extract from from"Hampshire Revisited Photographic Memories".
The Roundabout Hotel on the Delmé Roundabout used to be St Edith’s Industrial Home for abandoned or orphaned girls run by the Waifs and Strays Society.
Fareham has been dubbed ‘Virtual London’ by the IT industry because of the high tech Internet-related activities of firms that have relocated here. According to a survey by the business analysts Dun & Bradstreet in 2002, Fareham was the fourth most profitable place to do business in the country.
An extract from from"So You Think You Know? Fareham".
A Ford Consul heads out of Fareham. West Street is a mile long, and this section is now pedestrianised. The clock (centre left) has been removed, a line of trees has been planted to the right, and there are some benches for weary shoppers. On the right, just behind where the lorry is parked, there is now a shopping precinct. There are still a variety of shops to be found here. On the left where the cars are parked is Westbury Manor Museum, which has installed iron sculptures in the town centre around West Street. 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.
An extract from from"Hampshire Living Memories".
West Street is the commercial heart of Fareham, which was described by Thackeray, who spent his school holidays here, as 'a dear little old Hampshire town.’ Back in the 1950s, when traffic was much lighter than today, it was easy to find roadside parking spaces.
An extract from from"Hampshire Revisited Photographic Memories".