Lyndhurst
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Map of Hampshire
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Lyndhurst books (21 available)
- 24 photos on Lyndhurst appear in 3 Frith books - View photos of Lyndhurst
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Church Fresco
Painted by Victorian artist Frederick, Lord Leighton
Contributed by Maggie Barnes
Family connections.
The photograph shows my great-aunt's tea room/restaurant. She was Mrs Matilda Howells, known in the family as Aunt Tilly. I can clearly remember visiting the tea room on many occasions as a 9/10 year old child with my mother Adelaide who was Aunt Tilly's sister. Her husband (Uncle Jack) did all his own baking in a huge wood-fired oven at the rear of the premises and meals for the tea room were cooked in an equally large wood-fired range in the kitchen adjoining.
Contributed by Leslie Hobbs
Grand Hotel missing archway
My mother says the two white pillars at the entrance to the Grand Hotel once supported an archway.
During WW2 the Royal Navy housed sailors in the hotel who were bussed out each day. The bus was too tall to go under the archway and so they decided to blow up the arch. The resulting explosion shattered every window in the hotel and was heard all over the village!
Contributed by Maggie Barnes
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My partner owns the cottage to the left of the main Romsey road, that is Ivy cottage, next to Puckpit cottage the side of which adjoins cadnam road, Joyce purchased this in 1997 when she left the Isle of Wight and took up lectures post at Southampton Univercity.
Joyce wanted to be in Lyndhurst as she grew up their, but also her mother lived in the village and it would be nice to be near her and Barbara could also see her grand daughter, Hanah grow up at the same time.
Barbara lived on the oposite side of the road, at number 56 and the cottage seemed the ideal place to raise Hanah and look after her mother, the ...read more here
Contributed by David Green
Extracts From Lyndhurst & Hampshire books
The Crown Hotel, formerly one of Lyndhurst’s inns, was rebuilt in the Tudor style late in Victoria’s reign to cater for those who came to delight in the beauties of the New Forest.
An extract from from"New Forest Photographic Memories".
The Crown in Lyndhurst (left) survives in the 21st century, but the street running along the front of it is very different today. Long queues of traffic build up here as cars approach the traffic lights at the junction further down the road, roughly at the point where the cart can be seen on the right. In the Victorian era Lyndhurst would have been a much quieter town.
An extract from from"Hampshire Revisited Photographic Memories".
Travelling north along the straight road from Brockenhurst brings the traveller to Lyndhurst, an ideal centre for exploring the northern edges of the great forest. Notice how Mr Short, the chemist on the left, had diversified into photography - a favourite hobby at the time.
An extract from from"New Forest Photographic Memories".
Standing at the junction of several ancient roads, Lyndhurst has attracted travellers for centuries. Many of the town’s inns would have been established for these traditional wayfarers. Now they cater for the thousands of tourists who use Lyndhurst as a base for touring the New Forest.
An extract from from"New Forest Photographic Memories".
For such an old town, the church of St Michael and All Angels is modern, being built as recently as 1860 over the site of an older church and a 13th-century chapel. In the churchyard is the grave of Mrs Reginald Hargreaves, born Alice Liddell and immortalised by Lewis Carroll in ‘Alice in Wonderland’.
An extract from from"New Forest Photographic Memories".