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Whitethorn Morris at the Win Mayfest 08
May 2008, and the city of Winchester hosted a festival of music and dance, with the streets closed to traffic and thronged with entertainers, market stalls and happy crowds.
I was part of the band playing for Whitethorn Morris at this event and enjoyed my visit to Winchester. As I walked from the station I passed by the clock in the High Street shown in this Francis Frith view of 1896. Its still there and exactly the same!
My wife Elizabeth danced, and I played my piano accordian for most of the day, including a long procession of all the entertainers from the Cathedral Green and up the High Street. It was a really happy ...read more here
Contributed by John Howard Norfolk
Hampshire memories
Whitethorn Morris at the Win Mayfest 08
May 2008, and the city of Winchester hosted a festival of music and dance, with the streets closed to traffic and thronged with entertainers, market stalls and happy crowds.
I was part of the band playing for Whitethorn Morris at this event and enjoyed my visit to Winchester. As I walked from the station I passed by the clock in the High Street shown in this Francis Frith view of 1896. Its still there and exactly the same!
My wife Elizabeth danced, and I played my piano accordian for most of the day, including a long procession of all the entertainers from the Cathedral Green and up the High Street. It was a really happy ...read more here
A memory of Winchester contributed by John Howard Norfolk
Girls of St Margarets
Hello people, my time at Kings Worthy as a young girl - remembering dancing at our local social club where the locals made us welcome. A beautiful place, I remember the park where I made lots of friends. Girls of St Margarets that I can recall, I often wonder what became of them: Angie from Hawley, Hants. Dawn with a hamster. Sonia who dedicated time to the handicapped home along with myself for a while, and Debs from Aldershot. Hope you see this girlies. x
A memory of Kings Worthy contributed by Caroline Allan
The Volunteer Inn
Volunteer was built in 1703 and as far as we can find out, it possibly became a pub in 1840s. It ceased trading in 1973 when it was sold by the brewery to the Gray family. The Grays converted it back into a house.
We bought Volunteer in 2001 and it still looks much the same from the outside.
The door between the two windows (beneath the pub sign), used to lead into the Saloon Bar, which is now our study; the door was replaced some years ago with another window. We are currently renovating the property back to its former glory. Local people have told us various stories from years gone by when this place was a Pub!
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A memory of Twyford contributed by Penny Smith
Extracts From Winchester & Hampshire books
This splendid photograph gives us some idea of the immense length of Winchester Cathedral: at 556 feet, it is the longest Gothic church in Europe. A Saxon minster church was established here in 643, but it was the Norman bishop Walkelin who began the cathedral we see today. The cathedral stands on marshy ground, and the crypt often floods.
An extract from from"50 Classics - Cathedrals".
All these roads are similar. The rough
roads have all been paved. Almost all
the houses are detached, and often
individually designed. The Local Area
Committee of the Borough Council is
doing its best to maintain the special
ambiance of the district. However, it is
a sad fact that developers are begin-
ning to nibble at any open spaces for
the building of flats. There is a Tree
Preservation Order covering this area,
which we may hope will prevent the
destruction of most of the trees.
An extract from from"Around Eastleigh including Chandler's Ford, Bishopstoke and Botley Living Memories".
This road goes to
Winchester. To the
centre right we can
just see the open-
ing of Mortimer
Lane, which leads
to Bishops Waltham
and to Marwell Zoo.
An extract from from"Around Eastleigh including Chandler's Ford, Bishopstoke and Botley Living Memories".
This is the Leigh Road
pedestrian precinct
between the High
Street and Market
Street. The railway sta-
tion can be seen in the
distant centre.
An extract from from"Around Eastleigh including Chandler's Ford, Bishopstoke and Botley Living Memories".
(Gordon Daubney Cox)
Swithun Wells lived in the manor house of Eastley at a time when Catholics were heavily restricted. Mass was illegally
celebrated in a house he owned in Holborn, and he was executed in 1591. In 1970 he was one of 40 English martyrs who
were canonised. This statue is in the church of St Etheldreda in London, near where Wells was hanged.
An extract from from"Around Eastleigh including Chandler's Ford, Bishopstoke and Botley Living Memories".