Windsor 1910 + Period
COPP Memorial
The COPP Memorial at Hayling. The Combined Operations Pilotage Parties (COPP) memorial on Hayling Island is a reminder of how the bravery of a few people had such a huge impact on WWII. The Combined Operations Pilotage Parties were made up of members of all three services, the Royal Navy, the Royal Airforce and the…
Read MoreAn Alresford Toilet and the Cold War
What is the connection between New Alresford in Hampshire and the Cold War? Well it might surprise you to know that one of the most unremarkable buildings in Hampshire a toilet block in New Alresford has a vital connection to the Cold War.
Read MoreHamble Le Rice
Hamble Le Rice is bursting with history and delightful scenery. The settlement on the River Hamble estuary is ancient and intriguing and perfect for exploration.
Read More1950’s Racing Chart of the Solent
1950’s Racing Chart of the Solent A chance find in a charity shop today turned up a racing chart of Solent and Spithead, how appropriate on the first day of the ‘America’s Cup’ hosted in Portsmouth for the first time in 164 years. Not being a sailor the chart is full of mysteries for me. The…
Read MoreThe Pompey Pals
In WWI Portsmouth was able to raise two battalions of ‘Pompey Pals’ the 14th and 15th Hampshire Regiment. Many enlisted at Fratton Park, home of Portsmouth Football Club. How must it have felt to these men of Portsmouth, many of whom would be fervent Pompey supporters, to enter the gates of Fratton Park, not to join the fray of a football game but to enter the affray of war?
Read MoreWWI Memorial Exbury
The WWI memorial at Exbury Hampshire is a poignant memorial to the Forster brothers who gave their lives in WWI.
Read MoreWWI Guy Victor Baring Northington
Guy Victor Baring is remembered in Northington Church by amongst other things a simple wooden cross. Just another poignant reminder of the lives given by Hampshire men in WWI.
Read MoreWWI Memorial Donald Wood Chawton
The church of St Nicholas Chawton has a lovely memorial to a man, Donald Wood, who gave his life fighting for his country in World War I. Whilst visited for its Austen connections its lovely to remember others who also lie here.
Read MoreThe Hayling Ferry 1922
The Hayling Ferry Hampshire 1922 an old postcard image
Read MoreBonham Carter WWI Memorial
In remembrance of those who gave their lives in WWI, Hampshire History will be posting images of WWI memorials and associated artefacts and events,discovered as we travel through Hampshire.
Read MoreGuy Burgess and West Meon
The remains of Guy Burgess, the Englishman who turned his back on his own country during the Cold War to become a Soviet spy, lie in Hampshire, in West Meon church yard by the grave of his father.
Read MoreNew Zealand and Brockenhurst
The New Zealand Cemetery at Brockenhurst in the New Forest, is a beautiful calm and serene place where over one hundred headstones remember those who died in the hospital in Brockenhurst.
Read MoreFroyle Village of Saints
Froyle in Hampshire is known as the village of saints because of its intriguing saints statues which gaze out from many of the village houses.
Read MorePetersfield War Memorial
The Petersfield War Memorial was designed by Harry Inigo Triggs who lived at the house he designed, Little Boarhunt in Liphook Hampshire
Read MorePortsmouth Remembers D-Day
Thousands of people came to Portsmouth to remember the 156,000 Allied troops who left the shores of southern England, launching themselves into the choppy sea of the Solent before landing on the beaches of Normandy in northern France at the start of a major offensive against the Germans.
Read MorePreparing Southampton for D-Day
The city of Southampton and its docks were critical to the success or failure of Operation Overlord and D- Day. The city that had been devastated by air raids, somehow managed to become the greatest naval and military port the world had ever seen.
Read MoreSouth Parade Pier Southsea 1928
South Parade Pier as it appears today and as it did in 1928, little has changed and yet so much has changed. View this old postcard image from 1928.
Read MoreBramshott and the Canadians in WWI and WWII
Bramshott and Liphook in Hampshire became home for thousands of Canadian soldiers during both great wars. The links between these villages in Hampshire and the Canadian nation are touchingly deep, with 318 soldiers buried in the churchyard.
Read MoreSouthampton Toast Rack Tram 1916
The Southampton Toast Rack 1916 was a single height open top tram car that could pass through Southampton Bargate
Read MoreThe FA Cup in Hampshire
The FA Cup was won by Portsmouth in 1939 and found a home in the county of Hampshire for the duration of WWII
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