Periods of British and Hampshire’s History

WWI 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.

Saxons in the Meon Valley

The Saxons in the Meon Valley Project is a superb heritage lottery funded community history project, which is producing an aerial film of the Meon Valley.

WWI 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.

Meonstoke Font

The font at St Andrew’s church Meonstoke, is a simple C12th example with a beautiful lead lining.

The Royal Pier Southampton

The Royal Pier at Southampton gave access to the ships that the travel hungry Victorians expected. Its wooden structure however meant it was far from an ideal or practical piece of engineering.

The Hayling Ferry 1922

The Hayling Ferry Hampshire 1922 an old postcard image

Bonham 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.

Shick – Shack Day

Part of Hampshire folklore is the celebration of Shick-Shack day on the 29th May. Not many oak leaves are observed adorning the hats of folk these days though.

Deadman’s Plack Longstock

Deadman’s Plack, Longparish Hampshire, a monument to a deed supposedly committed nearly a thousand years ago, fact or fiction?

Guy 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.

Emsworth Oyster Fleet

The Emsworth oyster industry used to supply a 100,000 oysters a week to the London market but the contamination of the bivalve with typhoid and other enteric diseases sent the industry into a spin from which it never recovered.

Beautiful Brockenhurst Church

The oldest church in the New Forest, Brockenhurst church, the church of St Nicholas, has a beautifully mellow look, as though it has occupied this position for ever. And it nearly has. Like several other Hampshire churches, St Nicholas is positioned on a mound, a sign that this position has been held sacred maybe since…

New 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.

Froyle 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.

Petersfield War Memorial

The Petersfield War Memorial was designed by Harry Inigo Triggs who lived at the house he designed, Little Boarhunt in Liphook Hampshire

Portsmouth 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.