Memories
| Memories |  | Our Memories section takes a look at the borough’s rich and diverse history. Here, we will take a look back at days gone by – and we want you, the readers, to contribute with your memories of Basingstoke and the surrounding area. We are not just talking about events from decades ago – we are also interested in more recent history. So if you have a story to tell, or old photographs you want to share with our readers, call Richard Garfield on 01256 337430 or e-mail richard.garfield@basingstokegazette.co.uk Any photographs or other material submitted for publication will be returned. Richard looks forward to hearing from you. |
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Houses with roofs of straw
THE recent fire in the 18th century thatched roof of the Woolpack Inn, at Sopley, near Ringwood, in Hampshire, where Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt visited during the Second World War, has brought about an enquiry regarding this type of roofing material. |
A century of state pensions
ONE hundred years ago, in early 1908, rumours began to circulate from London that elderly people may receive weekly payments from the Government to allow them to live decent lives without having to work or beg for money on the streets. |
Flaxfield – an historical road
AS MORE and more post offices are closing down across the country, this feature looks back to March 1968, to when the Flaxfield Post Office, in Basingstoke, was demolished. |
Photos show military occupation
THE military occupation of Basingstoke during the First World War, which was recently featured in Memories on Monday, prompted Gazette historian Robert Brown to send in two pictures from his extensive photographic library. |
Going back in dog years
THE Willis Museum has gone to the dogs - but there's no need to worry! It is hosting a new exhibition called The Basingstoke Tails. |
Of cobblestones and coaches
AFTER seeing the cobblestones in the television series Coronation Street, a reader of these Memories features has asked if there was ever a similar road in Basingstoke laid out in cobbles. |
The tale of travelling homes
TWO months ago, on January 3, workmen began to realign many of the caravans on the Attwood Close site off Worting Road, Basingstoke. |
The arrival of X-ray technology
WHEN Basingstoke Cottage Hospital was opened in Hackwood Road, in 1879, patients with injuries were dealt with by nurses and doctors with little knowledge of how bad the fractures were, as the X-ray machine had not been invented at that time. |
A former military town
"ZEPPELINS destroyed" and "The fight for Warsaw" were among the headlines in The Hants and Berks Gazette in February 1915, along with stories about hand-to-hand combat in the Persian Gulf. |
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