SearchCurrently displaying all 4422 items in the archive. Enter a search term or click on a filter. Search term Filter by Format Document (516)Audio (32) Sort by: RelevanceTitleOldestNewest PAGE: < Prev144145146147148149150151152153Next > This photo shows how the blaze has taken hold of the entire structure Before the fire. Hockley Cottage, with Brook Cottages beyond. A second image of the thatch of Brook Cotttages ablaze The view from the allotments, behind the cottages, shows the five chimney stacks still standing The 17th century hall house, Hockley Cottage, from Washer's Triangle. Old Bell Cottage, on the left, housed Edward A. Banhams, Saddler. It is said that villagers, who only possessed one pair of shoes, would bring these for mending. While waiting, they drank beer at an ale house at the same address Brooklyn Francis & Clare Cottages and The New Inn. Displayed on the corner of The New Inn is 'Crowley and Co, Alton Ales and Stouts'. (The triangular structure in what is now Washer's Triangle is a well-head.) The label on this pot reads: Francis Dear, Spirit Merchant, East Meon. Francis Dear was publican at The New Inn in 1875. The pot belongs to Frank Wheeler. The George in the early 20th century. The original structure was probably built in the late 17th century. New Inn c 1919, looking east. Parsons store on the left Looking the other way, with Parsons on the right. Sir Peter Warren built the Palladian house at Westbury in the 1740s. It was burned down in 1904. Nurse Kate Micklam with her bicycle, with her family, on the doorstep of Barnards, c 1903. She was the village midwife. "There were also several amateur midwives. The doctor was Dr Jones." Clara Fisher. George Noble White, lived at ‘The White Cottage’, High Street and every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday did the return journey from East Meon to Portsmouth, about 17 miles each way,. Behind the clergy and choir at the installation of the War Memorisl in 1923 is Barnards. On the wall can be detected a stone sign indicating that A Mullard lived here. The sign reads 'A Mullard, Carrier to Portsmouth'. His competitor, Noble White, lived just 100 yards down the High Street. The Forge. Jim Hobbs lives in part of what was then Pilbrook Cottage, to the right. The cost of death. Henry Coles was undertaker and coffin maker Morris Dancing outside the New Inn, 1960s The New Inn, now the Izaak Walton. The man in the dark jacket and boater is Colonel Le Roy-Lewis, with his wife and son on either side. (The caption says "West Meon" which may be because the cricket pavilion was over the border ...) Staff of Westbury House in 1895, before the fire. Westbury fire aftermath The approach to the house was along a tree-lined drive off the road between the villages of East Meon and The pleasure grounds on the south side were designed by the celebrated early 18th century landscape gardener Charles Bridgeman. Surrounding the house and gardens was a working estate with a farmyard, barns and stables, fields and timber plantations.” PAGE: < Prev144145146147148149150151152153Next >