02 September 2019
Richard Browning shortly after taking off from Hurst Castle (Photo: BBC) A ROCKET-PROPELLED postman flew from the New Forest to the Isle of Wight to recreate…
01 September 2019
The cottage in Burton where former poet laureate Robert Southey lived with his wife Edith IT might be too big, too small or for some buyers just right…
29 August 2019
THE 31 people killed in New Milton during bombing raids on the town during the Second World War were remembered at an annual service...
15 August 2019
An aerial view of the ancient discovery at Matley Heath near Lyndhurst (Photo: New Forest National Park Authority) AN archaeological dig at Matley Heath…
09 August 2019
A Spitfire is set to take to the skies as part of a special flypast (Photo: stock image) A SPITFIRE flypast will honour a Ringwood pilot thought to be…
18 July 2019
FOR centuries the inhabitants of the parish of Hordle had attended their parish church situated not far from the cliff edge...
04 July 2019
HMS Pickle will be moored at Lymington A REPLICA of the ship that carried the news of Lord Nelson’s death and great victory at the Battle of Trafalgar…
04 July 2019
I FIND increasingly frustrating the piles of jargon-filled paperwork which are thrown at members of the Verderers' Court by outside bodies. The latest…
30 June 2019
A portrait by Daniel Gardner of Admiral Sir William Cornwallis (Image: National Maritime Museum) ONE of the most momentous days in Milford’s history will…
06 June 2019
LOCAL Second World War veterans have shared wartime tales about their experiences of D-Day to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the landings. Codenamed…
06 June 2019
THE recent reports of fires in the Forest over the Easter weekend raise some interesting questions about our vulnerability to fire once climate change…
03 June 2019
There has been a church in one form or another on the site at Hinton since the 12th century A CHURCH which members of the congregation feared would not…
31 May 2019
Trucks loaded on to a landing craft ready for D-Day THE vital role played by the New Forest in the D-Day invasion of Normandy 75 years ago next week will…
17 May 2019
IT was during my explorations and researches into the notebooks of the Rev. Henry Comyn (1777-1851), compiled whilst he was curate of Boldre parish between…
03 May 2019
UNTIL the last few decades virtually nothing was known about the occupation and use of the New Forest in Roman times. The exception to this was the use…
18 April 2019
THIS is a story where several quite disparate threads coalesce in a single place and that place is Newlands in the parish of Milford. It also occurred…
15 April 2019
75 YEARS AGO FIFTY-YEAR-OLD Mrs G. M. Brotherton, of Burley, is in khaki again. A Women’s Legion Ambulance driver in the last war, she volunteered for…
11 April 2019
New Forest historian and storyteller Brice Stratford TALL tales and scary stories are being hunted by a researcher looking to round up the myths and legends…
31 March 2019
75 YEARS AGO Paymaster Lieut. Bill Johnson, RNVR, well-known in Lymington amateur dramatic and tennis circles before the war, when he was on the staff…
28 March 2019
Toby Hoad using his two Comtois mares Fleur and Celine to transport coppice to the kiln AN AWARD-winning conservation charity has taken a step back in…
