22 March 2019
Guests gathered around the new welcome touch table after it had been unveiled by MP Tobias Ellwood (left) NEW state-of-the-art displays telling the story…
22 March 2019
75 YEARS AGO EVIDENCE that an alleged absentee was wearing women’s clothing, including a fur coat, was given at Lymington Borough police court, when a…
22 March 2019
Milford Historical Record Society members with New Forest District Council chair Cllr Mel Kendal (centre) IN an unmarked grave in a corner of All Saints…
15 March 2019
THE early New Forest churches are characterised by two qualities: the first is that the sites chosen tended to be on elevated mounds or ridges and the…
15 March 2019
75 YEARS AGO IN May, 1943, the inhabitants of Milford collected the sum of £162 14s. 6d, as a gift to ex-PC, and Mrs Hancock on the retirement of the…
07 March 2019
75 YEARS AGO NEW MILTON branch of the British Legion on Monday approved a scheme for the acquisition of the Public Hall as a British Legion War Memorial…
05 March 2019
CHRIS PACKHAM’S Inside Out television programme for the BBC on the subject of grazing pressures in the Forest has produced an angry buzzing from the Forest…
01 March 2019
75 YEARS AGO Sergeant Kenneth Lance, Reconnaissance Corps, who lived with his brother Mr A. Lance at Overton Farm, Sway, before joining the Army, has…
23 February 2019
75 YEARS AGO SIR – I am writing these few lines to tell you how much I appreciate the old New Milton Advertiser. I have it sent to me every week, and…
15 February 2019
EVERYONE who bathes from our local beaches is well aware of the saltiness of the sea water and the Bible tells of the extreme saltiness of the “Sea of…
15 February 2019
75 YEARS AGO New Milton Section of the National Fire Service were called out to a fire in Ashley Road on Saturday - and arrived even before the occupier…
15 February 2019
The CAB advice office LYMINGTON’S Citizens Advice branch is appealing for people to get in touch with stories about how they have been helped by the service…
08 February 2019
75 YEARS AGO FROM a War Office letter which his parents have received, it appears that Lieut. Michael Roche, elder son of Captain A. L. Roche, MBE, and…
01 February 2019
OVER Christmas the television provided a wealth of films on the New Forest. Firstly, there was the repeat of a series first shown several years ago and…
01 February 2019
75 YEARS AGO SIXTEEN million employees are going to receive a new Income Tax form. They do not have to fill it up and send it back: the tax offices have…
01 February 2019
A researcher looks through the A&T in the King Research Room of the St Barbe Museum READERS can catch up on local news from 90 years ago at the St…
01 February 2019
Don Mackenzie (centre right) shakes hands with Lymington mayor Cllr Anne Corbridge alongside supporters at the Burrard Neale Monument HE commanded…
25 January 2019
75 YEARS AGO Two young Miltonians who escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp in Italy and rejoined the Allied Forces, have now arrived home on six weeks’…
18 January 2019
THE parish church is very often the oldest physical man-made structure surviving within a parish. For all the pre-Reformation centuries it was the centre for worship, instruction and social interaction and it was the place where the life’s rites of passage were made and confirmed...
18 January 2019
75 YEARS AGO KEITH BUNDAY, a son of Mr and Mrs L. H. Bunday, of Ashley Common Road, is the first New Milton youth to have been drawn out of Mr Bevin’s…
