11 January 2019
75 YEARS AGO THE crew of HMS Obedient, the destroyer which our Borough has adopted, wants a bicycle! This fact was disclosed to the Mayor (Alderman E.…
04 January 2019
FOUR years ago I started the story of how the Great War affected the Forest and the verderers’ administration of it (updated in subsequent January issues…
04 January 2019
75 YEARS AGO There was a drop of about 3% in the amount of correspondence posted and parcels, too, were less during the Yuletide in the Lymington postal…
28 December 2018
75 YEARS AGO FLIGHT SERGEANT Robert Ivan Stone, RAF, son of Mr and Mrs Edgar Stone, of New Milton, has obtained the senior certificate of the College…
21 December 2018
THERE is a long story behind our guide books based, I suppose, on a natural human desire to describe to others the objects of beauty and of interest in…
21 December 2018
75 YEARS AGO THE good news has been received that two, and not one, local lads from the 5th Battalion Hampshire Regiment, not only escaped from a prisoner-of-war…
14 December 2018
VISITORS are so confused about what goes on at a facility dedicated to the history of the New Forest that charity organisers have decided to change its name...
14 December 2018
75 YEARS AGO A 13-MONTH-OLD baby had a miraculous escape from death when a 2-ton lorry ran over its pram in which it was lying. The accident happened…
07 December 2018
75 YEARS AGO Mr G.O. Smith the great England footballer of the ‘nineties’ died on Monday at his home in Lymington. He was 71. Gilbert Oswald Smith earned…
30 November 2018
75 YEARS AGO ADDRESSING members of Lymington and District Men’s Conservative club at the annual meeting on Friday of last week, Mr W. D. Braithwaite,…
23 November 2018
Ron Hickman with the Lotus Elan he designed AN important personal collection of drawings and documents by the designer of such classic Lotus sports cars…
23 November 2018
75 YEARS AGO CAPTAIN Gordon Muirhead, of Marine Drive, Barton-on-Sea, has received a cablegram from his son Lieut Terence Muirhead, MC, Essex Regiment,…
16 November 2018
A MASSIVE crowd came together on Barton clifftop for a “once-in-a-generation” commemoration marking 100 years since the end of the First World War...
15 November 2018
BY the latter years of the 19th century Bournemouth had become a town and resort of national repute. During the summer various hotels were involved in…
26 October 2018
The Grade II listed war memorial in Christchurch Road in Ringwood REFURBISHING Ringwood’s war memorial has been given the go-ahead after promises by the…
