Moya take 100 lines " I shall not invoke the wrath of the teacher"!! My first school days were like "hell on earth" the first time I had been away from my parents. A very large fat woman dressed all in black with her hair tied in a bun looking down at me, as I only came up to her knees!! Then this large booming voice telling me to stand up straight, I was honest miss!! And that was only the school secretary!!! My first teacher was a Miss Wheeler at Lydlynch Infants School in Totton and I thought she was great, let us play with plasticine and pots of coloured powder that you mixed with water and looked great on all the other kids!! But the Headmistress................Aaagh!! Miss Little (now that is an opposite) was the headmistress and despite her name she was bigger than the school secretary!! I was not allowed to eat boiled fish on doctors orders, but this did not deter this fearsome by product of the Wehrmacht! "Go to my office Hayles" she would boom, "And take your plate with you" There I was made to stand at her desk and eat every last scrap all through playtime!!! "But Miss I am not allowed to the doctor said!" "Doctor! I am in charge here, Ve haf ways of making you big and strong!!" Little was I to know what was to come after just that first week!!! Swear blind she was in the Ba'ath party!! Chris --- All of our Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. And attachments are also scanned before being added. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.471 / Virus Database: 269 - Release Date: 11/04/2003

A school life crowded with incidents I see Mr. Hayles!!!! Sounds as if you should go first!! tee hee Moya Page (nee Banting) researching BANTING and PERREN in Hampshire ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris & Caroline To: HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 11:35 PM Subject: [HantsLife] School memories Anybody out there got any good school memories they would like to share with others? You know the first kiss behind the bike shed, the first woodbine in the air raid shelter? How to sole your boots with school cabbage etc? Who WAS the teachers pet? Lets have a few memories in, promise not to tell the teecher!! Chris and Caroline PS No swots please and no kiss and tell!! --- All of our Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. And attachments are also scanned before being added. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.471 / Virus Database: 269 - Release Date: 10/04/2003 ==== HAMPSHIRE-LIFE Mailing List ==== Visit Where your ancestors lived..... SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages AND VI ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Anybody out there got any good school memories they would like to share with others? You know the first kiss behind the bike shed, the first woodbine in the air raid shelter? How to sole your boots with school cabbage etc? Who WAS the teachers pet? Lets have a few memories in, promise not to tell the teecher!! Chris and Caroline PS No swots please and no kiss and tell!! --- All of our Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. And attachments are also scanned before being added. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.471 / Virus Database: 269 - Release Date: 10/04/2003

The following has now been added to the SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) WEBSITE at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages UPDATES: EASTLEIGH SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHS a selection of old school photographs from Eastleigh, if you recognise anyone then please let us know. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages/eastleigh_schools.htm NOTE: If you attended SHAKESPEARE SCHOOL in the past then please contact us. These can be found by accessing the main index. We are constantly on the look our for new articles, photos etc to add to the site and all credit will be given to the contributors. Please email us BEFORE sending items so we are prepared for them due to virus activity. We would also like to thank all of our subscribers to Hampshire Life, visitors etc for all the support they have given us in the past two years, without your help we would not have such a popular website!! _______________________________ Chris and Caroline HAYLES Eastleigh, Hampshire, UK List Administrators of HAMPSHIRE-LIFE SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) website address; http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages TO SUBSCRIBE send an e-mail with SUBSCRIBE in the text box to: HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L-request@rootsweb.com for e-mail mode HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-D-request@rootsweb.com for digest mode To unsubscribe put "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the text box --- All of our Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. And attachments are also scanned before being added. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.471 / Virus Database: 269 - Release Date: 10/04/2003

Hi Steve There are these http://members.lycos.co.uk/hinckley1/postcards.html http://www.kellybadge.co.uk/Beginner.htm Chris and Caroline ----- Original Message ----- From: "richang" <richang@mnsi.net> To: <HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [HantsLife] Recognising a Military Uniform Steve: You don't indicate what the approximate age of the uniform is, however you may in all probability get excellent responses from GREATWAR Rootsweb site. Although it deals mainly with WW1 information, a great many subscribers are very well-versed in other conflicts as well. To subscribe, GREATWAR-L-request@rootsweb.com Hope this helps. Rich ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Hillier Esperance West Aust" <hillier@emerge.net.au> To: <HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 2:35 PM Subject: [HantsLife] Recognising a Military Uniform > Subject: Recognising a Military Uniform > > I have a Photo of a young man in a Military type Uniform. > Has anyone any good URL for Military Type Uniforms. > > > Cheers > > Steve > > > ==== HAMPSHIRE-LIFE Mailing List ==== > Please use common sense when sending or replying to messages on the list. What may not offend you may offend others. Please do not send virus warnings, or other matetial not relevant to Hampshire and its history. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > ==== HAMPSHIRE-LIFE Mailing List ==== "GENEALOGISTS DO IT IN TREES!" ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --- All of our Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. And attachments are also scanned before being added. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.471 / Virus Database: 269 - Release Date: 10/04/2003

Subject: Recognising a Military Uniform I have a Photo of a young man in a Military type Uniform. Has anyone any good URL for Military Type Uniforms. Cheers Steve

My surname interests are LASHAM Mainly in Selbourne,West Meon areas but basically any in Hampshire. Cheers Michael.

Hello, During my years at Aldershot County High School for Girls, we were obliged to participate in the school sports programme. Although I was not known to be a great athlete, or even a poor athlete for that matter, I did show up and try to pitch in. Struggled through netball and tennis, but field hockey, now that is where I thought I could shine. During one hot game I saw the perfect opening to make a score, drew back my hockey stick and let fly with all my might, unfortunately, for some unexplained reason, that was the precise moment one of my classmates decided to lean forward, and my hockey stick connected with her two of her front teeth. The two teeth flew out of her mouth into the grass and that was the end of the game. As I said previously, I was a poor athlete. That was the last time I played hockey, in fact I avoid all sports as much as possible, nowadays knitting is my bag. Cheers, Pam [RENNEY] McKinley, red-faced and hiding out in Arizona.

Greetings all. Just a note to ask one and all to keep an eye out for the following names in Hampshire, BRYANT BRIANT BRIENT MIST HARVEY (Rockbourne) PARKER (Frogham) Many thanks, Ian

Hi All, seeing I have been away I missed the message to repost so thought I would do it now I am seeking any info on the name BECKHURST in either Alton or Froyle .many thanks for your replies Norma

Can anyone help me find out about Steep Common and the people who lived there around the 1870s, i think my mob did just that and would love to know more about it, anything at all about the Piersons, spelt any way. Derrick OZ

There is a website for this Steve, we posted it up once before but for the life of me I cannot remember what it was called or where it was!! Try http://www.google.co.uk hit the PAGES FROM UK button and put in "military uniforms" this should find it for you Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Hillier Esperance West Aust" <hillier@emerge.net.au> To: <HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 2:35 PM Subject: [HantsLife] Recognising a Military Uniform Subject: Recognising a Military Uniform I have a Photo of a young man in a Military type Uniform. Has anyone any good URL for Military Type Uniforms. Cheers Steve ==== HAMPSHIRE-LIFE Mailing List ==== Please use common sense when sending or replying to messages on the list. What may not offend you may offend others. Please do not send virus warnings, or other matetial not relevant to Hampshire and its history. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --- All of our Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. And attachments are also scanned before being added. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.471 / Virus Database: 269 - Release Date: 10/04/2003

Steve: You don't indicate what the approximate age of the uniform is, however you may in all probability get excellent responses from GREATWAR Rootsweb site. Although it deals mainly with WW1 information, a great many subscribers are very well-versed in other conflicts as well. To subscribe, GREATWAR-L-request@rootsweb.com Hope this helps. Rich ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Hillier Esperance West Aust" <hillier@emerge.net.au> To: <HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 2:35 PM Subject: [HantsLife] Recognising a Military Uniform > Subject: Recognising a Military Uniform > > I have a Photo of a young man in a Military type Uniform. > Has anyone any good URL for Military Type Uniforms. > > > Cheers > > Steve > > > ==== HAMPSHIRE-LIFE Mailing List ==== > Please use common sense when sending or replying to messages on the list. What may not offend you may offend others. Please do not send virus warnings, or other matetial not relevant to Hampshire and its history. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Hi Listers I would like to repost my interests PALMER's From Hursley and Farley Chamberlayne I am at a brick wall. (and I would like help to climb over it) JOHN PALMER c 1742 - d 1806 MARY HOPKINS b 1744 - d 1805 They were married at Hursley 17 Oct 1770 All my information has been obtained from Church Records, has anyone any idea how I should to proceed ? Kind Regards Brian P.

Thank you for the opportunity to do this. The people mentioned below are truly the most frustrating of my branches. In fact I think their bit of the tree was cut down and used for firewood or something .They seem to have disappeared without trace. Whingeing over and yes I feel better now thank you. Here they are. Self or Selfe Hursley Burton Hursley. Kind regards Merrilyn Davey

Hello, My Grt. Grandmother was born at Bullington, Hampshire in 1821, her name as it appears on her marriage certificate was Sarah MALT, however in another place it is Sarah MALLT. The problem I have is that both Sarah and the man she was marrying, my Grt. Grandfather, George ROGERS, signed the Marriage certificate with an "X", so obviously neither of them could write. Does anyone know of the name MALT etc. especially in the Bullington area of Hampshire. If she gave her name, at her wedding , as MALT or something that sounded like MALT, does anyone have any ideas as to what else it could have been. Are there any names in the Winchester area, or anywhere, that would have sounded like MALT. Always looking for ROGERS at Broughton, Hampshire and LONG and ROGERS at Soberton, Hampshire. Regards, Pam [ RENNEY] McKinley, an Aldershot, Hants gal, now in Arizona.

Well it seems our trip to Alresford fascinated a few people who wondered why Hampshire was popular with Thomas the Tank Engine stories!!! Thanks to David Parker we only found out that the author was a Hampshire Hog!!!!! We "borrowed" this to give you the full story of the author Rev Wilbert Vere Awdry who was born in Romsey HAMPSHIRE!!! Chris and Caroline Rev WILBERT AWDRY an Anglican clergyman, was the author of the 'Thomas The Tank Engine' childrens books after living in Box next to the old railway station. It was a way of entertaining his young son Christopher as he recovered, in isolation, from scarlet fever. Christopher demanded that he be told the stories again and again and, in the way of small children, corrected his father whenever inconsistencies crept into the retold stories. For no other reason except to avoid this embarrassment, Wilbert wrote the first stories down on available scraps of paper. To add to the story telling, the Rev. Awdry drew simple pictures of steam locomotives on the paper along with the stories. "Edward" was the first engine's name. This gave birth to "Edward's Day Out", the first in almost a hundred simple moral tales about the exploits and adventures of a group of railway engines given human personalities. Mrs. Awdry believed that these children's stories had some merit and encouraged her husband to formalise them. In 1945 the first of the Railway Series of books "The Three Railway Engines" appeared. This was a book, small enough for children's hands, containing three stories. The book was laid out with the text on the left hand page and a full page illustration of an incident in the story on the right. The illustrator for the first dozen or so books was C. Reginald Dalby, who established the basic appearance of each locomotive character from the Rev. Awdry's sketches and by looking at real steam engines in use in Britain at that time. Thus an obscure 0-6-0T Class E2 shunting engine built in the Victorian era became the model for Thomas, now known to millions of children worldwide. As the stories developed, the location and other features of fictional railway system emerged. Many stories were based on actual happenings on British Railways and its predecessors. More locomotive characters appeared, learning to deal with the troublesome trucks and to become "really useful engines" as they pulled their trains over the railway system presided over by the stern but kindly 'Fat Controller' - Sir Topham Hatt. He continued to write a book every year until 1972 when he finally laid down his pen, only to have it taken up by his son Christopher, who in 1983 published more stories written for his son. Ten more books of the Railway Series have now appeared so far under Christopher's name. It wasn't until 1984 that a whole new generation of children were introduced to Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends when the first of the TV. series of that name was made. Wilbert Vere Awdry was born in 1911 at Romsey in Hampshire. His real interest in railways began after moving to Box as a child at the age of 6 when he lived at 'The Wilderness' in Church Lane, where from the upstairs window he and his father engaged in spotting trains on the G.W.R. Paddington to Bristol line. Two years later he moved to another house in Box Townend', and the year after to another house close to Box Station called 'Lorne Villa ', (now Lorne House a 'Bed and Breakfast' - see elsewhere on this site) in London Road. He listened to the steam. trains whistling, puffing and shunting and imagined that they were talking to each other; especially when the 'Box resident' tank engine was used to give the goods trains an extra push up the incline to Corsham. In 1924 he went to Marlborough School and never returned to Box as his family moved house on the death of his aged father in 1928. Wilbert was ordained in 1936 and served in a number of churches for 30 years. But the success of the books meant that he could 'retire' and concentrate on writing. Ten years ago he opened the viewing gallery on the railway bridge w hich faces the Western end of Box tunnel. He received an O.B.E in the 1996 New Years Honours list. --- All of our Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. And attachments are also scanned before being added. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.471 / Virus Database: 269 - Release Date: 10/04/2003

I'd like to say "Thank You" to everyone who replied to my questions about the church - and the Orange Juice. Very much appreciated! For those of us who remember the good old days when we listened to the wireless, rather than watched the box, the BBC have a 1950s British Radio Nostalgia website which is worth a look-at: <A HREF="http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/radio/index.htm">http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/radio/index.htm</A> Joy

Hi All, Just a quick message to remind everyone to fly your flags tomorrow 23rd April, when it will be St George's Day. Pat in Oz

Hi All, My Hampshire interests include these brick walls any New?Nue. Woodhouse pre 1767 Francis Lawrence abt 1730 and descendants. Remember the A.N.Z.A.C.S. on Friday and thank whatever greater power you believe in, for their services to Peace. Carol