The Hampshire Family Historian | Vol.48 No.4 | March 2022

News from the Hampshire Archives

(inaugural) minute book, 1902-22; Andover District records, as follows: minute books, 1928-2013 ; St Mary's church, Andover, belfry attendance/visitors' book, 1947-64, and 1985- 6; attendance register, 1959-71; anniversary peals (a record of 37 peals scored in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Andover Guild and rung throughout the District), 1968-9 ;subscription registers, 1954-69, 1981-99 (20M94 additional) Friday Art Group [Bentley/Farnham area], scrapbooks compiled by members of the Friday Art Group (principally its founder, the late Wendy Bennett of Lindford), which exhibited in the Bentley/Farnham area, 1987- 2018 (4 vols); exhibition visitors' book containing comments about the Group's exhibitions, 2009-19 (91A21) Pictorial records West Meon photographs and pamphlets, photographs and copy photographs of West Meon, (c1900)-1970s; colour photographs of celebrations in West Meon for the 1977 Silver Jubilee; 'West Meon and Warnford War Dead 1939-1946'; 'West Meon Remembered' by Ronald Stone (2018) with a sketch plan of West Meon by Ron Stone as it was in the late 1940s (77A21) Alton area railway photographs and emphemera, photographs, mostly showing steam trains on the Alton line and at Alton station, including some Railway Enthusiasts

Recollections of 1959' by Chris Small, 2009.(97A21)

Some recent additions to the Wessex Film and Sound Archive Recent accessions include the following (some items are still awaiting processing) Radio Victory, Portsmouth Hospital Radio , Christmas Day, audio reel (8mm) - Portsmouth Hospital Radio broadcast by Peter Courchee (Le Court resident) recording a radio show 'Sounds on Wednesday' and Portsmouth Hospital Radio broadcast on Christmas Day, 1976; MP3 file of radio Victory report on 'The Disabled', by Jane Young, Jun 1978 (AV1653) Hayling Island holiday film , cinefilm (9.5mm) black and white cinefilm of family holidays on Hayling Island, 1950s (AV1654) News of Events HALS/WFSA is launching its exciting new programme of events in 2022, and details will be available soon at the foot of its home page at www.hants.gov.uk/librariesandarchives/ archives Upcoming talks (a mixture of in-person and online, as circumstances permit) are:

• Local history • House history

• 100 years of 9.5mm film • The Queen in Hampshire • The Baring family and its archive

• The natural world • Women filmmakers

Club trains, 1930s-50s, also some photographs of the Meon Valley line;

• The Swing Riots • War memorials • Introduction to sources for Hampshire railways

'Flashback' (pamphlet about Medstead and Four Marks station through the years), 1983; article from Mid-Hants News entitled 'Some

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