The Hampshire Family Historian | Vol.49 No.3 | December 2022

News from the Hampshire Archives

and information about his property, 1799 (11A22) Burrard diaries and book: diaries of Sidney Burrard of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, later Lieutenant Colonel Sidney Burrard (1826 1893), 1839 and 1840; manuscript book 'The Burrard Family' compiled and written by Lieutenant Colonel Sidney Burrard, c1892 (38A22) Goater family of Chandlers Ford: personal records of Joan Adelaide Goater (nee Adamson, d1999) who lived at The Ridge, 27 Hiltingbury Road, Chandlers Ford, comprising a series of journals, 1947-99 (incomplete), including entries relating to natural history, the weather, the subject's life and activities, such as children at school, national service, sporting and leisure activities (e.g. trips to the New Forest, the Isle of Wight, and nearby chalk downland), family history, and environmental matters including the decline in local wildlife, the destruction of woodland at Hiltingbury, and new housing developments in the area (211 notebooks); a series of paintings (watercolour on paper) by the same, featuring botanical studies, all dated, located, and identified, c1950s-80s; notebooks comprising an alphabetical index of wild flowers appearing in the journals, and a catalogue of the wild flower paintings. Two further manuscript volumes comprising an account by Barry Goater (Mrs Goater's son, a science teacher at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, then based at Hampstead, London), featuring activities undertaken with his pupils whilst on camping field trips at Beaulieu Road, New

Forest, entitled 'the Beaulieu Tomes', c1955 61. (44A22) West Meon miscellanea: the Ray Stone collection: collected ephemera of the late Ray A Stone relating to aspects of local history in the West Meon area, as follows: business records of Stone, coal merchants, comprising annual profit and loss accounts, 1958-75, customer ledgers, 1950s-63 (3 vols), a file of miscellaneous documents, correspondence, cuttings, etc., about the family business, 1950s-98, and papers concerning the sale of the business by R A Stone in 1993; a series of captioned photo albums labelled 'A' to 'H', and 'O' (8 vols and 1 wallet), comprising original and copy photos, late 19th-mid 20th century; candidates' declaration book for the Loyal Westbury Lodge (Manchester Unity Friendly Society, Southampton Branch), 1889-1905; minute book of West Meon Boy Scouts, 1932 4; further loose photographs, correspondence and personal papers, sale particulars, cuttings, maps, articles, and pamphlets on subjects such as schools, church and parish, local buildings and landmarks, transport, Westbury village, shops and trades, local residents, sports and local clubs. (45A22 uncatalogued) Autograph album, West Ham House Red Cross Hospital, Basingstoke: autograph album of Elizabeth Best, kept while working as a nurse at the West Ham House Red Cross Hospital, Basingstoke, 1916. Contains poems, notes, drawings and photographs written by soldier patients (46A22)

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