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

HGS News

HGS Bookstall HGS Bookstall had two very successful days during September led by our new Bookstall Manager, Tony Sinclair Heritage Open Day On 17th September we were at the Heritage Open Day at Hampshire Record Office, where there was a steady stream of visitors from all over Hampshire and further afield, and our team of volunteers managed to speak to most of them. One gentleman from Derbyshire arrived with a small card advertising his Great Grandmother’s Silk Mercers business in Winchester and went away having found the name of the street where the shop was in 1880. We made some sales from our bookstall and signed up a new member. We also enjoyed looking at the displays put out by the record office, which were as varied as a letter written by Florence Nightingale when she was a child, a display of early cine cameras and an interactive display of the equipment that conservators use to identify objects. In addition, there were stalls run by members of Hampshire Archive Trust and the Victoria County History of Hampshire.

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