The Hampshire Family Historian | Volume 49 No.4 | March 2023

News from the Hampshire Archives

recent accessions include the following: Berkshire films: VHS tapes (12): St Peter's church, Drayton, film by Bob Winter, 1987; Two episodes of 'Challenge Anneka', 1989; 'Live Work and Play the Bracknell Forest Way', late 1980s; excavations for new heating system at St Nicolas, Newbury, 1992; St Mary's Church, Shaw cum Donnington 150th anniversary pageant, 1992; 'Parish of Compton', 1994; Brightwell cum Sotwell 50th anniversary, 1995; video of last County Council meeting, Thames Valley Television, 1998; Celebrating Warfield in Year 2000; My School Days production for White House Preparatory School, 2000; The Reading Water Voles, 2001; The Reading Cattle Market 'Past and Present', 2001 (AV768) Wallbank films: DVDs compiled by Alan Wallbank - The Great Performer, 2019; Fredericks Legacy, 2022; Time to Say Goodbye, 2022; The Crowning Glory, 2022; Cecil Gordon Vokes, 2022, with notes about Cecil Vokes (AV258) Events Our programme of events for the first part of 2023 is now online at What's on at Hampshire Archives | Hampshire County Council (hants.gov.uk), and tickets are selling fast. We are offering two new online talks, on Florence Nightingale and on the Highclere Castle archive, and repeating a couple of our

Council minutes, May 1980-Mar 2008 (51M73) Upper Clatford Parish Council: Parish Council signed minutes, Mar-Dec 1993, 1996 2006 (125M94) Langrish Parish Council: Parish Council minute books, 1981-2007 (3 vols); Annual Parish Meeting minute book, Mar 1977-Apr 2003; Map and Schedule of Rights of Way in Langrish, 1934 (46M91) Parish records Ecchinswell Parish: marriage register, 1844 2019 (147M82) Smannell Parish: marriage register, 1858 2000 (53M95) Compton Parish: Compton parish time capsule, sealed in 1955, celebrating the octocentenary of All Saints' Church, and the fiftieth anniversary of the 1905 extension which more than doubled the size of the old Norman church (the time capsule was unsealed again in 2005); Compton and Shawford parish magazines, Jan-Dec 2022 (1M76) Photographs Aerial photograph of Wolvesey Palace and Castle, Winchester: Large aerial colour photograph of the Bishop of Winchester's Palace, also known as Wolvesey Palace and the ruins of the earlier Bishop's Palace attached to the rear, c1990 (114A22) Wessex Film and Sound Archive’s

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