The Hampshire Family Historian | Volume 50 No.1 | June 2023

News from the Hampshire Archives/Searchers

tickets for our latest screening, Reel Fashion on Film (22 May) . This is an opportunity to see newly-digitised footage shared on screen in our cinema. The programme includes the chance to see fashions you may remember, or prefer to forget! You can book via the online shop here Hampshire Record Office – Tagged "Event" – Hampshire County Council Shop (hants.gov.uk). We hope to see you there! From 2 May to 29 June, in our foyer you can see the Micheldever Station Heritage Group’s display which focuses on the community created by the station. This will be followed by ‘Homes on Wheels’ – The Story of Winchester Caravans , from 4 July – 31 August. Complementing the exhibition is a talk In the last years of his life he had become a distinguished figure on the literary scene. The Manchester Guardian wrote: ‘wherever one has gone during the past ten years, among the houses of reflective folk, one has found “The Soul of a People” on the little table with the intimate books of companionship – with, let us say, Marcus Aurelius, Thomas à Kempis, Emerson’s Essays’ Illustrious company for an obscure colonial officer. He’d been a searcher after faith all his life. All of which persuades me that his arrival in the New Forest, even after three years of war, was sure to have been recorded, either by neighbours or the local clergy, or maybe a friend who had recommended it. I’d be Continued from page 15

by Angela Willis, Senior Curator of the Caravan and Motorhome Club Collection, who will share the fascinating origins of the caravan holiday in Hampshire. Did you know that Hampshire is home to many pioneers of the caravan industry, from West End’s Richard St Barbe Baker, the builder of the very first caravan towed by the motor car, to one of the UK’s most prestigious 20th century caravan builders, Bertram Hutchings of Winchester. There is currently an early bird offer for tickets at the price of £10 up to and including 7th July – book here ‘Homes on Wheels’ – The Caravan and Motorhome Holiday in Hampshire - O – Hampshire County Council Shop (hants.gov.uk) to take advantage of this. interested to know of any local diaries, journals or letters which might refer to his reasons for being there, or mention any of the events of those final months. Also any information about Grosvenor House, Southampton, where Amy Edith Tyrrel was working, and if any of their records survive. Perhaps even the records of the next door Bramshaw Golf Course might provide some clues. Thomas Cyril Myers was an obsessive golfer. Sometimes an apparently insignificant detail can open up a whole trail of possibilities. Anyone who has any information, please do get in touch

Joanna Hodgkin (Member #) joannahines@btinternet.com

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