The Hampshire Family Historian | Volume 51 No.1 | June 2024

News from the Hampshire Archives

Hotel roofs, showing Basingstoke re development, 1966-8 (23A24) Sway and Bursledon photographs:

Circuit), 1941-71 (Church Street from 1955); Circuit plans and directories, 1966-76 and plans and newsletters, 1977-86. Trinity Church: baptism register, 1971-2014, register of Thanksgiving After the birth of a child, 1991-2002, membership/confirmation register, 1999-2019; Young Adults Fellowship minute book, 1983-5, minute book of Young Adult Group, TROG, 1986-7 and file of minutes and papers of TROG, 1986-88; photograph album, 1970-80; orders of service for anniversaries and opening and closing of church, 1970-2023. Sarum Hill Church: photograph album, 1950s-70. (57M77) School records (note: 100 year closure on log books and admission registers) Smannell and Enham Church of England Junior/Primary School: log book of Smannell and Enham Church of England Junior (later Primary) School, May 1932-Jul 1965 (12A24) Hamble Primary School: log books, 1953 2000 (4 vols); Hamble National School/Primary School, Managers' Visiting book, 1903-1904, 1949-1957 (256M86) North Foreland Lodge School, Sherfield on-Loddon: minute books of the North Forelanders' Lodge (Old Girls' association), Christmas card with a photograph of the Swan Hotel, Alton on the front, 1940, loose inside, a printed poem about The Swan, May 1940 (32A24) Wessex Film and Sound Archive. Recent additions include: Submariners oral history, Gosport: oral history interviews with members of the Royal Navy Submarine Service, all sharing details of their time in Gosport, their experiences at 1920-8 and 1933-57 (112A03) Miscellaneous records Swan Hotel, Alton, card and poem:

photographs of Sway House, c1900, and Mrs Eleanor HAGEN of Sway House, c1900; print of unidentified house, possibly Sway House, 19th century; photograph of Old Ship House, Bursledon, early 20th century (24A24) Andover slides and pamphlets: colour slides of Andover Congregational Church Fete and Carnival float, 1968; Oxfam and Junior Church Club Carnival float, 1973; Church Camps, 1970s; Andover scenes, 1980s. The Borough of Andover - The Residents Handbook, 1971; Andover United Reformed Church pamphlets, 1977, 1983 (35A24) Parish records Darby Green parish: Baptism register, 1982 2019; service registers, 1985-2008 (2 vols); funeral and cremation book, 2006-2011; Parochial Church Council minutes, 1974-2007, 2011-2028; annual reports, 1992-2006; annual parish meeting minutes, reports and accounts, 2011-2012; correspondence about St Barnabas Old Mission Church, 1986-1996; papers about vacancy for incumbent, 2005 (37M96) St Francis, Valley Park: Church Council minutes, 1987-2013 (65M99) Parish of Tadley with Pamber Heath: Parochial Church Council minutes, including minutes of annual church meetings, 1974 2018 (39M75) The New Forest Magazine: Bound copies of The New Forest Magazine, 1894-8, and 1901 (39A24) Nonconformist records Basingstoke and Reading Methodist Circuit: Basingstoke Circuit baptism registers, 1842-78 (with transcript and index), 1877-1966, 1874-1939 (Potters Lane then

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