SOMBORNE and District Society
Autumn 2019 Newsletter 164 Somborne & District Society
Contacts President Chairman Terry Mackintosh David St John Secretary Editor Janet Ingleson David Pennington Snowdrop Cottage Winchester Road King's Somborne SO20 6NY [email protected]
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Chairman’s Annual Report (Delivered at AGM) This past year has seen a broadening of our scope of topics for the lectures. Beside the talks on thatched cottages which had local references we have been back again to Roman Britain and underwater looking at ancient shipwrecks. We have learnt about what life was like in Winchester prison and the Tower of London and about characters as diverse as Judge Jeffreys, the Hanging Judge, Thomas Hardy, the author and T E Lawrence when not in Arabia. We also learnt that the massive tower of Windsor Castle is hollow and about the varied experiences of Guernsey refugees in England.
Later this evening Colin Reeve will tell us about crime in the art world.
For this wide ranging and interesting programme, we have to thank Nola Mackintosh, Janet Ingleson and Eileen Reynolds for a splendid effort.
That was not all the programme. The Annual Picnic at Chilbolton in John and Doreen Rowles’ garden was as enjoyable as ever and we ate well at Christmas and New Year thanks to John Green. Mike Reynolds organised a very amusing quiz evening followed by fish and chips and we had an interesting visit to Farley followed by a delicious meal at the Silver Plough pub in Pitton.
We will be holding another picnic on August 8th at John and Doreen’s.
All this has been the result of your committee’ efforts and there have been some changes. At the last AGM we were without a secretary but soon we managed to persuade Janet Ingleson to find room amongst her many other commitments to do the job. For this I am most grateful Janet. Without a secretary a committee is rudderless.
At this AGM Norman Denison has decided to stand down as Treasurer. Norman has been a tireless contributor to the Society’s activities for many years not only as treasurer but he has also been responsible for the intricacies of the sound system with its constantly flat batteries. Before each lecture he could be seen wrestling with wires and switches. You will be missed Norman
Page 3 September 2019 Somborne & District Society but I understand that you will still be involved with publications. I would like us all to show him our heartfelt gratitude for all that he has done.
Thankfully we have a successor in the person of Peter Storey who having reviewed the Somborne Society’s accounts this year can see that the job of Treasurer will be quite straightforward for a retired Parish Clerk.
Thank you to Val Chapman our Archivist whose archive is mostly out of reach in the Village Hall loft. One day soon I hope we will be able to rehouse it for you Val.
David Pennington is the editor of our Quarterly Newsletter which is always full of items of local history interest and gives details of recent publications by Society members. David works on his own and manages to produce a well written and interesting newsletter every quarter. The last newsletter included details of the John of Gaunt Award organised by Jo Finch. The newsletters are collated and stapled together by the able Reynolds team and delivered on time.
I have decided to raise awareness of our meetings by emailing advance notices by email in addition to the posters printed by Bill Lomas and stuck on noticeboards by me. I hope you are all receiving the emails. These are sent to everyone by Linda Allcock who is also our membership secretary and minder of the publication stall. Thank you Linda for all your efforts on our behalf.
That leaves two committee members not yet mentioned, Tina Pepper and me. Tina helps out wherever needed and I have the easy task of chairing committee meetings because everyone knows what to do and introducing speakers who always know what they have to do.
We now look forward to another interesting and enjoyable year of lectures and activities.
David St.John
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Editorial
In this issue we look at inhabitants of the Sombornes 100 thousand years ago, 10 thousand years ago, and slightly more recently we look at Roman Rabbits. I also have some results of some detective work earlier in the year on a transportable Flour Mill. Gordon explores Music and Pubs.
David Pennington
Contents Contacts ...... 2 DPA 2018 – GDPR Data Policy ...... 2 Chairman’s Annual Report (Delivered at AGM) ...... 3 Editorial ...... 5 Chalk and Flint ...... 6 More Flint ...... 6 Musical Entertainment in King’s Somborne from 1900 to WW1 ...... 7 Buried treasure: 1066 and all that...... 10 Buried treasure: Lepus Vidit Veniens deVicit...... 10 Millie the Mill and a question of geography...... 11 Searching Family Histories ...... 13 The Mill Machine ...... 16 The Lost Pubs and Beerhouses of King’s Somborne ...... 18 Society Publications ...... 19 Programme of Meetings ...... 20
Cover Picture: A Mobile Corn Mill at MERL.
Page 5 September 2019 Somborne & District Society Chalk and Flint On my way home from work, I pass through Romsey and then Lower Brook. At the chalk quarry, the new owners have opened a new fresh face. This gives a bright white cliff face, in this wall of white, some structure can be seen. Thin bands of darker flint can be seen, geology in action.
Chalk is a sedimentary rock, made of Calcium Carbonate, formed by Algae, nano plankton, or coccoliths. The rock in this area was formed in the Cretaceous period, 100 million years ago. (Cretaceous – Age of Chalk.) These sediments would have formed at the bottom of warm seas. Flints are typically seen as remains of the activities of sponges forming silica compounds. The layers are thought to be due to different sea levels at different periods. This silica is then fossilised into quartz. To the modern farmer, these flints are an irritation, but to early man, flint was an important raw material for tool making.
More Flint Last year’s Proceeding of the Hampshire Field Club has a summary of Cotswold Archaeology’s pre development work at Oxlease, just to the north of Fishlakes, in Romsey. In various test pits and trenches, evidence of Roman activity was found, but in medieval ditches. Deeper finds were made of a “worked flint assemblage”. Some elements show evidence of a “long Blade lithic industry” dating to the late Old Stone Age (Upper Palaeolithic). 10,000 years ago.
Although some of the flints were just erosion from further up river, the main “find” shows evidence of working by Stone Age man, creating blades and scrappers. Some later Mesolithic blades were also found. These would have been created by hunter-gatherers exploring the Solent rivers, before the invention of pottery and farming.
DCP
Chris Ellis and Jacky Sommerville “Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Later Finds from Oxlease farm, Romsey, Hampshire: Summary Report.” Hampshire Studies 2018
https://legacy- reports.cotswoldarchaeology.co.uk/content/uploads/2018/01/Oxlease- Farm-Cupernham-Lane-Romsey-Archaeological-report.pdf
Page 6 Newsletter 164 Musical Entertainment in King’s Somborne from 1900 to WW1 In newsletter No.158, I wrote about how the village band entertained parishioners between 1882 and 1914. However, the activities of the band were not restricted to King’s Somborne as it played for those local villages which did not have a band of their own. Furthermore, our village was visited by a wide range of musically based entertainers who were mainly amateurs and usually on fund raising occasions in aid of local charities.
Mr Moss and his orchestra came to the village on several occasions between 1900 and 1903 and appear to have been welcomed warmly. In October 1900, the Romsey based musicians of sixteen strings was given “A splendid welcome” (vicar) when it gave a concert in the schoolroom which produced a profit of £2/19/9 in aid of the coal and clothing clubs. Mr Moss also brought singers with him including a Mr Summers. A year later, popular demand resulted in a further visit together with singers Mr Edward Morgan, Miss Child and Mr Oram who sang comical songs. The vicar described the performance as “Very excellent and the capacity audience appreciated in the heartiest manner.” Admission tickets cost 3d but those on the front row were charged 1/6 which raised a total of £2/5/6 but expenses exceeded income so the coal and clothing clubs did not benefit as planned.
Early in 1903, the orchestra, now with twenty strings, gave a “Full Moon Winter Concert” in the schoolroom, together with vocalists Mr Summers, Miss Cockings and Mr Jenvey who sang bass. The vicar considered it “A real treat, hard to excel either in town or country”. It raised £4/1/4 in aid of the church organist’s stipend. Mr Moss’s daughter played solo violin and was described as “One of the most skilled violinists in Hampshire and fresh from the Royal College of Music”.
In November 1903, the orchestra gave another concert and played to a packed house in the schoolroom. Miss Cockings was not able to come from Andover due to a heavy cold but Mr Jenvey managed to attend. The vicar said that the concert “Was not quite up to the same level of excellent music …… as on the last occasion” maybe because only fourteen instrumentalists turned up and Miss Moss (violin) and Miss C Moss (piano) were not present. However, the newly founded King’s Somborne football club benefitted from the profits which amounted to £4/14/- to enable it to provide tea and refreshments for opponents after a home game, a gesture to reciprocate that offered by other clubs in the
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league. The funds were also used to pay for the hire of horses and traps to enable the team to travel to away games.
The last recorded visit of the orchestra to the village was in November 1904 when it played to a packed audience despite inclement weather. On this occasion, vocalists Miss Cockings, Mr Jenvey and Mr Summers were joined by Miss Douglas of Southampton, together with violin soloist Miss K Baker. The vicar commented that he appreciated the lack of vulgarity in the amusing songs sung by Mr Summers. The event was organised by the football club which benefitted by £1/-/- for the adult team and 15/- for the boys’ team.
The tything of Up Somborne within our parish, tended to organise its own events. Early in 1901, the Up Somborne Choral and Dramatic Company staged a highly successful concert in the schoolroom there. The company comprised amateur talent from the hamlet including vocal duets by Mr and Mrs Bailey and Mr and Mrs Dowling, a piano solo by Miss Chastel de Boinville and a duet with her sister. The clothing club benefitted by £2/9/-. A year later, a similar evening’s entertainment was held when four glees were sung to a packed audience in the schoolroom.
The Mohawk Minstrels are recorded as having visited the village on only one occasion. In February 1902, the Lockerley & Dean based troupe made a visit which drew “A fair audience” which considered it “A novelty to have ‘Blackies’ in our midst”. Mr Interlocuter (the ‘Shakerosity’) was “Very funny and clever and deserved all of the applause he received”. Total proceeds of £2/2/10 were divided between the troupe and the parish.
Minstrel troupes were extremely popular throughout the country at this time so it is no surprise to see The Black Diamonds Minstrel Troupe paying us a visit in October 1903. This large group of twenty-one performers drawn from the local area soon achieved a great reputation for their music and comic songs. However, some of them were “Verging on vulgarity and their ill-timed jokes insulted the audience” commented the vicar. He went on “A good laugh is better than a good cry but the warbling of the mudlarks makes one feel sad, if not ill”. The troupe charged 6d, 1/- and 2/- for tickets and kept the proceeds.
Several local villages had bands which played throughout the area. The Broughton Band “Paddled over to see us” in October 1901 in a downpour of very heavy rain only to find that the summer social evening had been postponed until the following day because of the appalling weather. However, the vicar made the most of it and provided tea for the musicians who later Page 8 Newsletter 164 started playing in the vicarage room. As word got around the village, dancers came along and the evening turned out to be successful. The following evening was beautiful so Mrs Hunt and Miss Munro played the piano for more dancing. The King’s Somborne Band usually attended this event but had cancelled due to the death of its conductor, 22 year old Henry George Browning, the previous week so The Broughton Band stood in as replacement at short notice. Soon after World War 1, the band was given a regular annual appointment in King’s Somborne when it headed the parade through the village each Hospital Sunday (see newsletter no.150), ably assisted by The Lockerley Brass Band. Neither band charged a fee.
On the 9th August 1902, Mr Turner’s String Band from Southampton visited the village and played to mark the coronation of King Edward VII. Coronation day had been delayed from the 26th June, due to the King’s illness. The event was held in Mr Peddle’s meadow which was probably near Froman’s Farm House where he lived. The band played whilst 510 adults sat down to an afternoon dinner of cucumbers, lettuce, bread, cheese, beer and later in the afternoon, it played again whilst 307 children sat down to an “excellent tea” just before the sporting events. The village band did not play on this occasion because bandmaster Charles Browning met with a very nasty accident whilst working in Compton woods on the 17th July.
In 1912, The King’s Somborne Glee Society was reformed by Mrs Rhodes. New recruits were sought and rehearsals were held every Wednesday evening in the schoolroom. Once again, Mrs King volunteered to accompany the group on the piano. A “glee” is an old English word and refers to songs for male voices in three or more parts. The group gave a concert in February 1913 to a “fairly well filled” schoolroom at Up Somborne and the Vicar commented that “The object of the entertainment was attained”. The proceeds amounted to 9/- and were given to the lobby enlargement project at Up Somborne school. In 1921, the glee singers entertained in the newly built village hall, along with the Test Dramatic Club. £8/-/- was raised for church funds.
Surprising visitors to the village in 1919 were members of The Band of the 14th Hussars. Herbert Johnson had invited them to Marsh Court to a ‘Celebration of Peace’ on the 13th August following victory in WW1. The festivities attracted 2,000 guests from local parishes for this special concert.
Gordon Pearson
King’s Somborne parish magazine: 1895 to 1921: Somborne & District Society Page 9 September 2019 Somborne & District Society Buried treasure: 1066 and all that. A recent find by metal detectorist in Somerset has been announced. 2528 silver coins were found, The observe faces show William the Conqueror, King Harold and a few with Edward the Confessor. The find is being evaluated at the British Museum, and is likely to be declared as treasure trove by the coroner’s court. It is thought to be worth about £5m, which, if the owner can’t be found, would be awarded to the finders, and shared with the landowner.
Buried treasure: Lepus Vidit Veniens deVicit In contrast to treasure finds, a recent re-examination of some finds from the 1964 excavations at Fishbourne Roman Villa near Chichester has identified a rabbit bone, a small 4cm long, fractured remains of a lower leg tibia bone.
At the time this wasn’t seen as important, rabbits were non-native, belived to be introduced to Britain by the Normans, nearly a thousand years after the Romans. Rabbit bones are found in early sites, but typically this can be a more recent bunny who had burrowed down into the archaeology and then died. Normal stratification of deposits cannot be used as a dating evidence. Improvements in Radio Carbon dating allow smaller samples to be evaluated and dated with greater accuracy. The bone was found to be Roman in date. As butchery marks weren’t discovered it has been speculated the rabbit was a pet, kept as part of a collection of exotic animals at the Villa’s menagerie.
Conversely in 2002 rabbit remains were found at Lynford, and thought to be kept by Iberian Romans for food, although these have not yet been Radio Isotope dated.
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Background
News Article: Current Archaeology CA352
https://www.easter-origins.org/
A 3D model of the rabbit bone can be found at https://sketchfab.com/3d- models/fishbourne-rabbittibia-6d5a9f22bedc431fabe1ee-8a95bdda6c.
Lynford, Norfolk Archaeology 44, 676-70
Prof Naomi Sykes, Letter to Guardian, April 2019.
David Pennington
Millie the Mill and a question of geography. The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) is part of the University of Reading, set up in 1951 by the Department of Agriculture to capture and record the changing countryside following the end of World War II, and the increased pace of mechanisation in farming. The current museum is both a modern Heritage Fund supported experience, and an academic resource.
Searching the collections for Somborne, fifteen items are listed, some are pictures of Aberdeen Angus cows, some are farm accounts, and there are two artefacts. The first is a two wheel farm cart.
Item 55/300: Description: 1 cart : height is 6 ft; total length is 11ft 6 inches; diameter of wheels is 4 ft 8 inches; width + wheels is 5 ft 10 inches. The cart has wooden wheels with iron tyres, and boarded sides. 'This cart was used for taking produce to market. It is painted with 'Charles Brown // Upsomborne // Hants' on the first panel of the right side. The cart has two wooden wheels with iron tyres, and boarded sides with decorative tops. MERL miscellaneous note – Charles Brown of Up Somborne is listed as a farmer in ‘Kelly’s Directory of Hampshire, Wiltshire & Dorsetshire, Including the Isle of Wight’ (London: Kelly & Company, 1889). Place acquired: Hopgoods Farm [Stoke [Hampshire]] Place used: Up Somborne
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The other, more unique item, is the machine on the front cover.
Item 55/300: Description: 1 mill for corn: metal (iron); total height is 10 ft; width + wheels is 8 ft; length is 12 ft This corn mill was made at Test Valley Iron Works in Romsey, Hampshire, c. 1860. It was used in Hampshire, at either Stockbridge or King's Somborne by Charles Brown, the donor's grandfather. It used to be driven by a steam engine. General note: MERL ‘Associated information’ – 'Corn mill made at Test Valley Iron works, Romsey, Hants. Used either at Stockbridge or Kings Somborne by Charles Brown, grandfather of donor. Used to be driven by a steam engine. It was (trans)portable. Place acquired: Hopgoods Farm [Stoke [Hampshire]]
So possibly of some interest, but not much of a story. One of the pleasures of being your editor, is from time to time an enquiry is routed to me, or these days, pops in to my email. This started a bit of a detective hunt, and some exploring of some family history and searching the censuses.
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“Dear David, I found your name in connection with the Somborne and District Society and am writing about a project I am working on which may be of interest.
With a couple of friends, I am restoring a late 19th century corn grinding mill which was used around the Kings Somborne, Up Somborne, and Stoke areas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The original owner was Charles Brown of Hopgoods Farm, Stoke, who we think later lived at Stoke Hill Farm, Up Somborne. According to his will, Charles Brown left the mill to his son William James Brown, and it was then inherited by a Miss Maud Brown in the 1950s.
We believe our mill may be a unique design, or least we haven't seen anything else like it. Built at the Test Valley Iron Works in Romsey (probably around 1860 or a bit later) it was a mobile corn grinding machine with 2 huge millstones mounted on a wheeled timber frame. It was hauled around the farms of the Test Valley and driven by a separate steam engine. We are currently restoring it (currently in a barn in Oxfordshire) to working order, and are keen to find out more about the machine, its owners and its history.
The details we have are sketchy and may be unreliable.
Best wishes,
Graham Collings”
The references to Stoke and Hopgoods confused me, so I enlisted the help of Gordon Pearson, who has recently published a history on Up Somborne. Brown was a common name, and one candidate in Up Somborne didn’t exactly fit the right time period, or the correct heirs. There is the big Mill building on the River Test at Horsebridge and we have Hoplands, not Hopgood.
It was noticed that there is a Hopgood's Farm in Stoke, Mary St Bourne, so why the reference to Up Somborne?
Searching Family Histories Starting at the end, in Kelly's Directories, there appeared to be two Brown families in the St Mary Bourne Village.
The first is Frederick William b1870 who marries Catherine Medhurst. (m1896). I assumed their son is Frederick Medhurst Brown (c1899-1978). In 1889 Charles Medhurst is at Bourne Farm, by 1895 this is FW. He is also listed as a Maltser. By 1911 he appears to have moved to Slade Farm, there is still a Slade Bottom Page 13 September 2019 Somborne & District Society shown on the maps near Stoke, St Mary Bourne. This doesn’t appear to be our family. A second is list in 1923 and 1927, a James William Brown is listed at Hopgoods, Stoke.
Graham had done some more research at MERL and found that “the Mill was donated in 1955 by Charles Brown’s granddaughter Maud Brown, along with a number of other items from Hopgoods Farm. These items include planes belonging to W J Brown, Maud's father, who was a carpenter and wheelwright, a baby's cradle, some beam scales ("used to weigh corn at Philips Heath Farm in Stockbridge, Hopgoods Farm, G(r)anger Farm in Romsey and Manor Farm, Kilmiston"), a horse plough, horse drawn hoe, and a smoker for smoking out bees! Most interestingly of all, MERL has Charles Brown's cart on display, painted with "Charles Brown, Up Somborne, Hants" on the side.”
Searching for a Maud Brown in Somborne Society’s christening records we find a Maud Mary Amelia b1901 with father William James Brown, with a reference to Phillip's Heath, Little Somborne, this is near Sandy Down towards the Leckford Hut. (see Map below) We also see Mabel (03), Angus(05) and Winifred 1910. The mother is Mabel C F G T (Charlotte Florence Georgina Toghill) Kneller, they married in Winchester in 1900. (FreeBMD - ref 272).
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Earlier there is a Charles Brown (b1825) in Little Somborne to a James and Elizabeth, and the brothers, James, Ambrose, two Georges and an Emma between 1823 and 1832. James senior is listed as a labourer, whilst William James is listed as a Farmer. We see that Charles Brown died in 1900 (he was 75) and is buried in Little Somborne Church.
Charles appears in the 1881/1891 census in Kings Somborne. Otherwise these names all appear in the census searches in Little Somborne. On the 1861 Census, Charles Brown was at the Farmhouse, Little Somborne. Listed as Farmer and Machine Operator. In the delightfully "non PC" Sir John Hervey Bathurst's history of Little Somborne, there is a reference to a fire on April 26 1873, when lots of Park Farm, near the Little Somborne Church, was destroyed. This is based on a newspaper cutting. It says Charles Brown was a bit too enthusiastic with an engine. The farm was rebuilt in about 1880 as a modern “model farm” and has recently been converted to houses.
The list of graves on the Little Somborne site doesn't list any Brown, but some headstones are in poor condition. Later censuses show the family in Chalk Vale Farm and at Phillips Heath, Sandy Down, both close to Little Somborne, although Chalk Vale is in Up Somborne Parish. Hervey Bathurst mentions that Phillips
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Heath Farm was sold in 1917, so possibly soon afterwards the Browns moved to St Mary Bourne. He is also rude about his new neighbours, Lord and Lady Docker of Daimler/BSA fame.
The Mill Machine
The Mill was stored under a sheet outside at MERL, and was deteriorating. In 2012 it was passed to the Chinnor Mill Group, who have restored a post Windmill. In 2016 to was passed to a new group who have started restoration. Their facebook page shows bright blue timbers and recently the Mill Grinding stones have been replaced.
A 3D CAD model has been created in Solidworks, an industry standard tool, to help with the restoration, and to show an animation of the operation. Two millstones are mounted high up in the frame, and are driven by a typical mill gear arrangement, with a large toothed wheel. A belt drive pully is on the side, which would be powered by a steam engine. A hopper at the top allows the wheat to be added to the mill stones.
David Pennington,
with thanks to Gordon Pearson and Graham Collings.
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Background
MREL, University of Reading. https://merl.reading.ac.uk/ Chinnor Mill Group https://chinnor-windmill.blogspot.com/p/mobile-corn- mill.html https://www.facebook.com/CornMillMillie/ https://www.thesombornes.org.uk/ks_somsoc_christenings.php Kelly Directories on http://stmarybournegoestowar.net/sources/ FreeBMD and Ancestry.co.uk, Census searches. Hervey Bathurst “History of Little Somborne” https://littlesomborne.wordpress.com/about/"
Page 17 September 2019 Somborne & District Society The Lost Pubs and Beerhouses of King’s Somborne Longer-standing society members will be aware that since 2005, I have researched and published the history of all nine pubs, inns and beerhouses which once existed within the parish. Sadly, seven of them have since closed.
It was recently brought to my attention by Roger Stephens that a Lost Pubs Project had been formed in 2007 with the aim of “Archiving the decline of the English pub”. Anyone can check the website (www.closedpubs.co.uk) and submit information for the archive. So far, 37,000 pubs have been listed, together with 21,000 photographs. I checked the site and found that only three of our lost pubs were already registered.
Whilst submitting information on the other four lost pubs, my attention was drawn to a rather sad event which occurred at the Blacksmith’s Arms in Up Somborne in 1968. It was an event which I mentioned in my book on the history of Up Somborne and Rookley, but new information has now come to light which was submitted by a Mr Rupert Bayer in 2016. His submission reads as follows.
“Late in 1968, I was an Ordnance Survey surveyor based in Southampton but in training in the area of Up Somborne. I was engaged in a sole surveying exercise in the village and at lunch-time, made my way for a ploughman’s at the only pub. The place was empty except for the landlord Mr P Ron Coleman and he chatted to me from behind the bar as I ate.
He asked me where I was from and I told him Manchester. This seemed of great interest to him as he then told me that his late wife was from there and when courting her, he rode his motor-bike up and down the A34 every weekend. I presume that he was doing this journey in the late 1920s/30s as I recall he was in his sixties. He said he would show me his photo album with the pictures of his then fiancé and his motor- bike. He entered his living quarters to fetch the album.
I waited and waited but he did not return. After about 20 minutes, a friend of his came into the pub (I think he was a postman) and I told him that the landlord had gone to his private rooms. The man started knocking on the door behind the bar shouting his name. There was no answer so he entered the room and very sadly found the landlord dead on the floor. The ambulance and police arrived and I gave them a statement but never heard any more.
I have often thought that this man’s final minutes were spent with warm reminiscences of his dear wife.”
Gordon Pearson
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Society Publications The Ongoing Legacy of a School Founder and Education £5.00 Innovator by Josephine Finch
Richard Dawes: Education pioneer and Dean of Hereford – £6.50 Family, Friends and Legacy. By Norman Denison 2017
Celebrating Somborne Hardback Edited by Paul Marchant £6.00 A History of King’s Somborne Paul Marchant (Ed) 1989
The History of Ashley Village Kate Gilbert 1992 £4.00
Booklets Seven Walks Around The Countryside of King’s Somborne £4.00 Joy Hunt, Steve Rake and George Upton Two Walks Around the Village of King’s Somborne £1.50 Keith Chapman and Gordon Pearson Somborne Remembers, World War I (1914-2014) £4.50 Mary Pollock and Norman Denison The History of The Crown Inn (new Revised 3rd Edition) £4.50 Gordon Pearson The Folks Who Lived on The Hill (The Johnson family of £2.00 Marsh Court) Mary Pollock Pigskin and Silk (The Story of the Stockbridge Races) £4.00 Mary Pollock The 6th Bell and Other Stories – Somborne Memories £3.50 Mary Pollock (Ed)
Electronic Media. The Parish Records of King’s Somborne CDROMs £6.00 each Baptisms, Burials & Marriages 1700 – 1971 or Online Low Stock - Loan Copies available Illustrating Somborne A History of Little Somborne A photographic history (1992) A History of Up Somborne and King’s Somborne Farmers’ Club Rookley. Gordon Pearson (2016) A Year in the Life of Somborne The Founding of King’s Somborne DVD filmed by Bill Sutton Working Men’s Club
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Programme of Meetings **Subject to changes announced in Gauntlet.**
Sept 26th Child of the Southampton Blitz Barbara Burbridge
9th October Buildings in Wessex during the Georgian Times
Gordon Pearson 2.30 pm at the Scout Hut **
23rd October Recent Archaeological work in South Hampshire
Andrew Russell
27th November 2019 7.30 pm The Canterbury Tales, (plus**)
David Waller & Vera Hughes
Dec Xmas Meal – TBC**
Publications
Richard Dawes: Education pioneer and Dean of Hereford – Family, Friends and Legacy. By Norman Denison
This book tells the story of Richard Dawes (1793-1867), his origins in the Dales of Yorkshire; his own schooling and further education, his wedding and the couple’s arrival in the village where he opened the school. The details of his wife’s early life, beginning in what is now Prince Edward Island, Canada and their subsequent life together in Hereford are included.
Price £6.50 (+1.50pp)
Published by the Somborne & District Society (Register Charity No.276385) Founded in 1978