Look Around A look at historical & archaeological issues in Andover and the surrounding villages. 2015 Number 1, January “Look Around” is the newsletter of the ANDOVER HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY www.andover-history.org.uk

Note from the Chair

The months since the last Newsletter have been a busy ones. They saw the launch of the Cultural Trust which promises a future of new opportunities for Andover Museum. And they also saw our move to our new regular meeting venue in Andover Guildhall where we are beginning to feel at home. It certainly provided very pleasant surroundings for the social side of our December meeting.

For many of us, the start of 2015 was tinged with sadness as we learnt of the death of Richard Arnold Jones. Richard came to Andover in 1961 as co-founder and joint headmaster of Redrice School which closed in 1981. He was a member of the Andover Local Archives Committee and its successor, Andover Local History Society, chairing the latter for a number of years. Meetings of the publications sub-committee were held at his home in Bishop’s Way until in 2007, when he and his wife Jean moved to Devon. His books Members of Parliament for Andover 1295-1885 and Andover Priory are highly regarded and the 1998 edition of Lookback contains his scholarly article Catholic Recusants of the Andover Area.

We remember Richard as a notable local historian but most of all we remember him with very great affection as a truly gentle gentleman.

Erica Tinsley

The members of the Committee are:

Erica Tinsley Chair June Harris {Joint Heather Needham {Vice-chair Christopher Coffin Treasurer Jane Flambert Correspondence Secretary Felicity Chauncy (Programme Secretary) Martin Coppen (Webmaster) David Borrett (Lookback Editor) Brenda Mole

Registered Charity 1011050 1 Editor Jane Flambert AHAS Programme

(All meetings will take place at 7.30 pm unless noted otherwise)

23rd January 2015: Venue: Andover Guildhall Chris Sellen Recent Excavations at St. Cross & College WARG is Winchester’s local archaeological and historical society, and over the last few years has undertaken community excavations at St. Cross Hospital including Henry of Blois’ original buildings and a 14th Century chantry chapel in the grounds of Winchester College. In an illustrated talk Chris will describe the running of the digs, and how the interpretation of the results have added to the corpus of knowledge of Medieval Winchester.

27th February 2015: Venue: Andover Guildhall Phoebe Merrick World War 1 Remount Service Phoebe Merrick will be giving the talk on the Remount Service. The Remount Depot was an establishment that prepared horses for work at the Front in World War I. Phoebe will give a talk accompanied by a Power Point presentation on the work of the Remount Service with particular reference to the Remount Depot in .

27th March 2015: 27 March 2015. AGM. Venue: Andover Guildhall Erica Tinsley Britain from Above Aerofilms Ltd was Britain's first commercial aerial photography company. In 2007 its collection of some 1.26 million negatives and more than 2,00 photograph albums dating from 1919 to 2006 was bought for the nation. This talk looks at the history of the company and how its photographs are being made available free for everyone to look at and use.

24th April 2015 Dacre Lecture Venue: Fairground Hall, Ryan Lavelle Reader in Medieval History at the University of Winchester: Law, Death and Peacemaking in the Tenth Century: Vikings, West Saxons, and the ‘Treaty of Andover’

The peace treaty made with a group of Vikings under the command of Olaf Tryggvason of Norway, commonly ascribed to 994 and occasionally referred to as “the Treaty of Andover”, was a moment in the reign of Aethelred “the Unready” (978-1016) when everything seemed to work out right. The erstwhile enemy was confirmed a Christian and made Aethelred’s man in a manner which recalled the successes of earlier English kings, Alfred and Aethelstan.

Looking at the role of one of the West Saxon ealdormen in the making of the peace agreement, this lecture considers how the ealdorman’s experience and his sense of identity in the face of Viking invasions may have affected the making of peace, and proposes some new perspectives on the peace treaty in the light of recent archaeological evidence.

Tickets for the lecture can be obtained in advance from Andover Museum for £6 (members £3) or at Society Meetings.

Registered Charity 1011050 2 Editor Jane Flambert 22 May 2015. Venue: Andover Guildhall Alix Booth The History of Punch & Judy Alix Booth has worked with Mr Punch for over thirty years. Her talk is given through the puppets, with accompanying slides. Punch represents the common man fighting the small battles of life. The characters in the traditional show are just the ones that would have beset him 1760-1830 when the story, as we know it today, was developed.

26 June 2015. Village Walk. This year’s walk will be around the village of Thruxton.

24 July 2015. Visit to be arranged.

25 September 2015 Venue: Andover Guildhall. Dr Ellie Pridgeon, Tutor in Art History and Architecture at the University of Leicester Medieval Wall Painting in Hampshire Churches This talk will examine some of the key medieval wall paintings in Hampshire churches, including , Breamore, Bramley and St John's church, Winchester. It will provide an overview of the more prevalent images in the medieval church - such as St Christopher, St George, the Sunday Christ and the Three Living and Three Dead - and consider how they were used by medieval viewers.

October, November and December 2015 talks: to be finalised.

Recent Meetings

September 2014: Martin Coppen: The Order of St John in Jerusalem Martin Coppen treated us to the intriguing story of The Order of St John in Jerusalem, also known to history as the , making special reference to our own local area. He took us on a virtual journey spanning 900 years and 2,300 miles, between Rhodes and Redbridge Drive, Jerusalem and Love Lane. The Order (motto: ‘Pro Fide et Pro Utilitate Hominum’ ie ‘For Faith and the Service of Mankind’) was founded around 1080, before the first crusade, originally to provide a ‘hospital’ or place for pilgrims to the Holy Land to stay in Jerusalem. Its role expanded to that of safeguarding pilgrims of all nationalities along their pilgrimage routes. Within one hundred years, it had become a multi national military and religious organisation. The dual roles of providing care and fighting, ultimately incompatible, were interwoven throughout its history. The original hospital in Jerusalem has been excavated in recent times and Martin certainly put the size of the place into perspective by comparing its capacity to that of modern hospitals in our local area. The Hospital in Jerusalem could accommodate 2,000 patients in separate beds in 11 wards. Today, Basingstoke and North Hants hospital provides 450 beds, Winchester 540 and 1,004. It could be said that the Hospitallers set standards that were not reached again in this country until the nineteenth century by providing tented military hospitals, an ‘outreach’ maternity programme, and a major orphanage. The military organisation gave the Order an effective structure. At the head of the Order was the Grand Master, usually French, with below him six ‘Langues’ (‘Tongues’), the national groupings, each with their own knight grand commander. The Headquarters of the Grand Priory of and Ireland was in Clerkenwell in London. It was responsible for preceptories, or local houses, which in turn administered their areas. Godsfield and North Baddesley were the Hampshire ones. Lastly there were Hospitaller estates, granted to the Order to fund its work. One such Hospitaller estate locally was at Woodcott, 11 miles north of Andover (in which Martin had a special interest having been the non resident vicar there for 24 years). There was a grant of land in Andover itself in 1282. The exact location of the land is not given, but as such donations were tithe free, by looking at the Andover Tithe Assessment, it was possible to narrow this down to

Registered Charity 1011050 3 Editor Jane Flambert two plots. Martin’s own theory is that some land once in a medieval marsh, but now at the end of Redbridge Lane, is the likelier candidate as the grant mentions a John de Marisco (John of the Marsh) as its tenant. Meanwhile, looking at the international Order, the first 500 years saw it gradually retreating from the Holy Land following the . It came to operate out of Cyprus, then Rhodes and later Malta. It was further weakened by the Reformation in Europe. In England the Order was dissolved in 1540 and its property confiscated, although officials continued to hold office which later helped make a claim to continuity credible. It was in the mid to late 19th century, thanks to Victorian fascination with chivalry and all things medieval, that interest in reviving the Order of St John grew strongly. Attempts made in 1831 and 1858 to have it recognised by SMOM, the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta, were rebuffed. Nevertheless, the drive of such people as the Duke of Manchester (an early Grand Prior in the revived Order) Sir Edmund Lechmere (pioneer of the Red Cross) and Sir John Furley (prominent in the founding of St John Ambulance) brought the Order recognition in this country. The fact that it attracted Royalty helped. In 1876 the Princess of Wales, a Lady of Justice, and the future Edward VII, a Bailiff Grand Cross, successfully petitioned Queen Victoria for a Royal Charter of incorporation which was granted on 14 May 1888. Appointments to its ranks are listed in The Gazette. The Order even acquired two former Hospitaller sites in Clerkenwell: St John’s Gate, which dates from 1504 and now houses the Order’s museum; and the Priory Church of St John with its surviving twelfth century Crypt. The new Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem, keen to connect with its history, founded a hospital in Jerusalem in 1882, the St John Eye Hospital, which continues its work there to this day. The need to deliver first aid to those involved in mining and industrial accidents led to the other responsibility of the Venerable Order: the support of the St John Ambulance. The Red Cross, formed in the 1860s to work in military context and the Order of St John combined in 1914 at the start of war to treat the sick and wounded by setting up Auxiliary Hospitals. In Hampshire the St John Hospitals were in the south of the county, while local Red Cross ones were Lady Portsmouth’s Hospital in Hurstbourne Park, Wakeswood Hospital, St Mary Bourne and Bere Hill Hospital, Whitchurch. The St John Ambulance carried on its work through the Second World War too and continued to thrive, celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2012. The Order of St John supports it and the Eye Hospital and raised just over £90 million to fund these activities in the year just ended. St John Ambulance has had a presence in Andover for just over 50 years. The HQ in Love Lane was officially opened by the Countess of Brecknock in October 1963, and our committee member June Harris’s father was the Division’s Chief Superintendent. As Martin noted, the local HQ is called Priory Hall, surely a reference back to the Order’s early foundation and history. Felicity Chauncy

October 2014: Kay Ainsworth, The Art of the Anglo-Saxons

In a beautifully illustrated talk, Kay Ainsworth, Keeper of Archaeology for Hampshire Museum Service, entertained and intrigued her audience at the meeting of Andover History and Archaeology Society at Andover Guildhall on 24 October. Although the 500 years of Anglo-Saxon England (c.500-1066) are popularly characterised as Dark Ages, and the Anglo-Saxons lived in wooden houses and even their palaces were wooden, Kay amply demonstrated that their artistry and ornamental craftsmanship were exquisite. Beginning her survey from the final years of Silchester Roman town and the departure of the Roman army from Britain in 410, she followed the early Anglo-Saxon invasions and settlement which avoided using existing Roman stone buildings. Typical finds from this time are horse harness fittings and shield bosses. The art forms they already knew were the La Tène style of running scrolls and enamel work, Byzantine products and the Germanic style, with interweaving writhing serpents, and symbols of the god Odin, including the raven.

Registered Charity 1011050 4 Editor Jane Flambert In the late 6th century, when the Anglo-Saxons were more established, they divided the land into kingdoms and built higher status buildings like the hall at Cowdery’s Down, near Basingstoke. Chilcombe, near Winchester had a Saxon manor. Mount Pleasant cemetery in Alton had grave goods of ornaments with filigree gold thread. Cloisonné enamelled brooches have also been found from this period. The mission of St Augustine started with the Kentish Anglo-Saxon kingdom under Æthelberht, who was converted to Christianity through his wife Bertha. Scriptoria were founded at Canterbury, and the art of illuminating manuscripts began to flourish. Now Christian symbols are interwoven with scrolling serpents. The Sutton Hoo ship burial, which can be dated to 627, has pagan boars and the raven mixed with Christian symbols. Around 700, the Celtic Christian culture, which had been driven to the margins by the original Anglo-Saxon invasion produced the Book of Kells in Ireland, characterised by spirals, inhabited vine scrolls, inventive initial letters, and in the northeast the Lindisfarne Gospels. Increasing Viking raids destroyed the monasteries of Northumberland and destabilised much of the island. Late in the 8th century, the Pope appointed Charlemagne as the Holy Roman Emperor on the European mainland. He stimulated a renaissance of learning, head-hunting Alcuin from York to direct his cultural headquarters at Aachen. In this country, with Alfred the Great’s final defeat of the Vikings and creation of a peaceful kingdom in Wessex, the conditions were right for an English renaissance of learning, which he centred on Winchester Old Minster. Here the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was started. Asser was brought from St David’s monastery in west Wales for half the year to supervise the scriptorium, becoming Alfred’s biographer. Alfred himself was an accomplished scholar and translator. Letters survive written by him commending his translation of Gregory the Great’s Book of Pastoral Rule to his bishops. Alfred also encouraged fine jewellery crafts, the Alfred jewel being an aestel or decorated head of a pointer to be used by the bishops in their reading. The 10th century was a golden age of Anglo-Saxon crafts, with Winchester giving its name to a style of manuscript illumination with a framework of acanthus leaves, figures with a slightly surprised look, long fingers, delicate drapery, all very active. There was also a tradition of embroidery of great quality. Roods at Romsey and Breamore, work in Nether Wallop church and Headbourne Worthy are from the later Anglo-Saxon period. The story almost comes to its end when William the Conqueror celebrates his conquest of England by ordering Anglo-Saxon nuns to embroider the tapestry for Bayeux cathedral. In answer to questions, she said that the gold used in their jewellery was very pure, melted down Byzantine coinage. Garnets were imported from Afghanistan and India. The Sutton Hoo and Staffordshire hoards were contemporary and comparable. There might be links with Indian sculpture in decorated columns of writhing serpents. Cloisonné work had been perfected in Bronze Age Crete. Filigree thread was made by drawing gold through increasingly smaller holes in metal bars, though few gold-working tools had been found. The Society is very grateful for Kay’s authoritative and most fascinating talk. Martin Coppen

November 2014: Major Roger Coleman, The Hampshire Regiment in the Great War

At the very well attended meeting on 28th November, Major Roger Coleman, a former Regimental Sergeant Major, gave a moving account of The Hampshire Regiment in the Great War. He spoke both of the organisation and operations of the regiment and illustrated its proud service through a variety of personal stories of soldiers who served during 1914 and 1919. Major Coleman dedicated his talk to the memory of Leonard Maidment, a local man who lived at 195 Vigo Road, whose name is recorded on the Andover Cenotaph. He was killed on 20th July 1918, but with his

Registered Charity 1011050 5 Editor Jane Flambert identification missing, the headstone marking his grave simply commemorated ‘a Sergeant of the Hampshire Regiment.’ More recent research showed that only one sergeant died on that day and at a ceremony earlier this year attended by his descendants, some coming from Australia, a new memorial stone inscribed with his name was dedicated. During the War, the Hampshires raised a total of 36 battalions from its pre-war establishment of 2 regular, 1 reserve and 11 territorial force (reserve) battalions. In 1914, 66% of the regiment was from the (old) county, with the remaining soldiers from London, Birmingham and Ireland. At full strength, a battalion was 1000 men, divided into 8 or 4 companies. In all, some 50,000 men served in the regiment during the course of the War, gaining 81 battle honours (including three VCs)—more than any other regiment—though a third of all officers and RSMs were killed and almost 8000 men lost. The Regimental battalions’ extensive tours during the War took them variously from India (2nds), to home bases in Aldershot, Bournemouth, Colchester, Newport (IOW), Portsmouth, Salisbury Plain, Southampton and Winchester, and many departed from there to the Western Front, with other battalions fighting at the Dardanelles, Mesopotamia (now Iraq), Salonika, Ekaterinburg, Siberia, Vladivostok, Palestine and Gaza. A number of battalions never served abroad at all during the War. The brief biographies which Major Coleman told vividly illustrated the campaigns and the variety of soldiers’ backgrounds. For instance, 2nd Lt George Moor VC (Gallipoli), MC and Bar (both gained in France), a commanding officer when aged only 18!, was described by his general ‘as one of the bravest men he met in this War.’ He survived the fighting, only to die of influenza just before the Armistice in 1918. The Hillary brothers of Micheldever, Edwin and Vic, both drowned on a troop ship bound for Turkey in 1915: Edwin had arranged for his brother, who had not been initially selected, to be allowed to join him in that adventure. Private Bowring MM carved ‘The Hampshire Cross’ on a wall when the 2nd Battalion was housed in the underground caverns of Carrière Wellington, preparatory to the battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917. He survived the War to live in Bournemouth. Lt Green and his batman were both killed on the same day: Green had written in a letter that he wished to be remembered as an ‘Englishman and a Jew’ and left his estate to the Boys Brigade and other work he had supported in the East End. ‘The ‘orrible Palk’, i.e. Hon. Colonel L C Palk, was killed on the first day of the Somme offensive—a great character, whose men, it was said, would follow him anywhere. He walked calmly in front of his men carrying only his stick. Major Coleman spoke of his regiment’s service in World War 1 with obvious pride and an encyclopaedic knowledge and fully deserved the loud applause at the end of questions. The Royal Hampshire Regiment Museum in Winchester has recently been refurbished and is well worth visiting. Martin Coppen

December 2014: Christmas Celebration and Members’ talks Phil Farlow, An American in Andover Jenny Stevens, The Danebury Meteorite

To the sound of a Glenn Miller recording, Phil Farlow introduced An American in Andover. The American in question was a serviceman based locally, as with so many others, in Tidworth in 1943: George Booth—Phil’s father. Starting with a scrawled address in Pittsburgh on a scrap of paper, Phil told the story of how he gradually found out enough to make contact with other Booths living in the city. With the help of professional genealogists, he was able to find more information about his American family, descended from great- grandfather Napoleon Booth. This showed that the Booths with whom he had first made contact were indeed cousins. Sadly, after returning home after the War, his father had died in 1948 and when Phil eventually went to Pittsburgh and met his cousins, he was able to visit his father’s grave. Phil’s family discovery is still unfolding, as it appears he had a step-sibling, whom he has not yet been able to trace.

The story of the Danebury Meteorite now on display at Andover Museum was told by curator, Jenny Stevens. Among the many animal bones in one of the thousands of pits excavated, a small object recorded as a piece of Registered Charity 1011050 6 Editor Jane Flambert slag was found in the 1974 excavation. Along with other metalworking debris, it was sent to Oxford University to await attention. Emerging in 1989, it was recognised as unusual and identified as a meteorite, an ‘H5 ordinary chondrite’, dating from 520-280BC, when Danebury was in peak settlement. Its importance was recognised by Professor Colin Pillinger, of the Open University. What was it doing there? Was it a ritual deposit, perhaps? Meteorites were regarded as mystically powerful objects and it might have been religiously placed. The answer is much more mundane. After its perilous journey through the earth’s atmosphere, it landed unnoticed in the already partly refilled grain storage pit and was quickly covered with further rubbish. This happily preserved the meteorite from completely rusting away. On display in the Museum in the room containing the Fullerton Roman Mosaic, the meteorite presentation might just be missed among the many larger attractions. It is the size of half a walnut and weighs 30 gm— just over an ounce! The meeting ended convivially with generously provided nibbles and drinks. Martin Coppen

Events of Interest

News from The Museum

Activities, all at Andover Museum Telephone: 01264 366283, www.hants.gov.uk/andover-museum.

Cartoon Character Workshop 10:30 am Thursday 19 Feb 2015 Working with an illustrator and animator from Cass Productions, take inspiration from our museum collections and create your own action figure and packaging. Suitable for ages 7-12 years. All children must be accompanied by an adult. £10 per accompanied child. Pre-booking essential. To book please call the Museum. 10.30-12.30 Cost: £10.00 per accompanied child

Space Trail 10:00 am Saturday 14 Feb 2015 to Saturday 21 Feb 2015 February Half-Term is all about Outer Space! Follow our self-led Space Trail. Free self-led activity - donations welcome.

Can You Make It On The Moon? 10:00 am Saturday 14 Feb 2015 to Saturday 21 Feb 2015 How would you survive if you crash landed on the moon? Try our space-themed activity and work as a team to decide which items you need to survive!

Cost: Free. Donations welcome.

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Historic hospital records form an important part of the county archives. For Hampshire these include Knowle Hospital (48M94), Park Prewett (279M87), and the Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester (5M63). Recent additions have included Andover War Memorial Hospital records (99A14). The archives comprise operations books, 1939-48 and 1967-71, and admission/in-patient registers, 1950-8, as well as administrative records, such as the Building Fund donations book, 1919-mid 1920s, and the visiting committee members’ report book, 1930-67. Photographs of staff, facilities and events at the hospital, c1990s, along with notes, aerial photographs and statistics concerning the history of the hospital, 1926-date, and various plans for hospital buildings, dated 1969-2009, complete the collection. Complementing the official records are papers generated by the ‘Save the Hospital Services Campaign’ group (100A14), concerning a community campaign to protect services at the hospital, including minutes, correspondence, newsletters and publicity, 2005-8. Please note that access restrictions apply to some records in the collection.

Our Chair, Erica Tinsley, has been instrumental in enabling the Andover War Memorial Hospital Records to be deposited at the Hampshire Record Office:

Through a chance conversation at the hospital Erica discovered that there were a large number of boxes of material in the roof space of the hospital's original building - probably put there during one or more of the many past reorganisations of Andover's healthcare provision and forgotten. Because the material could contain personal or confidential material, Erica sought personal permission as Chair of AHAS from Mary Edwards, CE of The Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to go through the material. She gave that permission, plus a workroom, and asked that Erica report the findings to her, making recommendations for the future of the material.

Working with advice from Sarah Lewin, Principal Archivist (Records and Research) at HRO, Erica spent several months sorting the material that had to be dealt with, through the Trust's own procedures and distinguishing that which was appropriate for HRO, from a large amount of rubbish. Mary Edwards accepted Erica’s recommendations and the material was deposited at HRO on behalf of The Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation.

Don’t forget to visit our own website: www.andover-history.org.uk

Martin Coppen who looks after our website writes:

‘There is now a preliminary Andover Bibliography available for searching on the website, constructed by John Isherwood. If anyone knows of other items that should be on the list, please let me know. AND I have just noticed that at least some Hampshire Chronicle pages are indexed for searching on Findmypast. Very useful, and certainly faster than motoring through the microfilms at HRO!’

Registered Charity 1011050 9 Editor Jane Flambert Contribution from Martin Coppen:

The Wayside Cross at —An Unusual Monument Via Crucis Via Lucis — The Way of the Cross is the Way of Light

Inscribed on the base of a tall wayside cross, now shaded by overhanging trees, on the sinuous village road near the school and church, this motto is an intriguing public statement. The Grade II listed cross also bears an inscription of its year of erection, 1867, with the ornate monogram of its author, the long-serving (1821-1884) and well- read vicar of the parish, Henry Burnaby Greene (1795-1884). The vicar’s motives for erecting it are unclear now, though the context is discussed fully in my biography of Burnaby Greene, 63 Years a Vicar (Andover, 2015)*. In summary, the cross may well mark the vicar’s considerable achievement of (legally!) redirecting the village road. This gave him the personal benefit of a front garden, which the Vicarage did not have before, with the public benefit of making the bends slightly less awkward for the traveller (a sharp 90° softened to 110°). The cross stands at the southern bend, in a corner given to the public from land which he might properly have included in the new front garden of the Vicarage. Where did Burnaby Greene get his motto? Surprisingly, it does not seem to be found in church tradition, though Via Crucis alludes to the established Catholic and High Church Anglican devotion, the Stations of the Cross. On the other hand, the phrase was a medieval heraldic motto. Burnaby Greene was interested in his own family history and may have come across it in his researches. However, it seems more likely that the motto came to the vicar’s attention from literary sources. The German preacher-poet, Ludwig Theobul Kosegarten (1758–1818), wrote a consolatory poem with that title, published in 1788. Kosegarten’s poem was popularised in English by James Montgomery (1771-1854), poet, prolific hymn- writer (Angels from the realms of glory) and campaigning newspaper editor. Montgomery freely translated and included it — without attribution — in his own song-cycle, Polyhymnia, published in 1822. An article in the London Magazine printed the words of all the Polyhymnia poems and from there Via Crucis Via Lucis spread through local newspapers during the 1830s-50s. Burnaby Greene may well have found some comfort in the poem’s sentiments in the years after the death of his wife, Amelia (née Woodcock), in 1862. Erecting a village cross, would have seemed highly appropriate to him, devout High Church vicar that he was, both as testimony to the heart of his Christian faith, and as hallowing the new junction between the road and church path. No doubt also he reflected on the old tradition of village crosses near churches. The cross has become an accepted part of the Longparish landscape, the inscription now little noticed by passers-by. It is a strange monument—and we might well wonder what the passing agricultural labourer or his family of 1867 would have made of its learned motto, and thought about the vicar who placed it there … Martin Coppen *The booklet, 63 Years a Vicar (72 pages with 20 illustrations), chronicling Henry Burnaby Greene’s life and works in nineteenth century Longparish is available for £6.50 (including p&p) from the author: [email protected] .

Registered Charity 1011050 10 Editor Jane Flambert AHAS Publications (All of these publications may be ordered from the Society c/o Mill Pound Cottage, , Andover. SP11 8AW or purchased at our monthly meetings, from the Museum and from Waterstones)

The Archaeology of Andover, the Excavations of Andover Archaeological Society 1964-89 by Nick Stoodley (2013) 114 pp £20

A Second Andover Miscellany. This comprises four articles, A Portrait of Robert Tasker, and Dr George Vivian Poore and his Crusade for Natural Sanitation both by David Borrett, Water and Sanitation in Andover by John Isherwood, and Booksellers and Printers in Andover, 1725-1855 by Diana Coldicott. (2012) 114 pp £9.50

An Andover Miscellany by David Borrett, Andrew Jackson and Harry Paris (2008) 130 pp £8.50

Andover. An Historic Portrait by John Spaul (1977) 160 pp £5.00

Andover - Civil War & Interregnum by Anthony Raper (1994) 85 pp £3.95

Andover Priory by R Arnold Jones (n.d) 24 pp 50p

Andover’s Wartime Years by June Mary Harris(2000) 119 pp £6.00

Elizabethan Andover by Diana Coldicott (2004) 212 pp £5

Members of Parliament for Andover 1295-1885 by R Arnold Jones (1996) 83 pp £4.95

Saint Mary’s Church, Andover (2005) 20 pp £2.00

Samuel Best & the Hampshire labourer by Alastair Geddes (n.d.) £1.00

Something in the Water. The Anti-Fluoride Campaign in Andover 1955-1958 by David Borrett (2002) 104 pp £3

Lookback at Andover is the title of the Society’s journal which has been published annually since 1990. The journal for 2000 includes a cumulative index for the first ten issues and the 2010 journal contains an index for 2000-2009. Back numbers are available as follows:- 1995-1999 cost £2.00 each 2000-2007 cost £2.50 each 2008-2014 cost £3.00 each Registered Charity 1011050 11 Editor Jane Flambert And Finally

A reminder – subs for 2015 were due on 1st January and your cheque would be appreciated.

Subscriptions are the same as last year – £8 single members, and £14 for family membership.

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