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Bomsey Cricket Club (William Summers, hon. ~ec.), Stott James, beer retailer, Mainstone l Church strelrt. Strong & Oo. of Romsey, Limited, brewers, maltsters &; Romsey & District Co-operative Society Limited (Q~ M. wine & spirit merchants & aerated water manufactr1. Silverlock, sec.), 26 Church street The Brewery & Bell street; & at Ringwood; Weyhill; Romsey & District Rifle Club (Thomas Edwd. Lawrenson, Christchurch; Southampton & Wareham, Dorset. hon. sec.), 2z Winchester road T N 2 I :Ralmey Fire Brigade (M. Chandler, captain), Church 6t Summers Charles & Son, outfitters. 16 & 18 Bell street & Romsey Football Club (E. Roud & G. Moore. joint antique dealers. 3:;~ Bell street hon. secs) Summers William, boys' school, 0f.1Jorne house Romsey Gas & Coke Co. Limited (Frederick James Sutton & Co. carriers (Thomas James Cooper, agent), Falkner, manager), Love lane Winchester road Romsey HoTSe Show (B. W . .A.ttlee, hon. sec.), Parter's Sutton William Richard, miller (water). The Abbey Bridge street mill. T N rgo Romsey Horticultural Society (George Butler, sec.), Symes George, umbrella repr. Clock ho. Winchester :rd The Abbey Teague & King Ltd. pianoforte & music dlrs.-4 Church s' Romsey Lawn Tennis Club (T. .A.. Flooks, hon. sec) Territorial Battalion (4th) Hampshire Regiment (C Co.) Romsey Liberal & Radical Club (George E. Fryer, sec.), (Capt. F. L. Footner; Color-Sergt. William Smith, Bell street drill instructor), Drill hall, Corn exchange R!JIDsey Mission Mutual Benefit Club (Rev. R. R. Pittt>r Test Valley Iron Works Co. (Waiter J. Gascoigne. man- & W. R. Chandler, hon. secs. ),52 Middle Bridge street ager), engineers, millwrights, iron founders. agricul- Bomsey Nursing Home & Cottage Hospital (L. S. C. tural implement makers, agents & general merchants, Mose, hon. sec.; Miss E. Vooght, matron),Cherville st The Hundred. T N 199 Romsey Reading Society (W. Grace, hon. sec.; Benj. Tibble Andrew, farmer, Highw{)(}(} Bedford, libTarian), Town hall. Market place Tibble Wilfred H. carrier. 70 Cherville street Rose Joseph Charles, confectioner, 13 Bell street Town Hall (Waiter James Read, keeper) Bond Ernest, confectioner, I Station road Tuck John, watch maker, 18 Market place. Royal. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Tylee, Mortimer & Attlee, solicitors, 2 Porter's Bridge (Romsey & Winchester Branch) (Mns. Suckling, High- street. T N 12; T A "Attlee" wood, Romsey & Miss F. H. Petitjean, 30 Christchurch United Yeast Co. Ltd. yeast mers. 85 Middle Bridge s' road. Winchester, hon. sec;~.; R. D. Jones, 10 St_ Van SomPren AlPxander Grant Vermont M.B., Ch.B., Paul's terrace, Winche-ster, inspector; Auxiliaries: F.R.C.S.Edin. (firm, Scallon & Van Someren), phy- Plaitford, Mrs. Truman, Landford manor; Rawnhams, sician & surgeon, Church street. T N ox8g Miss Tylee, St. Kevins, Rownhams, Southamptan; Viney Samuel, baker & confectioner. 62 The Hundred Braishfield, Mrs. King, BN~ishfield manor, Romsey; Ward Alfred & Son, carmen. Palmerston street King's Somborne, Mrs. Weir, King's Somborne, StDck- Wan'fick Alfred Thomas. daiiy, 31 Bell street bridge; Brought-an, Mrs. Boyes, The Rookery,Brough- Waterman Charles, plumber, x Leopold terrace ton, SU>ckbridge) Waterman Elizh. Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper, The Hundred Russen Wm. fishmgr. & umbrella ma.67 Middle Bridge st Waters Charles Thomas, printer & stationer, Market St. Joseph's Orphanage (for boys) (Sister Valere,superior),l pla~e. T N 41 The Abbey house WatkmR J. Prestwood M.R.C.S.Eng .• L.R.C.P.Lond. Saint Edward, farmer, Wade farm 1 physician & surgeon, 2 The Gables Saxhy Henry Holmes, registrar of births & death~ for Webb Thoma~ & Son, butchers, 15 Bell stree~ Romsey sub-district & relieving & vaccination officer Webb :Edwin Joseph, beer retailer, 105 Middle Bridge sl No. I district, Romsey union, 72 The Hundred Webb Wallace, butcher, 27 Latimer tstreet Scallon & Van Someren, physicians & surgeons, Church Weeks Frederick, boot & shoe maker. ro Botley road street. T N orBg Wheeler George & Sons. builders, Porter's Bridge 11treet Scallon Ern est Oliver M.D. (firm, Scallon & Van Wheeler H., Son & Coombs, saw mills, Middle Bridge s\ Someren), surgeon, & medical officer & public vacci- Wheeler Edward, beer retailer, 9 Latimer street nator Nos. 2, 3 & 5 districts of union, Church street. Wheeler Frederick, beer retailer, 32 Mill lane T N 0189 White & Son, oil stores, 17 Bell street Sharland Tom, draprr & clothier, xo & 12 The Hundred White John, sergeant-at-mace, Greenhill view Shepherd Samuel, baker, 23 Bell street ~Vhitehead Robert, Cross Keys P.H. Bell street Sillence Edward, bookseller, 25 Church street Whiten George James, William the Fourth P.H. 43 Sillence James, shopkeeper, 20 Cherville street Latimer street Simmons Cicely (:Mrs.), beer retailer, 28 Church street Whitfield James, farmer, Lodge farm, Halterworth Singer Sewing Machine Co. Ltd. (The), 3 Latimer st Whitmarsh Charles, farmer, Toothlll Smart Thomas, tailor, 12 Market place Wiggins Arthur, cycle agent, 28 Market place Smith David William, confctr. & news agent, 5 Bell street Wigram & Crothers, motor engineers, Winchester road. Smith Frank Ball, insur. agt. Crescent house, Mile hill T N 15 Smith Henry Harding, proprietor of the Belbins Estate . Wilts & Dorset Banking Co. Limited (branch) gravel & sand quarries, 86 Middle Bridge street (Thom1s Alfred Flooks. manager}, 2 The Hundred ; Smith James, brewer & beer retailer, 62 Love lane draw on London County & Westminster Bank Ltd.; Smith Color-Sergt. William, drill instructor to C Co. 4th Glyn, Mills, Currie & Co. ; Bank of England & Territorial Force Battalion Hampshire Regiment, 57 Williams Deacon's Bank Limited, London Station road Withers Edwd Godfrey,insur.agt.Riverside,Palmerston st Southampton & District Bill Posting Co. Ltd. bill Woolley &. Wallls, auctioneers, valuer!l &. posting & advertising contractors, 70 Cherville street; land agents (late Chlgnell), Market place i & Windsor house, Manchester street, Southampton & at Salisbury.&. Fordingbridge. See adver- Sonthgate John, postmaster & stamp distributor, Post tisement office, Market place. 'f N 13 Woolley John T. farmer, Spursholt Squires William R. tobacconist, 3oa, The Hundred Wren Patent Safety Coupler Ltd. (The), 9 Palmerston a' Stallard. George, blacksmith. Ashfield 1 Wyatt George, b~ker & confectioner, 38 The Hundred Stare .Mary Ann (Mrs.), co:Qfectioner, 52 The Hundred Young George, ~or se & Jockey P .H. Mainstone Stares Alfred, pork butcher, 9 Corn market Young William, registered l-odging house, Mainstond Stares Violet (Mrs.), fishmonger, 8 'i'he Hundred

ROPLEY, with a station, x! miles north-west from the nave of four bays, north aisle and ·south transept, and village, on the Mid Rants branch of the London and a wooden tower containing 5 bells : it was repaired and South Western railway, 4 miles east from New Alres­ enlarged in 1848, and again l'estored in 1897 .at a cost ford, II east-by-north from Winchester and- 54 from of £2,500: an organ was provided in 19II at a cost of London, is a. large ecclesiastical parish, containing about £3oo: there a.re 300 sittings. The register dates -everal small scattered hamlets, of which Lyeway, The from the year 1538. The living is a. vicarage, ne' Sake, Charlwood and Monl>:wood are the principal; in yearly value £2oo, with 4 acres of glebe and residence, the Eastern division of the county, hundred of Bishop's in the gift of the Peache trustees, and held since 18gx Sutton, .A.lre-sford union, Alresford district of the Win­ by the Rev. William Henry Leak,. of St. Aidan's. Tbe chester petty sessional division. Winche,ster county court Primitive Methodist chapel was erected in 1go8, Miss district, rural deanery of Alresford and archdeaconry Hagen established coffee and reading rooms in January, and diocese of }Vinchester. Previous to July, 1882, 1878. and in 1883 erected new and spacioul! -rooms in Ropley was annexed to Bishop's Sutton for ecclesiastical the principal street of the village- far the use of the purposes, but by an Order in Council, August. 1882, is working men of the parish. The kenneht Qf the- H.H. now a separate civil parish. The church of St. Peter (Hampshire) .1' o~ hounds are situated here, George is au ancient structure of flint, consisting of chancel, Patrick Elyston Evans esq. maste:r; new .atablee have HAN'fS. ~