Category: Stories from the Archives

Members attending during the rescue

They Always Smelt of Bananas

The story of Lymington parish records In 1975 a nightmare scenario for archivists and local historians was played out in Lymington. Many years before that fateful occasion a quantity of...

maps of baisingstoke

Maps of Basingstoke

Jane Harris, Senior Archivist, Customer Services, of the Hampshire Record Office searches the archives and introduces some of the collection of historic maps of Basingstoke.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh3vNcl7rYY Map of Basingstoke 1762 Basingstoke...

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Wessex Film and Sound Archive (WFSA)

Hampshire Archives Trust supported the establishment and development of Wessex Film and Sound Archive which it jointly administered with Hampshire County Council, to meet the identified need to preserve ‘new’...

The Wellow Album of drawings from the 1840s

The Wellow Album

The album was secured for the Hampshire Record Office with support from HAT. It contains drawings of East and West Wellow, c1846. The album of drawings of buildings and scenes...

Dickens Community Archive Display

Dickens Community Archive Project

In 2012 Portsmouth Museums and Records Office used a grant of £5000 from HAT, in conjunction with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth...

16th century documents

The Tudor Revels Palaeography Group

The Tudor Revels Palaeography group are a dozen volunteers who transcribe sixteenth-century documents held in the Southampton Record Office. Their transcriptions assist people not used to reading old documents to...

New Forest Image courtesy of Victor Ochieng (Flickr Commons)

WFSA Fordingbridge Films by Jack Hood

A sample of 6 of the 153 reels of film made in 1960 -1980 documenting local events in this New Forest village. Jack Hood was a Fordingbridge resident and businessman....

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