Andover an overspill story in film; at Andover Museum

HAT has part funded this exhibition to round off the project and celebrate the new accessions that Wessex Film and Sound Archives at HRO have collected, an exhibition will be on display in Andover Museum from Friday 14 March to Sunday 27 April 2025. Another set of exhibition panels was printed for Hampshire Record Office. These will be on display in the foyer of the Record Office from Wednesday 2 July to Wednesday 24 September 2025. The grant that was kindly awarded to us by HAT has allowed us to print these panels.

see https://www.hampshireculture.org.uk/event/andover-overspill-story

The project concluded January 2025 Andover: An Overspill Story was a 12-month community project created with the support of the British Film Institute, awarding funds from the National Lottery to help develop Wessex Film and Sound Archive (WFSA) collections. WFSA is part of Hampshire County Council’s Archive service.

The focus of the project was on Andover’s ‘overspill’ development and originally called London ‘overspill’ estates because, despite being over 50 years old, this aspect of the town’s history was not well represented in screen heritage collections. These iconic estates are a key part of the history of Andover but have left a very small archival footprint. This project aimed to redress that by working with the community to capture memories of life on the estates from the past, present and on into the future. As a result of the project, we have collected a wealth of new accessions that have helped us fill this gap in our archive. It has also allowed us to make connections with the diverse communities present in Andover and ones which, without the creation of this project, we would not have been able to reach.