Hot off the Press!

As can be seen on the Menu on the left, "Growth of the Village" is no longer there - I've renamed it

"Netley Abbey Village" (it's the same content, just a title change) and created a sub-Menu for the 

additional Village articles etc.

The previous Menu was getting a tad unwieldy, particularly if you were viewing it on a

tablet or phone.

I've made a start at updating the "Shared Stories" sub-pages.  They are all now under "Shared Memories".

I have also moved a couple of them on to the next page as A - D and E - L were too long.

Biggest issue will be changing all the highlighted links to the new set-up so please bear with me! 

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Do you remember a Chapel on the corner of New Road and Grange Road in the 1950s?

One of my contacts, Dorothy Clarke (Shared Memories A - C) shared her childhood memories of visiting her

Aunt and Uncle who lived at Arthur Terrace, New Road during the 1950s.  She recalls Aunt Florrie going up to

the "Chapel" on the corner of New Road and Grange Road. 

I've so far not come across any other reference to a Chapel at that location. I've trawled through

most of the major Newspaper archives looking for any mention of a chapel without success.

Looking at my various village maps dated around 1943 - 1960, I can see a large corner plot (unnamed)

on the same side of the road as the Jubilee Hall.  It is much bigger than the house plots alongside.

My records show that Dr Foster had the (original) Blackthorn Surgery there, possibly in the 1960s?

Does anyone remember what was there before the Surgery? 

Could this have been where the Chapel was?

Please let me know by clicking on Who Lived in your House to complete the Contact Me form. 

Thank you. 

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John Critchley and Frederick William Hine

I've finally combined the Critchley and Hine Family story into one "pod" 

on Shared Memories  A - C.

I've added the photos of Fred Hine and his family which Martin Hine had previously shared on Facebook.

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Wanted - Photos please!

Please let me know using the above Contact Form if you have any photos you're happy to share

on this website of the following -

Village Folk:

Pennington Family - William, Mary Jane Owen, Georgina Louise, Blanche Jacintha, Ada

Downie Sisters - Charlotte Isabella and Anita Florence

William Edginton

Properties on Lost but not Forgotten:

Leigh Grange

Oakhurst

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I've refreshed and added some new articles and photos to the Chapters of the

History of Netley Hospital.

I have added the following 5 new stories:

Reverend William A C Chevalier to Village Folk

Private Septimus Willis Barnes to Shared Memories A - C    

Private Thomas William James to Shared Memories D - H 

Private William John Scully to Shared Memories R - W

and I've added the Summerfield Family story to Shared Memories R - W

despite waiting for further information and a couple of family photos.

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Whilst checking through good, bad and sometimes ugly/messy files from my old laptops

before setting up my new Apple laptop, I've stumbled across family stories for the 

following which will be added to the Shared Stories on this website soon -

Lionel Overington

Osborne Parry

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"Tug" Wilson has just sent me a photo of the Class of 1958 at Netley Infants School.

His youngest sibling Heather was there. 

Check it out by clicking Shared Stories R - W.

Please let me know, via Contact me, if you recognise anyone and have a story which you are happy to

share with us all. 

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This Homepage will continue to let you know what new articles, photos etc have been added where 

in the last 3 - 4 weeks. Simples.

If you see this image on any of the other website pages, clicking on the symbol should return you to

this Homepage to let you see what else is new so you can go exploring again!

If clicking on the symbol doesn't work, please can you let me know? 

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More help needed!

One of my website contacts, Colin D is the current owner of the Yacht "Seran". 

He is sure that the "Seran" was berthed in the local Netley/Southampton Water area in the

late 1920s into the 1930s and was involved with the Netley Regattas during that time but

as yet has not found any definite proof of this. 

He is asking if anyone has perhaps old photos of past sightings of the Yacht in the local area? 

It was built in 1926 for its owner C C Regnart.  Its Skipper was a local Netley man,

Captain Ben Chaplin.  His story can be found in Shared Memories A - C

If you think you can help Colin, please let me know and I'll forward the details to him. 

Thank you.

Please note that whilst I am an independent researcher with no direct connection to any

of the Local History Societies, I share research with Julie Green and sometimes the

Royal Victoria Chapel Team at RVCP.

The contents and design of this website have been researched and created by me,

including finding the sources stated and as such are subject to copyright. 

It's fine to share my research elsewhere but please do the right thing and credit this website

as one of your sources.  Thank you.

The newspaper articles displayed on this website have been in the main extracted from the British

Newspaper Archive, www.newspapers.com and FMP Newspapers.

Sources are in black print, underlined, beneath the relevant article

If a word or phrase is in this colour, you should be able to click on it and it

will open on a new tab and let you return to the previous one when you're ready!