3 20 162 https://emsworthmuseum.org.uk/emcms/files/original/e961dc86e83353aa36015d51ccf10ce8.pdf d8e65690dc2a8a8ff1cc2dee4507c876 PDF Text Text The Old Boathouse by Christine Bury Standing tall along Bridgefoot Path in Emsworth is a wooden building on two floors. Painted black, it is now the headquarters of Zero West Watches. High up on the structure is a plaque giving a date of 1631. Is The Old Boathouse really that old? The Stuart King, Charles I, was on the throne. He became monarch in 1625 but quarrelled with Parliament and prorogued and later dissolved them. 1 �Emsworth Brewery in the 19th century We do not know for certain when the building was constructed but there is a reference to an aleconner in Emsworth during the 17th century. Aleconners were Crown Officers authorised to test and certify the quality of the beer brewed. While such an early date seems unlikely for our building we can definitely date the premises back to the late 18th or early 19th century because at one time it was the stables and an access route to a brewery which stood in what is now the South Street car park. This brewery can be traced back to 1794 when George Whicher is listed as the brewer and maltster. He had been in business since 1788, the same year in which he married Olive Mower. The couple had eight children, one of whom Sarah was long lived and died in 1897 aged 101. Seventy six years earlier in 1821 Sarah married William Hipkin of Stoughton. William seems to have impressed Sarah’s father because the two set up a joint coal merchant business in the 1820s. Did this Hipkin go into the brewery business as well? It is possible because George died in 1848 and the brewery is recorded as being in business in 1855 under the name Whicher and Hipkin. Throughout the 19th century the brewery seems to have been known as the Crown Brewery. Albert George Hipkin took over between 1867 and 1884 and later it was run under the name of Hipkin & Co from 1885 to 1896. Sarah and William are thought to have died childless but Albert George Hipkin born in Sussex must have been a relation. He is described in the 1881 census as a brewer and maltster. Hipkin’s brewery was a distinctive landmark with its tall chimney and another Bridgefoot Path building, which juts out into the Mill Pond, is the old malthouse, now the property of Emsworth Slipper Sailing Club. Noel Kinnell and Arthur Hartley took over the brewery in 1896 and the complex became known as Emsworth Brewery or The Brewery, Emsworth. The Kinnell and Hartley Brewery owned several public houses, including the Coal Exchange and Town Brewery. Mr Kinnell lived in Seafield, the mansion on the west side of the Mill Pond. The estate included a farm and its former dairy, now fronted by Fiscal House. The former Coach House is now the Envisage dentist. Noel Kinnell was a wealthy man. The plaque in the Promenade wall opposite the Emsworth Slipper Sailing Club of which he was President reads: “This tablet records the gratitude of the inhabitants of Emsworth to Noel E W Kinnell, Esq, JP, CC, of Seafield Emsworth for his public spirited generosity in defraying the whole of the expense of the erection of this seawall & promenade after the purchase of the Mill Pond in 1925 by the Warblington Urban District Council of which he was for 25 years a member & for 6 years chairman.” 2 �The brewery was sold in 1928 on the death of Mr Kinnell and it was subsequently demolished. The buildings in Bridgefoot Path remained and the old stables metamorphosed into premises for small workshops. Some people will remember Pinedemonium while others may well recall George Gray and his motor body business. Andrew Brabyn and his partner Graham Collins at Zero West Watches have remodelled the interior to display their innovative watches. The Old Boathouse is not only their shipping depot, R&D lab, customer service centre and design studio but it is their HQ developed during the Covid lockdown. Inside, besides the watches, there are pistons, pipes and bits of metal, some larger than others. At present these include a custom, British-built motorbike courtesy of Foundry Motorcycles and a complete salvaged MkIX Spitfire Merlin engine doubling as a table. Atop the table is a model of a Dambusters Lancaster bomber. The Old Boathouse, Bridgefoot Path, which has stood for centuries is set for a bright future in the 21st century. Sources Brewery History Society, Kinnell & Hartley Ltd Old Emsworth, David J Rudkin Zero West Watches, www.zerowest.watch 3 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EMHT2019 Title A name given to the resource Emsworth Echo Articles Description An account of the resource Articles published in the Emsworth Echo Annual Bulletin Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various authors, mostly Members of EMHT or local researchers Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 until the present Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Emsworth Echo Article Articles published in the Annual Bulletin Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Emsworth Subject The topic of the resource boathouse, brewery, mill pond, promenade, watch Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 54, Nov. 2022, pp.6-7/9, EMHT2009 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Stored Location The place where the physical object is stored Digital https://emsworthmuseum.org.uk/emcms/files/original/c9c9e6f18b662f10d8155bf03565f8b4.pdf a0358c70f5bb55b6c06037598966bf72 PDF Text Text Unknown and uncharted shores Combined Operations, the bravest of the brave by Richard Swaine Towards the eastern end of Hayling seafront there is a monument you may have noticed. It highlights the extreme bravery and hazardous operations that the men of the Combined Operations Pilotage Parties (COPP) undertook during WWII. At the height of operations over 150 servicemen were assigned to HMS Northney, previously The Hayling Island Sailing Club (HISC). This whole area and the building were requisitioned in 1942 by the War Office and all sailing activities suspended. A plaque inside the club pays tribute to the courage and sacrifice these men gave for their country. The COPP leader was Nigel ClogstounWillmott, DSO, DSC, RN. Last year, HISC celebrated its 100th anniversary. One hundred flags were produced to commemorate the highlights of the club for each year. The years 1942–1945 focussed on the Combined Operations Pilotage Parties. So why is this local story important? In 1942 we, the Allies, experienced the humiliation of Dunkirk and Dieppe. One of the main issues was that the tracks of most of the Churchill tanks were caught up in the shingle beach and could not move further. Immediately afterwards the Allies began to study the beach geology of where they intended to land and put plans in place to adapt vehicles accordingly. Dunkirk and Dieppe taught us that the Royal Navy would have to land the Army not in heavily defended ports but across defended open beaches. There were of course charts and maps but these are generally to help vessels to keep away from coastal hazards not to help them onto the beaches. Anyway, the charts and maps were not reliable. It was agreed that a seaborne invasion could only be achieved by ‘hands on’ beach reconnaissance. The COPP team was assembled in the winter of 1942 and put through very hard ‘conditioning’ training. Some of the preparation included night swimming using very elementary suits that were certainly not waterproof. In January the Solent is freezing. So little was known at the time, and for years afterwards, about this section of the services. Nothing was ever mentioned by the press or on the wireless. All COPP work was classified as ‘Most Secret’. Once recruited, all the COPP teams signed the Official Secrets Act because, once briefed, they would know the clear details about future landings onto enemy occupied territory. The first use of COPP was for the invasion of North Africa on 8th November 1942. This 1 �was reasonably successful although some of the beach surveillance did not detect sandbars and hollows that the landing craft ‘grounded on’, resulting in the Army leaping into water up to their necks. On return from Gibraltar in November 1942, the organisation had to be reset-up and fully trained with better communications, improved kayaks and rubber suits. Offshore night training continued and the pace quickened. In January 1943, 16 of the COPP team were drafted to the Mediterranean. Their equipment and kayaks were sent ahead. They were given plans for detailed beach surveys over three nights, both to the north and south of Sicily. Sicily On 27th February 1943, after a few weeks of practical runs and familiarisation procedures, four submarines sailed for their rendezvous at preallocated positions off Sicily. On a dark night around midnight with the Sicilian coastline about four miles ahead, the submarines surfaced and the two-man kayaks launched. After a final confirmation regarding the rendezvous timings, the 4 x 2 man COPP teams waved their farewells. The submarines withdrew to sea and submerged to around 60 feet for a few hours. The submarines were ‘on station’ between 1st and 12th March 1943. In total darkness with minimum instruments, each team made its way to a prearranged beach. The ‘paddler’ was to anchor and hold station about half a mile from the coast and the ‘swimmer’ eased himself out of the kayak and swam to the shore. Once the ‘swimmers’ felt the bottom of the coastline, they began their missions while the ‘paddler’ waited out at sea, cold and in the dark for some 3 – 4 hours, hoping to see a light from his returning teammate so enabling each team to return to their assigned submarine. These activities were undertaken over three nights and we know from first hand that of the 16 men who surveyed the Sicilian beaches, only five got back to Malta, five were lost (presumed drowned, no known grave), and six captured, never to be seen again. To this day we cannot comprehend such bravery. In summary, valuable beach conditions were acquired and specific beaches chosen for the landings. The planners now knew the gradients of underwater approaches, obstacles, sand-bars, rocks, beach consistency, land surfaces, mined areas, beach defences, barbed wire, beach exits, natural hazards, lookouts, sentry posts, mobile sentries with dogs, gun emplacements and enemy positions. These details were mapped and charted for the invasion we now know as “Operation Husky” which took place on 8th July 1943. Italy surrendered to the Allies on 8th September 1943. Meanwhile, in the autumn of 1943 the Allies’ focus turned to fortress Europe. The Photo Intelligence Service were now examining the results of low flying sorties that extended from Norway to Spain. This would confirm that all channel ports were heavily defended. The coastline the Allies aimed to breach was Normandy (a chilling prospect). Normandy Around midnight on 31st December 1943 and in total darkness, two of the COPP team left their landing craft, and swam ashore to the French coast against forceful currents. In over two hours they managed to avoid sentries and mines, and calculated the tidal stream. The real difficulty was that at every 50 yards they had to measure the distance and to ‘dig in’ with their beach augers to fill their sheaths with sand and shoreline material. After successfully signalling to seaward they were picked up at all speed, exhausted, wet and cold. The first men to land on the invasion beaches of Normandy. Two weeks later a proper beach reconnaissance was ordered and so a team Continued overleaf 2 �COPP, the bravest of the brave contd. embarked on the midget submarine X20 to return to Normandy. For this operation the submarine, originally designed for a crew of three, carried five men including two COPP swimmers. Conditions were very cramped. By the end of May 1944 the order came to prepare for the Normandy landings and this time only midget submarines would be needed. These to act as beacons for the D Day invasion force. They sailed from Portsmouth on 1st June 1944. X20 CO Lieutenant Kenneth Hudspeth, DSC and 2 Bars, RANVR was directed to Gold beach (off Port en Bessin) and onboard would be S/Lt Robin Harbud RNVR, later to live in Emsworth and become Commodore of the Emsworth Sailing Club in 1981. S/Lt Jim Booth secures X23 on D Day + 1. Photo from Robin Walton’s book ‘An Island at War’ X23, CO Lieutenant George Honour, DSC, RNVR, was directed to Sword beach (off Colleville sur Orne). Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, (now twinned with Emsworth) is about halfway between the two landing beaches of Juno and Sword. Without the fortitude and courage of the men from Combined Operations Pilotage Parties, many believe our planned invasions of enemy occupied territories from the sea would have been disastrous. This article tells a story which, for some reason, always seems be omitted from books and films that cover these invasions. Europe was not the end of the COPP war. Many were re-assigned to The Far East including, S/Lt Robin Harbud RNVR to reoccupy countries held by the Japanese. Sources: Stealthily by Night, Ian Trenowden (ISBN 0 947554 54 8), 1995 The Secret Invaders, Bill Strutton and Michael Pearson (Hodder and Stoughton), 1958 The Cross and The Ensign, A Naval History of Malta 1798–1979, (ISBN 0 586 05550 9), 1994 Obituary of George Honour, DSC, RNVR Commanding Officer X23, Daily Telegraph, 3.6.2002, Godfather of Susie Barker Obituary of Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott, DSO, DSC, RN, Daily Telegraph, 1992, whose idea led to the creation of COPP in 1942 Interviews with Mrs Susie Barker of Southleigh Road, the daughter of S/Lt Robin Harbud DSC RNVR https://www.discoverhayling.co.uk/copp-heroes 3 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context INDI101 Title A name given to the resource Unknown and Uncharted Shores (COPP) Description An account of the resource COPP stands for Combined Operations Pilotage Parties. Based on Hayling Island, this article commemorates the group's activities during World War 2 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Swaine, Richard Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 08.11.2022 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Editor: Bury, Christine Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1942-45 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Hayling Island, Normandy, North Africa, Sicily Subject The topic of the resource beach, coast, geology, hazard, kayak, paddler, submarine, swimmer, WWII Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 54, Nov. 2022, pp.4-6, EMHT2009 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Stored Location The place where the physical object is stored Digital https://emsworthmuseum.org.uk/emcms/files/original/efd36a09f8ac762e28b30cc6f8de98fe.pdf 1bc874a8dc6d1f5b06681b5f0afe10d7 PDF Text Text The P G Wodehouse Society visits the Museum by Margaret Rogers and Christine Bury Margaret Rogers (above) and members of the Wodehouse Society and Emsworth Maritime and Historical Trust (right) A splendid display of nibbles, fruit and cheese delights met Emsworth Maritime and Historical Trust ‘s (EMHT) visitors from the P G Wodehouse Society (UK) as they entered the David Rudkin Room on Friday, 29th July. Margaret Rogers welcomed everyone and pointed out that a lot had happened in the Museum since the last visit by members of the Society. Museum volunteers had taken advantage of the enforced Covid closure by refurbishing the Main Room and moving the Wodehouse corner display into a central position. That display now shows to advantage a typically early 20th century town hall fireplace flanked on one side by a reorganised library of most of P G Wodehouse (Plum’s) works and on the other by a desk with a typewriter. There is also a touch screen panorama of the correspondence between Plum and his housekeeper Mrs Lillian Barnett which began in 1914 and only ended after 60 years in 1974 on her death. EMHT Chairman Trevor Davies then used the opportunity of the evening to surprise Margaret, who is now retiring, by outlining how over the years she had been extremely helpful in various capacities to the Museum. He then handed over to her a collage of Emsworth photographs beautifully prepared by Bernie Gudge, giving her a memento of her years in Emsworth before she joins other family members in North Hampshire. Members both from the Society and the Trust were then able to relax and happily chat and mingle for a couple of hours, exploring all the David Rudkin Room boards, Research Room cabinets and the Main Room exhibits. All agreed it was a good way to strengthen ties between the two and rounded off a very worthwhile visit. 1 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context INDI100 Title A name given to the resource The P G Wodehouse Society Visits The Museum Description An account of the resource Museum visit on 29th July by Society members plus retirement presentation to Margaret Rogers Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rogers, Margaret and Bury, Christine Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 08.11.2022 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Editor, Christine Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 2022.07.29 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Emsworth Subject The topic of the resource presentation, refurbishment, retirement, visit Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 54, Nov. 2022, p3, EMHT2009 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Stored Location The place where the physical object is stored Digital https://emsworthmuseum.org.uk/emcms/files/original/409bc3481d326f6322919e02d2a43dbf.pdf 34f4a3269bc1a1bc7afe40054ffe78e3 PDF Text Text What is a hand spike? by Izzy Sumner They were readily available on ships and in garrisons where such equipment was a part of daily life. Members of the Portsdown Artillery Volunteers shift a 13-inch Land Service Mortar using handspikes c 1870. Courtesy the Trustees of the Royal Armouries From an original by Jeffrey Burn Whilst setting up the new display on ‘Self Sufficient Emsworth’, our research led us to a variety of occupations held by Emsworth residents over the years. Consulting sources such as census returns (the Museum has a selection on disk) and trade directories, we picked out some of the more varied and interesting trades. Who knew, for instance, that in 1841, Emsworth parish employed a rat-catcher? Overall, thirteen different trades are represented within the display case. One of the more unusual occupations, however, was that of Jane King who in 1852 was contracted by the Government (Board of Ordnance) to supply handspikes. But what is a handspike? An early reference from 1734 describes Mr Smith, Carpenter of his Majesty’s sloop the Hound taking up a HandSpike and murdering the Quarter Master following a verbal dispute. Smith’s weapon of choice was a large, solid lever (typically made of elm or ash) used either at sea to alter the elevation of a large gun via the steps on the carriage cheeks or on land to move a mortar and bed (see image). Handspikes were sometimes tipped with a steel plate at the lower forward face to protect the wood. Jane King can be found in the 1851 census living at King Street, Emsworth, with her daughter and grandchildren. Following her husband’s death she had been making a living as a timber & coal merchant, and her success is evident in the fact that she was able to employ two local girls as servants. Jane had, in fact, almost certainly inherited the business from her husband John, whose family, having arrived in Emsworth in the mid-1780s, had founded the John King shipyard on what became King Street. An interesting story told about John King’s father is that when an attempt was made to Press Gang his men during the Napoleonic wars, he blockaded the shipyard until a safe conduct could be got from the Commanderin-Chief at Portsmouth. Whilst researching the archives on another local timber & coal merchant, William Foster, I came across a further reference to hand spikes. In August 1875, Mr Foster was requested to supply seven dozen (84) handspikes, each 6 feet in length, to W. Nunn & co, on behalf of the Army & Navy Lamp Signal & Binnacle works. W. Nunn & co, known for their production of lamps, had been founded by W. Nunn, lamp manufacturer to the Admiralty and Board of Trade. The handspikes purchased by them may have been used within the company, for instance to raise and lift heavy items, or may have been sold on to a further Naval contact such as the dockyard. Sources: ‘London’ Derby Mercury, 30 May 1734 p.3 1851 census, ‘King Street, Emsworth’, H.O.107 1656 https://www.kovels.com/collectors-questions/ nunn-ships-lanterns.html https://thespring.co.uk/wp-content/ uploads/2021/06/f-no-6-a-short-history-of emsworth-and-warblington.pdf 1 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EMHT2019 Title A name given to the resource Emsworth Echo Articles Description An account of the resource Articles published in the Emsworth Echo Annual Bulletin Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various authors, mostly Members of EMHT or local researchers Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 until the present Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Emsworth Echo Article Articles published in the Annual Bulletin Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context INDI90 Title A name given to the resource What is a hand spike? Description An account of the resource Account of Jane King, Emsworth supplier of hand spikes and their use. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sumner, Izzy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 02.11.2021 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Editor: Bury, Christine Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 18th to 19th century Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Emsworth, Portsmouth Subject The topic of the resource hand spike, trade Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 53, Nov. 2021, p22, EMHT1651 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Stored Location The place where the physical object is stored Digital https://emsworthmuseum.org.uk/emcms/files/original/ea3c7219b1000500acfe12afa9e6198d.pdf 8607fe7f002e0f326d6a9fdfd49e7785 PDF Text Text Pubs, Inns and People by Bernie Gudge, Photo Archivist at Emsworth Museum The victorious Black Dog darts team c 1960 Photo: Mr Young The Little Green pub in North Street with landlords, Mr and Mrs Dorey ‘Auntie’ Bess, left, landlady of the Lord Raglan in Queen Street Mrs Wells at the door of the Old Blue Bell in South Street 1 �Bill Woolley, Landlord of the Fairfield in New Brighton Road and, right, his wife Gill pulling pints in 1980 Children outside the Dolphin Hotel in Queen Street, c 1900 The Crown Hotel in the High Street stocking Kinnell & Hartley beers Regulars in the Old Blue Bell 2 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EMHT2019 Title A name given to the resource Emsworth Echo Articles Description An account of the resource Articles published in the Emsworth Echo Annual Bulletin Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various authors, mostly Members of EMHT or local researchers Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 until the present Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Emsworth Echo Article Articles published in the Annual Bulletin Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context INDI89 Title A name given to the resource Pubs, Inns and People Description An account of the resource Captioned photographs of pubs in Emsworth Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gudge, Bernie Photo Archivist at Emsworth Museum Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 02.11.2021 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Editor: Bury, Christine Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant c1900 to 1980 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Emsworth Subject The topic of the resource darts, landlord, pub, regulars Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 53, Nov. 2021, pp.20-21, EMHT1651 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Stored Location The place where the physical object is stored Digital https://emsworthmuseum.org.uk/emcms/files/original/1e16962f1fc9ed7adfd43163bf8f3430.pdf dc98585927d17a30a9c92a795dcd45b3 PDF Text Text The Artillery of the Crookhorn, Farlington and Langstone Redoubts by Philip A. Magrath, Curator of Artillery, Royal Armouries, Fort Nelson These three earthworks acted as supplementary defence to the main fortifications constructed on Portsdown Hill between 1861 and 1870. Forts Wallington, Nelson, Southwick, Widley and Purbrook can lay claim to being the greatest British peacetime fortification construction costing many millions of pounds and several human lives. It generated much debate and assessment as to their necessity and their effectiveness. In brief, the main advocate of the project, designed to improve the country’s defences and especially those of its predominant naval and military port, Portsmouth, was none other than Henry John Temple, Lord Palmerston (1784-1865). Since 1815, following the French defeat at the Battle of Waterloo ending the Napoleonic Wars, a groundswell of opinion had grown in this country believing that the French would avenge this great reverse at some point. Periodically, this level of belief was raised, sometimes almost to fever pitch, depending on the fluctuating political situation both here and in France and the amount of acerbic comment in the newspapers. Further concerns came with the seizure of power in 1848 by Bonaparte’s nephew Louis Napoleon as Napoleon III (1808-1873) and growing French naval strength. Could the Royal Navy, the country’s first line of defence, halt a French invasion before it had even made land? Whatever Palmerston’s thoughts on the Navy were, he believed that it was fallacious to rely on it alone and thus, in his capacity as Prime Minister at this time, between 1859-1865, he set up, through his Secretary of State for War, Sidney Herbert (1810-1861) a Royal Commission to assess the Defences of the United Kingdom. Their 1860 report recommended nationwide improvements to cost £10.3 million of which Portsmouth’s upgrade would account for £2.8 million. The purpose of the line of five forts was to prevent an enemy, having routed the Royal Navy and landed forces and artillery in strength nearby, from utilizing the heights of Portsdown to bring artillery fire to bear on Portsmouth Dockyard. With smooth-bore artillery, the range involved was too great, but the game-changer was rifled artillery and the adoption into British service in early 1859 of William Armstrong’s system. The authorities must have known that the French were at the same stage of development with their rifled artillery, the Système La Hitte. Achieving a range of five miles with relative accuracy was now possible and other closer Portsea Island targets such as the Hilsea Lines and Gatcombe Park, purchased to house the Royal Artillery in 1854, inviting. The five forts designed by the Royal Engineers were of the polygonal style characterised by an ability to provide overwhelming fire from rampart guns, ditch defence afforded by guns in caponiers and even a degree of local defence within the forts should they be stormed. Additionally, the forts were positioned in close enough proximity to provide a degree of covering fire for its neighbour. Strong though this arrangement was, land attack from the east remained concerning. An enemy might land in the Bracklesham Bay area for example, head inland and attack Fort Purbrook from the north-east thrusting down between Havant and Purbrook along a line roughly occupied by the present day A3. Alternatively, or perhaps even additionally, outflanking the forts with a drive along the coast south of Havant along the line of the railway. These three redoubts were proposed to negate these threats. Both the redoubt at Crookhorn (grid reference SU 680070) and at Farlington (grid reference SU 687065) were no more than 1 �800 yards apart. The former, started in 1862, lay around 650 yards to the north of Fort Purbrook and was apparently connected with it via a subterranean tunnel. Its design was a four-sided structure with a proposal for fifteen guns on the ramparts in horseshoe arrangement covering all points of the compass except to the south and six guns assigned for ditch defence in two caponiers. The latter, most likely started at the same time and the same distance from Fort Purbrook, was a more complex six-sided trace with a proposal for eighteen guns on the ramparts covering all points of the compass except to the west and southwest. Langstone Redoubt (SU 692055) was a five-sided trace with eighteen guns proposed for the ramparts and possibly only rifle fire scheduled for wet ditch defence. The construction of this redoubt was never started: it was decided in 1868 that a less elaborate earthwork could be raised as soon as an attack was known. guns was entirely dependent on the barrel elevation that the carriage would allow. Both 64-pounders at around 11 degrees elevation could send a 64 lbs common shell to a maximum range of 3,890 yards (2.2 miles) using an 8 lbs charge of Rifled Long Grain powder and the seven-inch Armstrong Gun at around 10 degrees elevation could send a 90 lbs common shell to 3,600 yards (2 miles) using an 11 lbs charge of the same powder. Neither these guns nor those of the main forts ever fired a shot in anger! The latter were not completed until 1871, ironically the same year the French suffered a heavy defeat in the Franco-Prussian war and the perceived threat from that quarter was never to be the same. But was it unfair to dub the scheme ‘Palmerston’s Folly’? Arguments can be made to support both viewpoints: ‘yes’, because of the massive amount of money it required and ‘no’, based on recent research showing that Napoleon III never had any intention of invading this country. The exact nature of the proposed artillery for Crookhorn and Langstone redoubts has not yet been discovered but the intention at Farlington’s redoubt was for eighteen, 64-pounder rifled muzzle-loaders, most likely conversions of old smooth-bore 32-pounders on the Palliser principle and on six-foot parapet carriages and slides. In 1876 fourteen were present but by 1891 only eight guns remained: five 64-pounder Rifled Muzzle Loaders of 71 cwt on the same carriages facing north, south-east and south; two of the same type but of 58 cwt, upon special carriages – the so-called Moncrieff Disappearing Gun facing north-east and one four-inch Breech Loading Gun on a six-foot parapet siege travelling carriage facing southeast. Sources: Philip A. Magrath, “The Artillery of the Portsdown Forts with special reference to Fort Nelson”, Arms & Armour Journal of the Royal Armouries, volume 17, issue 2 (2020), pp.178-197. Treatise on the Construction and Manufacture of Ordnance in the British Service, HMSO (London, 1879). A. Strauss-Schom, The Shadow Emperor. A Biography of Napoleon III, Amberley (Stroud, 2018). A. Temple Patterson, “Palmerston’s Folly – the Portsdown and Spithead Forts”, The Portsmouth Papers No.3, Portsmouth City Council (1967). Had all three redoubts been constructed and armed as originally intended there is no doubt that with Fort Purbrook as well, the eastern end of Portsdown packed a powerful punch. If the intention was to include the seven-inch Rifled Breech loading Armstrong Gun as it was at the other forts, then so much the better. The range of these Moncrieff Gun Carriage Courtesy the Trustees of the Royal Armouries 2 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Portsdown Hill Subject The topic of the resource artillery, construction, earthwork, Moncrieff gun carriage Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No.53, Nov. 2021, pp.18-19, EMHT1651 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Stored Location The place where the physical object is stored Digital https://emsworthmuseum.org.uk/emcms/files/original/7651d07d99ff962468ebc6b3c8a6ddbe.pdf 01b38fc6810c505c93e4e80535641937 PDF Text Text Albert Finney, 1936-2019, An Emsworth Resident by Christine Bury “A nice guy” Bob Smyth “A lovely man, I feel privileged to have known him” Sarah Long née Tier “a customer and friend”, “a private man”, “a wonderful sense of humour” This is the man whom many Emsworthians knew when he made his home here in retirement with his third wife, Pene. To the world at large, he was a marvellous dramatic actor with great presence whose successful career in theatre, film and television spanned almost 60 years. Albert Finney was born in Salford, Lancashire on 9th May 1936 to Alice and Albert Finney. His father was a bookmaker and Finney never abandoned his working-class roots. “It’s part of you,” he later said. “It’s in the blood really.” Finney acquired a taste for acting while studying at Salford Grammar School and won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada) where fellow students were Peter O Toole, Frank Finlay and Tom Courtnay. He worked first with Birmingham Repertory Theatre before moving on to the Old Vic and the National Theatre. Throughout his working life, Finney moved seamlessly between films, television and stage performances. He came to prominence in the early 60s as one of the ‘angry young men’. His breakthrough came with his portrayal of a disillusioned factory worker in the film version of Alan Sillitoe’s play Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. It also earned Finney the first of 13 Bafta nominations (he won two), this one for best 1 �British actor. Throughout his career, Finney received several awards. His rugged good looks, powerful frame and resonant voice made him a bankable star. Finney is perhaps best remembered in those early years for performances in the Academy award-winning film Tom Jones (1963), and as Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express (1974). While being known for his dramatic roles, Finny sang in two musical films: Scrooge and the film version of Annie. Later he began to specialise in more flamboyant characters. There was the fading actor-manager in The Dresser, opposite Tom Courtenay, which gained him another Oscar nomination. He also received nominations for Under the Volcano in 1984 (“a drunk act to end all drunk acts”, said one critic) and the 2000 film Erin Brockovich. He never lost his love of the theatre performing in plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov and Beckett amongst others. His last stage appearance was in 1997 in Art written by Yasmina Reza. In 2001, he was given BAFTA’s Academy Fellowship award, which has been compared to a lifetime achievement Oscar. One year later, he won an Emmy for his critically acclaimed portrayal of Winston Churchill in the BBC-HBO telefilm The Gathering Storm. He switched seamlessly between brash roles, such as when he played Winston Churchill, and performances of great wit, charm and elegance. After a diagnosis of kidney cancer he mainly disappeared from public view which is when the people of Emsworth came to know him. He quietly supported many causes and will be remembered for his kindness, friendliness and love of football. Local historian, Bob Smyth, recalled “As well as being a great actor, Albert was a nice guy. At my late mother’s 99th birthday lunch...., taking in the nature of the celebration he came to the table and gave her a hug – which made her day. The least luvvie of actors, at his usual table in the Blue Bell with his wife Pene, he chatted to all and sundry.” As he aged, Finney appeared in two of Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne movies and played the lovably gruff Scotsman Kincade in Skyfall, one of his final roles. A lovable bluff character was also portrayed in the television series My Uncle Silas, based on short stories by H E Bates. That birthday lunch Albert Finney in Emsworth Signed photo donated to the Museum by his son, Simon Finney “Albert Finney was one of the loveliest customers we had (at R A Tier and Son). You would never know he was famous, he was always so kind and friendly to everyone. I feel privileged to have known him x x” Sarah and all the staff. 2 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context INDI87 Title A name given to the resource Albert Finney, 1936-2019, An Emsworth Resident Description An account of the resource Tribute to Albert Finney with quotations from some Emsworthians who knew him. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Bury, Christine Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 02.11.2021 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Editor: Bury, Christine Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1936-2019 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Emsworth Subject The topic of the resource actor, award, cancer, film, nomination, television, theatre Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 53, Nov. 2021, pp.16-17, EMHT1651 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Stored Location The place where the physical object is stored Digital https://emsworthmuseum.org.uk/emcms/files/original/45a568f04acb15c86c1167a589ebbfe3.pdf 7247ccfbd91bb1eb48536a76698cd18e PDF Text Text Girl Guide HQ 1937 by Emsworth 1st Company of Girl Guides The Guides and Brownies moved their Headquarters from the Central Hall to the Council Offices, North Street, Emsworth. The yearly rental for the large room on the top floor of the Offices and the Committee Room was £5. Now home to Emsworth Museum 1 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context INDI86 Title A name given to the resource Girl Guide HQ 1937 Description An account of the resource Photo of Girl Guide headquarters, now Emsworth Museum, in 1937 with extended caption Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Girl Guides, Emsworth 1st Company of Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 02.11.2021 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Editor: Bury, Christine Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1937 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. 10b North Street, Emsworth Subject The topic of the resource move, rent Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 53, Nov. 2021, p16, EMHT1651 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Stored Location The place where the physical object is stored Digital https://emsworthmuseum.org.uk/emcms/files/original/f6fa1882a8407a4f4c6f1f240153e81b.pdf 5ada21f1e2afc9711a88ab52b4bd2b0a PDF Text Text Southleigh Park by Sonya Teale The article below was first published in The Emsworth Echo in November 2003, Issue 34. Southleigh House has again been in the news in 2020/2021 over the controversial plans to fell 100 trees on the estate which is earmarked for housing development. The house is a hidden Emsworth gem which is not visible to the passerby. Southleigh Park (Map Ref. SU E737 N 080) lies in the extreme north-west border of Emsworth Parish. The mansion is bounded on the North by Barton’s Road, to the East by the B2148 and to the West by Eastleigh Road. Today, the house and garden cover a mere 15 acres, but one can glimpse the parkland studded with mature trees from Eastleigh Road. In 1820, a Mr Charles Short must have realised the potential of a dairy farmhouse that had views to Langstone Harbour and the Isle of Wight. He purchased the house, called it Woodlands and made extensive alterations, constructing a house built of brick, with dressed flint, in castellated style. The house is not visible from any road, as effective screens of shrubs and trees were planted many years ago, but the Lodge on the Horndean Road, at the Barton’s Road junction, is an imitation of the large house. Charles Short was a barrister of considerable repute. His daughter, Emily, was born in 1793 and became the third wife of the Reverend William Norris, Vicar of Warblington. His son, Augustus, who was born on the Feast of St Barnabas in 1802, founded the Cathedral in Adelaide, Australia and was installed as the first Bishop. He remained there for 34 years. He retired in 1881 and died in 1883. In Warblington churchyard, the distinctive pink tomb of Augustus, his wife Millicent, and unmarried daughter, Isabella Emily, nestles in a north-east corner of the outer wall of the church. The tomb bears a Bishop’s mitre, a crook and two stars which may indicate the Southern Cross. Next to it lies the slab tomb of Charles Short and his wife, Grace. At the time of Charles Short’s death in 1838 Woodlands was one of the largest estates The castellated lodge fronting Horndean Road in the neighbourhood. The next owner was Lancelot Arthur Burton who purchased the property in 1840 and lived there for 10 years. He altered the interior. In December 1850, Henry Spencer bought it but let the house and lived in Woodlands Cottage. In 1870 the garden contained not only a vinery but also a Camellia House, Banana House and Orchid House. The gardens and surrounding park now amounted to 55 acres, and boasted walks known as Havant Walk and Emsworth Walk. Henry Spencer died in 1875 aged 57, and is also buried in Warblington Cemetery. Henry Spencer’s widow sold the house, set in 312 acres, to a Mr Barkworth in 1889. The latter lived there for only four years but changed the name to Southleigh Park. It was during Mr Barkworth’s ownership that the Water Tower was built. His initials were on an ornamental tablet above an inscription: Nihil Quod tetigit non Ornavit (He touched nothing without adorning it). In 1903, or possibly 1905, the house was sold to Sir Woolmer White of Salle Park, Norfolk. Sir Woolmer, first baronet, was the son of Major Timothy White (of Timothy White, a chain of chemist’s shops). 1 �Sir Woolmer was Justice of the Peace, High Sheriff of Norfolk, and a County Councillor for Hampshire. He donated £55,000 to the Royal Portsmouth Hospital. The sale notice of 1903 describes the mansion as situated in a good residential neighbourhood in “Capital Hunting and Shooting District. The house has a due South aspect enjoying lovely land and sea views extending to the Isle of Wight”. It then had 20 bed and dressing rooms, two bathrooms and several water cisterns. At the time of the sale the estate comprised some 356 acres. The gardens contained ‘ornamental water’ and a rustic bridge. The Pump house, with its engine connected to a deep well, ensured that the house had its own water supply. Sir Woolmer was regarded as a stern but fair employer. Kathleen Grant was a maid in service at Southleigh Park, 1926-1930, and she describes Sunday attendance at Warblington Church as mandatory, walking in both directions. On Sunday afternoons she and other staff waited under the clock tower for 4 pm to strike. She then walked home to Bedhampton, returning by the same means to parade again at 7 pm. Sir Woolmer White’s elder son was killed in the First World War, and the choir vestry in St Faith’s Church, Havant, was erected in his memory by Sir Rudolph Dymoke White, the second son. Sir Dymoke succeeded his father in 1931 and moved into Southleigh Park in 1934 after a fire and modernisation. Derek Parker, the last farm manager, told me that the estate comprised some 520 acres in Sir Woolmer White’s time, which included Mays Coppice Farm. In 1963, the tenant at Locks Farm surrendered his tenancy and the farm was “taken in hand” making 640 acres of agricultural land in all. In addition there were 500-600 acres of woodland. On certain Sundays in spring some of the woodland was opened to the public to pick bluebells and this was enthusiastically supported. the restoration of Salle Church in Norfolk, and gave to local charities. Lady White was a keen supporter of the British Red Cross, particularly during the Second World War. Sir Dymoke was Conservative MP for Fareham 1939-50, High Sheriff of Hampshire, County Alderman and Justice of the Peace. His great passion was for horses, and he used them on the farms up to the Second World War. After an absence from home his first visit was to the stables to inspect the horses. During his time in Westminster he succeeded in getting a Private Member’s Bill through on ‘The Docking and Nicking of Horses (1949)’ to prevent this treatment of horses and the importation of horses so treated. Sir Dymoke was often seen driving his coach and four along the lanes, training for the Coaching Marathons at the Agricultural Shows. Both Janet Searle and Joan Phillips, in their oral history tapes (available at the Museum) mention the coach with its bay horses parading through Emsworth. In 1962 he won the Coaching Marathon at the Royal Windsor Show for the second year in succession. He collapsed in May 1968 with the reins in his hands as he entered the ring at the Aldershot Show, and died soon after. After his death his coachman, Arthur Showell, went to the Royal Mews to become Head Coachman to the Queen. Some of Sir Dymoke’s carriages went to the Carriage Museum in Maidstone, Kent and others to Arlington Court, a National Trust property in Devon. Continued overleaf Sir Dymoke White was generous in an undemonstrative way. He donated to his old school, Cheltenham College, paid for Southleigh House (Woodlands) in 1884 2 �Southleigh Park contd. In 1969 there was a large sale of the contents of the mansion and the house was sold to Plessey Electronics. The Museum has a good aerial photograph from that period, showing a helicopter pad in the garden. Since 1994 it has been owned by Snell and Wilcox, who describe their work as ‘the design and manufacture of Image Processing Plant’. This company owns the former mansion and the immediate garden only. The owners of the remaining land are the Trustees of the Southleigh Park Settlement. The walled gardens, conservatories and water tower have all been demolished. The house and lodge are listed Grade Two by English Heritage. Sources: A History of Woodlands. Later known as Southleigh, by J E Bury. Havant Museum, HAVANT HOUSES: Southleigh House. Southleigh Park. Anne Wellstead. Hampshire Garden Trust. Mr Derek Parker. Conversation. 3 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EMHT2019 Title A name given to the resource Emsworth Echo Articles Description An account of the resource Articles published in the Emsworth Echo Annual Bulletin Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various authors, mostly Members of EMHT or local researchers Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 until the present Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Emsworth Echo Article Articles published in the Annual Bulletin Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Parish of Emsworth Subject The topic of the resource house, lodge, owner, reprint Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 53, Nov. 2021, pp.14-16, EMHT1651 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Stored Location The place where the physical object is stored Digital https://emsworthmuseum.org.uk/emcms/files/original/b9bd7ebd8e3325721fd9fd29f7b0e162.pdf 7511a29bbaf3ed072172838613ed4c4b PDF Text Text Covid Vaccination, Emsworth by Dr Philip Tibbs, GP in Emsworth, 1983 to 2014 I finally retired from being a doctor in 2015 at the age of 60 and looked forward to a retirement of travel and leisure. I certainly did not believe I would ever practice medicine again and the Covid-19 pandemic was a surprise for everyone. In April 2020, all doctors who had retired in the previous five years were written to by the General Medical Council and advised that unless we objected, we were back on the register as licensed GPs under emergency Covid powers. In the early days, no one was really sure what would happen and although intensive care units were under extreme pressure, the NHS coped and did not need either retired doctors or the large, planned Nightingale hospitals. In fact, GPs seemed to be less busy during the early stages of the pandemic as most consultations were on the telephone and everyone tried not to use medical services unless essential. In December 2020 a key change in dealing with Covid appeared. I took my 99 year old father Michael, a naval veteran of the Second World War, to be the first person in the South East and, for a time, the oldest person in the world to Queen Alexandra Hospital for his first Covid-19 vaccination. There was due ceremony. He was vaccinated by the chief nurse and was then interviewed by the press and TV. Dad encouraged everyone to follow his example and have the jab. Just before Christmas, the Emsworth vaccination centre opened in the Baptist Church chosen because it provided plenty of space, car parking and transport links. With some apprehension, many retired doctors and nurses decided that their turn had now come to be useful – myself and my ex GP wife Caroline included. We have now vaccinated (as of June 2021) 44,000 people at the church and have a wonderful team spirit with returned and active doctors, returned and active administration staff and amazing volunteers. Our volunteers make the clinic run smoothly by helping at receptions, directing those to receive vaccines, supervising the post immunisation wait following Pfizer vaccine and possibly the bravest job when we were vaccinating the oldest cohort was to supervise the parking of drivers in their 90s. We have been able to vaccinate about 1000 people a day in the Baptist Church – definitely enough to have a real impact on the disease locally. At the moment with discussion of a third dose for the most vulnerable and vaccination of teenagers, there is no end in sight. I have found it a fulfilling occupation. Michael Tibbs receiving his first Covid-19 jab. He received his booster jab in late September just two months prior to his 100th birthday. Residents waiting to be vaccinated at Emsworth Baptist Church Photos: The News 1 �Dr Tibbs added: The pleasure of meeting old friends from when I was in practice, the feeling of being useful and recalling medical knowledge which does not seem to have completely left my brain when called upon for advice was very rewarding. The final Covid vaccinations at the Emsworth Baptist Church were on 21st August 2021 after which there was a well earned wrap-up party. In just nine months the selfless volunteers had seen some 66,000 people come through the doors. In the above photo, courtesy of The Border Times and Chris Pearsall, volunteers raise a glass in celebration 2 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Emsworth Subject The topic of the resource doctor, pandemic, vaccination, volunteer Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 53, Nov. 2021, pp.12-13, EMHT1651 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Stored Location The place where the physical object is stored Digital https://emsworthmuseum.org.uk/emcms/files/original/1dcfac0475934e3c222301b65a2abe94.pdf 23841ed8e38d054d9b635b7a1dfd8860 PDF Text Text Clive and the Hole in the Wall Pottery by Christine Bury Saturday, 16th October 2021 was an auspicious day for Emsworth’s Community Pottery, the Hole in the Wall Group. Fifty years after its inception the Group’s home was renamed the Clive Yeomans Pottery by Clive’s daughter, Claire. Clive, who died last year, was an Emsworth institution. He had set up the pottery along with John Hampshire in 1971 and was involved with it over the next 50 years as a builder, fundraiser, publicist, negotiator, teacher, trustee and potter. It all began when the local Rector, Rev. David Partridge, and the Church Council were looking for someone to organise and run an artistic group for 8 to 14 year olds in the Parish Hall. Crafts mentioned were painting, macramé, linocut printing and pottery. Clive pointed out that pottery was a messy business and that the equipment needed such as heavy kilns and pottery wheels required permanent fixings. A special building was needed. Much to Clive’s surprise a week later, the Rector knocked on Clive’s front door and invited him to “Come and have a look” at a building he had found. The dilapidated brick building was in a landlocked area bounded by shops and offices, the churchyard and St James’ Church School. The only access was through the school playground. The area was like a bombsite: junk and weeds outside, rotten doors, broken windows, unsafe roof within; the debris list was endless. However, it was for sale for £500. The building was originally built as a stables in 1899, then used as a bakery and latterly as an artist’s studio in the 1960s. film of the time Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, both of whom were members of ‘The Hole In The Wall Gang’. Clive became a fundraiser. Small amounts of money began to trickle in and a highly successful Autumn Fayre was held. By September nearly £200 had been raised but it was not enough. The Fayre had been well publicised and as a result, Mr Humphries of Hayling Island saw a write-up in the Portsmouth News and donated the whole £500. Now they had enough to purchase the land. Legal possession was granted in June 1972. Clive, the designer and potter Those youngsters hoping to join the youth group registered an interest. The would-be group got its name from the holes in the walls of the building and from the popular 1 �While awaiting planning permission, fundraising continued with competitions, a disco, coffee mornings and suppers. Over £200 was raised by modelling one fundraising activity on the Boy Scout bob-ajob week. Clive commented, “never before in Emsworth have shoes been so clean, gardens clear of weeds, shopping done with enthusiasm and poor dogs walked until they dropped with exhaustion”. The first objective once planning permission was granted was to stabilise the building. Access was difficult and it was agreed that the movement of building materials should take place out of school hours. Several Emsworthians contributed not just cash but labour. Many visited the site and came back in old clothes to clear the rubbish and the weeds, others offered expert help as plumbers, builders and electricians. There was great enthusiasm for the project. One day a bonfire was started and a sofa thrown on the fire. Unfortunately the sofa was full of latex rubber and the heat became intense. A hose was used to dampen the inferno, water coming from the boys’ toilets in the school. Someone suggested calling the Fire Brigade but luckily one of the helpers was a part-time fireman and he said that the fire was coming under control thanks to the constant deluge of water. work began in earnest and many children as well as Mums and Dads came to help. Professionals also gave their expertise, time and materials and by the summer of 1973 the pace of the rebuild and the fundraising was accelerating. Lights were fitted, toilets and cloakroom built, walls rendered and then in September yet another benefactor appeared. Not content with doing some painting, he also provided two electric heaters. Fitting out and decorating continued until in October 1973 all was ready and the first session with the youth group could begin. So many youngsters were interested that three groups were held on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings. The workbench was divided into two sections with a partition in between. On one side was clay work while on the other the original range of craft activities had been expanded to include candle making and model aircraft. It soon became obvious that too many activities were taking place in such a small space and it was decided that the group should concentrate on making ceramics and stone and gem polishing for jewellery making. One of the conditions for use of the site was the erection of a six foot high security fence. One hundred and twenty five foot of fencing was needed. A wine and cheese event was held and invitees were asked to ‘Buy a Foot of Fence’. Within 20 minutes all the lots were sold. Lord Bessborough donated the wood from his sawmills which also bought the cost down. The building lacked all services – electricity, water and sewerage. Electricity came first but how to get water and sewerage. Then a water pipe was discovered while digging fence post holes. It had probably been put in when the building was first constructed in 1899. New pipes and valves were installed and the pottery had water. Now the building In the pottery today Other problems arose. For instance, which clay was best to use? The group had been using red earthenware clay and that clay stained clothes and did not wash out well! 2 �It was decided to use a reasonably priced stoneware clay which could be washed or brushed out of clothing. The drawback was that the glaze firing had to be done at a higher temperature of 1220˚C to 1260˚C but that turned out not to be a huge expense. By March 1974 such was the interest that sessions for adults were also started. The school moved to a new site in Bellevue Lane and the idea of a Community Centre on the site was first mooted. A fire at the new school in 1980 meant that the children relocated back to their old classrooms until the school was rebuilt. The group flourished throughout the 1980s. Craft pottery is a great hobby: the different designs, the decoration, glazing and firing all contribute to a never ending adventure. You are never too sure what will come from the kiln firing. In the 1990s interest began to diminish, equipment needed renewing, finances were low and the group became smaller and smaller. By the end of the 20th century, though, the refurbishment was almost complete and interest had begun to pick up. In 2011 Clive was 70 and the pottery 40 years old. He looked back over those years and decided to write a book, A Hole in the Wall, A personal account of Emsworth’s Community Pottery. The book was published in 2013 and all the material in this article came from that book. There are no longer specific classes for children but school children often visit for morning sessions. As Clive said, pottery is great fun and his legacy is the work that is still being created in the newly renamed Clive Yeomans Pottery. 3 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context INDI83 Title A name given to the resource Clive and the Hole in the Wall Pottery Description An account of the resource The story of the creation of Emsworth's first community pottery. It was renamed the Clive Yeoman's Pottery in October 2021. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Bury, Christine Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 02.11.2021 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Editor: Bury, Christine Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1971-2021 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Emsworth Subject The topic of the resource book, building, clay, craft, donation, fund raising, kiln, school playground Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 53, Nov. 2021, pp.10-11/13, EMHT1651 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Stored Location The place where the physical object is stored Digital https://emsworthmuseum.org.uk/emcms/files/original/b30d6039dc61cd26c013a61025a0251a.pdf 3e04069fec6b3dd35bb72e091bad828a PDF Text Text “The hand was warm, but a life had slipped away” by Cathy Rudkin The article below first appeared in Shorelines, Issue 19, Aug-Sept 2016, and concerns Owen Gape who, when still a young teenager back in 1944, witnessed a collision between a Wellington bomber and a Mosquito fighter over Chidham. The Mosquito plane crashed in Brook Meadow and that side of the story was featured in The Emsworth Echo for 2020. Cathy got in touch and related what happened to the Wellington bomber. Here, in Owen’s own words (transcribed by Cathy) is his personal description of what happened: I witnessed a dramatic incident that occurred in 1944, 72 years ago. I was then 14 years old, and lived on Main Road, Southbourne, opposite the Harvest Home... now long gone. I was a member of the Southbourne Sea Scouts and spent many hours either in or under the waters of Chichester harbour. During the evening of 8th February 1944, I decided to go for a walk round the sea bank of Prinsted bay. In those days there was a gate across the end of the lane leading to the bay, and just inside the gate the army had built a hut in the grounds of what is now the Sea Scouts centre. They had a small lorry, an anti-aircraft gun and a search light. On this evening they were away and I didn’t see anyone around. I walked westwards towards Thorney Island, where there was an RAF base, but there was no activity there that evening. Eventually, I turned round and walked back towards the gate. Still no-one about, but I did see my friend Cyril Mapley (thought to be aged 8 at the time). He lived in a small cottage at the end of the lane just before the gate, which was a local checkpoint. We stood at the gate chatting. It was about 8.10 pm and starting to get dark. We could hear aircraft overhead but took no notice because we knew the engine sounds belonged to ‘our’ planes — the German engines had a different sound. we saw what looked like the rear end of a large bomber, it was floating down, going round and round like a sycamore ‘wing’. As far as we could see the tail plane looked intact, which probably enabled it to spiral down rather than plunge. The tide was out and we watched the tail end fall into the mud, just inside the ‘Cuts’, a large bank once built across the bay to reclaim land lost to the sea. Realising that the rear gunner was probably still in the tail plane, Cyril decided to go out over the mud to look, and I went with him. We knew the mud well but it still took us some time to get to the wreck. When we reached it the mud looked like a saucer and the tail plane looked in a right mess, all twisted and crushed, so despite pulling and pushing we could not get in. We needed something to cut away at the fuselage so I went back to the shore edge to try and find a hacksaw. By then the soldiers had returned and I told them what we had seen. We found a hacksaw and they asked if the searchlight would help to illuminate the wreck. So they brought the dynamo-powered searchlight on to the shore and aimed it at the wreck. Although the sea bank obscured the light beams, as I returned to the plane it did help to light the scene with a glow above our heads. Within a few minutes we heard a loud crash in the air. Looking up we couldn’t immediately see anything. Until eventually We were now able to cut and shove our way into the rear of the tail plane turret, but we could not pull the gunner out. His foot, 1 �I think it was his left one, was jammed into the squashed ribs of the bomber. Cyril had a good idea, and unzipped the gunner’s boot and was able to get the man’s foot out. He was free and I held his hand, and it was still warm. In my young innocence I knew that dead people were cold, so, as this hand was warm, to me he was still alive. We then had another problem — how to get the gunner back to the shore. Thinking a stretcher would help, once again I made my way over the mud back to the shore. By then a crowd had gathered to watch the scene. The soldiers gave me a stretcher from their lorry. It was a standard wartime-issue one, a large oblong of canvas with the side rolled up and stitched to a long pole either side. I carried it back over the mud on my shoulder, being very careful not to get it muddy, but back at the wreck Cyril, to my horror, flopped it down on the mud! The plaque seen on the left in the lifebelt hangs in the Southbourne Sea Scouts HQ in Prinsted which is currently being refurbished The citation states: This plaque overlooks the site where on 8th February 1944 a Wellington bomber collided with a Mosquito fighter bomber resulting in the loss of both crews. Two scouts from 1st Southbourne Sea Scout Group received awards for bravery for assisting with the rescue attempt. I haven’t the faintest idea how we got the gunner on to the stretcher. Brute force, I imagine. We both took an end of the stretcher poles and dragged it over the mud. It took us a while, but we got there. Waiting for us on shore was a man with a stethoscope, a doctor I imagine, maybe from the RAF base on Thorney. He knelt down and examined the gunner, whose hand I was holding again. It was still warm. But the doctor suddenly looked at me and said, “This man is dead.” I burst into tears. I am not a hero. Memorial plaques recording the crash can be seen at Southbourne Sea Scout HQ and also at Brook Meadow in Emsworth. After the war ended Owen went on to join the RAF and, after only five hours training, went solo in a Tiger Moth. After he left the service, Owen joined the police in Brighton, but was at one time stationed at Southbourne, where he often had occasion to visit the RAF base down on Thorney Island. The rear gunner was Sgt William (Bill) Varley aged 21, not much older than Owen Gape. Bill Varley was a member of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and is buried in St Helen’s Cemetery, Merseyside. Two other members of the crew, N C Jones and J Riddell are interred in graves by St Nicholas Church, Thorney Island. The Wellington bomber had a crew of five men. 2 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context INDI82 Title A name given to the resource "The hand was warm but a life had slipped away" Description An account of the resource Owen Gape's account of the rescue of Sgt William (Bill) Varley from a crashed Wellington bomber in 1944. He was assisted by fellow sea scout Cyril Mapley Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rudkin, Cathy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 02.11.2021 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Editor: Bury, Christine Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1944 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Prinsted, Southbourne Subject The topic of the resource citation, collision, crash, doctor, grave, mud, rear gunner, searchlight, sea scout, stretcher, tail plane Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No.53, Nov. 2021, pp.8-9, EMHT1651 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Stored Location The place where the physical object is stored Digital https://emsworthmuseum.org.uk/emcms/files/original/d9ff6259c6c48624125cc84e8ed8dd82.pdf 10b31cfe6a3f1bccf1b2c63b96c930ff PDF Text Text “I didn’t know Emsworth had a band” by John Ambler On a Bank Holiday Monday in 1982 a group of young people aged between 8 and 15 years old stood in pouring rain in Emsworth Park playing drums, glockenspiels and flute as the last visitors to the Horticultural Show fled for their cars and homes whilst a few loyal family members watched and listened until the last notes of the final march faded away. Following a quick round of applause parents grabbed their shivering children and squelched homeward across the park. The Emsworth Marching Band had completed its first ‘gig’. The son of a Royal Marine musician, Ken Mann was educated at a military school before following his own musical career in the Royal Artillery Band. Following retirement from the Army he became Emsworth’s park-keeper/groundsman and lived in the house in the park. He wanted to form a band – not for any self-indulgent reason but simply because he wanted youngsters to enjoy the making of music and the sense of being part of a group. Membership would be open to those between the ages of about 8 and 21 irrespective of ability or knowledge. It would not be essential to have either a musical instrument or the ability to read music, but the willingness to learn to read music was essential. Loyalty to the band, especially on band practice nights, was also essential. However, he made it clear that education was the first priority; he did not expect attendance at band during periods of examination preparation. Ken insisted that music was not out of the reach of anyone. Those without instruments would usually begin on cymbals. These people were not second-class citizens; they were part of a band whose members all played an equally important part. Mutual support was encouraged and those with the ability to play and to read music were expected to help others. Recruiting, obtaining music and musical instruments plus giving group and individual tuition became Ken’s priorities. Early jobs like the Emsworth Show and playing in shopping centres helped pay for a practice hall. He took particular interest in those who could neither read nor play music. A simple, smart and relatively cheap uniform brought a sense of belonging and pride whilst the Ken Mann conducting the Emsworth Concert Band in a recital in St James’ Church 1 �commencement of drill for marching and display encouraged discipline. The band grew in size, instrumentation and ability under Ken’s guidance. School fetes, town parades and static displays became regular weekend engagements, providing additional income. Whilst no rank structure existed within the band, a group of ‘seniors’ naturally evolved and began to take responsibility for aspects of band engagements and also looking after younger band members. In 1988 Ken took the band to the country’s major youth band competition, the National Championships at the Royal Albert Hall. No selection of band members would take place; everyone had a right to take part. Competing in the most junior of the four classes they were Best Band in the class winning seven out of eight individual and section awards. Resultant publicity generated requests for the band to play at the Basketball Championships at the Mountbatten Centre, Portsmouth; at a Portsmouth First Division football match at Fratton Park and in Portsmouth Guildhall supporting a concert by the Band of the Irish Guards and the Portsmouth Choral Society. Following a request for help, two members of the Portsmouth Royal Marines Band came to teach the drummers how to master the rudiments and coordination necessary to improve their playing. These two men were impressed by the standard of the band, by Ken’s attitude and by everyone’s commitment. The band went to the Royal Albert Hall in 1989 and entered the Championship Class winning Best Band and five out of the eight possible awards. A judge’s comment endorsed Ken’s philosophy of never rearranging music to make it easier. He wrote, “Adult marches with no concession made for youth – well coped with’’. A month later the band led one of the four processions at the famous Lewes Fireworks Parade. The Gulf War crisis had forced the withdrawal of the military band that should have led this. The Emsworth band received the call for help only six hours before the parade stepped off! The following year (1990) the band entered the National Class and won it, becoming Supreme National Champions. They were then invited to perform on the children’s premier television programme, ‘Blue Peter’. Ken then decided to change the band from a marching band to a concert band. No personnel were lost, all being incorporated into the Concert Band. More challenging music was played; this encouraged more mature players to join who then shared their knowledge and skills with the younger members, and so the cycle continued. Co-operation with members of the Royal Marines Band Service encouraged an interest in enlistment. Over the next few years, one band member joined the Royal Navy, two joined the Royal Marines Band Service, one joined the Royal Air Force and several joined the Army. From 1992 the band gave regular concerts in the Emsworth area, including two each year in St James’ Church. These events attracted more musicians to the band. Recognising that the standard of the band was approaching the limit of his musical and directorial ability Ken began the search for someone to replace him. With a new director in place Ken then settled into a regime of playing whatever instrument was required and also, when required, conducting. In 2011 Ken decided to retire from the band to spend more time with family, and also playing golf with friends. The band continued practising and performing until it became a victim of Covid restrictions. Group practice has now restarted. The original Emsworth Marching Band was formed for the benefit of youngsters in a way that current, and necessary, regulation would not allow. The young people who had that unique opportunity will surely look back on that period with great pride and pleasure. 2 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context INDI81 Title A name given to the resource "I didn't know Emsworth had a band" Description An account of the resource History of Emsworth Marching Band (later Emsworth Concert Band) and conductor Ken Mann Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ambler, John Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 02.11.2021 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Editor: Bury, Christine Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1982-2011 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Emsworth, Lewis, London, Portsmouth Subject The topic of the resource band, championship, church, concert, marching, musical instrument, musician, Royal Marines, uniform, young people Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 53, Nov. 2021, pp.6-7, EMHT1651 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Stored Location The place where the physical object is stored Digital https://emsworthmuseum.org.uk/emcms/files/original/6bb697d6d185e3aea2aa55ad945c6675.pdf b49326192d1ffd6764c6a8449f53627b PDF Text Text Wodehouse-isms and Snippets by Margaret Rogers Dedications: “To my daughter Leonora, without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.” To dear Buddy (Baldwin King-Hall, Headmaster of Emsworth School) “We have been friends for 18 years. A considerable proportion of my books were written under your hospitable roof. What will be the verdict of Posterity on that? The fact is, I have become rather superstitious about dedications. No sooner do you label a book with the legend: TO MY BEST FRIEND than X cuts you in Piccadilly, or you bring a lawsuit against him. There is a fatality about it. However, I can’t imagine anyone quarrelling with you, and I am getting more attractive all the time, so let’s take a chance.” Writing about himself working for the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank: “I was just a plain dumb brick. I proved to be the most inefficient clerk whose trouser seat ever polished the surface of a high stool. I was all right as long as they kept me in the postal department, where I had nothing to do but stamp and post letters, a task for which my abilities well fitted me, but when they took me out of there and put me into Fixed Deposits, the whisper went round Lombard Street, ‘Wodehouse is at a loss. He cannot cope’. If there was a moment in the course of my banking career where I had the foggiest notion of what it was all about I am unable to recall it. From Fixed Deposits I drifted to Inward Bills – no use asking me what Inward Bills are, I never found out – and then to Outward Bills and to Cash, always with a weak apologetic smile on my face and hoping that suavity of manner would see me through …” 1 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context INDI80 Title A name given to the resource Wodehouse-isms and Snippets Description An account of the resource Quotations on Dedications, Baldwin King-Hall and the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rogers, Margaret Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 02.11.2021 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Editor: Bury, Christine Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 20th century Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Emsworth, London Subject The topic of the resource bank, dedications, headmaster Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 53, Nov. 2021, p5, EMHT1651 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Stored Location The place where the physical object is stored Digital https://emsworthmuseum.org.uk/emcms/files/original/78f2abb16b2abe320ba5dd1c72ee7e7d.pdf a111ec57c3a20e337ce5e52244819ea8 PDF Text Text Dudley North, Admiral by Gordon Braddock Residing in Langstone High Street and at Warblington from the late 1920s to the early 1940s, Dudley North served with the Royal Navy for nearly fifty years and can rightly be called a local resident. He was born in November 1881 at Great Yarmouth into a family of military heritage. His father Roger Edward North (1846-1897) was a General who had served in Burma with the Royal Artillery. Grandfather Charles Napier North (1816-1869) was a Colonel in the 60th rifles, decorated for his roles in both the siege and the relief of Lucknow, India. In 1924 Dudley married Eileen Flora Graham at Charminster, Dorset. Daughter Susan was born at Langstone Towers, High Street, Langstone in 1925. Other children – Roger, Mary and Elizabeth – were also local. The latter was an accomplished author whose eight novels included Least and Vilest Things (1971) and Ancient Enemies (1986). Roger North, Dudley’s father, actually encouraged him to join the Navy where he initially served on HMS Powerful and HMS Terrible. Dudley was described as a Lieutenant in the 1911 census living at 10 Somerset Place, Stoke, Devonport with his wife Eglantine née Campbell whom he had married in 1909 at Sydney, Australia. In 1917 she died without issue in London, aged 29. Dudley North saw action at Heligoland Bight, Dogger Bank and Jutland during World War I, initially as First Lieutenant and later Commander of the battle cruiser HMS New Zealand. After the Great War North commanded HMS Caledon and HMS Tiger. Captain North was residing in the former Warblington Castle with his wife and family in 1930 when he hosted the Church Pageant and took a leading role as Henry VIII. Four years after the pageant Dudley North held the post of Vice Admiral commanding the Royal Yacht, HMY Victoria and Albert III. During this period North befriended the Prince of Wales who became King Edward VIII. Local historian, the late John Reger maintained that North is likely to have hosted the abdicating King briefly during his clandestine journey to Paris via Portsmouth in December 1936. In July 1930 over 300 people contributed to the pageant organised by Mary Soames to raise money for a new central heating system for Warblington Church. Mrs Neville Ellis played Anne Boleyn while Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury was enacted by Mary Ogilvie Grant, soon to marry Lt Cdr Norman Scott Luard. King Henry VIII was played by host Captain Dudley North who stands between Ann Boleyn on his right and Margaret Pole. Continued overleaf 1 �Dudley North, Admiral contd Soon after Britain declared war on Germany Admiral North found himself in charge of Gibraltar. On 9th December 1940 he was relieved of his command, controversially. It was alleged that he had failed to challenge a Vichy French Naval Squadron of six warships passing through the Straits of Gibraltar into the Atlantic. The arrival of these ships at Dakar on the West African coast frustrated the capture of this port by an Allied attack and a catastrophe ensued. HMS New Zealand, a gift from the New Zealand Government, was called a ‘lucky’ ship because she was hit by enemy fire only once during her wartime service in WWI. She destroyed two cruisers and sustained no casualties. As World War II approached Vice Admiral North was in charge of the Royal Squadron for the Royal Yacht on an official visit to the United States (7-12 June 1939) and Canada (17 May-3 June, 12-15 June 1939). His diplomatic skills were tested to the limit. Three weeks after the start of Britain’s entry into the Second World War in 1939, a register of the population took place. The information obtained included the names, addresses, occupations and dates of birth of everyone in the population of England and Wales except active servicemen not on leave. Since Vice Admiral Dudley North was listed as residing at Warblington Castle one assumes he was on leave. This snapshot survey was employed to produce identity cards, issue ration books, administer conscription and direction of labour, and to monitor and control the movement of the population caused by military mobilisation and mass evacuation. After the war it was used to help set up the National Health Service records in 1948. The 1939 Register was designed to capture the details of every member of the civilian population on a specific date. It contains details of around 40 million people, recorded in more than 65,000 volumes (transcript books). Admiral North was put in an invidious position by the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. Dudley North did not know of the planned attack on Dakar but had orders not to interfere with any French naval force unless it was sailing to a German-held port. At a time of great peril the War Cabinet and Admiralty dared not admit their blunder. North was the scapegoat in this tragic episode. He was summarily dismissed from his post of Flag Officer Commanding North Atlantic Station, based in Gibraltar. North returned home in disgrace, blamed for the errors of others. Admiral North had previously narrowly escaped replacement because of his opposition to the attack on Mers-el-Kébir near Oran on the Algerian coast in July 1940. This action by the British on the French was designed to neutralise the French Fleet, part of Operation Catapult. Potentially an aggressive act of war, it was actually intended to prevent the fleet being controlled by the German Navy in the aftermath of the Battle of France. Nearly 1300 French sailors were killed at Mers-elKébir, mostly when the battleship Bretagne sank after a shell hit its ammunition store. Five other warships were damaged. The Vichy French eventually scuttled their own ships at Toulon on 27th November 1942 to counteract the Nazi Operation Lila which was thwarted. After this sorry incident the Norths left Warblington and moved near Beaminster in Dorset, from where Eileen hailed. Around Christmas 1942 Dudley received instruction 2 �from the Admiralty to take command of the naval base of Great Yarmouth and environs, the most easterly part of England incessantly subjected to air raids. He was not exonerated but it is clear the Admiralty respected him as a leader without reversing their decision. North was refused an inquiry or court martial, even when the war was over. King George VI and Earl Mountbatten of Burma sympathised. Although he fought to clear his reputation with support from historians, Members of Parliament and five Admirals of the Fleet, Dudley North was never completely vindicated until well after his death in May 1961. The jettison of Admiral Sir Dudley North is described in detail in the book A Matter of Expediency by Charlotte and Denis Admiral Sir Dudley Burton Napier Plimmer, published by Quartet Books in 1978. North, GCVO CB CSI CMG 3 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EMHT2019 Title A name given to the resource Emsworth Echo Articles Description An account of the resource Articles published in the Emsworth Echo Annual Bulletin Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various authors, mostly Members of EMHT or local researchers Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 until the present Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Emsworth Echo Article Articles published in the Annual Bulletin Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Dakar, Devonport, Gibraltar, Great Yarmouth, Langstone, Mers-el-Kebir, North Sea, Warblington Subject The topic of the resource census, church pageant, controversy, disgrace, Royal Navy, Royal Yacht, warship, WWI, WWII Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 53, Nov. 2021, pp.3-5, EMHT1651 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Stored Location The place where the physical object is stored Digital https://emsworthmuseum.org.uk/emcms/files/original/4f257afcaac34432455837df09d30ef6.pdf 64cb6fadac3269f2fd4658f0eed8c29d PDF Text Text Bathing Box by Mike Rogers and others The EM&HT leaflet Warblington Walk – from shore to sea distributed in late June/early July has prompted me to add to the Pook Quay/Wharf debate. When I was editor of the Langstonian Newsletter for the Langstone Village Association, I was given a copy of a map dated 1870 and a press cutting from the Hampshire Telegraph and Post dated August 2, 1929 showing a photo of the proposed Havant Bathing Pool Scheme. I published part of the 1870 map which showed a Bathing Box at the end of Pook Lane together with the press photo in Issue 18, May 2003 and asked:– “What does this mean? Was it a box that filled with sea water for bathing, an area for mobile bathing huts (for ladies’ modesty) or was it, as most local people think, a wooden quay for unloading barges.” I had replies from local historian, Ann Griffiths, and Dr John Chapman, retired lecturer in historical geography. They were published in the following issue of the Langstonian Newsletter. From Ann Griffiths “There does seem to have been a bathing box at Pook Lane Quay in 1856, as Charles Longcroft describes it in his Hundred of Bosmere, as ‘the remains of a hard or landing place’. However, in 1929 a Havant councillor proposed that the quay should be made into a swimming pool. It was to be enclosed by a concrete wall, with a sluice to enable the pool to be filled and emptied at each tide. Changing cubicles were to be operated by penny-in-the-slot automatic doors, which would help to cover maintenance costs and also ‘do away with some of the unseemly sights that were witnessed at the jetty’. The scheme was soon abandoned, as the site was found to be unsuitable.” (There was a similar concrete swimming pool at Emsworth where I had school swimming lessons at the age of 10. Mike Rogers) From Dr John Chapman “On the subject of the ‘bathing box’ on the shore at Warblington, the enclosure map of Warblington fields of 1819 marks a ‘bathing house’ at this site. Bathing houses were built in many seaside resorts in the 18th and 19th centuries for those people who wanted the supposed health benefits of sea-bathing without actually venturing into the sea. The baths were filled with sea water when the tide came in, and the patrons could bathe in seclusion. One existed at Point in Portsmouth, hence the street name ‘Bathing House Lane’. Possibly the one at Warblington was a speculative venture by someone attempting to cash in on the fashion. If so, the speculation obviously failed, and one assumes that the ‘box’ on the site was for the use of locals, rather than the fashionable clientele for whom the ‘houses’ were intended. It would be interesting to know who financed the original bathing house, and when, precisely, it ceased to exist in its original form.” Mike Rogers continues I was told by Noel Pycroft, the Hayling Island brick maker, that barges would collect local dredged sand, unload at the Pook Lane Wharf and load into horse pulled carts for onward journey to the Oval cricket ground. Such sand was reputed to be the best sand for maintaining the cricket pitch. Pook Lane Quay in 2013 1 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Langstone, Warblington Subject The topic of the resource bathing, pool, quay, sand, wharf Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 52, November 2020, p.22, EMHT1613 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Stored Location The place where the physical object is stored Digital https://emsworthmuseum.org.uk/emcms/files/original/1c5b302af899187bf29cb81d13731153.pdf e515e9b35a439f065efc3f63fd95ce1d PDF Text Text Janna Cundall, 1924-2019, Remembered by Polly Chapman Aunt; great and great, great aunt; godmother; friend to so very many. Artist; architect; lover of wildlife; musician; traveller; Church Recorder; sailor; supporter over many years of so many charities. Samaritan; a lifelong Christian who studied and explored her faith. A founder member of the core team which created and developed The Waterside Community; long-term volunteer at The Pastoral Centre and at Emsworth’s Museum, of which she was again a founder member. Diana/Janna was born in 1924, part of that ‘resilient generation’ referred to by HM The Queen in her recent D-Day speech. Most of Janna’s childhood was spent in Emsworth. The family home was in Record Road, and Janna and her brother, Rodney, first attended nearby Stanmore School, housed in the former home of P G Wodehouse. “In my early teens, I went to a small private school as a boarder. The headmistress was exceptional and had a great influence on my life. She was very human and great fun, but could also be very firm.” From school, Janna went to study at The Bartlett School of Architecture. In 1959 Janna worked with her father, Admiral Cundall, to create a new home in Emsworth. Trinity Cottage was born when three cottages which had been condemned as ‘unfit for human habitation’ were converted into the house we know today. All of the paperwork surrounding that project, including Janna’s detailed drawings, have been carefully preserved. It was when her widowed mother needed live-in support that Janna moved back to Emsworth. From then on, she worked for West Sussex County Council as an Architect. Initially, Janna worked as part of the team on the 1966 County Council Plan for Chichester City. This contained detailed analysis of the historic character and, in order to protect it, proposed taking traffic out of the centre and pedestrianising the four main streets. It also proposed the rear accesses to the centre and main car parks which we all use today. In 1967, a new Act was passed to enable the designation of ‘Conservation Areas’ and that same year, four important studies were commissioned by the Government to find out ‘how to reconcile our old towns with the 20th century, without knocking them down’. Those for Bath, Chester and York were all commissioned from well-established consultants, but Chichester, uniquely, was put in the hands of the County Council. Janna led the study team of seven architects and planners. The work involved inspections of all the buildings in the historic centre, from attics to basements. Janna and a colleague then went on to inaugurate all the first Conservation Areas in towns and villages throughout West Sussex. She spent many subsequent years giving specialist advice on Listed Buildings throughout the County and, closer to home, Janna played a significant role in the development of Emsworth’s Design Statement. Her papers have been donated to the Weald & Downland Living Museum. In the course of her long life, Janna travelled extensively throughout Europe, North and South America, India, Vietnam and Cambodia amongst the highlights. Every trip was faithfully recorded in an album. Her travels often produced details which would then appear on her hand-made Christmas cards, which many of us continue to treasure. Janna’s life embraced so many others. She was ‘family’ to her neighbours of 50 years, the Jepsons – so much so that she referred to Neil as her ‘next of kin’. 1 �Trinity Cottage Janna wrote a history of Trinity Cottage in 2016. “I am not absolutely sure when the cottages were built – but probably the end of the 18th or early 19th century. There was a terrace of four cottages, the most southern (No.47) was probably demolished in the early 1920s. The three remaining cottages were condemned, and a demolition order served in the 1950s. The last tenants were: No.41, Sarah Wells; No.43, Mr Legget, an inshore fisherman; No.45, Mr Rapson, a rat man who had a family of six. My parents decided to buy the cottages in, I think, 1957, for £400 each [and turn them into one property]. We planned to retain the basic structure, and find out what was necessary to raise the demolition order. I agreed to prepare the plans, which led to the layout as it is now ... My father became my ‘office boy’ helping to measure so that I could draw up the plans, as well as doing all the typing. A number of things had to be done to raise the demolition order, e.g. lowering the ground floor; putting in sanitation (there was one tap in the rear scullery, and three WCs joined together in the garden). At that time I was living in Brighton, so I worked on the plans in the evenings and weekends. Originally, the sitting room had no south window since it had adjoined the southernmost cottage. Instead, there had been a staircase leading to the first floor. We had to negotiate with the owner of what is now ‘36 on the Quay’ in order to have the window and the view. We did the garden, often with a party of friends. The area had been used as a dumping ground ... since there were no dustbins then. As the floor was lowered, we moved the ‘spoil’ to form a raised area in the garden. The soil has now been made from seaweed (which I used to collect from the shore) and compost.” Trinity Cottage (centre) in the 1980s. Photograph taken from colour slides donated to Emsworth Museum by Janna Cundall Trinity Cottage was designed for Janna’s parents, but she created for herself a tiny ‘flat’ on the top floor, consisting of a bedroom and sitting room. Janna continued to sleep in that bedroom with its view of the harbour until just a few months before she moved to a nursing home in Prinsted in 2018. Trinity Cottage was very much as Janna’s parents had furnished it, and there were many items that had belonged to previous generations, which Janna felt she must look after. Most especially, the glass-fronted bookcase was filled with a collection of over 100 books which had been published by Janna’s great-grandfather, the Victorian publisher Joseph Cundall, renowned as the printer of the very first Christmas card. In 2017, Janna gifted the house to the parish of Warblington-with-Emsworth. In May 2019, the new Rector, the Reverend Andrew Sheard, instigated two studies to determine the best use for Trinity Cottage that most closely matched Janna’s vision. After extensive consultation, it was decided that the property should be sold and the proceeds placed in a Trust Fund, provisionally entitled the ‘Trinity Trust’ to reflect its origins, to be used as Janna wished and as mandated in the Transfer Deed1. 1 Extract from the Transfer Deed: The property… shall be used by the [Parochial Church] Council for furthering the religious and other charitable work of the Church of England in the Parish of Warblington with Emsworth in the diocese of Portsmouth as set out in more detail at clause 10.4 of this deed. 2 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context INDI74 Title A name given to the resource Janna Cundall, 1924-2019, Remembered Description An account of the resource Life history and the refurbishment of Trinity Cottage in South Street, Emsworth Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Chapman, Polly Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 04.11.2020 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Editor: Bury, Christine Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1924-2019 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Chichester, Emsworth Subject The topic of the resource architect, conservation, parish gift, planning, travel Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 52, November 2020, pp.20-21, EMHT1613 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Stored Location The place where the physical object is stored Digital Modes Classified Name Additional information relating to the object architectural drawing https://emsworthmuseum.org.uk/emcms/files/original/592a4424296464a06313695509859592.pdf 823f52811b7575204721b855c7a6b914 PDF Text Text Emsworth and Havant Celebrate Victory in Europe in 1945 by Dorothy Bone and Ralph Cousins Emsworth: Help Wanted!! Can you name any of these people? These photographs of mothers and children celebrating the Allies Victory in Europe were taken in South Street, Emsworth by an unknown photographer. The black and white prints were donated to the Museum by Mrs Linda Griffin, nèe Smith, and the photographer may well have been her mother. Linda is the pretty blond girl in a white dress in the front row of children walking down South Street. Some of the children were in fancy dress and she was ‘the doll in a box’. shop. EM&HT Steward Jill Littleton, nèe Prior, identified herself, sister Averil and brother Rusty plus several others. A relative of Gary Miller of Miller Shine is in one of the pictures as is Sue Treagust’s mother. Some of these photographs were printed in the Portsmouth News and Chichester Observer in May and the Museum is grateful Apparently, so as not to put the table in South Street, the celebration party was held in the bomb damaged area now known as Orange Row. The open window is into the sweet shop and the food was prepared in the 1 �to all those people who got in touch to name names. However, not everyone has been identified so we are now asking for more help. If you recognise anyone please contact me and help make our records complete. Dorothy Bone, tel: 01243 373780, email: dorothybone@btinternet.com Havant: Parade in the Recreation Ground VE day was celebrated in rather a subdued manner in Havant. It was not until midnight was approaching that the residents and uniformed visitors gave way to outbursts of enthusiasm. Parties were held in the streets. Bonfires were lit and effigies of Hitler and his gang thrown into the flames. On Wednesday crowds marched along the main street singing request songs. Tenants of the council houses led the merriment by getting a piano out on to the roadway and holding an open air celebration in which hundreds of people joined while most of the nearby houses were illuminated. At the Recreation Ground there was a parade of Civil Defence workers, and an open air service in which the Revs P H Duke-Baker, (Rector of Havant), P H W Grubb (Rector of Bedhampton) took part. Sir Dymoke White MP gave an address. Mr J Flanders (Council Chairman) also spoke, and community singing was led by Mr Perraton to accompaniments of the British Legion Band under the direction of Mr A Vince. A programme of sports for the children followed. The prizes were presented by Mrs Dewhurst. The results were as follows: 50 yards, boys flat, 5 to 8 years – 1. Michael Ginman; 2. Ralph Cousins; 3. Brian Clapham. Ditto girls – 1. Jean Watts; 2. Mary Roberts; 3. Sheila Brown. 60 yards, boys 8 to 11 – 1. David Yoxall; 2. Michael Goodhall; 3. Robin Griffin. Ditto girls – 1. Beryl Brown; 2. Julie Goodhall; 3. Sadie Comben. Potato race, boys, 11 to 16 – 1. Gerald Mears; 2. Ronald Comben; 3. Peter Haywood. Thread the needle, girls under 11 – 1. Margaret Hodgson; 2. June White; 3. Sheila Grant. Sack race, boys under 11 – 1. William Fox; 2. Phillip Sherrott; 3. Geoffrey Bailey. Skipping race, girls under 15 – 1. Lillian Stockley; 2. Ann Martin; 3. Cynthia White. 100 yards flat, boys 11 to 16 – 1. Billy Searle; 2. John Hamper; 3. Patrick Green. Ditto girls – 1. Joan Dalton; 2. Lillian Stockley; 3. Ann Martin. For the children’s sports held in the Recreation Ground on Wednesday afternoon the officials were: Judges, the Rev P H W Grubb, Cllr C L Waters and Mr N Adams; starter Mr F Stockley; recorder, Mr R W Fitt; course stewards, Messrs J V Knight, L Shoesmith and A Till. Refreshments were served by the local Red Cross Detachment, including Lady White, Mrs Dewhurst, Mrs Paxton and Mrs Street. A vote of thanks was proposed by Mr A Burbidge and endorsed by a cheering crowd. Ralph Cousins 2 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context INDI73 Title A name given to the resource Emsworth and Havant Celebrate Victory in Europe in 1945 Description An account of the resource Events (including photographs) that took place to mark the end of WW2 in Europe Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Bone, Dorothy; Cousins, Ralph Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 04.11.2020 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Editor: Bury, Christine Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant May 1945 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. South Street, Emsworth; Havant Subject The topic of the resource celebration, sport, sports results Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 52, November 2020, pp.18-19, EMHT1613 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Stored Location The place where the physical object is stored Digital https://emsworthmuseum.org.uk/emcms/files/original/c22f81bfbe66d7dea03620862bf6be67.pdf f7367d0b1e603bbd2c30d16eae4d85c2 PDF Text Text William Alfred Stevens, 1845–1914 by Ann Davies My great, great grandfather, William Alfred Stevens, was born in Colchester in 1845; he was one of five children. His father James kept a tailors shop. William must have had a reasonable education as by 1861 he was apprenticed to the Essex Telegraph as a printer’s compositor “starting as a ‘reader’ as he was gifted in that way”. In December that year aged 16 he ran away to sea and joined the Navy. Committing himself to the service for 12 years, the paperwork shows that William declared that he was not apprenticed! He became a gunner and travelled widely; apparently his family heard nothing of him for a long while. In 1868 William married Harriet Dent, a publican’s daughter from Sudbury and their first son, Alfred, my great grandfather, was born the following year. The baby’s middle name was Hercules, which was the name of William’s then current ship (an armed ironclad). On 8th August 1871 HMS Caledonia, part of the Mediterranean fleet, fired a royal salute in honour of Crown Prince Humbert of Italy. William was the captain of one of the guns. He was injured when the charge being passed to the breech-loading gun exploded. He was transferred to the British Naval Hospital where he had an operation to remove both arms above the elbow joints and an eye. The Times report next day stated “I fear no hopes can be given of his ultimate recovery”. However, on 26th September the Essex Herald reported a “Frightful Accident to a Colchester Man … the doctors have expressed their admiration at the strength of his nerves, which enabled him to live under such severe injuries, and hold out hopes for his recovery”. William returned to Sudbury and was determined to make the best of his misfortune. He learnt to write holding a pen between his teeth and was able to write legibly and quite fast. In autumn 1872 a second son, Walter, was born at Sudbury. For some years William travelled about the neighbouring villages giving religious addresses. His wife’s health caused him to leave Sudbury and they lived in Kilburn, Fareham and, for a short time, in Portsmouth/ Southsea with William taking an active part in the public and political life of each locality. For some of this time his eldest son was at the Greenwich Hospital School. By 1891 the census shows William as a naval pensioner living with his wife and second son, Walter, in Portsmouth. He briefly moved to Southsea, from where his first son got married in April 1893. Later that year William moved his remaining family to Westbourne where for 21 years he became very involved in the community. He also became a political agent for Lord Edmund Talbot MP; apparently making speeches in all kinds of out of the way places. My great, great grandmother died in 1897 and within four months, aged 57, William married his nurse, Mary Groom. By 1899 he was a member of the Parish Council. The local rector said of him, “Mr Stevens has done more for the church and parish since he has been in Westbourne than nine-tenths of my able-bodied parishioners”. At a council meeting in 1902 William got agreement that there would be a celebration of the King’s coronation but that the cost would be met out of voluntary contributions not the rates. By 1907 William was no longer on the council but a member of the Board of Guardians. 1 �Seven years later in April 1914, William died aged 68 and was buried in Westbourne Cemetery in the same grave as his first wife. The obituary in the Church Monthly stated that the prevailing point in his character was probably his energy. Research I started research in 2006 with a card giving the date of William’s funeral and a short paragraph in a letter from his son to my grandfather dated 1947. There was no family memory of such a fascinating person. One highlight was when a card index in the Chichester Records Office mentioned an album. I waited a couple of weeks before it was available but it was worth it. The album contained a newspaper article which gave William’s life history plus a photo and a sample of his handwriting; this dated to 1900-02. The surname of the family that deposited the album was the same as that of one of the witnesses at William’s second marriage and this must explain why they had included the article in their family album. The Westbourne Church Monthly provided on-going background in terms of William’s community involvement and also eventually his obituary. A 1971 article from The Times described the accident emphasising that he was not expected to live. L & R Photos: Picture Press Agency I met with local historian Nigel Peake from Westbourne, who had researched William, and we exchanged research results. His additional information included an Essex Herald cutting from the time of the accident. This made particular reference to his having been apprenticed to the Essex Telegraph. Given that so much more data has become available, I may be able to get more information on the 20-year gap between his accident and his arrival at Westbourne. What puzzles me is that such a fascinating character who was obviously well liked was never referred to within the family, especially as my grandparents were living locally on Hayling. I wonder if it is because WWI started almost immediately after William’s death, then there was the depression followed by WWII and by then it was another time. I then put the investigation to one side until last year. On a whim I called in at the Westbourne cemetery expecting a long search but quickly located my great, great grandparents’ grave. It is down on the right a short distance from the entrance; a lovely location. Was this a benefit of being on the Cemetery Committee? Previously William’s naval records held at Kew were too blurred to read. They must have been re-scanned and are now available online so we have his signing-on papers and full naval history. Last year I visited the pub in Sudbury, where he spent some time. The pub has been re-named but has not undergone major refurbishment. Sadly, they had no records relating to the 1860-80s. As part of Emsworth Museum’s collection of Covid-19 stories, Adrian Fox has made a short video of Emsworth during the Covid-19 lockdown. “I have tried to capture some images to convey how we lived, how the town looked, and  some interviews with local residents around VE day 75. The shots of sparsely occupied streets and queues for food shops contrast with the relative crowds of holiday-deprived  people on the front with their paddle boards, kayaks and children, also queueing, for ice creams.” 2 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EMHT2019 Title A name given to the resource Emsworth Echo Articles Description An account of the resource Articles published in the Emsworth Echo Annual Bulletin Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various authors, mostly Members of EMHT or local researchers Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 until the present Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Emsworth Echo Article Articles published in the Annual Bulletin Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Colchester, Emsworth, Portsmouth, Sudbury, Westbourne Subject The topic of the resource accident, church, politics, religion, Royal Navy Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 52, November 2020, pp.16-17, EMHT1613 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Stored Location The place where the physical object is stored Digital https://emsworthmuseum.org.uk/emcms/files/original/0cd2afd3ff45bff510f22dc6acf512a0.pdf 67d487e3474dd19df873769469fd9242 PDF Text Text Life in Lockdown by Christine Bury In February I began hearing stories of a coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China. That was a long way away, it wouldn’t affect me. But air travellers spread the disease and cruise ships proved to be excellent incubators. The highly communicable virus spread across the world but still I didn’t pay too much attention. I wasn’t planning to go abroad and, as I am on the committee of the Emsworth Maritime and Historical Trust, I was busy helping get the Museum ready for our reopening on 4th April. and doing all the jobs that had accumulated over winter. My family painted the studio, reroofed the shed, ordered in plants and seeds, and resurrected the overwintering geraniums and begonias. Our main venture was the making of a new gravel area in the centre of the garden which meant excavating soil, finding homes for it, ordering and wheel barrowing into position a ton of gravel, and ordering more pot plants. Events moved fast, though, and as more and more European countries moved into lockdown, it became clear that the United Kingdom might also be affected. We held our first stewards’ instruction morning on Saturday, 14th March, just as Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, announced imminent lockdown when everything except essential services, food shops and pharmacies would be closed. What did lockdown mean for you? For me those early weeks were characterised by numerous cancellations of much anticipated events and the making of endless lists in which the quest for food and disinfectants predominated. Weddings were postponed, funerals were held without mourners, home working and home schooling became the norm. I soon knew what PPE meant – Personal, Protective Equipment: a new abbreviation had entered the lexicon. There was a tremendous community spirit and neighbours and friends shared the news about what was available in what shop and who was delivering. We all learned to social distance and wash our hands thoroughly to the tune of two ‘Happy Birthdays’. The weather in those early weeks was fantastic. The sounds I most remember then were of jet washers and lawn mowers. Around where I live everyone seemed to be out in the garden enjoying the sunshine The refurbished garden; a godsend in lockdown Online Ordering. That was certainly one of my most significant lifestyle changes. I have always liked looking around before I buy. All that changed when I needed makeup, a new lawnmower, kettle and coffee grinder. It’s a fact of life, I think, that appliances die just when you need them most. The advent of a manual coffee grinder led to one of my most memorable moments of lockdown. I normally use ground coffee but when that was unavailable and I bought some coffee beans, the family thought grinding them would be easy. Not so. It took three people to grind just a few coffee beans. It was a tremendous struggle. Another solution had to be found. We finally remembered that somewhere we had an electric nut grinder, squirreled away some years ago, that was eventually discovered and bought into use. I am sure we were not the only ones who found new uses for old machines. 1 �Ground coffee was not the only shortage. As more people started home baking, some ingredients such as bread flour were in short supply. Baking was just one of the hobbies that were embraced during lockdown. Recipes were exchanged with friends and neighbours. Knitting, reading, painting, crosswords and jigsaws also proved to be popular pastimes in my family. As well as gardening and walks there were many online activities. Newsletters popped into my inbox from organisations both large and small. For me the most popular were those from the Havant History Group and the V&A Museum while Goodwood Motorsport provided my son with an outlet for his love of the Grand Prix. There were regular online shows, musicals, opera and ballet, as well as all kinds of virtual educational courses and keep fit classes. Online technology proved useful in other ways too. One means of keeping in touch with family has always been by regular phone calls and meetings but as face to face gatherings were out my son introduced me and other family members to Skype. I have loved it. I have also embraced Zoom and Google Meet for meetings and virtual talks. Smiles and nods with neighbours and other walkers was possible even in lockdown. Thursday night clapping for the NHS and other key workers was just one way of greeting one another weekly. The noise was cacophonous and inventive. I nearly jumped out of my skin when a ship’s siren sounded from a nearby window one Thursday evening at 8 pm while bells, drums, tambourines, saucepans, even a balalaika, were also rung, banged and shaken. This aged Covid couple, knitted in lockdown, enjoy an outing VE Day 75 celebrations on 8th May also bought the community together. In my road, we chatted, feasted and toasted, visited a 1940s style pop-up museum in a front garden, all the time keeping two metres apart. We watched several VE Day 75 events on TV. Television and radio have proved a boon during lockdown, although sometimes the news has been very grim. By 28th June the figures worldwide for those catching the Covid-19 virus as it was now designated, were 10 million infected people with some 500,000 deaths. However, globally, lockdown measures were causing the numbers of infections to decrease. Restrictions began to be eased in the UK on 4th July. With the ending of strict lockdown and the gradual easing of restrictions, my longing for a haircut could be realised. It was with great satisfaction that I could also entertain friends in the garden, have a workman inside to do a boiler service, go to the dentist and finally meet some of the family in person. The car no longer had to be started with jump leads as a new battery could be bought. My husband and I had been self isolating as we are both well over 70 and so the shopping has been done by our son augmented with online deliveries. Now we could go to the newsagent, the pharmacy even the supermarket and other shops provided we were masked. As I write this in early August, there are worries of a second wave of the pandemic, testing is not as widespread as one would like and there is no vaccine as yet. However life is better, my husband and I have taken picnics and walks in country parks, RHS Wisley and various National Trust properties. I have been in a ‘social bubble’ and shopped locally and in Chichester. I can visit pubs and ‘eat out to help out’. The Museum with its Covid-19 precautions in place reopened on 1st August but not all businesses are yet open, many people have been made redundant, many lives have been lost. Welcome to the new normal. Stay Alert, Control the Virus, Save Lives 2 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EMHT2019 Title A name given to the resource Emsworth Echo Articles Description An account of the resource Articles published in the Emsworth Echo Annual Bulletin Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various authors, mostly Members of EMHT or local researchers Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 until the present Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Emsworth Echo Article Articles published in the Annual Bulletin Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context INDI71 Title A name given to the resource Life in Lockdown Description An account of the resource What the first (March) coronavirus lockdown meant to the Bury family Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Bury, Christine Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 04.11.2020 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Editor: Bury, Christine Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant February to July 2020 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Emsworth Subject The topic of the resource community spirit, Covid-19, gardening, knitting, mask, NHS, online life, pandemic, PPE, shopping, walks Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 52, November 2020, pp.14-15, EMHT1613 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Stored Location The place where the physical object is stored Digital