5 20 162 https://emsworthmuseum.org.uk/emcms/files/original/acee5b766c5b9834c216568a96c93d6e.pdf be4a638116ac8751c99d9ad6f713415a PDF Text Text The Cotton Family of Warblington Castle After the execution of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury in May 1541 (two and a half years after her arrest at Warblington Castle), the Manor of Warblington devolved upon the Crown, and was granted in 1552 to Sir Richard Cotton, Comptroller of the Household to King Edward VI. The young king visited Warblington in the course of his tour of the south coast. He was already showing signs of the illness that would kill him at the age of sixteen, and he undertook this tour in the vain hope that it would restore him to good health. He recorded in a letter: And being thus determined came to Guildford, from thence to Petworth, and so to Cowdrey a goodly house of Sir Anthony Browne's, where we were marvellously, yea rather excessively banqueted; from thence we went to Halvenaker (Halnaker) a pretty house besides Chichester, and from thence we went to Warblington, a fair house of Sir Richard Cotton. (....) In all these places we had both good hunting and good cheer. (Quoted from Charles John Longcroft, Hundred of Bosmere, p.97) Richard Cotton seems to have been a favourite of Edward VI, but when the young king died in 1553, Cotton was one of those who wrote to Mary Tudor, asking clemency for Lady Jane Grey, and, like Margaret Pole before him, he was disgraced and was forced to retire to his house at Warblington, where he probably died. The next owner of Warblington Castle was Richard Cotton's son George, a staunch adherent to the Roman Catholic faith, who, under the terms of Elizabeth I's Act of Settlement, paid fines for nonattendance at the services of the newly established Church of England for more than twenty years. The original fine imposed by the Act was 12d for non-attendance at the services of the �Parish Church on Sundays and Holy Days. In 1581 the fine was increased to £20 a month, calculated upon the lunar months, of which there are thirteen in a year, instead of the usual twelve calendar months. George Cotton's payments of £260 a year can be traced from 1587 to 1607. In addition, he paid off in instalments a sum of £1199.6s.8d in arrears for non-attendance at the parish church before 1587. During this period, Warblington Castle was a shelter for many Catholic priests who landed on the Hampshire Coast. Among them was the Jesuit Robert Southwell, whose sister married Edward Bannister of Idsworth, and whose aunt was married to a member of the Shelley family of Buriton. George Cotton's wife was also a member of the Shelley family, and these Catholic families, interrelated not only by marriage but also by social position and contacts, formed a chain of "safe houses" from which incoming priests could be sent to London and elsewhere. Warblington Castle itself became known as "The Common Refuge". Sheltering a priest was a risky business, even in large households where one or two extra "servants" might be expected to pass unnoticed. (At the time of her arrest in November 1538, Margaret Pole's household at Warblington Castle numbered seventy-two servants, and George Cotton would also have employed a large domestic staff.) The households of known Catholics were subject to searches, and to the attentions of government spies, one of whom reported in 1609: In the house of Mr Cotton of Hampshire there is harboured a Jesuit who names himself Thomas Singleton. He teaches the grandchildren of the said Cotton. In 1586, Catholics were given hope that they might be able to buy religious toleration by paying an additional yearly sum to �the Queen. George Cotton promised to pay to the utmost of his power, which was ......but weak of itself, and hath been of late diminished as well by ordinary charges of children and servants necessarily depending on (him) as by manifold losses sustained partly by long imprisonment, partly by the evicting of a great part of (his) living. At this time, three of George Cotton's daughters were married, but he had another seven children who were still "depending on him". George's younger brother Henry, on the other hand, was a Protestant and a godson of Queen Elizabeth. Like his brother George he had a very large family to support. Of his nineteen children, fourteen survived into adulthood, but, helped by his godmother, he became Anglican Bishop of Salisbury, and it was said that the weddings of his daughters were paid for out of diocesan funds, a move which made the bishop none too popular with his flock. The religious differences between the two brothers George and Henry Cotton illustrate the kind of split in family loyalties which was tragically all too common in that period of religious turmoil. In spite of the huge drain on their finances by fines, the Cotton family remained at Warblington Castle. In 1612, the Manor of Warblington was in lease from Richard Cotton (son of George?) to yet another George Cotton, and in 1621, when a survey of the manor took place, he was still lord. At the time of the Civil War (1642 — 1648), the Richard Cotton of that generation was a supporter of the Royalist cause. Early in 1643, Colonel Norton of Southwick, the Parliamentary military leader, occupied Warblington House (Castle) with a garrison, rather loosely reported as being between forty and eighty men. In reply, the Royalist general, Lord Hopton, sent dragoons to Warblington, where Norton's garrison was "doing much damage to the country". Warblington House was defended by Norton's �men, but surrendered after a few days. A contemporary report says, "After a long siege and loss of more men than there were in garrison" Lord Hopton took Warblington Castle. Another writer says, "Lord Hopton has spent his time frivolously against Warbelton House, betwixt Winchester and Portsmouth, where we leave him till divine justice finds him". Whether "frivolous" or not, the time occupied in Lord Hopton's attempts to retake Warblington Castle almost certainly resulted in the loss to the Royalists of Arundel Castle. Lord Hopton took up quarters at Stansted and Westbourne to plot the relief of both Warblington and Arundel, but Arundel had surrendered before one of Hopton's officers, Robert Legg, with 500 horse, and "each horse-man with a bagg of meal behind him to try to putt it into the Castle", could set out for West Sussex. The Parliamentarians had made sure of their success at Arundel by diverting the course of a pond, "the draining whereof emptied the Wels (sic) of water within the castle, so that now the Enemy began to be distressed with thirst". Whatever the truth of the details of the siege, Warblington Castle was never again lived in by the Lords of the Manor of Warblington, and was slighted (partially destroyed) in 1644. Much of the stone of which the Castle was built was used to construct a house for the bailiff left to run the Warblington estate, and for the farmhouse. The present Warblington Castle House (built for the bailiff) is said to be positioned on the site of the "state rooms" of Margaret Pole's Castle, occupying the side of the courtyard immediately opposite the gatehouse (of which one tower remains). At the corner of the lane leading to Warblington Castle is a house constructed of stone, probably recovered from the Castle ruins. A peep into the farmyard also reveals a stone-walled building, which may have been part of the original castle building, or reconstructed in materials from the ruins. The rest of the castle stone was gradually carted away �by local people, and used to build walls and cottages in the area. Warblington Castle stone can still be seen in some of the old houses at the entrance to Southleigh Road. It seems that Warblington Church was also damaged in the siege of the Castle; during the restorations of 1860, a stone taken out of the wall of the chancel turned out to be part of a broken monument, dating from the reign of Elizabeth I. It had been used to patch the wall. In spite of the destruction of their manor house, the Cotton family did not lose contact with Warblington. In 1666, Richard Cotton of Warblington and Bedhampton married Elizabeth Lumley, daughter of the Honourable John Lumley of Stansted. When he died in 1695, he was buried in the chancel at Warblington, his heir being his son William, who lived at Watergate in Sussex. William Cotton, the last of the line, died unmarried in 1736, leaving the manors of Warblington and Emsworth to his nephew Thomas Panton. Christine Normand Christine Houseley (now Normand) taught Local History in Adult Education for more than twenty years. She was general editor of the series of booklets entitled The Making of Havant and researched and wrote The History of the Catholic Church in Havant, recording the survival of "the Old Faith" in the area throughout Penal Times. � 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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Arundel, Warblington Subject The topic of the resource castle, church, family history, fines, priest, shelter, siege Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 38, November 2006, pp.9-11, EMHT1515 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/d8a1047705e231fb8bbf7c158d9a2963.pdf ad3fa0d22ecb0c10602f814cf334782d PDF Text Text A Tribute to John Reger M.B.E., MA. (1926 — 2006) Local Historian When John Reger arrived in Emsworth in 1955, he did not expect to remain here all his days. His appointment at Warblington School after graduating MA in History from Cambridge was followed by an appointment at Portsmouth Grammar School, where he continued to teach History until his retirement in 1989. So here he stayed and became well known as a local historian and as a Councillor and Conservator as well as a teacher. He was a Committee member of Emsworth Maritime and Historical Trust in its early days and gave constant support and encouragement to its work. Teaching was not John's first choice career. From the age of thirteen, when he started at the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth, he had planned to follow in his father's footsteps as a Naval Officer. His first posting as a Midshipman, when he was not yet eighteen, was to HMS Frobisher, which was stationed in Trincomalee in Ceylon. His midshipman's log contains a detailed account of his journey out to Colombo by troop ship via Suez, Aden and Bombay, whilst under threat of enemy action. It gives insights into the culture shock for a young man, in the age before cheap long haul flights and television, in arriving in these faraway places and the sights, sounds and, especially, the smells that he encountered. John always retained a particular fondness for "the paradise of Serendip, whose warm, spicy aroma you could smell even before it hove into view over the horizon", and in later years, a genuine concern for the impact of the conflict with the Tamil Tigers. However, Frobisher was shortly recalled to take part in preparations for DDay; a different world! John passed his Lieutenant's examinations in 1945 and was looking forward to pursuing his love of the sea for many years to come. But it was not to be. He contracted a severe case of polio whilst in Malta, probably from swimming in Valetta Harbour, and later also succumbed to tuberculosis. His convalescence in Scotland had one redeeming feature, in that it was there that he met his future wife, Joyce. Having been invalided out of the Navy, John had to look for a second career. The medical profession advised that he should study something "gentlemanly and not too strenuous". So he selected history and secured a place at Selwyn College, Cambridge. History, in all its guises, then became John's life long enthusiasm. He adored teaching, no matter what the academic abilities and aspirations of his pupils, and he inspired them with his love of history. He made them think; teasing them with his literary quotes, verses and references; applying his acerbic wit with threats of unspeakable punishment for late or lazy work. He did not just teach the minimum to get people through exams. He taught what he thought was important about history; what it told us about the world we live in and what we might learn from it to guide our thinking and actions about current political and economic situations. Fuelled by his admiration for figures such as Disraeli and Brunel and �his enjoyment of Kipling and Gilbert and Sullivan, John was regarded as something of an expert on the 19th Century. He also became an authority on the history of this local area and remained engaged with the network of like-minded enthusiasts in Havant and Emsworth until the end. His books, articles and lectures were extensively researched, with hours spent gathering and interpreting information from primary sources and records offices. He was not afraid to challenge myths or accepted wisdom, such as in his review of the evidence for the lost church of Hayling, and would deploy the full power of his inquiring mind and his logic to seek out the truth. When he retired he won formal recognition for his research skills in English Local History with the award of a Diploma, with Distinction, by the University of Portsmouth. Despite an already full and busy life, he decided that there was room for one more area of endeavour and in 1970, building on his growing interest in politics, he was persuaded to stand for election to Hampshire County Council. He served as Councillor for Havant and Emsworth from then until 1981, greatly enjoying being able both to represent the interests of local people and contribute to many areas of policy development, particularly those relating to the local environment. He remained active in the local Conservative Association after he left the Council and counted many friends among its ranks. He became the County Council representative on the Chichester Harbour Conservancy on which he served for twenty-five years, chairing it from 1981 — 84. This contribution was honoured, firstly with the Freedom of Chichester Harbour in July 1988, and then with the award of MBE, which John was very proud to receive from the Queen in person. In the last few years mobility became an increasing problem due to post polio syndrome and he was less able to indulge his passions, whether for history research, lecturing or travel. But he kept right to the end his sharp intellect, his love of books and political debate and his keen, and occasionally earthy, sense of humour. His three major works, A Short History of Emsworth and Warblington (1967), Havant and Bedhampton Past and Present (1975), and Chichester Harbour (1996) are all publications revealing true scholarship and have surely been a source of inspiration to others to pursue similar study. It is poignant that one of John's final contributions, to the 2005 edition of the Emsworth Echo, concerned the history of the three Manor Houses at Warblington for it was there that he chose to be buried, in the shadow of the remains of the gatehouse. News of John's untimely death has been received with great sadness by his many friends and acquaintances but his wife and family can take great pride and pleasure in the contributions he made to the lives of the people he taught, to this community and to the exploration of the history of this part of the country. Frances Saunders, Daughter Walford Davies, EMHT member and friend of 40 years � 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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Cambridge, Ceylon, Chichester, Dartmouth, Emsworth, Malta, Portsmouth, Warblington Subject The topic of the resource councillor, harbour, local history, publication, Royal Navy, teaching Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 38, November 2006, pp.8-9, EMHT1515 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/30f4cb8264d3757f36e685f171dc274a.pdf c099b9e5159b4dbbdc26d88acf0d6be2 PDF Text Text West Thorney Part II: The Church and Memorials St Nicholas Church dates originally from the 12th century, though only the font and two small windows in the chancel survive from that period, and principally from the 13th century, when the massive, low tower and the side aisles were constructed and the chancel lengthened. Nave and chancel are continuous, though formerly divided by a wooden screen of which finely carved remnants from the 14th century are remounted at the back of the nave. The building now appears disproportionately long and narrow since the side aisles have been removed, probably the north aisle first and the south in 1608 when the church received a major reconstruction: the parish register records that "This yeare was the church & chaunsell reedifyed & beautified". Traces of the former arcade can be seen in the north wall of the nave. The church was thoroughly restored again in 1885, with a sensitivity unusual at that period, retaining much of its clear and simple Early English character with its large lancet windows. The walls are of random rubble, composed largely of flints but also including many other types of stone - a local geologist, David Bone, has calculated that no less than 15 different stones can be seen at Thorney. The dressings are of Caen limestone, an excellent and popular building stone imported from Normandy which is well represented in the coastal plain and even a good deal further inland. There may have been a wooden chapel here before the Norman Conquest, dependent on the priests of Bosham Minster. The stone church was probably built by William Warelwast, bishop of Exeter 1107 - 1137, and successor to that Osbern to whom Edward the Confessor gave a portion of Bosham Minster's rich estates, including Thorney, and who was then made bishop by the Conqueror. Warelwast is known as a builder and founder in his own diocese, responsible for rebuilding Exeter Cathedral in the Norman style, and he also turned his attention to his outlying Sussex possessions, where he refounded the old minster of Bosham as a college of priests with himself as dean. The bishops of Exeter remained the ultimate overlords of Thorney until the Reformation, and their patronage doubtless accounts for the comparative grandeur of the church in this isolated parish. In 1273 Bishop Bronescombe of Exeter visited the Island in person. Not surprisingly there was friction with the bishop of Chichester, who in 1327 managed to obtain from the Crown recognition of his rights of visitation. (He was only partially successful at Bosham, where he gained control of the nave but the College priests hung on to the chancel.) The benefice was a rectory, independent of the mother church of Bosham, doubtless from its institution in the 12th century, though names of rectors are known only from 1308. In 1291 the rectory was assessed at £20 and decreased in value in the later Middle Ages. There is evidence from the 14th century of a parsonage, garden and grazing rights as well as 64 acres of glebe, which would be farmed by agents or tenants of the rector. In periods of absentee or pluralist incumbents the parsonage would be occupied by a curate who carried out all the day to day work; perhaps he was allowed some of the small tithes, which included geese, pigs, calves, sheep, hemp, flax, pigeons, milk, eggs, cheese and fish, according to the Nonae Roll of 1341. The 19th century rector C P Lyne, whose family vault lies beneath the nave, at least lived in Emsworth for the 36 years of his incumbency, and does not seem to have neglected his duties on the Island though he kept a curate. By 1870 a substantial new parsonage had been built in the traditional plot south to south-west of the churchyard, and henceforth incumbents resided on the Island. The history of the advowson, the right to present a rector to the living, is complex, following the subdivisions of the manor; both might be inherited but were also commonly bought and sold as investments by people who had little or no personal connection with Thorney. As little as one sixth could be acquired, and three, later two, families presented to the living in rotation; this was a valuable possession, allowing the family to provide a living for a younger son going �into the Church. In the 19th century the advowson was all in the hands of the Revd C P Lyne, and from him passed to the squire Frederick Padwick and remained with the manor. During and after World War II the rector continued to live in the parsonage and shared his ministry with RAF chaplains. In 1980 the parish of Thorney was combined with that of St John the Evangelist, Southbourne, and administration is now shared between Southbourne and the Army chaplain. The Memorials These follow the pattern of Thorney's history. The small number of older monuments inside the church reflects the lack of resident landlords and clergy on the Island over long periods. The oldest are the ruined mediaeval tombs that now stand outside the south wall, but were originally inside the church and were left outside when the south aisle was demolished; they are of the 13th century, and probably represent the family of Richard and William de Thorney who then held the manor, but may also include clergy. Thereafter there is a long gap until the late 18th century. Families of just two clerics are represented. One is a curate, Mr Anthony Fosbrook, who served the church for over twenty years before his death in 1793; he spent much of his time on the Island and even owned property there. The second is the Revd Charles Phillip Lyne, rector from 1833 until his death in 1869, who resided nearby in Emsworth. The one other family represented, between 1796 and 1845, is the Harfields who had made their way from farmers to gentry and had obtained a portion of a manor which entitled them to burial inside the church. Robert Harfield was tragically drowned in the wadeway in 1796, and his wife put up this apt and warning epitaph for him: Time swept by his fast flowing tide My faithful partner from my side, And you of yours deprived may be As unexpectedly as me. The few 20th century monuments commemorate the five men of Thorney who lost their lives in the first World War, and more strikingly the dramatic change when the Island was taken over by the RAF in 1930: a young airman who died in 1938; a list of units of the Air Force and the Royal Artillery that have been stationed here; an engraved window given by the Air Sea Rescue Unit; and the pulpit sculpted by John Skelton donated by the Air Navigation School. The churchyard is noteworthy in three respects. First, the yard has been in continuous use from at least the 12th century until the present day; most ancient and well-used churchyards became overcrowded and had to be closed in the 19th century, and the situation at Thorney reflects the low population of the Island. Secondly, there is an unusual number of handsome carved headstones of the 18th century; ordinary parishioners were only beginning to afford a stone memorial at that period, and only a fraction of the most prosperous even then. These were the tenant farmers and yeomen who profited from the excellent agricultural soil of Thorney, and the export trade with London that was beginning to be organised from Emsworth and Prinsted; Craswellers and Harfields emerge as the two principal families. Their headstones are near the church on the south and east sides - the most popular positions, and their decoration follows a general pattern observable in English churchyards: stark emblems of mortality in the early 18th century - skull, bones, coffin, followed by gentler references to death - the heart pierced by a dart, the hourglass (time is running out), sometimes winged (time flies), and the classical down-turned torch; the emphasis changing by the end of the century to more hopeful emblems of salvation - angel, crown, trumpet, sunburst and clouds of heaven, palm. In the 19th century, memorials become plainer - clerics, both evangelical and high church, were beginning to dislike the old symbols, some of which they said might as well be pagan, and by the mid 19th century the sign of the cross (in abeyance since the Reformation, regarded as superstitious and associated with Rome), and the Jesus monogram IHS began to reappear. The outstanding and only grand tomb at Thorney is the family monument of the Padwick family, �the first local squires Thorney had known: a chest tomb surrounded by iron railings, with inscriptions from 1829 to 1909. It was Frederick Padwick who joined the Island to the mainland in 1870. Lastly, there are the Service graves which are a major interest of Thorney. They are in a northern extension of the churchyard which was opened for those who lost their lives in the Battle of Britain, and unusually holds not only British and Commonwealth but German airmen. The section of World War II graves represents the following: 29 men of the Royal Air Force (concentrated mainly in 1940 - 1942) 21 men of the Royal Canadian Air Force (mainly from 1942 - 1943) 2 New Zealanders 2 Australians 2 British soldiers 21 German airmen (mainly 1940 - 1941) The British and Commonwealth headstones are standard War Graves Commission design, with engraved Latin cross and Air Force or regimental badge, and inscription giving name, rank, age and date of death. These bare details, impressive in themselves, may be supplemented by epitaphs chosen by the families which are more personally moving. The German headstones are of slightly different shape and bear a small engraved cross modelled on the German Iron Cross decoration, with the name and date of birth and death. There is also a shared cenotaph with similar inscriptions in English and German. The other section contains Service graves from 1952 and commemorates 38 members of the Royal Air Force and 4 of the Army. They include one woman, an RAF officer buried next to her husband who was in the Royal Artillery; they died together when their light aircraft crashed in 1995. These memorials are of the same general design as those of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, with slightly different head and similar inscriptions and badges. All the Commission headstones are in Portland stone, a popular English stone with a long tradition and much used in the old churchyard. This orderly, peaceful area with its fine view across the sea to Bosham is a moving memorial to the last phase of Thorney's history, and its place in our national annals. Jill Storer Art historian, interested in Local History and in recording churches and churchyards. Selected Sources: Revd F H Arnold, "Thorney Island", in Sussex Archaeological Collections XXXII (1882) AC Crookshank (rector 1937-44), The Story of Thorney Island, Sussex (reprinted 1957) Letters in the Gentleman's Magazine vols 66(1796) & 67(1797) M Kennett, "The Story of Thorney Island", The Hampshire Magazine (July 1980) Revd C Q Phillipson (rector 1955-62), A Little Guide to St Nicholas's Church. West Thorney (no date) J Reger, Chichester Harbour: a history (1996) C R Rudkin, Thorney Island, some memories (2001) Victoria County Histories : Sussex. IV (1973) Parish records and maps, West Sussex Record Office A Record of the Churchyard and Church Memorials of St Nicholas, West Thorney, 2002 (copies in the church and in the West Sussex Record Office) For illustrations, acknowledgements to C Shutler, K Linder and E Lewis. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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West Thorney Subject The topic of the resource construction, grave, headstone, history, memorial, rector, serviceman Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 39, November 2007, editor Clayton, Pam, pp.17-20, EMHT1508 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/9bd93516339ee6015bf4e48766c709da.pdf d2660f747871603ecac11d2abecc0f51 PDF Text Text Escape through Hampshire of the Future Charles II When a place in history hung on the turning of the tide In May each year the Sussex Yacht Club holds the Royal Escape Race, commemorating the escape of Charles II from Shoreham following his defeat at the Battle of Worcester. So what, other than the sailing interest, has that race got to do with Emsworth? The answer lies in the state of the tide on 8th October, 1651. The story of Charles' escape, and the part played by local people, is a real adventure story. Who were they and what was the Emsworth connection? In 1649, following the defeat of the Royalist forces, Charles I was tried and executed; England became a Republic. The following year his son, Charles II, landed in Scotland and in 1651 marched south at the head of a Scottish army. Although some English Royalists joined Charles, they did not rally in large numbers and on 3rd September Parliamentary forces defeated Charles at the Battle of Worcester. Charles' escape and his adventures hiding in an oak tree, riding into Bristol disguised as the servant of the courageous Jane Lane, and various escape attempts via West Country ports are well known. Less well known is the successful escape via Shoreham, planned and executed by a local man, George Gunter of Racton House. Demolished in the 19th Century, Racton House stood in the now empty fields on the south side of the River Ems, opposite Racton Church. The story of Gunter's involvement in Charles' escape comes from a manuscript found in Racton House, and it is generally accepted that Gunter dictated the information shortly before his death. The manuscript is now in the British Library. During the Civil War Gunter had commanded a cavalry troop in the Royalist Army. As a result of this involvement he received a summons to appear in court in London in September 1651 to pay a fine of £200. He travelled to London but, as Gunter puts it: my credit being so shaken, the current running then so hard against the King I could not borrow the money in all London and was forced with all speed to repair to the country privately to my usurer who had security of my whole estate. Meanwhile, unbeknown to Gunter, Charles and another fugitive from the Battle of Worcester, Lord Wilmot, were being hidden by members of his family in Wiltshire. Gunter had fought under Wilmot in the western campaigns and Wilmot now rode to Racton to seek his help. When, late on 7th October, Gunter returned to Racton "having stayed longer with friends than he intended", he found his wife in the parlour entertaining a Mr Barlow with "bottles of sack and a cold collation". He immediately recognised Mr Barlow as Lord Wilmot "the noble lord being but meanly disguised". Wilmot had a reputation for refusing to disguise himself properly and for travelling on foot or without a manservant. Not the best of travelling companions when trying to get a young Prince with a price on his head out of a hostile country! Mrs Gunter by this time had become suspicious. She confronted her husband, who assured her "be satisfied it is nothing to do with her or that could in any way damage her". Mrs Gunter was not so easily fobbed off; Gunter tells us that she retorted saying "there is more to it than that and enough to ruin him and all his family". Gunter and Wilmot then agreed that she should be party to the dangerous knowledge of Charles' whereabouts and the plans to try to get him out of the country. Despite the dangers to her family Mrs Gunter gave her husband her blessing, saying "go then and prosper, yet I fear you will hardly do it". Gunter is full of praise for his wife, recording that "she deported herself during the whole business with so much discretion, courage and fidelity that she seemed, her danger considered, to outgo her sex". Meaning she behaved with a courage not then normally expected of the gentle sex. Picture the scene. The conspirators sit in the old mansion beside the Ems making plans. Gunter tells us that the weather was boisterous, in other words a typical windy, wet October night. One of the staff in the Gunter household, John Day, had cousins who had ships at Emsworth. John �Day was taken into the Gunters' confidence and the next morning he and Gunter rode to Emsworth to try to arrange passage to France for three men, Charles, Wilmot and Wilmot's manservant, John Swann. The cover story that Gunter later used was that a friend had killed an opponent in a duel and needed to flee the country, accompanied by his two male servants, one of whom would of course be Charles in disguise. It is likely that this cover story was one of the things agreed on that stormy night in Racton. When John Day and Gunter arrived in Emsworth the tide was out and with it John Day's cousins and their ships. Riding back to Racton via Westbourne they encountered Wilmot and John Swann. They then rode to Langstone to try there but, having "tempted all but in vain", they settled instead for "oysters and wine" at the inn. Wilmot then rode back to Salisbury leaving Gunter to continue with the task of securing a passage. A Chichester merchant, Francis Mansell, was persuaded by Gunter "over a bottle or two of Mansell 's French wines and a pipe of his Spanish tobacco", to arrange a passage with Captain Nicholas Tattersall of Brighton. Tattersall was to be paid £60. Arrangements could not be completed immediately because it was Sloe Fair, a busy trading time for Mansell. Gunter used the time to plan, reconnoitre the route, and ride to Wiltshire to keep Wilmot informed of progress. On 12th October all was ready. Gunter, pretending to be going hunting, took his greyhounds and rode from Racton to Broad Halfpenny Down near Hambledon, where he met Wilmot and Charles. Maintaining the pretence of gentlemen and servants out hunting, they stayed the night with Gunter's sister and set out from Broad Halfpenny early the next morning, intending to leave Shoreham on the 8 a.m. tide on the 14th. Legend has it that Charles slept in what is now King Charles Cottage, next to Racton Church. The various members of the party had ridden long distances on the 12th. They had approximately 24 hours to get from Broad Halfpenny to Brighton to meet Tattersall, then back to Shoreham to catch the tide. They must have changed horses en route. Racton is the obvious place; anywhere else would mean more people had an opportunity to recognize Charles. Disguised as a servant, the logical place for Charles to rest and hide while the horses were changed would be the house of a servant. The combination of the evidence and the legend points to John Day, that senior and trusted member of the Gunter household. Did he live at the cottage and shelter/hide Charles during that brief break in the journey? The ride to Brighton was too eventful to detail here, but late that night they reached the George Inn in Brighton and met Tattersall and Mansell. Here luck ran out. During the Civil War the Royalists had briefly seized Tattersall's ship and Charles had sailed in it. Tattersall recognized him and refused to carry the passengers. Only now did Mansell realize that he was involved in dangerous politics. Several hours of argument followed, and finally Tattersall agreed, provided the price was increased from £60 to £100 + £200 insurance against the loss of his vessel. At 2 a.m. the party left Brighton for Shoreham. Wilmot, Charles and John Swann boarded the Surprise and sailed on the 8 a.m. tide. Gunter watched until the ship was out of sight, and then rode home. Wilmot returned to England to organize further uprisings. Again he called on Gunter to help him escape, but this time Gunter too had to flee the country, and both he and Wilmot died in exile. There is no memorial to George Gunter among the many Gunter family memorials in Racton Church. Mrs Gunter was left with a mortgaged estate and eight small children. Only years later, after several petitions to the King supported by the Lords Chancellor and Treasurer, who confirmed she was "in a desperate plight with £5000 of debts incurred in the King's service and creditors daily wanting to seize her land", did Charles grant her a pension of £200 per annum for 21 years. As word spread of Mansell's involvement in the escape people ceased to do business with him, and he was forced to sell his house and possessions. Finally he too was granted a pension. Years later Samuel Pepys met him by chance in London and recorded that the pension had not been paid for 4 years but, because it was a Royal pension, he was taxed as if he received it and was so poor he was "ready to starve almost". �At the Restoration Tattersall sailed the Surprise up the Thames, moored opposite Charles' palace and invited visitors to look around the 'ship that had saved the King'. He was rewarded with a lucrative position in the Navy, and the Surprise was purchased and renamed The Royal Escape. He died a wealthy man. But what of John Day and who were his shipowning Emsworth cousins who so narrowly missed carrying Charles across to France? It would be very interesting to find out more about them. Jennifer Goldsmith WEA Lecturer in Local and Social History Sources: Gunter Mss, Pepys Diary. Note: All dates shown are Julian Calendar. Editor's Note: If anyone has information or ideas about the last paragraph, please let us know. � 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 EMHT1513 Title A name given to the resource Escape through Hampshire of the Future Charles II Description An account of the resource People and events surrounding the successful escape abroad of the future Charles II from Shoreham. It might have been Emsworth but for the state of the tide. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Goldsmith, Jennifer Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01.11.2007 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bury, Christine Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. 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Emsworth, Racton, Shoreham, Worcestor Subject The topic of the resource battle, disguise, escape, plan, route, shelter, ship, tide Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 39, November 2007, editor Clayton, Pam, pp. 14-16, EMHT1508 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/13c64a42310ef8236f46829965f5108f.pdf 4b59c0cb3c5d38d3a1de0effcc98017e PDF Text Text The 1851 Census in Emsworth The population census taken on the night of March 30th 1851 in Emsworth has now been completely transcribed from the original enumerators' sheets. A preliminary report appeared in last year's Echo. It is now possible to examine easily various aspects of life in the village at that time. I realise that the census shows details of only one day in the life of Emsworth, but it is surprising how much this snapshot in time, over 150 years ago, can reveal. I hope in later editions to generate reports about different aspects of Emsworth life in 1851, and I also hope that others will come to the Museum to study the data and perhaps write about points of interest which their survey uncovers, maybe for inclusion in a subsequent edition of the Echo. The data have been listed under the various headings: Surname, Age, Occupation, Birthplace, Address and so on. So one can travel along a street seeing who lived in each house and looking at the details of each family and what they did. It is unfortunate that there were no house numbers in 1851 but one hopes that the census enumerators were methodical and worked along each side of the street systematically. In the Museum, Emsworth Paper No.3, "Emsworth Square in 1840", written by our archivists, details the names of the people living and working around St Peter's Square in 1838. It would be easy to extract a list of heads of households from the 1851 census, and compare them with the 1838 names to see what may have changed and who was still living and working in the same building thirteen years on. A surname search reveals names from Adams to Young; ages range from newborn babies to a 92 year old. It is possible to see the proportions of the population who were young or old, working or in school, trades people, employers or employed. One can imagine how healthy (or not) life in Emsworth was. (In 1901, the census for the whole of England revealed that only 5% of the population was over 65.) Trust members who are doing their own family history research can now look up a surname, find out details about the rest of the household and go on to see who their neighbours were. This gives more 'feel' to the family than a dry list of names and dates would do. The trades and professions are listed on the census, from bakers and blacksmiths to doctors and rectors, so it is possible to get a lively view of the village as it was in 1851. The railway came to Emsworth in 1847 and there are three Railway Porters, a Railway Gatekeeper and a Railway Station Clerk listed in the 1851 census. Three of the five men lived in North Street so they were not far from their workplace, the railway station. I append a short report about the oldest inhabitants of Emsworth in 1851. I hope that this illustrates how easy it is to create a short story from about 2,300 people's details. (It took about ninety minutes.) The oldest inhabitants A quick look at the three areas covered by the Emsworth census: Area 3a The oldest male was John Allen aged 84; he was a retired Agricultural Labourer living in Havant Road with his daughter and son-in-law, John Ladd, who was a Gardener. (ref. 13/6) The oldest female was Martha Lellyat aged 84; she was classed as an Annuitant, living in Leigh with one servant. (ref. 18/5) Area 3b The oldest male was William English aged 86; he was a Greenwich RN Pensioner living with his wife Jane (55) in North Street. (ref. 3/9) The oldest female was Elizabeth Chatfield aged 92; she was classed as an Annuitant living with her daughter, Elizabeth Warne (55), who was a Painter employing three men; they lived in Queen Street. (ref. 27/8) �Area 3c The oldest male was Thomas Brookes aged 90; he was a Pipemaker, now in receipt of Parish Relief and living in Orange Row with his daughter and son-in-law, John Barter, a Weaver. (ref. 7/17) The oldest female was Kate Byrn aged 85; she was a Stay Maker who was visiting Thomas Cluer and his unmarried daughter, Elizabeth who was a Stay Maker too. They lived in St Peter's Square. (ref. 29/5) The references are to the sheet/line numbers on the original data. Geoff Higgins Hon. Treasurer � 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 EMHT1512 Title A name given to the resource The 1851 Census in Emsworth Description An account of the resource Some details about the population census taken on the night of 30th March 1851 and including the names of the oldest inhabitants in the different areas Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Higgins, Geoff Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01.11.2007 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bury, Christine Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. 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Emsworth Subject The topic of the resource address, age, birthplace, census, occupation, surname Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No.39, November 2007, editor Clayton, Pam, pp.12-13, EMHT1508 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/622a5916d4afeab2c9cd4a58232a1a20.pdf 3d6da536889d35fa57f73372d0d8704f PDF Text Text The Arrival of the Railway in Emsworth In order to-gain access to Emsworth the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Company was required to ask for permission to cross North Street, a parish road, as recorded on 9th April 1846 in the Vestry Book for the parish of Warblington and Emsworth. This was granted subject to the station being built on the west side of North Street 'with accommodation and appearance equal to that at Fareham at least, in the land of Mr Hale to the south of the railway and that all passenger trains, other than expresses, should stop there'. This was perhaps hopeful but unrealistic thinking by the Vestry, given that Fareham Station was owned and had been erected by the London & South Western Railway, not the LB&SCR. So although permission was given for Emsworth's station to be similar to that at Fareham, obviously the townspeople had to shrug their shoulders and accept the much smaller one actually provided by the railway company. An advertisement inserted by the LB&SCR appeared in the local press on 20th February 1847 requiring tenders to be submitted for building the stations, warehouses and platforms at Emsworth, Havant and Bosham. Contracts must have been swiftly entered into, and it is not known whether building work on the three stations had been completed by the time they all opened together on the same day just over three weeks later on 15th March 1847. This and other advertisements suggest that the railway company was in a race, hastily trying to complete its building programme in stations approaching Portsmouth, which in turn had its own first station three months afterwards in June 1847. A throng of navvies ('excavators', 'trenchers' and 'runners') as well as masons, platelayers, carpenters, fitters, blacksmiths and enginemen with picks, shovels, wheelbarrows, horse-drawn waggons and gunpowder must have descended upon the district in order to build the line and stations. Their typical staple diet was a weekly ration of 15 lb of beefsteak and daily quantities of porter - requirements which undoubtedly had a tremendous impact on local butchers and beershops and some of them would have required lodgings in the town. At Emsworth an embankment had to be built over the Ems in Brook Meadow, passing over North Street which then had to be lowered some 7ft in order to allow the passage beneath of high carriages or waggon-transported hayricks, but luckily no houses had to be demolished. The work also included the building of no less than four more bridges over parish roadways and paths, and one large and one small culvert under the embankment to carry the Ems. There was also a good series of crossing-keepers' houses adjoining the various crossings between Bosham and Emsworth. Almost 100 people bought tickets at Emsworth on the day of opening. A Mr Frederick Bluett, a former Marine, having had some training at Chichester, was the first clerk appointed to Emsworth station. Like Victorian policemen and fire officers, station staff were enormously proud to wear the livery of a particular railway company, and their status was there for all to see in arm chevrons, the type of hat they wore and the colour of the uniforms. Appointments to a particular station depended upon the number of years men had worked, their grade and experience, promotions being eagerly sought. At the top of the station hierarchy was of course the large city stationmaster, often wearing a tall top hat, and on the railway itself the kingpins were the engine drivers, one of whom lived at Gooseberry Cottage for many years. The LB&SCR was one of the first railway companies to insist on a literacy qualification for service, and encouraged and rewarded its staff accordingly. As well as two platforms and a small booking hall entrance, Emsworth station had an adjacent signal box, placed on the east side of North Street, a large animal yard and sheds, a coal storage depot and, some 20 years later, two adjoining cottages, one for the stationmaster and his family and the other for railway staff. They were neat and compact, designed to accommodate the staff the LB&SCR envisaged appropriate to Emsworth. Looking at census returns between 1851 and 1901, to our 21st century eyes they managed to house an extraordinarily large number of people, including railway lodgers such as the telegraph clerks. Other staff lived close at hand in North Street. In 1870 lightning caused a fire which burnt down the station, luckily not spreading to either of the staff cottages, and the station was speedily rebuilt. In 1872 and 1891 further extensions were built. �The types of traffic Emsworth handled included goods, passengers and parcels, furniture vans, car riages and machines on wheels, livestock, horse boxes, prize cattle and vans, and station yard accommodation and reception for these was accordingly provided. Havant had a special loading dock for handling coaches and horses, but not Emsworth. Some of the timber required by Emsworth boatbuilders arrived by rail, to be off-loaded on to carts and waggons and sent onward to storage in Bridge Road, King Street, or direct to a shipyard. It was quite a dangerous enterprise to transfer large mast-sized logs from a railway waggon to a cart and was not without accidents. By 1872 the rail transport of cattle from Emsworth to Havant had grown in importance, under the auspices of livestock auctioneer Mr W. Gatehouse of Emsworth, and monthly auctions in a field belonging to the Star public house in Havant adjoining the railway proved so popular that it was decided to hold them fortnightly. By 1896 Emsworth residents clearly thought that the original station provision had been outgrown for such a thriving town and a petition was presented at LB&SCR London headquarters, on behalf of some 270 townspeople, for improved station accommodation. The result was that the company built an entrance to the subway on the north side of the station, allowing safer access to platform 1, and the old lamp house and other buildings adjoining on the down platform were removed, allowing better platform accommodation. The only other recorded improvement requested in Victorian times by Emsworth townspeople was another footpath under the North Street bridge on the west side, but the Vestry, and later Warblington RDC, judged that it would take up too much road space, and road and banking alterations would be too costly, and it has remained as originally designed to the present day. The railway line between Bosham and Emsworth is virtually straight and there is little explanation for the first fatal local accident which occurred on this stretch on the afternoon of June 1st 1847. The engine left the rails, toppled over a 4ft embankment and ended up wheels uppermost in a ditch, killing the engine driver and severely injuring the stoker. The company's locomotive engineer, a Mr Thomas Kirtley, who had travelled aboard the engine as far as Chichester, had luckily decided to re-join his family in their carriage just before the accident happened. Later a very bad collision occurred in 1861 on the line just 5 miles from Brighton, claiming 23 lives, and another 20 years later between Nutbourne and Southbourne, again with fatalities. While no railway fatalities occurred at Emsworth, on 25th July 1860 the then stationmaster, Mr Mark Wenham, saved the lives of a Miss Bolmaison and a youth, Thomas Byerley. A long mail train was coming through from Portsmouth and a special from Goodwood Races approaching in the opposite direction, the noise of the first masking the arrival of the second. Mr Wenham bodily threw Byerley out of danger and then picked up Miss Bolmaison in his arms and leapt to safety with her. For this act of bravery Emsworth townspeople raised a subscription and later presented him with money and a silver snuff box. One of the most bizarre near-miss accidents to happen at Emsworth was that of a very depressed and suicidal lady from Westbourne who tried to jump to her death by leaping down on to the rail watched by her husband but was luckily saved by the prompt action of one of the porters. Over the years the station has been spruced up and repainted many times, and now, with the addition of ticket machines and a ramp allowing wheelchair access on the south side (one promised for the north side), still provides a useful and convenient travelling alternative east and west for many Emsworth people. Sources: Portsmouth City Records Office 10M60/19 Vestry Book of Warblington with Emsworth 9th April 1846 The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Railway Stations (1904) Hampshire Telegraph, 4306, 30th March 1872 West Sussex Gazette, 347, 2nd August 1860 Census tables 1851 - 1901 Margaret Rogers Trust Member, currently completing a Ph.D at the University of Portsmouth on the History of Transport in Emsworth 1750 - 1901 � 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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North Street, Emsworth Subject The topic of the resource accident, construction, contract, food, navvy, railway, station, traffic Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 39, November 2007, editor Clayton, Pam, pp.10-12, EMHT1508 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/380bffeb8f5776f31232b7cedf61cc0d.pdf cb4fb654e0574762bcf98e1509f44493 PDF Text Text The Warblington Poor Man's Friend Society Paternalism in early Victorian Emsworth The labouring population of Warblington parish were fortunate to have a rector who not only lived locally but was acutely aware of the needs of his poorer parishioners. William Norris, of the famous Norris family, succeeded his father, on his own petition, to the rectory at Warblington in 1827. In 1830 the national Labourers' Friend Society had been started to better the conditions of the labouring classes, with particular emphasis on allotting small portions of land, large enough to support the family but not too large to interfere with ordinary employment. Perhaps some local farmers and small shopkeepers shared the misgivings, expressed in newspapers, that greater self sufficiency would make the labouring classes too independent and neglect their employers' business. William Norris did not share this scepticism, however, and focused on the potential benefits of improvements in morale, self esteem and comforts for the family; furthermore, he argued that allotments would create a shared interest with local land owners, some of whose Property had been attacked in the 'Swing riots' in 1830. He was mindful of the harsh impact of the New Poor Law on the labouring workforce in the area. He successfully persuaded local landowners and the 'middling classes' to subscribe to the Society, whose income was used to lease some land and to offer loans to help tenants get started. I am grateful for the help of Roy Morgan who identified the site of these allotments to the west of the Horndean Road, above today's recreation ground. Although the records of the Warblington Society did not survive, its activities were faithfully reported in the Hampshire Telegraph. The Society was started on 5th December 1836 and held its first anniversary meeting in the National School room on December 7th. Its treasurer, Ralph Clarke, writing from Flint Cottage, notified readers that the first year had proved to be a complete success. 28 tenants, who included jobbing bricklayers and agricultural labourers, occupied plots in an area of 6 to 7 acres. They had a waiting list of twelve, and only two 'delinquents' were ejected, their vacancies immediately being filled. At the second meeting in December 1838, chaired by the Revd W Norris, it was reported that the Society had acquired more land from Mr Fenwick, and now covered 15 customary acres, divided into 87 plots and employing 74 people. Loans of between 2s. to 7s. to thirteen people, to acquire seed or small tools, had been repaid and no rents were in arrears; the Society had funds of £18.18s. to meet expenses in 1839. The Society continued to flourish and, although 20 tenants had vacated their allotments due to death, moving away or resignation, only 11/4 acres were not occupied and there were applications in hand for these. Only one tenant had been ejected for misconduct; tenants were increasingly confident in their ability to repay loans, and sums of between 2s. 6d. and £2.12s.6d. were lent to twenty-five individuals. Revd Norris reminded his audience in the National School room that the Bedding, Clothing and Firing Association Society had become incorporated with them. A penny subscription fund had been carried on in the parish for some years and the number of depositors totalled 103 with £20 collected. It was reported that since the amalgamation, 11 months earlier, the number of depositors had increased to 204, and upwards of £100 had been collected. A bonus of 25%, raised by a voluntary subscription among the gentry and others, was added to 'encourage still further these most desirable habits of foresight, prudence and industry'. The chairman praised the 'unwearied and benevolent efforts of the lady collectors, Misses Norris, Knight, Whicher and Hicks'. In the following year a well was sunk in each field, drainage improved and it was agreed that in 1841 the tenants would be provided with two rollers, two harrows and two carts to transport �manure and produce. To encourage good husbandry, eight prizes were awarded for the best cultivated plots. The winners in 1841 were Thomas Tickner, William Messum, George Newell, 10s. each; George Austen and Anthony Lambert, 7s.6d. each, and 5s. each to Thomas Pollen, Arthur Farndell, sen. and Charles Redman. By 1844, the Society could report at the annual meeting that, apart from £1.6s.61/2d., all rents and loans had been fully paid and the treasurer held £26.19s.91/2d. That year, the allotments had been judged by Capt. Allen of Prinsted and William Shean of Lumley. Prize winners were named as Joseph Martin, William Badger, James Woodman, 10s. each; Charles Parlett, Anthony Lambourne, 7s.6d. each; Richard White, William Newell and George Pharoah, aged 79, 5s. each. Rev. Norris told the audience that the Society was proposing to apprentice out annually two boys and two girls, children of deserving allotment holders, at some time in the future; this was an optimistic note for later development. Malcolm Walford Local History Researcher � 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 EMHT1510 Title A name given to the resource The Warblington Poor Man's Friend Society Description An account of the resource Formation and early years of the Society including acquisition of land, plus details of loans and awards to labourers Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Walford, Malcolm Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01.11.2007 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bury, Christine Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. 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Horndean Road, Emsworth; Warblington Subject The topic of the resource allotment, apprentice, award, labourer, landowner, loan, subscription, tenant Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 39, November 2007, editor Clayton, Pam, pp.9-10, EMHT1508 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/ba91fca62f2d253985fa472096e7f45c.pdf ce44d02eb15f2b194115b9f779fcd338 PDF Text Text Old Rectory, Warblington - A Ghost Story Reproduced with thanks from Warblington Church Guide 2003 The Parsonage House stands pleasantly in the midst of the glebe, at a short distance from the old castle and church, looking out upon the harbour, over the terrace and lawn .... The Parsonage House still stands but the terrace and lawn are no more. Eileen Ford, who lived in one of the flint cottages at the north end of Pook Lane, near the Havant Road, remembered that those from Pook Lane attending services in Warblington Church were allowed to take a short cut through the Rectory garden and down an avenue which led to Church Lane (before the construction of the present link road). This diversion was known locally as the Sunday Walk. However, this story concerns the 'Parsonage House', now known as the Old Rectory. The Topographical Account of the Hundred of Bosmere in Hampshire, published in 1817*, was written by Walter Butler, Steward of the Manor of Havant; in it he made particular mention of some of the Rectors of Warblington, among them Sebastian Pitfield, who was presented to the living in 1671 by George Cotton of Warblington Castle. In a footnote, Butler added the intriguing comment that this rector was alluded to in a ghost story told in the Observer, and was stigmatised as a libertine and a murderer. (Elsewhere, it was said that Pitfield had 'got children of his maid, and to have murdered them'.) Butler stressed that there was no evidence to suggest that the rector was anything other than eminently respectable. His signature in the church records showed that he discharged his duties regularly, and presided at vestry meetings. The story of his misdeeds rested on the authority of a curate, Mr Wilkins. The full story of the happenings at Warblington Rectory is included in an Appendix to the Topographical Account mentioned above. A letter from 'Mr Caswell, the mathematician, to the learned Dr Bentley' dated 15th December, 1695, enclosed a report of the hauntings. I have sent you inclosed a relation of an apparition; the story I had from two persons who each had it from the author, and yet their accounts somewhat varied. Mr Caswell persuaded a friend to take him to the author (Mr Wilkins the curate) and 'wrote it down from the author's mouth.' Mr Wilkins, Mr Caswell noted, 'is curate of Warblington, Batchelor of Arts of Trinity College in Oxford', and 'I hear no ill reports of his behaviour here (in Oxford).' * Topographical Account of the Hundred of Bosmere in Hampshire, comprising the parishes of Havant Warblington and Hayling. Havant Press. Printed by Henry Shelton, West Street, 1817 [Type text] �Mr Caswell reported that the Rector of Warblington, Mr Brereton, wanted nothing to be said about the apparition, because he could not get a tenant for the Rectory, 'though he had offered the house for ten pounds a year lease.' Mr Brereton was one of many rectors who did not reside in their own parishes, sometimes because they held several livings for financial reasons. The story told by Mr Wilkins the curate was as follows: the figure of a man wearing a black gown was seen at Warblington Rectory in August 1695, when the house was let to Thomas Perce, with his wife and child, a manservant and a maid. The first sighting was by the maid, on a Monday, about nine or ten at night, all being gone to bed except the maid with the child, the maid being in the kitchen, and having raked up the fire, took a candle in one hand, and the child in the other arm, and turning about saw one in a black gown walking through the room, and thence out of the door into the orchard. The maid's screams woke her master and mistress, who came downstairs and attempted to calm her, but she refused to stay in the house 'upon any terms'. The following day, the tenant's wife reported the incident to the curate, who 'thought it was a flam, and that they had a mind to abuse Mr Brereton, the Rector, whose house it was.' However, Mr Wilkins agreed to go to the house, confessing later that he was at the time completely ignorant on the subject of ghosts and apparitions. That evening he duly arrived at the Rectory, and, still full of doubts, proceeded to search all the rooms to see if anyone was hidden there 'to impose on me.' The last room to be searched was the bedroom, and Wilkins, 'smiling, told the tenant that I would call for the apparition, if there was any.' The tenant was terrified at the curate's jesting attempts to conjure up the ghost, but even though they sat up all night, nothing happened. On Thursday night, Mr Wilkins was once more at the Rectory, sharing a room with the tenant. Next morning, the manservant, who had been in another room, reported that he had seen something walk along in a black gown and place itself against a window, where it stood for some time. The curate still suspecting a trick, asked why the man had not called him, but the servant professed to have been too frightened to move or speak. On Friday and Saturday nothing happened, but on Sunday night the intrepid curate was once more at the Rectory in a separate room, while the tenant and manservant cowered in one bed in another room. Between twelve and two, the two men heard something walk into their room, 'whistling very well', and part the bed curtains. This time, the servant summoned up the courage to wake the curate. Mr Wilkins reported, 'I leapt out of bed, and not staying to put on my clothes, went out of the room and along a gallery to the door, which I found locked or bolted.' He persuaded the terrified tenant to let him in, and by moonlight, he saw the apparition move from the bedside. Mr Wilkins challenged the ghost to reveal why it had come to disturb them, and then, still thinking that the figure might be a man trying to frighten him, 'put out my arm to feel it, and my hand seemingly went through the body of it, and felt no substance, till it came to the wall; then I drew back my hand and still it was in the same place.' Even though he was now, for the first time, afraid, the curate followed the apparition from the room and along a gallery, 'where it disappeared where there was no corner for it to turn, and before it came to the end of the gallery, where was the stairs.' Feeling suddenly very cold, Wilkins went to bed 'betwixt the tenant and his man, and they complained of my being exceeding cold.' When Mr Wilkins described the apparition to Mr John Lardner, Rector of Havant, and to Major Battin of Langstone, 'they both said the description agreed very well to Mr Pitfield, a former Rector of the place, who had been dead about twenty years.' Hardly surprisingly, the tenant vacated the Rectory, and the house remained empty. The figure in the black gown was later seen by a man returning from Havant fair, and the ghost was claimed to have followed him towards the farm, where it was seen by some of the farmer's men. [Type text] �Walter Butler's judgement on this story was that it might have been a tale put about by the smugglers. 'The situation of the house favours the practice of smuggling, then very prevalent and for which purpose it is known to have been used in the absence of former rectors.' It is known from other sources that smuggled goods were landed on the beach at Warblington, and transported inland via Pook Lane, known for a time locally as 'Spook Lane'. In a similar way, ghost stories connected with the Royal Oak at Langstone are thought to have been encouraged by smugglers to deter visitors. However, the account written by Mr Wilkins, an educated man of the cloth, is very detailed, and Mr Wilkins himself started his ghost-watching as a convinced sceptic. Whatever the truth of his story, it is at least comforting to reflect that the apparition has never again been seen at Warblington. Christine Normand Christine Houseley (now Normand) taught Local History in Adult Education for more than twenty years. She was general editor of the series of booklets entitled The Making of Havant and researched and wrote The History of Catholic Church in Havant, recording the survival of 'the old Faith' in the area throughout penal times. Editor's note: Many other hauntings have been recorded in Warblington, related in particular to Lady Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, who lived in the Castle, and was beheaded in the Tower by order of Henry VIII. She was said 'to drift headless across the lawn from Warblington Church, through the churchyard and across the fields' (Hampshire Hauntings and Hearsay - Patricia Ross. The King's England Press. 1998) The present owners of Warblington Castle House have lived there for 23 years, and have no sense of 'spookiness'. Their predecessors, however, used to hear unexplained sobbing in an upper corridor. The owners comment that Lady Margaret has now been created the Blessed Margaret ' and is at rest. [Type text] � 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 EMHT1509 Title A name given to the resource Old Rectory, Warblington - A Ghost Story Description An account of the resource Ghostly happenings in the Parsonage House, Pook Lane. Includes map drawn by Cundall, Janna Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Normand, Christine Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01.11.2007 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bury, Christine Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 29.07.2019 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant August to December 1695 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Pook Lane, Warblington Subject The topic of the resource curate, family, murder, rector, rectory, servant Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 39, November 2007, editor Clayton, Pam, pp. 7-9, EMHT1508 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/e7ea10108c9757b59006cd930aaeb760.pdf fcf116ebc92959ade37213da224e41f5 PDF Text Text Coach Traffic in Nineteenth Century Emsworth Personal passenger carrying vehicles were rare before the 17th century, but gradually their numbers increased as the century neared its end; before that one walked, rode a horse or used a sedan chair. By around 1800 road transport was growing with the development of carts and carriages replacing packhorse and wagon transport, and coach travel, although slow, often uncomfortable and sometimes dangerous, was rapidly increasing in popularity. Individual unaccompanied journeys were not undertaken lightly, however. Highwaymen, often called "collectors", vagrants and cutpurses roamed the countryside in search of easy pickings on the better-used roads, especially those with long stretches between coaching stops, or on hills and passes which made the horses slow down, such as Portsdown or Butser Hills. Any traveller, tradesman or farmer returning from a market or fair with money in his pocket was also vulnerable. Jack Pitt, a local footpad known as "The Gunman", armed with a fowling piece, tried to hold up George Chatfield, riding from Havant to his home in Emsworth on 23 February 1807. Chatfield, refusing to hand over his money, was shot but managed to escape and later recovered from his wounds, offering a 200guinea reward for his assailant's capture. Pitt also stopped and robbed Mr. King, a plumber of Havant, of his silver watch on the Horndean to Rowland's Castle Road on 20 April that same year. Pitt then moved to Portsmouth where he was recognised and charged with Mr. Chatfield's and numerous other local robberies at Winchester Assizes, later being publicly hanged on Southsea Common as a warning to others. By 1804 coaches were equipped with springs and later on solid rubber tyres were introduced. As a result of the Turnpike Trusts roads too began slowly to improve, Emsworth lying on the Chichester to Cosham Turnpike. The Trust improved conditions so much that at the time of the Napoleonic Wars the journey time from Portsmouth to Chichester had been reduced from the better part of a day to between two to three hours by coach and under two hours by post chaise. A great many stage coaches were given reliable-sounding names, two passing through Emsworth being The Independence and The Defiance; others, like The Comet, The Meteor and Telegraph engendered a sense of speed and dash. For many years the professional coachman was 'king of the road', often well tipped and treated by his passengers before stopping in Emsworth at the Three Crowns, The Ship, Black Dog, Golden Lion, White Hart or Dolphin, some supplying stable-yard facilities, with staff which included horse-masters, grooms, farriers, ostlers, stable-lads, cooks, maidservants, boot-boys and bar staff, not to mention all kinds of provender suppliers for both travellers and horses. It then soon became popular for Emsworth's middle-class families to have their own personal custom-made coaches, together with a domestic groom, stable-boy and coachman on their staff, enabling them to visit friends and relatives, having afternoon "airings" and shopping very much as Jane Austen describes visiting in Emma. In A New system of Practical Domestic Economy it was estimated that you �should set aside 10% of your income to be spent on horses or carriages which would mean you needed £1,000 for a 4-wheeler with horses (the coachman would be paid for out of the 8% you would spend on the wages of your male servants). If you had £600 a year you could keep two horses if your groom doubled as a footman. A gig cost £700, and an occasional groom £7 18s. If you could not quite manage these expenses you could hire a carriage for special occasions such as weddings, while wagonettes were very popular for picnics. One local company advertised, "Carriages oiled and washed at moderate charges" — forerunners of the car-wash trade. Carriages were made to order and William Forder and his son, both of North Street, would have been able to accommodate most local clients' needs, the most popular closed carriage being a brougham; open ones of the period included the barouche, berlin, landau, and phaeton. Even small farm carts required some skill to make and these were usually built by wainwrights, essentially joiners, who worked in conjunction with blacksmiths and specialist wheelwrights. The town could also supply fly drivers plying between the station (the railway arrived in Emsworth in 1847) and inns where balls were often held. Newspapers and mail arrived on the same day and news of happenings in London helped Emsworth and other south coast towns to be better informed about other parts of Britain. English regional food delicacies like York hams, Stilton cheese, and Pontefract and Eccles cakes travelled well and people's diets began to vary. Although it was now also reasonably safe, coach travel for crinolined ladies was still squashed and uncomfortable; the Empire-line fashion must have come as a welcome boon. Three other disadvantages were that travellers did not know the size or social class of fellow passengers, and some diseases were easily spread, all possibilities which could lead to an uncomfortable journey. Goods were sent by carriers and Emsworth advertised three services in the 1830's; Vick's wagons went to London each Tuesday and Saturday; Matthew's and Russell's carts carried farm produce and fish to Chichester every Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings, alternating with Portsmouth on Tuesday, Thursdays and Saturdays, and brought back factory-made goods. Emsworth millers sent ground flour by road to Portsmouth and one of the most successful carriers for much of the 19th century was Mr. W. B. Foster of Steamshaw Mills, Emsworth, who dealt with local residents' small deliveries on a personal basis, but who also had contracts with large concerns such as Portsmouth Dockyard, the railway companies and Gales of Homdean. Post Office coaches, painted in a distinctive scarlet, black and maroon livery with royal arms on the door panels, and initiated in 1782 by John Palmer of Bath, soon became a familiar sight on the roads. They travelled at between 8 and 10 mph to strict timing and soon became part of a system that was faster, better organised and more efficient than that in any other part of Europe. There were various denominations of letters, some 'privileged', and paid or unpaid. Parcel rates levied by the Post Office varied, although it accepted responsibility for their safe delivery. Uniquely in December 1836 after seven days of heavy snow the mail failed to be delivered in Emsworth, the Post Office being sited at various points during the 19th century in St. �Peter's Square and High Street. Royal Mail thieves paid for the crime with their lives but as far as is known no thefts occurred in Emsworth. Eventually, however, the railways gradually took over from the coach, freight and passenger long-distance journeys being the first to suffer, then the transport of most fresh produce. As one of the major exports from Emsworth was that of crustacea and other fish, the railways opened up whole new and profitable markets much further inland, to which slower wagon transport could offer no competition. Apart from personal carriages, national coach and wagon usage began to wane in the 1850s and by the 1880s was all but defunct and only small localised traffic, which nevertheless provided a valuable service, managed to survive a little longer. Roads were much quieter and the only accidents were caused by people falling off their bicycles or by horses shying or bolting; the roads smelt of manure too, but the roses benefited. Sources: The British Postal Museum and Archive Hampshire Telegraph Quicksilver, A Hundred Years of Coaching 1750-1850, by RC & IM Anderson. Margaret Rogers � 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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Chichester, Emsworth, Havant, Horndean, Portsmouth, Rowlands Castle Subject The topic of the resource carriage, domestic staff, highwaymen, mail, market, railway, robbery, turnpike, wage Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 40, November 2008, editor, Rogers, Margaret, pp. 14-15, EMHT1498 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/ee89856dafab04d33d7d2f075ce292f6.pdf 0934fb2405be54c5ab888b24cd86e34f PDF Text Text Smuggling in Langstone and Chichester Harbours Mrs Jewell, in her Memories of Emsworth written in October 1898, says: Emsworth was, of course, a great place for smuggling — I can remember some of it, at least being offered some of their goods. An old navy ship was stationed near the mouth of the harbour, the Griper, to prevent goods being brought in, now, the officer and men of the coastguard live at Langstone, two miles off, and they still find tobacco in the smacks which fish off the French coast for oysters and scallops. Smuggling did not become a great problem to the Revenue authorities until the 17th century. In the reign of William and Mary the war with France was financed by taxes, including heavy duties on tea and on spirits, as a result of which smuggling became a highly profitable business and one not unpopular with the general public. Mrs Jewell talks about 'being offered some of their goods' and Longcroft in The Hundred of Bosmere says that many old inhabitants of Emsworth still remembered the odd keg in the barn, left to reward those who turned a blind eye to the activities of the smugglers. The Coastguard Station referred to by Mrs Jewell was established at Langstone in 1860. The Admiralty bought a plot of land between the Ship and the main road and built nine terraced cottages and a watchtower (now part of the house called The Lookout). The Coastguards were posted to Langstone before the cottages were completed: the census of 1861 shows a chief officer with four men living in different houses in the village. In July 1860, the Collector of Customs Portsmouth, wrote to his superiors: We have the satisfaction of informing your Honours that an additional Coast Guard Station with a force of nine men has recently been established at Havant, which we consider a most important step towards putting a stop to the contraband trade carried on by Mitchell and his gang locally. The Coastguards at the Hayling Bridge Station manned two look-out posts, one at Emsworth and one at Langstone. They were equipped with a Naval type whaler (the Griper), and revolvers. The Langstone Gang, made up mainly of fishermen, was one of the most successful gangs of smugglers. It is said that they would tow a cargo, floating just beneath the surface of the water, so that they could sink it if the excise men appeared. The members of the gang are said to have met in the Royal Oak and at the Mill. At least some of the ghost stories told about the Royal Oak were probably devised by the smugglers to discourage visits from strangers. The Coastguards at Langstone were not welcomed by the locals. An early incident of the local population backing the smugglers took place in 1760, when a certain John Andrew was caught smuggling wine into Langstone Village. From �Winchester Gaol Andrew sent a petition to the Board of Commissioners of Customs in London, saying that he was a poor man with a large family and had not been a principal in the incident, 'having been tempted to this act by a small gratuity'. This appeal was signed by the Rector of Warblington and 24 residents of the area. John Andrew was not the only one to be tempted by a 'small gratuity' from the smugglers. After the Napoleonic Wars smuggling flourished with a ready supply of labour for the free-traders, from both soldiers and sailors returning home to a life of poverty, and from farm labourers, whose long days of toil brought in a miserably low wage. The Topographical and Historical Account of Hayling Island published in 1826 by I. Skelton of Havant1, estimates that the average wage of agricultural workers on the island was 12 shillings per week, while the smugglers offered a guinea a night to those willing to hump casks for them. The unloading and dispersal of smuggled goods was the responsibility of the Lander, in the employ of the Venturer, who provided financial backing for the operation. It was the Lander's responsibility to arrange a reception committee at the right time and place. In The Topographical and Historical Account of Hayling Island, the author describes how the approach of the smugglers' boat would be signalled by the smugglers waiting on Hayling by means of 'Emblems', well known to the initiated, signifying who and what approached. These emblems were dispersed throughout the Island and the boat would be met on landing by a gang of men, armed with guns and cutlasses. As each man arrived at the appointed place, he would lie down: within the folds of his dark frieze coat, and keeping his ear to the ground, like the wild Indian who listens for the approach of his prey, he waited in breathless silence for the signal which commanded him to rush to the vessel and assist in unfreighting of her cargo. The contraband was concealed on Hayling in 'many subterraneous caverns on the south beach'. The more delicate articles of contraband, such as lace, were hidden in various cottages and the stocks of smuggled goods were replenished about five times a year. Rumours of underground passages abound in the vicinity of Havant and Emsworth and terraced houses in South Street, Emsworth, were said to have adjoining loft spaces for the easy transfer of smuggled goods during searches by the revenue men. Pook Lane at Warblington provided a sheltered route inland and the large gravewatchers' huts in Warblington Churchyard may also have played their part in providing temporary shelter. The important thing was to get the cargo of contraband away from the landing area as quickly as possible. �The Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle for 12 February 1858 contained a report of a seizure of contraband from a small cottage to the East of Farlington Church, within the parish of Bedhampton. A suspicious police constable found 21 kegs of brandy in the cottage. When a police sergeant arrived to help the constable, they forced open a door and found more brandy, a still, empty kegs and 'colouring matter', all of which were removed to Havant Police Station. The only occupant of the cottage at the time was a woman called Mary Cole who said that the room in which the kegs were found was occupied by her lodger, whose name she did not know. The newspaper report said that it was believed that many people in Havant and Bedhampton were involved in the incident. The woman stated that: someone knocked at her door and asked to leave something, to which she consented, and not having a candle the light was insufficient for her to recognise them. It certainly seems strange that a lone woman should open her house to strangers at 4.20 on a dark morning. This seizure of contraband goods was a lucky chance for the authorities. Throughout the 18th century the customs force had been totally inadequate to deal with smuggling, which had become big business. The smugglers had better boats and better guns. The revenue men were also at a disadvantage because they had less detailed local knowledge than the smugglers, since it was the policy of the Customs service to recruit men who came from at least 20 miles away from the place where they were to be stationed. This was to prevent fraternisation between the revenue men and the smugglers. For the same reason, the customs men were frequently changed from one place to another; the census returns for Langstone for 1861, 1871 and 1881 show complete changes of personnel at the Coastguard station. It is easy to see why the poorly paid customs officials might be tempted by the huge bribes offered by the smugglers. In March 1792 Thomas Gloge, Chief Boatman (Customs Officer) on Hayling Island, reported that Mr Morgan Waters, Boatswain of The Fortune convict ship, tried to persuade him to allow smuggled goods to come into the harbour, telling him that: 'if I would agree with him to lay at home he would make a signal on board the ship in the daytime for me to stay at home and not look out and I should be paid Fifty Pounds a year or name my sum and it should be made agreeable to me.' Gloge's annual salary at the time was £35 but he resisted the temptation to do a deal with the smugglers, asserting that, 'I would sooner have my right arm cut off.'2 �Thomas Gloge continued as chief boatman at Hayling for a number of years and was involved in many incidents with smugglers, which he reported to the Commissioners in London. It needed great courage and physical toughness to stand up to the smugglers, who could be ruthless and dangerous when crossed and also enjoyed support from the local community. In 1785, on the night of 14/15 June, the crew of the Roebuck cutter saw a small vessel between Langstone and Chichester harbours standing in for the land. They gave chase and, when it looked as if the vessel might escape, fired a warning shot and then three more. The smuggling vessel then slackened sail, and the customs officers saw that the Master of the boat had been shot dead. Conscientiously, they stayed to retrieve 30 casks of Geneva and 38 of Brandy, which had been thrown overboard, and some tea, but the Master of the Roebuck reported that 'on so melancholy occasion [he] did not think it right to seize the vessel, which afterwards proceeded with the dead body to Ryde.' The Portsmouth Collector of Customs sent the crew of the Roebuck on a cruise 'to prevent their being immediately apprehended and committed to gaol, expecting that the verdict of Men living on the Isle of Wight (a notorious place for smuggling) will be nothing less than Wilful Murder'.3 The formation of the new Coastguard Service in 1821 gradually reduced the amount of smuggling, but as late as 1899 two customs officers came across a gang of about 30 smugglers on the beach at Bedhampton attempting to carry away in carts and on horses about 300 casks. The smugglers were armed with sticks, and threatened 'beating [the customs officers] brains out if they attempted to touch the goods'. The two officers sent to Havant for military assistance and Captain Butler, Commandant of the Havant Volunteers, sent a sergeant and 20 men. Not surprisingly, by the time these reinforcements arrived the smugglers had removed all but 67 of the casks. A search of Portsdown Hill recovered 67 more casks of spirits and 17 bales of tobacco. In their report of this incident, the customs officers had to affirm that 'they considered the Assistance of the Soldiers necessary and that Collusive Agreement was made with them'.4 Incidentally, no members of the notorious Langstone Gang of smugglers were ever caught. The Hayling Bridge Coastguard Station was closed in 1924. Christine Normand 1 Republished in 1976 by Frank Westwood of the Petersfield Bookshop. 2 The Portsmouth Papers No. 22, Smugglers and Revenue Officers in the Portsmouth area in the Eighteenth Century — as shown in Customs Records by Edward Carson, p. 18. 3 ibid. 4ibid.,p.20. � 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 EMHT1501 Title A name given to the resource Smuggling in Langstone and Chichester Harbours Description An account of the resource Efforts by the coastguards to tackle smuggling in the local area. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Normand, Christine Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01.11.2008 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bury, Christine Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 10.06.2019 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 17th to 20th century Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Emsworth, Havant, Hayling Island, Langstone, Warblington Subject The topic of the resource cargo, contraband, houses, memoirs, smuggling, war Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 40, November 2008, editor, Rogers, Margaret, pp. 8-10, EMHT1498 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/944417fba885a21f3c6384a96ac20798.pdf 53803b3b72818a1230188b2af2c1a40b PDF Text Text ...AND THEN Opening of Emsworth Museum — 29th July 1988 As a long time former resident of Emsworth I well remember the events that surrounded the formal opening of Emsworth Museum in 1988. I was active with the Emsworth Residents' Association for several years and inevitably there were residents who were involved with the creation of the Museum, as well as being members of both EMHT and the Residents' Association, such as John Briggs and myself. It had been a struggle for David Rudkin and his stalwarts, particularly Michael Kennett and Strahan Soames, to find premises and funding with which to create the Museum, following their frustration at failure to preserve Echo II, the last of the Emsworth oyster smacks, the remains of which had been visible in Emsworth harbour for many years. Bruce Doxat-Pratt, in his article for the thirtieth anniversary of the formation of EMHT in the Emsworth Echo of May 2005, described the efforts to save Echo II and the substantial help received from the Chichester Harbour Conservancy, amongst others, only for the project to run out of time! But it was this which resulted in a change of direction for the Trust and led to the intent to create a Maritime Museum instead. And so it was with great relief and congratulations all round that most of the key players assembled at the new museum on 29th July 1988, the premises having been made available by the Havant Borough Council and with funding from a variety of sources including IBM, the then locally-based computer company. I had been involved with a number of communications projects in the area and so it was that I was asked to record an audio tape of the formal opening proceedings. A copy of this tape, which is now regarded as an important milestone in the history of the Museum, forms part of the Oral History collection to this day. Lord Bessborough, who was appointed President of the Trust, headed the formal unveiling of the plaque which can still be seen on the landing of the first floor of the Museum, in the presence of the then Mayor of Havant, Councillor Peter Osborne and the Lady Mayoress. He acknowledged the work carried out by the founders as well as referring to his own connection with Emsworth and that of his family before him. David Rudkin and Michael Kennett also made moving speeches, paying tribute to those who had worked so hard and determinedly to bring the museum project to life. Other key players present at the formal opening were local councillors including Tessa Daines, who later belong the long term and tireless administrator of the Museum, Ian McKay (of Chichester Harbour Conservancy), John Saunders and Peter Whitham. John Glanville, the well known local solicitor who had given the Trust very helpful legal advice, was there in his role as a Trustee. Also present was Joan Rutherford, the first administrator of the new museum, and other members who had volunteered to become stewards, such as Rena Boutell, also active with fund-raising, and Celia Regan-Simpkin. Although David Rudkin, our founder, and Michael Kennett have both since died, Michael at an unfairly early age, it is pleasing that David's son (also named David) still takes an active �interest in the Museum and wrote a definitive biography of his father in the special issue of the Emsworth Echo in May 2005. And, of course, many other people were present who had been part of those early days, some of whom still work with the Museum today. I well remember seeing Monica Warrick, the first Secretary of the Trust, with the tenacious and loyal Dorothy Bone (still Secretary to the Trust) with husband John, Bruce Doxat-Pratt, resourceful long serving Trustee, and Roy and Sheila Morgan, who have done an outstanding job as archivists from early days. Also Pam Clayton who made many of the Oral History recordings and, with Angela Macmorland, edited the Emsworth Echo until recently. Many other trust members joined the crowd for the formal opening although several have since died, but I have had news of two who are still very active in Emsworth today. The first is Harold Groom, long time town resident and one time professional estate agent and auctioneer, who had suggested at the AGM in 1982 the inclusion of the word 'Historical' in the Trust's name to broaden its scope. This vital change enabled the Trust to include the preservation of Emsworth's total history and not just its maritime links. Harold also rallied in the fund raising efforts, even after the Museum was open, with such memorable occasions as the auction held in the Methodist Church hall with himself as auctioneer, which raised some £1,200 of much needed money. It has to be said that a large part of this was due to David Rudkin's generosity in donating personal family possessions which fetched excellent prices. My wife and I had great fun working with Harold on the collection, cataloguing and display of the items for sale at the well attended event. The other early Trust member is Trustee and photographer John Saunders, one time treasurer, whose own memories include climbing on the deck of Echo II with David Rudkin and realising the hopeless task of trying to save her. He also recalled with horror the loss of hundreds of title deeds when Land Registry rules changed and a rubbish tip was seen outside a Queen Street solicitor's office full of discarded property records! Thus we lost valuable Emsworth historical information which would have delighted Roy and Sheila Morgan. This highlighted our need for a museum of local history. John also became an honorary member of the Royal Marines Officers' Mess at Eastney and through this was able to acquire two unused display cabinets for the museum. Later, I too was also able to help further by building and donating two glass topped and illuminated display cases which, I believe, are still used in the museum today. And yes, my wife Pam and I housed bits of Echo II in our Emsworth home at Oaklands, until they could be accommodated in the Museum. Much else has changed, developed and improved since those early days and the contributions of the many faithful volunteers must not go unrecorded, 'above and beyond the call of duty' such as Angela Macmorland and Monica Warrick who cleaned the Museum regularly. Incidentally in 1992 a video film was made called Emsworth, the Harbour Town, embracing aspects of the Museum, which was to be shown at the annual Horndean Road Horrticultural Show and adding to membership numbers, which was the prime aim. Yes, it's been a busy and memorable 20 years since that wonderful opening day but with the Rudkin Room and the interest still shown by David Rudkin's son and daughter Cathy (who lives in Emsworth), we can be sure that the memories of our founders with their commendable foresight are not forgotten. I am sure that they would have applauded the recent refurbishment and modernisation within the Museum which should attract visitors old and new. Keith Stoneman, August 2008 � 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 EMHT1500 Title A name given to the resource THEN...Opening of Emsworth Museum - 29 July 1988 Description An account of the resource Key players and events leading up to the formal opening of Emsworth Museum on 29th July 1988 plus a description of the day itself. Two photographs. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stoneman, Keith Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01.11.2008 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bury, Christine Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 10.06.2019 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1975 to August 2008 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Emsworth Subject The topic of the resource audio tape, local history, oyster smack, plaque Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 40, November 2008, editor, Rogers, Margaret, pp. 6-7, EMHT1498 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/18d691719c679f424cb687c8e0434886.pdf 406bdd09b481b38b4f56dbc74382d1aa PDF Text Text NOW ... Historic Moment for Emsworth Maritime and Historical Trust (Emsworth Museum) Olympic Hand-Over Flag flies in Emsworth On Sunday 24 August an Olympic Handover Flag was raised at the Emsworth Museum, North Street, to celebrate the moment when London became the official Olympic Games Host City. Earlier in the year, somewhat hesitantly, I had applied to LOCOG (the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games) for one of their specially commissioned flags for Emsworth Museum and was surprised to receive several encouraging telephone calls from Bruno Peek, OBE, MVO, the handover flags co-ordinator. The flag, 6ft by 3ft with the handover logo in union colours and the date of 24 August 2008 on a white background, arrived in early August. It was one of only 600 delivered to locations including Armed Forces and embassies around the world, City Halls, British Council offices and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices. At about 3.45 pm on the handover day, under the watchful eye of District Officer Richard Owen from the Hampshire Constabulary and their coach Mike Williams, four young athletes from Havant Athletic Club ran around the centre of Emsworth to show the flag to residents and visitors. Accompanying them was a fifth member of the club carrying an Olympic torch used in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. At the end of their run they were welcomed back by Members of the Trust, the Baptist Church Girls' Brigade, Scouts, Cubs, parents, friends and invited guests. Trust Chairman Gerry Williams and Olympian Chris Wilkinson (tennis in the Barcelona Olympics in 1992) then raised the flag on the museum's flagpole. Later, thanks to Daphne Laycock, the Girls' Brigade Leader, and a team of helpers, we all enjoyed a tea party in the adjacent Baptist Church Hall — kindly sponsored by the Emsworth Food Festival CIC and The Brookfield Hotel. On the following day, with help from John Forster and the Emsworth Scout Group, the flag was again raised (this time on a temporary flagpole) at the Emsworth Show. Also several times during September the flag was raised on the Museum flagpole. It is now held in the Museum archive (with pictures and information about the event) as a record of a special occasion in the history of the village. The torch used has itself an interesting and unique history, being presented to the Southsea Fire Brigade some years ago by a Fire Brigade in Germany, and was �subsequently donated by them to Havant Athletic Club, a small club of some 160 members across all ages. All five athletes from the club who contributed to our flag raising, four of whom are still in full time education, have represented Hampshire in various age groups. Corin Reynolds, one of the Club's youngest team managers, manages the National Young Athletes league. She has twice won the Portsmouth Mile race, which is the curtain raiser for the Great South run, and remains undefeated champion. Alice Reynolds and Josh Kelly have produced several Grade I performances this season and were chosen to represent Hampshire at the English Schools' Championships in Gateshead. Josh gave up the chance of competing for Hampshire in order to run the flag round Emsworth. Liam King won the Young Athletes League 'Athlete of the Season' award, and Amy Bream is an up and coming distance runner and was selected to represent Hampshire Schools at cross country in Paddock Wood in Kent. This occasion was important in a number of ways: it focused a great deal of local attention on the Museum and also by involving many young people in the Emsworth area served to unite us all with pride in the British successes at the recent Olympic games in Beijing. We shall look forward to hearing of the Havant Athletic Club's successes in the future (possibly in the 2012 London Olympics). Dorothy Bone � 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, Havant Subject The topic of the resource athletics, flag, games, Olympics, torch Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 40, November, 2008, editor Rogers, Margaret, pp. 4-5, EMHT1498 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/e5ac678b3a585a710c5130b92419513a.pdf ae44bfd39f8cbf7f08dfcd5a3d259033 PDF Text Text Our Nextdoor Neighbour As you will know, the Museum is in part of Warblington UDC's former Town Hall built in 1900 to accommodate local council offices and the fire brigade. It was the terrible fire in the stately home of Mr. George Wilder at Stansted, on the last evening of Goodwood races, destroying everything in the main building, excluding the servants' quarters, stable block and chapel, which highlighted the shortcomings of the Emsworth Fire Brigade at that time. Up until then the brigade had made do, like so many other small towns, with a pump handle fire engine pulled by horse power. The Stansted fire illustrated just how essential the purchase of a new, more up-to-date engine was. Debate had been going on in the council about the possibility of buying a steam engine for some two or three years before the fire, strengthened by a request from the Emsworth Brigade captain as early as January 1898 for both an engine and new premises, but purchase had been shelved on grounds of cost. Other local brigades at Fareham and Havant had already taken the plunge to acquire one, and after considering the relative merits and costs between Merryweather and Shand Mason fire engines, Warblington Council purchased a Shand Mason for £435. This had the capacity to deliver 260-300 gallons of water per minute and throw a 15/16" inch jet to a height of 150 feet. Shand Mason engines had a proven record for reliability, earlier models having been used by several English fire brigades since 1858. A fireman with local knowledge could time it so that the boiler was hot and the pump working within seconds of arriving at a fire, without the need to refuel en route, a great stride forward in timing and efficiency. From the beginning of the twentieth century the concept of employing the combined effectiveness of a petrol-driven engine to both transport and to furnish power for the pump proved to be a great step forward. It cut both the brigade's arrival time and provided increased water power. The Emsworth Brigade christened their new engine "Edward VII" to commemorate the new King who, as Prince of Wales, had taken a great interest in the work of the fire service. Emsworth's Volunteer Fire Brigade was first mustered in 1843 and came under aegis of St. James's vestry for the next fifty years. They purchased an engine which required three men on each side handle to pump up the water, obtained from local streams or ponds, whilst others directed the hose nozzle. (Mains water came to the town some forty years later). Additional help was often performed by townsfolk amply rewarded by generous supplies of beer. The Brigade was also supported by local donors and subscribers, holding annual meetings in The Black Dog (now the Spice Village) in the Square. They provided essentials such as replacement hoses and extensions, fire axes, crowbars, ladders, ropes and other ancillary equipment. During the nineteenth century many fires were caused by overturned or unattended tallow candles. Fire risks in all types of factory or workshop multiplied with the introduction of steam power and the flammable properties inherent in flour and sawmills, of which Emsworth had several. Straw and hay barns on one of the many neighbouring farms were other high-risk features in the area. Insurance companies to which premiums had been paid to cover houses and other premises paid for the men to attend their fires. On 5 April 1872 the Sun Fire Insurance Co. paid out the following to attend an Emsworth fire: 1s.9d. to 60 men = £5.5s.0d; 1s.6d. to one man �(over an hour) = 2s.6d.; 1s. each to 11 boys =11s.0d., Mr. R. Kelsey for self and men = £1. 1s. 6d., and an engine bill of £4. 10.0d. plus refreshments = £5.17s.9d. Even some thirty years after the brigade's inauguration it seemed to have a very hand-tomouth existence. In more formal terms it stated: Notice If the Vestry of our Parish, where there is no Town Council, Local Board or other Authority competent to provide the sums, after due notice, shall resolve that the Overseers shall provide any Fire Engine, Ladder, or Fire Escape for general use out of the Poor Rate the cost thereof, and of procuring a proper place wherein to keep the same, and on maintaining it, as well as any such Engine, Ladder, or Escape required by the Parish in any other manner for such Use, in a fit state of repair, and the charges of such Persons as may be necessary for the Use thereof and the cost of such suitable implements and accoutrements. William Pink — Churchwarden 2 December 1876. Notice that there was no mention in Mr. Pink's statement about training pay for the men, essential for keep up morale and efficiency. So for just under sixty years Emsworth Brigade had no headquarters, and engine and equipment had to be stored somewhere around the town, the men mustered and a horse caught and harnessed, no easy task to assemble everyone and everything speedily and efficiently. Should a fire occur close at hand willing helpers would often drag the engine out into position. The crew held regular drills and practices in a nearby field, and it says a lot about the men, coping what we would now consider primitive conditions, that they were held in great local esteem. At that time the status and prestige associated with fire brigade uniforms was held in similar stead to that of railwaymen and policemen and their lack until the 1880s was clearly a deeply felt grievance. Protection for the firemen themselves came very late in the day and it was due to the determination and energy of their newly-appointed captain, Mr Alfred Blackmore, of Queen Street, that they finally achieved better uniforms and improved pay in the 1890s. The Council, who had by now taken over control from the Vestry, resolved to pay £10. 8s. for the men's helmets and £15. 15s. for a complete outfit for the captain. He had had to draw the Council's attention to the fact that he had been paying the crew's monthly fees out of his own pocket. His work was clearly valued by the Council as he later secured a pay rise for himself (from £4 to £6 p.a.), his second officer, Henry Lowton, receiving £2 p.a. rise. The fees were paid and in addition he was given a "float" for small expenses. It was also agreed that the men should receive 2s. 6d. per practice, 4 practices to take place each year. Although we may smile at early photographs of the Emsworth Fire Brigade with their bugler on one side and quaint uniforms, today our next door neighbour not only responds promptly to any emergencies but still maintains a strong bond with our local community. Margaret Rogers � 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 EMHT1487 Title A name given to the resource Our Nextdoor Neighbour Description An account of the resource History of the Emsworth Volunteer Fire Brigade and the building of the fire station 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 01.11.2009 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bury, Christine Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 25.02.2019 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1843-1900 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Emsworth, Stansted Subject The topic of the resource engine, fire, Warblington Urban District Council Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 41, November 2009, editor Rogers, Margaret, pp. 16-18, EMHT1482 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/45f23c5ee1d53460154d49ed265694f4.pdf 230704663f88d2ef28fa71c22337ed95 PDF Text Text Prize Winning Agricultural Labourers 1837 – 1857 There is very little documentary evidence, apart from church registers, about the lives of individuals in the rural workforce in the early Victorian era. It is thanks to a man named Charles Osborn that we know a little bit more about some of the farm labourers in the parish of Warblington. They were given the opportunity to increase their sparse incomes when the South East Hants Association was formed in 1836. This Fareham-based society was formed by Charles Osborn of Manor Farm, Hayling, with the support of Henry Delme of Cams. They recruited a number of prominent landowners who became vice-presidents thereby creating a respectable image and increasing local support. The object of the society was to reward workers not only for their skills but more importantly for thrift, self-sufficiency, respectability and responsible behaviour. Farmers and landowners were still much aware of the arson attacks which had occurred in southern England in recent years; the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 had done nothing to reverse the misfortunes of farm workers, who would be heavily penalised for not being employed. The Association was financed by annual subscriptions from farmers and landowners who were then able to put forward the names of worthy candidates in the various classes of the annual competition. However the candidates had to meet certain criteria. These were listed on a certificate and included regular attendance at church or chapel, non-attendance in beershops or public houses and that their general conduct made them worthy of reward. The paper, which was used as an entry form, had to be signed by the employer, church minister, churchwarden and overseer or four respectable house holders. The society had a wide catchment area. Initially covering the Fareham, Droxford, Catherington and Havant Poor Law Unions, its size was later increased by adding the parishes of Buriton and West Meon. It was able to muster a lot of support from local farmers who shared the founders' ideals of improving self-esteem and productivity by rewarding the best of the labour force, whilst encouraging others to improve their performance. It was due to Osborn's insistence that personal details of prize winners were published in the Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle that I am able to provide the following information. CLASS: For Labourers who have brought up the largest families respectably, with the smallest amount of parochial relief: 1838: £ 1 Anthony Lambert, aged 45, of Warblington, in the employ of Mr George Hellyer, for having brought up 5 children with only 7/6d. relief, although �he has been put to considerable expense by the sickness and death of 5 children and two wives. 1844: £1 Thomas Tickner, aged 34, of Warblington, in the employ of Mr John Hale. for having supported 5 children without parish relief. Candidate belongs to a benefit society. £1 Samuel Newell, aged 41, of Warblington, in the employ of Mr John Goodson, for having supported 9 children for some years, without parish relief except during his wife's confinements. £1 David Owten, aged 34, of Warblington, in the employ of Mr John Goodson, for having supported 7 children without parochial relief, except during sickness. CLASS: Labourers under 50 years of age, who have since the year 1840 brought up their families respectably with the smallest amount of parochial relief. 1851: £1 David Outen (sic), aged 42 of Warblington, in the employ of Mr H Scott, for having supported 6 children with very little relief. CLASS: For widows, who have supported, since 1826, the largest families respectably, with the smallest amount of parochial relief. 1st - £3 Hannah Beattie, aged 36, of Warblington for having supported 5 children since her husband died in 1835, without parish relief. CLASS: Labourers who placed out in respectable service their sons at an early age, all of whom bear good characters. 1844 £2 George Farren, aged 49 of Warblington, in the employ of Mr John Barton for having placed out 5 sons at early ages. CLASS: Labourers or widows, who have placed out at respectable service, their daughters at an early age, and who have remained in service with good characters. 1852 £2 Samuel Newell, aged 48 of Warblington, in the employ of Mr R M Gill, for having placed out at service 4 daughters, all of whom have kept their placed with good characters, and one is now a school mistress. CLASS: Labourers or widows whose families shall have made by their own industry the greatest improvement in their condition of life. �1855 £1. 10s. Samuel Newell, aged 50 of Warblington, in the employ of Mr R M Gill, who has brought up a large family respectably, two sons are apprenticed, and one daughter is Mistress of Red Hill School. Far and away the biggest class of recipients, receiving sums between 15s. and £2, were those 'cottagers resident in the Havant Union whose cottage and gardens, consisting of not more than half an acre shall be kept and cultivated in the neatest manner, and the general appearance of whose crop, making due allowance for the natural quality of the soil and size, and also shall be most satisfactory to the Judges appointed to view them. No candidate shall be eligible for these Premiums who have kept their Daughters from Domestic Service after they have attained the age and strength for such employment'. Prizes donated by the Bishop of Winchester to agricultural labourers, above fifty years of age, who produced the best certificates of character, regard being had more especially to their regularity of attendance at church, and at the holy sacrament. 1842 3rd – a large Prayer Book – Sarah Newland, aged 78 1850 – A Bible and prayer book – George Bolton, aged 75. The prize money may not seem much by today's values (10s. = 50p) but local wages in those days were between 8s. (40p) and 9s. (45p) and therefore the lowest award was equal to a week's money. The awards were given out at an annual dinner held during October in the "Red Lion" hotel at Fareham. This was a big occasion. Over a hundred male prize winners (women were excluded but were given half a crown (121/2p) in lieu) plus up to a hundred subscribers and clergy received a substantial meal after the ploughing events had taken place in the morning. As the winners were called forward they received commemorative tablets as well as money; these were often displayed as family heirlooms on the walls of cottages. Over the years the original supporters had mostly died or moved away. Twenty years after its start, the society was faced with falling income and tried a number of innovations but with the death of the secretary on 27 January 1863, the Association folded in the following year. Osborn's name is still remembered in Fareham where he had a large farm, now the site of the Civic Offices and shopping mall. Malcolm Walford � 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 EMHT1486 Title A name given to the resource Prize Winning Agricultural Labourers Description An account of the resource Details of awards made by the South East Hants Association to agricultural labourers and widows in the Parish of Warblington Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Walford, Malcolm Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01.11.2009 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bury, Christine Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 25.02.2019 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1837-1857 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. warblington Subject The topic of the resource child, employer, labourer, widow, wife Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 41, November 2009, editor Rogers, Margaret, pp. 14-16, EMHT1482 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/84c35517ab6365591cb7d76063035688.pdf 6d2e71c36c6fafbe297c0f625aa72a1a PDF Text Text A Royal Marine Ancestor Ernest Beckett was the much loved maternal grandfather of my husband, Ernie Newell. When we decided to start investigating the family tree, he was the trigger. Ernie had known his grandfather and so was interested in discovering more about him, and there were still family members alive who knew him and could embellish the basic records. Parish records both online and in various record offices and libraries are a wonderful research tool, but although we knew that Ernest Beckett was born in Bridge Street, Wickham, on 10th April 1881, there was no baptism in the Wickham parish records. Eventually he was found – baptised in Hambledon. Why? Obvious really! His parents had been born there, as had the previous four generations on each side of his family – the Becketts and the Goughs. This conjures up a picture of a large and happy family, with aunts and uncles, cousins and other relations all living in the one village, and all close enough to visit and enjoy each others' company. The parties that could be held must have been legendary, if only they could write about them. In fact the marriages of all the Beckett and Gough family members show them to have been related to nearly all the other families in the village of Hambledon. Henry Beckett had married Hester Gough in 1865 and they had 11 children – 8 boys and 3 girls, and Ernest was the 9th child and 8th son. Ernest and the final two girls were born and brought up entirely in Wickham. Why did the family leave Hambledon? We have not found out yet, but it may be due to an agricultural crisis in the village and Henry, being an agricultural labourer with a large family, may have been forced to look elsewhere and became a general labourer in the small market town of Wickham. They moved in 1880, and the house in Bridge Street is still there, being in the row of cottages opposite Chesapeake Mill, and a crowded noisy time they must have had in it. When he left school Ernest gained employment with the West Meon Railway alongside several of his brothers. Then on 11th May 1905 he joined the Royal Marines as Eastney Barracks. Why he did this we do not know. There is no history in the family of military service, let alone the Royal Marines, but there he was! Also he stated that he was 20 years and one month old. Yet he was born in 1881, which any calculator will say is 24 years old. Again there is no obvious reason, but he must have worried that he would be rejected, or that he did not look as old as he was. Who knows and isn't it frustrating that our ancestors do not write their reasons for doing things on to paper for us to read later? He did his initial training at Deal and he is described on his Service Record as 5ft. 8ins. tall, with fresh complexion, blue eyes and brown hair. His conduct is usually very good and his ability the same. The original service record had been kept by one of his daughters and given to us to help in our research. This service record lists all the different ships he served on, together with the date of joining and discharge back to barracks. In his promotions list he seemed to have been demoted and promoted quite a few times, which did not seem to fit in with the 'very good' citations he was receiving. Detective work proved that he was obviously the senior marine in his detachment and was therefore acting a higher rank on board ship, but that he reverted to his original rank on return to barracks. He was eventually promoted permanently to Sergeant in June 1916 and to Colour Sergeant in March 1922. He served in HMS Baccante in 1906, HMS Formidable in 1907, HMS Barham in 1908, HMS Jupiter in 1909/10, HMS Neptune in 1911 and then HMS Medina. No matter where we looked we could not find a record of HMS Medina. All sorts of possibilities were suggested, �from the name being recorded wrongly in the Service Records right down to secret operations! Eventually the truth will out! HMS Medina was a P & 0 liner which was commissioned by the Royal Navy to be the Royal Yacht to take King George V and Queen Mary to India in 1911/12 for the Delhi Durbar. The Royal Yacht (RMY Albert & Victoria) of the time was not a seagoing vessel and was totally unsuited to the long voyage to India, so the Medina was requisitioned as she was being fitted out for her maiden voyage. She was the height of luxury and was the only Royal Yacht to carry a King Emperor, as King George V was known in India. The voyage began from Portsmouth 3 pm on 11 November, 1911 and it took three weeks for the vessel to sail via Gibraltar, Malta, Suez and Aden before reaching Bombay. There the King and Queen travelled to Delhi for the Durbar before returning to Bombay and then to Portsmouth, arriving back on 5 February 1912. She then returned to being an ocean going liner, sailing to Australia. Unfortunately, she was sunk by a u-boat in April 1917. The Portsmouth News and Hampshire Telegraph of those times relate the story of the voyage in great detail, with reports from their correspondents in all the various ports of call. The logbook for the voyage is held in the National Archives in Kew and there is a record of the voyage written by the captain of one of the escorting warships held in the archives of the Royal Marines Museum. From February 1912 to August 1914 Ernest was based at Portsmouth as part of the Portsmouth Division of the RM Brigade. In October 1914 they were sent via Dover to Dunkirk, where they were then entrained to Antwerp. They were heavily engaged in the defence of this port, in support of the Belgian troops who were being overwhelmed by the invading Germans. The trenches had not been designed to withstand artillery fire, and the Royal Marines were put straight in to save the Belgians. It was not a glorious campaign, but, as usual, the Allies were not very organised and the trenches were overrun. Ernest was one of several Royal Marines that were captured and made prisoners of war. Most of the Royal Marines were surrounded later in the battle and chose to be interned over the border in Holland, where they were allowed quite a lot of freedom and privileges. However, those who were captured by the Germans were marched further into Germany and kept in fairly primitive camps. Ernest was one of just under 1,000 Royal Marines who were made prisoners of war in this action. There are several interesting accounts of their suffering in the Royal Marine Museum archives. One of the men described the beginning of their journey when they were marched to a ruin 24 miles from the battle front and had to carry the German guards' packs. When they rested the guards went into the fields and threw swedes at them, which they had to eat raw! They were then packed into trains – 40 to a carriage – and travelled two and a half days with only two small meals in that time. When they arrived at their destination – Doberitz – they were given half a loaf of bread a day per person for 4 weeks! Finally they were put on better rations, but as the war progressed these dropped again and their families in Britain were able to subscribe to a fund to pay for bread to be double baked in this country, packed in cardboard boxes and despatched to the prison camp. It was only through this bread fund that many of these men survived to the end of the war. Some of the stories contained in these reports are harrowing. The war finished on 11 November 1918 and by 19 November Ernest had been repatriated. He was re-engaged in the Royal Marines and continued to serve until May 1926. During that time he had served on HMS Royal Sovereign and HMS Southampton. Then he was posted to HMS Dryad, which in those days was the Navigation School. When he was discharged he was transferred to the Royal Marine Reserve, and reported for regular training and weekly �deployments. In 1935 his records say that he reached 50 years of age, and he was downgraded from active participation in the Reserve. However, this did not stop him presenting himself for duty in September 1938, but he was finally discharged in November 1939 as being too old for active duty. After his discharge in 1926 he was able to rejoin his family in 'Civvy Street'. In 1913 he had married Sarah Lampard in Fareham and they had lived in Wallington. Sarah was based there all during his imprisonment, and their first daughter was born there in 1914. Their next daughter was born in 1919, followed by two more daughters in 1922 and 1924. Finally, their son, Ernest William, was born in 1927, but tragically he died in 1929, so there was to be no son to follow Ernest into the Royal Marines. Little Ernest, known to his sisters as Peter, died of inanination, which is a term meaning that he was a small weak baby, and he was buried in the cemetery at Warblington. After his discharge, Ernest found employment with the Automobile Association, as an AA Patrolman, and his daughters remember him standing on an island at the junction of North, West and High Streets in Emsworth directing the traffic. He did not stay in this position long and by 1930 he was employed as a Rating Officer for Havant and Waterloo Urban District council and the family moved to Victoria Road, Emsworth. He was very active in the village life, and appears to have been involved in the water carnivals on the Mill Pond among other activities. Although he lived in Emsworth he still travelled to Eastney for events for exRoyal Marines and stayed a great supporter of the Corps until his death. He died in April 1961 and was also buried in Warblington Cemetery. Linda Newell � 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, Hambledon, Portsmouth, Wallington, Wickham Subject The topic of the resource family history, patrolman, prisoner, ship, travel, war Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 41, November 2009, editor Rogers, Margaret, pp. 10-12, EMHT1482 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/7e66b41160230a56903e0abe2a4d6997.pdf 99117c5b52f4cd1d5e5a1b095ad66474 PDF Text Text Emsworth Sailing Club Although the sport of sailing did not originate in Chichester Harbour, people in growing numbers have enjoyed 'messing about in boats' here for well over a century. Bosham Sailing Club celebrated its centenary a couple of years ago, and in 2009 it was the turn of Emsworth Sailing Club to mark its 90th anniversary. The club has an unusual history. It was founded in 1919 by a group of officers who had fought together in the French trenches towards the end of the First World War. You can imagine them, huddled in their bunkers, making plans by candlelight to create a better way of life when the war ended. Two of those officers were Major Cecil Whitaker, and Viscount Bury (later the Earl of Albemarle). Emsworth Sailing Club published a history of the club in 1979, and from early club records reproduced some of the correspondence between the friends. Viscount Bury's letter said: "I happened to say to him (Major Whitaker) how much I enjoyed sailing, and then, peering covetously into the dim future of where we might find ourselves after the peace is signed, I said to him: Surely there'll be many young officers of the Brigade who will want to start learning to become helmsmen of small boats, but may lack the opportunity to do this? Could one not start a club in Hampshire or Sussex?" Very soon after the Great War ended, he received a letter from Major Whitaker: "our dream has come off, for I have secured a house as a club station, and a small fleet of light boats to start with, on Emsworth Harbour". That house, at 55 Bath Road, is still the ESC Clubhouse today. It was in fact the old bathing house, with saltwater pools which filled every tide. Major Whitaker and the co-founders of what was to become Emsworth Sailing Club paid a Miss Duffield £400 for the bathing house, its land, a coastguard station, several outbuildings and three ponds. The ESC history records that the first committee meeting of the new club was held at Aldsworth Farm House, the home of Commander Charles Denison, on 21st June 1919. They were able to offer membership to people who mainly lived in London because of the excellent rail service. Emsworth was on the main line to London, the first-class fare was 2s.6d., and the south coast resorts were flourishing as more Londoners realised how easily they could access the coast. We don't know how many local people joined, certainly some did, but it was not until after the Second World War that membership became predominantly local. Today, most of the 1,700 members live within 20 miles or so of Emsworth, and enjoy a much wider range of sailing than was possible in 1919. Members sail cruisers, racing dinghies, dayboats, wind surfers, and most recently kayaks – in fact almost any type of craft to get out on the waters of the harbour, the Solent and beyond – including motor boats. Originally, ESC owned its own small fleet of boats for members' use – this was a common practice in those days. They were called Sharpies – 19ft. overall, 5'6" beam, with an iron centre plate. They came with what was known as a "leg of mutton" mainsail, and a roller jib. For reasons that are unclear to us today, they were sold within a couple of years, and a boat builder, George Feltham, produced a specification for a new "Emsworth One-Design Class". They were to be slightly smaller at 16ft., and were to cost £50 each. The club history records �that they served the club well for some 30 years. In fact, there are still some Emsworth One Designs in private ownership today, and there is talk of plans to build new ones for those who like their boats to have a recognised pedigree. The club boats were sold in the 1960s, to the dismay of some members, but many other sailing clubs were doing the same. New types of sailing boat were being built, the public interest in sailing was soaring, the development of fibreglass meant that new designs could more easily be constructed. And so today, and the club's 90th anniversary. It has been marked by several spectacular events, starting with a "sail past" in June. This has been staged on several anniversaries in the past: club cruisers and dinghies line up to sail past the Commodore, who this year was anchored in Terror, the restored oyster boat, in the Emsworth channel, with ex-Commodores and their wives on board. On a perfect June day, more than 100 ESC members' boats took part in the sail past, including children in their Optimist dinghies. There was a grand summer ball, also in June, attended by over 200 members and guests, and in August at a special anniversary terrace party, a Harvard trainer aircraft from the Goodwood Flying School gave a fine display of aerobatics. In common with other clubs in the harbour, ESC has evolved over the years to meet the demands of members who want to enjoy a very different kind of sailing experience today. We are very much a family-orientated club, and are proud of the fact that over 20 of our best young sailors competed this year in national and international racing events, at home and abroad. How will the club look in another 100 years? How will the harbour look, with an increase of up to one metre in the height of the sea? No-one can say with any certainty, but having weathered another world war and several deep recessions, the club is well placed to survive and thrive and provide excellent sailing for people living in the area in 2109. Ian McIntyre � 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 EMHT1484 Title A name given to the resource Emsworth Sailing Club Description An account of the resource Founding of the Emsworth Sailing Club 90 years ago and its subsequent history. Three photographs. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource McIntyre, Ian Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01.11.2009 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bury, Christine Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 25.02.2019 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1918-2009 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Bath Road, Emsworth; France Subject The topic of the resource anniversary, event, sailing craft, trench Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 41, November 2009, editor Rogers, Margaret, pp. 8-9, EMHT1482 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/3c71c7860cae6c2679ed417b65080781.pdf 365597144bb29d5300265bc323e1009c PDF Text Text The Emsworth Poorhouse The Poorhouse in North Street was built in 1776, on a piece of ground given by Thomas Panton, the Lord of the Manor. The building still exists, converted into a row of whitepainted cottages near the North Street entrance to St. James's Church. Mrs Jewell in her memoirs remarks on the deep sloping roof at the back: The doors were fastened with wooden latches raised by a bobbin, like those in the story of Red Ridinghood when the wolf says "Pull the bobbin and the latch will go up". The [...] owner says that the front room of No. 20 was the Board Room and that it had a spiral staircase in the corner to reach the upper stories. He found the door thickly studied with iron nails and it had a small square opening at the top, probably this was the door of the dark cell used for imprisonment of refractory tramps. In 1772 an Act was passed authorising parishes to provide houses in which the poor could be maintained. A statutory system for the maintenance of the poor had been in existence since the reign of Elizabeth I. The dissolution of the monasteries in the reign of Henry VIII had left the poor and destitute with no regular means of support, and various attempts had been made to replace the part played by the church by Acts such as that passed in 1530, directing Justices of the Peace to licence poor, aged and impotent persons to beg within a certain area, and another Act of 1536 providing for the maintenance of the poor by the 'voluntary and charitable alms of good Christian people'. Perhaps too few good Christian people were willing to provide alms: early in the reign of Elizabeth I power was given to the Justices to tax or commit to prison those who would not contribute for the relief of the poor, and, later in the reign, official Overseers of the Poor were appointed to take over the task of caring for paupers. The Overseers were to be a Church Warden plus 'four substantial men' of each parish, charged with the double duty of levying the Poor Rate, and buying material to provide work for the unemployed. The Poor Law was strictly enforced, and, to an extent, it worked well, especially in small rural communities with not too many resident paupers. Until the 1834 Poor Law Reform Act, poor families were not compelled to enter the parish poorhouse, but could be given 'Out Relief'. Mrs Jewell remembered that, in Emsworth, My old gardener, who would have been far above ninety, remembered coming to the poorhouse for a weekly 1/6d. because his mother had more than 6 children. This was a special allowance granted in such cases. A working man's wage as a farm labourer was probably 10/- a week, and the cost of a large loaf of bread was 1/10d. However, the regular levying of the Poor Rate could become a great burden to individual parishes, especially in times of high unemployment and high food prices. Walter Butler, in his Topographical Account of the Hundred of Bosmere in Hampshire, comprising the Parishes of Havant, Warblington and Hayling, published in 1817, writes in a somewhat aggrieved tone of the heavy burden of supporting the poor on the parish rate 'according to the number of children, their wants, infirmities and age', estimating that the annual expense for Havant was nearly £1,700, 'being ten rates at £168 each'. He felt that this 'heavy expenditure might be lessened, if the paupers were properly employed'. �In the parish of Warblington, the poor were 'properly employed', because as Walter Butler points out, in the Emsworth poorhouse the labour of the poor was farmed. An Agreement signed on 14th September 1795 stated that William Young, Baker and Grocer of Emsworth, ... at the Vestry or Public Meeting of the Parishioners of the said Parish of Warblington at the Parish Church assembled upon the usual Notice thereof first given the said William Young did for the Consideration hereinafter mentioned Contract and agree to and with the above named Churchwardens and Overseers and their Successors at his own Costs and Charges to supply such of the Poor Persons as should be lawfully entitled to Relief and Maintenance from the said Parish and who from time to time by the direction of the said Churchwardens and Overseers or their Successors any or either of them may reside in the Poorhouse used for the Parish with good wholesome and a sufficient Quantity of Meat Drink Cloathing (sic) Fuel and Washing Which are to be the like Nature Quantity and Quality which the persons resident in the said Poorhouse have each of late been usually supplied with for and during the Term of Three Years .., In return for such provisions ... William Young his Executors or Administrators shall take unto himself or themselves the benefit of the said Poor People's Work and Labour during the said Term who shall so reside in the Poorhouse BUT the said Churchwardens and Overseers doth agree not to take from the said Poorhouse any Child or Children who may be capable of working at the Weaving business (which is now and for some time past hath been carried on in the said Poorhouse) so as to injure the said William Young from the service of such Child Unless he she or they may be desirous of leaving the said Poorhouse or any thing may offer which the said Churchwardens and Overseers may think to the advantage of placing the said Child or children Out in the World. This arrangement for farming the labour of the poor was not as heartless as it might seem, and would undoubtedly have been popular with the ratepayers in the parishes by which it was adopted. The Agreement made with William Young makes strict provisions for inspections by the Churchwardens and Overseers to ensure that standards were kept up in the provision of food and clothing for the residents of the Poorhouse. The diet was far from luxurious: adults had three hot meat dinners, one soup dinner, two cold meat dinners, and one bread and cheese dinner. Breakfast consisted of bread and butter for the adults and gruel for the children, while supper was more bread and cheese and beer. As far as clothing was concerned, the Churchwardens and Overseers had to supply each person entering the poorhouse with 'the first usual suit of clothing'. Viz: for every Man and Boy Three Shirts, two pair of Stockings, one Pair of Breeches, one Hat, one Waistcoat and two round Frocks, One Pair of Shoes and Buckles. And for every Women or Girl Three Shifts, Two Petticoats, Two Pair of Stockings, One Pair Stays [?obscured by stain on document], one Jacket, One Gown, One Pair Shoes, Two Caps and One Hat or Bonnet ... This was the standard that William Young was expected to keep up for however long each inmate resided in the Poorhouse. It is difficult to assess how much profit the 'farmer' could �have made from the labour or the poor in Emsworth. In March 1814, the poorhouse contained 5 men, 7 women, 10 boys and girls. According to Walter Butler, The men in mild weather, being old and infirm, picked oakham [oakum]; the women are employed in needle work and household affairs: boys ten years of age work in the sail manufactory, those under that age go to the parish school. This parish school, opened on 25th June 1812 'by the zeal of the inhabitants', is one proof that the people of Emsworth were in no way ungenerous in their provision for the poor. The school was under the control of the Guardians of the Poor, and was run on Doctor Bell's System, whereby one master or mistress could teach a large number of children, the older children, or monitors, passing on their own skills to the younger ones. The school occupied workshops adjoining the poorhouse, and was divided into two apartments for boys and girls. Children were able to attend from the age of five until they were twelve – except for the poorhouse boys, who left at ten years old. The children were taught English, writing and accounts. The end came for the Emsworth Poorhouse after the passing of the Poor Law Reform Act of 1834. This Act put the responsibility for the relief of the poor on to Unions of parishes rather than individual parishes: Emsworth became part of the Union which consisted of Havant, Hayling and Warblington, and when the Union workhouse in West Street, Havant, was extended, the Emsworth Poorhouse was no longer needed. Christine Normand � 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 EMHT1483 Title A name given to the resource The Emsworth Poorhouse Description An account of the resource Description of the Emsworth Poorhouse and the care of paupers Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Normand, Christine Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01.11.2009 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bury, Christine Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 25.02.2019 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1776-1834 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. North Street, Emsworth; Warblington Subject The topic of the resource church warden, employment, food, overseer, pauper, poorhouse, school Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 41, November 2009, editor Rogers, Margaret, pp. 3-5, EMHT1482 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/c0df416798569fce2bb1b9df3450721e.pdf 96016ced8f9eea38b01921fedff74aed PDF Text Text Emsworth’s Turnpike Road In 1555 an ‘Act for mending of Hyeways’ was passed in response to the many complaints about the state of main roads throughout the country. The Act obliged parishes to maintain the roads within their boundaries. Every able-bodied man had to serve four days a year (later increased to six), and owners of horses and carts had to be ready to use them to help with the upkeep of the roads. This system may have brought about some improvements in the state of the roads, but it was very hard on small parishes which lay on busy sections of a main road, or whose roads incorporated particular hazards. The latter was the case with Emsworth, where the estuary between Hampshire and West Sussex had to be crossed at low tide by a causeway, and which had no road bridge until the coming of the Turnpike road in 1762. It seems that some earlier attempts had been made to improve the crossing. The area on the Sussex bank of the River Ems at the foot of Queen Street is known as the Hermitage. In 1527, a man called Simon Cotes, who described himself as ‘an Ermyt’ made a will, mentioning land which he had inherited on the Sussex bank of the River Ems, and on which he had built a chapel where travellers could rest, and presumably wait for low tide. Simon Cotes had built ‘breggys and byways’ across the water, and left his estate in trust to the Earl of Arundel, asking the Earl to see that someone kept up Simon’s work of ministering to travellers and maintaining the roadway, as well as praying for the soul of the Earl and all other ‘Chrysten soulls’. It is not known how long Simon Cote’s wishes were carried out, but it is certain that travel by road via Emsworth remained both difficult and dangerous for wheeled vehicles and exceedingly slow. In the seventeenth century a regular Stage Wagon plied between Portsmouth and Chichester via Havant, carrying both passengers and goods. People of ‘the best condition’ occupied the front seats for 6d., while inferior persons sat behind. The eighteen mile journey took all day, with the wagon travelling at about two miles per hour. In 1663 the first Turnpike Act allowed Toll Gates to be erected on the Great North Road and charges to be levied. One thousand one hundred Turnpike Trusts were set up over the next 150 years to maintain the main roads. (One of the earliest Turnpike Trusts was the one covering the road from Portsmouth to Sheet Bridge, just beyond Petersfield, which included a particularly difficult stretch through the Forest of Bere, plus hazardous road conditions in the vicinity of Butser Hill and marshy areas south of Petersfield). The Chichester to Portsmouth road was established as Trust No. 10 by a local Act of 1762 and was to be 12 miles long, passing through Cosham, Bedhampton, Havant, Warblington, Emsworth, Nutbourne, Bosham, New Fishbourne and St. Bartholonew’s into Chichester. It had three toll gates along the route at Bedhampton Gate, Nutbourne and Fishbourne Gate and Bar. Advertisements in the local papers invited citizens to lend money on security of the tolls, and £12,901 was borrowed, of which £12,851 was paid off by 1851. Surprisingly large sums of money were necessary for the upkeep of main roads. Money was also needed to obtain the necessary Act of Parliament to set up a Trust, and this Act had to be renewed from time to time. Commissioners were appointed to run each Trust, including local magistrates and landowners. These commissioners were empowered to appoint Surveyors of the Highway, who were required to ensure that ‘such Carts and Persons who are liable to work in the Highways by the Statutes already in force’ performed their duties. The provisions of the 1555 Act were still in force, and the new trusts relied on local labour for road mending and improvements, instead of importing gangs of navvies as was done on the railways and canals. The surveyors of the Highways had to agree in advance rates to be paid for the carting of road-mending materials, hire of labour, etc. The difficulty in raising the large sums needed meant that the Turnpike Trusts were frequently in debt. In 1732 the Kensington Trust had a floating debt of £7,400, and the �Islington Trust one of almost £10,000 in 1742. By 1 January 1851, Trust No. 10 was one of the few with no arrears of interest, perhaps an indication of how valuable to local tradesmen their efforts to maintain the road had been. In the mid-eighteenth century, the road from Havant to Emsworth was a single rutted lane, too narrow for two carts to pass. Passing places were made, but if two carts met head on, the drivers would sometimes fight with fists or whips to decide who should back down. The Turnpike Trust improved the road so much that the journey from Portsmouth to Chichester only took three hours by coach, and under two hours by post chaise. Heavy goods were still sent by sea. However, even after these improvements, the journey via Emsworth could still be hazardous; it is recorded that on 13 November 1840 the mail was obliged to go through Westbourne because the tide was so high at Emsworth. Havant had twice weekly coaches passing through Emsworth to Chichester and back, but there were numerous complaints about the narrowness of the main road especially between Havant and Emsworth, where passing places still had to be used. In report in 1826 by Mr. E. Fuller, a Chichester surveyor, gives the plan of an intended improvement to the turnpike road between the 9th and 10th milestones, by widening the road on the north and south sides. This would have resulted in the Revd. Thomas Franks and his occupier William Softly losing part of an arable field and part of a gateroom, while the Revd. Webster would have lost part of his privy. Other dangers for travellers between Portsmouth and Chichester included highwaymen and footpads. In the early nineteenth century coaches came from Petersfield, through Rowlands Castle and Havant, to avoid the highwaymen and footpads in the Forest of Bere (Nelson is said to have come by this route on his last journey to Portsmouth). However, highway robbers were not confined to the Forest of Bere; on 23 February 1807, a footpad attempted to rob one George Chatfield, a baker from Emsworth, who was returning from Havant between eight and nine in the evening. Mr Chatfield was intercepted by the gunman ‘on the other side of the milstone, in the spot called Bearblocks Dell’ (about halfway between Havant and Emsworth). Chatfield was mounted, and the footpad, who was 'genteelly dressed and rather stout made' shot and seriously wounded him in the shoulder and the arm. He managed to struggle on to Emsworth, and a reward of 200 guineas was offered for information leading to the arrest of the gunman, but he was never caught. It has been suggested that Chatfield’s attacker may have been Jack Pitt of Lordington, who took to highway robbery to satisfy the ambitions of his wife, Anne, who, according to Longcroft, was ‘vain of her person [...] vain of her dress, and was always believed to have exercised a marked and evil influence on the life of her husband’. However, Jack Pitt was reported to have been a fine figure of a man, over six feet tall, which does not fit with the description of Chatfield's attacker. Jack was eventually hanged on Southsea Common. As on other turnpike roads, the income from the tolls gathered at the various Gates on Turnpike Trust No. 10 were regularly put up for auction, allowing an individual to collect the tolls in return for a sum of money paid to the Commissioners of the Trust. This had the advantage of ensuring a regular income for the Trust, and meaning that the collectors of tolls would be assiduous in making sure that travellers paid their due amount. In the Hampshire Telegraph on 19 June 1809, a notice headed ‘Chichester and Cosham Turnpike Road’ stated that ‘Tolls arising at several Turnpike Gates upon this Road will be let by auction to the best bidder at the Swan Inn in Chichester’. The tolls for the preceding year were listed; those for Bedhampton Gate producing £722. The income of Turnpike Trusts declined with the coming of the railway. The tolls gathered at Bedhampton Gate in 1817 amounted to only £600, and by 1850 the total income of Trust No. 10 was only £744. 0s. 8d. In spite of the improvements they brought, Turnpike Trusts were unpopular because the presence of the turnpikes made travelling expensive. Road users went to great lengths to avoid �paying tolls; at Fareham, in the early 19th century, a farm labourer drove ten sheep across a field to avoid the toll charge of 1d., only to be caught and fined £5. Responsibility for highway maintenance was raised eventually from parish to district levels. Overall control of the country’s highways was established in 1872, when the Public Health Act transferred control to the Local Government Board, and, for the first time, funding no longer depended upon purely local sources. Christine Normand � 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 EMHT1481 Title A name given to the resource Emsworth's Turnpike Road Description An account of the resource History behind formation of Turnpike Trust No. 10 running from Cosham to Chichester via Emsworth, plus details of income raised from tolls Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Normand, Christine Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01.11.2010 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bury, Christine Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. 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Emsworth, Hampshire, Hermitage, West Sussex Subject The topic of the resource footpads, hermit, highwaymen, income, parish, river, road, toll, turnpike Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 42, Nov. 2010, editor Rogers, Margaret, pp. 12-14, EMHT1476 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/4534d2649d25cb92f522422847db7c3e.pdf b6c372e87b03e0b6364b56c0401ead03 PDF Text Text Our Other Next Door Neighbour At 3 pm on Saturday, 23 July 1898 the new Victoria Cottage Hospital in North Street, erected to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, celebrated the previous year, was opened by Sir Samuel Wilkes, bart., President of the Royal College of Physicians and Physician Extraordinary to the Queen before an invited audience of some 400 guests. It replaced the town's former hospital in King Street, which had been open for some ten years, treating 330 patients. A large marquee had been erected in the new hospital's grounds for the event on that sunny summer's afternoon. The hospital was, and still is, our immediate next door neighbour, built on the site of what was then a disused orchard, owned formerly by the late Dr. Thomas Palmer Stephens. At the opening ceremony a letter was read out which had been received from the Queen's Secretary, Sir Arthur Biggs, congratulating Emsworth residents on their very successful fund raising: ... I am authorised to assure you Her Majesty has learnt with much satisfaction of the liberal and charitable manner in which the people of Emsworth, generously assisted by others, have commemorated her Diamond Jubilee by building a village hospital. While thus showing their loyalty to the Queen, they have nobly contributed to a work of mercy with which Her Majesty heartily sympathises. Before the opening townspeople had purchased the land for £149. 6s 9d, and contributed towards the cost of building, which amounted to £1,344. 3s. 4d, including the architect's and other fees. Of this £878. 11s. 8d. had been raised by public subscription, of which £9. 14s. 6d. came from sums of less than 1s. The football team had played two matches, a cycle carnival had been arranged and the Friendly Society's Demonstration and procession raised another £21. 16s. 0d., so it truly represented the whole town's efforts. The foundation stone had been laid only eleven months before on Friday, 7 August 1897 by Mrs Ernald Smith, a great supporter and benefactress of the hospital. For its time it was considered to be most progressive with an operating theatre, emergency wards, one for three men and another for three women, a boardroom, matron's apartments, servants' rooms and offices, designed by Mr. Birch (London), the architect. The builder was Mr. W. Poate, who, according to the newspaper report, 'had built the hospital without profit to himself', and who proudly declared 'the hospital is built upon six tons of good solid concrete and there is not a bad brick nor a faulty piece of timber in the whole building'. Just one year later, in 1899, Alfred Stent of Havant, a member of the Rontgen Society, offered the hospital the use of his x-ray machine, and was appointed radiographer. The hospital was not thought to contain its own dispensary, for according to an original prescription book of 1899 (now in the museum) from the original building and shop of The Old Pharmacy (est. 1851) in High Street, it was the chemist there who dispensed �requirements and prescriptions on the hospital's behalf. Rules for the new hospital followed very much on the lines already laid down for the town's first hospital in King Street, setting out who were and were not eligible for admission, costs, and visiting times (see Tony Yoward's information sheet on both Emsworth hospitals in the museum). Cooking and laundry duties were originally carried out by volunteers and patients' relatives. The Cottage Hospital has now been serving Emsworth’s townspeople for well over one hundred years and continues to be a well used facility which is valued tremendously. Together with the former Town Hall, now the Museum and Hampshire Fire and Rescue Station, and the purpose-built Post Office erected in 1902-3, these three buildings made up the Victorian and early Edwardian centre of the town and are an important daily reminder of the public spirit of Emsworth's energetic, generous and thriving population. Margaret Rogers � 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 EMHT1480 Title A name given to the resource Our Other Next Door Neighbour Description An account of the resource Description of the funding and opening of the Victoria Cottage Hospital on 23 July 1898 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 01.11.2010 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bury, Christine Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 16.02.2019 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1897-1899 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. North Street, Emsworth Subject The topic of the resource foundation stone, hospital, subscription, x-ray machine Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 42, Nov. 2010, editor Rogers, Margaret, pp. 11-12, EMHT1476 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/0567e66bef9f6c47a02fff22a0d7ae49.pdf 7666c1521aa4b52b2a5b7d061ec672dd PDF Text Text Historic Ceremony in St. Peter's Square, Emsworth on 16 June 2010 On Wednesday, 16 June a unique ceremony was held in St. Peter's Square, Emsworth when soldiers from 58 (Eyre's) Battery 12 Regiment Royal Artillery, Thorney Island were presented with their campaign medals. This is the first time a parade has been held in the town for returning servicemen and women to receive their medals and thousands of residents and visitors turned out to cheer them and wave flags. Traditionally the battery's parades have always been held in Lancashire or Cumbria from where most of the soldiers in the Eyre's Battery are recruited. The Regiment has been based on Thorney Island for about two years and expect to remain for several more. Because of the success of the St. George's Day events they asked if the medal ceremony could be held in Emsworth. The parade of about 100 soldiers, lead by a military band, made its way up Queen Street and around part of Spring Gardens to The Square where Honorary Brigadier Mark Pountain, their commanding officer Lt.Col. Nick Pond and Havant's Mayor Cllr. Yvonne Weeks awarded each of them with the Afghanistan campaign medals. The ceremony concluded with a flypast by a Lynx helicopter as the national anthem was being played. �A record of the event is being compiled, to be held in the Baker Barracks Library and Emsworth Museum's Archive. We also have a film taken by the video team and John Tweddell. Dorothy Bone � 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 EMHT1479 Title A name given to the resource Historic Ceremony in St Peter's Square, Emsworth on 16 June 2010 Description An account of the resource Presentation of campaign medals to servicemen and women of 58 Battery, 12 Regiment, Royal Artillery Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Bone, Dorothy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01.11.2010 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bury, Christine Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). 16.02.2019 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 16 June 2010 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. St Peter's Square, Emsworth Subject The topic of the resource campaign medals, event record, servicemen and women Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 42, Nov. 2010, editor Rogers, Margaret, p 9, EMHT1476 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 medal