8 20 162 https://emsworthmuseum.org.uk/emcms/files/original/bcc20f5a6dceb536ff0f72728f2feff6.pdf 7e1494ace7f741da869c7729d8f94aed PDF Text Text Mum’s Letter Below is a transcript of a letter that was written by my mum, Amy Miller, to my dad, William Miller in August 1942. During WW2 my parents lived in Central Buildings, West Street, Emsworth. Dad was a policeman in the Hants Constabulary and at the time of the letter he was away on a two week course in Winchester, hence Mum’s letter. At the time she was eight weeks pregnant with yours truly. I think the letter’s content may capture a typical 1942 day in war-time Emsworth and confirms the wartime spirit. Despite all that was going on around them, people just got on with their lives. Here is the letter (verbatim) followed by some explanatory notes. Wednesday 5 o’clock 19/8/42 3 Flat Central Building To my Darling Husband, I have just got back after a hectic half hour or so, mum and myself went up to Mrs Reuts1 (she has gone to London). Halfpast three the siren blows, about four o’clock mum says ‘has the all clear gone’? no sooner had she said it, the machine gunning started (all clear just gone 5.10). We had to go round the shelter next door, the AA guns were terrible, I was thinking about Rufus2 but dad was home and Aunt Alice took Rufus to the shelter. Thorney’s sirens blew and I am sure I heard bombs drop. What about us landing at Dieppe3 (I wouldn’t have known how to spell that word had I not looked in the paper) You know Mr Tillet4 works at Haslar, well he phoned up to say he wouldn’t be home for his half day because they were bringing the wounded back this afternoon. All this afternoon there has been Canadians going through towards Havant with YMCA vans and all sorts of things. I shall have to leave off here for a minute or two the sirens have just gone again and they may come back, we’ve had to go to the shelter again so I brought it down here with me to write. I expect they are after the boats coming back from over there. When we went out this afternoon we went down West Street and Cocky5 was in the office window in his cage, and I spoke to him and said ‘Hello Cocky’! and he walked up and down his cage shouting out. He made such a noise the Sergeant thought it was someone at the door so he came out. He asked me if I had heard from you and I told him ‘yes’. He then said he hoped you got full marks for everything and he knew that you would try hard. He said he’d like to see Mr Ha-- and Mr Pla--6 have to go down there he feels sure they would get full marks for everything they did. I took Rufus out this morning at 7.30 for a walk and then again at dinner time, it is a good job I did because it has been pouring with rain since 3 o’clock and it doesn’t look as though we will be able to go out tonight. �I am glad I can say I feel better now, you should have seen the dinner I ate today. 3 slices of bacon pudding, potatoes and beans, and then a big plate of milk pudding. I am glad that your food is all right because that is the main thing. I shall be so glad when this fortnight is over so that you can come back home again. Rufus and I miss you so much. I say to him sometimes ‘where’s your master’ he cocks his old head to one side and looks up as much as to say ‘Where has he gone’. I think if I speak to him sometimes about you he won’t miss you so much. (The guns are firing again so they are about still) Mrs Mayo7 came in the shop this morning and she told me that this Friday coming Sam Mayo is going to speak to her from Cairo, you know the way the children do to their mothers from South Africa. It is coming over on the Forces Program I think it is about 6.30, I am not sure. Rufus is getting tired of being in the shelter, he is trying to get out, I expect he wants his supper. The guns are ever so heavy again, the clouds are so low so it is better to keep under cover. You know those tanks I told you about they were 25 tons each so you can tell how big they were. Sunday will be your worst day when there’s nothing much to do, but still you can rest. Thorney’s siren has just gone again so there is something on again. (I had to stop again here). It is now 7.30 and the siren still on I had to stop writing I couldn’t see to write anymore. The sirens have been on since halfpast three with ten minutes all clear in between the two. Well the guns have been terrific again so I had better bring this letter to a close, as I am writing now the all clear is going (it is now 8 o’clock). So I will say goodbye for now with all my love and Rufus’s. From Rufus From your loving Wife Amy XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXX xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx ps Edie has just told me the time of that broadcast it is 10 o’clock too late for you to hear. I am just going to take Rufus for a little run it is still pouring with rain. xxxx pss I have been 3 hours writing this letter it is all about guns and sirens, they have brought one plane down8. (over Woodmancote I think) 1 Even allowing for spelling mistakes I have not been able to identify who Mrs Ruets may have been. 2 Rufus was Mum and Dad’s Red Setter dog. He was purchased for 3 guineas in 1938 from a person named A. Cooke who lived at 66 North Street. 3 The news of the Dieppe landings, ‘Operation Jubilee’, must have reached home very quickly. Apparently the raid started at 5.00am on the morning of the 19th August 1942, the date of Mum’s letter. The full story probably took a little longer to materialise, however, and the whole operation appears to have gone horribly wrong! -2- �Reports say that by 10.50am on the same day, the Allied troops were in retreat having suffered heavy losses. Deaths were estimated as high as 60% for the 6100 strong landing force. In addition, the Navy lost a Destroyer and 33 Landing Craft and the RAF lost 106 aircraft. Every one of the 27 tanks that were landed on the beaches by Landing Craft (for the first time) were destroyed. It was thought that the experience gained from this exercise served as a valuable lesson for the D-Day Landings. Lord Mountbatten is attributed with saying, ‘For every soldier who died at Dieppe, ten were saved on D-Day’. Mr Tillet, whose parents ran the Town Brewery Pub for a number of years, lived with his family next door to Mum and Dad in Central Buildings. It appears that in 1942 he was working at Haslar Hospital in some capacity. 5 Cocky appears to be a Parrot, Parakeet or similar that was owned by someone in an ‘office’ in West Street? 6 As there were Police Cottages in West Street during the WW2, It is possible that the Sergeant referred to is a Police Sergeant. The reference to Mr Ha- and Mr Pla- is probably Mum’s way of being discreet and not mentioning the person’s full names. 7 There was a Mayo family living in St. James Road in the late 1930’s, presumably the ‘Mrs Mayo’ referred to in the letter is from the same family (W.C.H Mayo lived at No 6 St. James Road – Ref. Havant and District Directory 1937) Sam Mayo, who was obviously a relative who appears to have been lined up for broadcast on the BBC’s Forces Programme? 8 I can find no confirmation that a plane was actually brought down in the Emsworth area on this day. Stephen Miller -3- � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EMHT2019 Title A name given to the resource Emsworth Echo Articles Description An account of the resource Articles published in the Emsworth Echo Annual Bulletin Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various authors, mostly Members of EMHT or local researchers Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 until the present Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Emsworth Echo Article Articles published in the Annual Bulletin Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EMHT1332 Title A name given to the resource Mum's Letter Description An account of the resource Wartime letter from Amy Miller to her husband, William. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Miller, Stephen Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01.11.2015 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). 16.03.2018 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1942 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Cairo, Dieppe, Emsworth, Haslar, Havant, Thorney Island Subject The topic of the resource AA guns, bombs, dog, family, shelter, siren Modes Classified Name Additional information relating to the object letter Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 47, November 2015, editor Rogers, Margaret, pp.11-13, EMHT1328 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/f4ac7d4a0db4cf9372484439f523b81f.pdf 5ee09e2059ef529978d6d383fd44ed64 PDF Text Text Friday Nights: Me, Sprigg and Whicher I know Elton John said it was Saturday, and that the so-called “Rumble in the Jungle” in Zaire took place on a Saturday, but the experience of my youth was that the real “rumble in the jungle” was dance night at the local swimming baths every winter Friday night. Elton, Saturday might have been alright for fighting, but Friday was much better/worse. You needed mates around you then! In that period of life marked by uncertainty and angst, they needed to be pretty formidable mates too. I gave up and watched it all from the stage. Today, Emsworth Auctions, held on the first Friday night of the month provides me with a more gentle but regular reminder of dancehall days. Now I’m in lumbering old age, my Friday nights of rumbling in the jungle have ‘morphed’ to rumbling in the jumble. Nevertheless the auction has its own competitive edge. There have been more than one or two occasions there over the years when the bidding got a bit lively and the heart rate has topped 70 and when, with a confidence born of old age, I’ve stuck in there. One such night occurred just a few months ago. Readers of Echo will have come across Arti Fact and in particular his/her description of a map of Hayling Island by Charles Lewis and held by the Emsworth Museum. The excitement at the auction on this particular Friday night was over a Charles Lewis 1833 map of Emsworth, Havant and Bedhampton that, to be honest, had seen better days and neither was I entirely convinced of its originality. The one thing that drove me on was a label to the reverse stating its use as the exhibit marked H.G. Sg referred to in the affidavit of Herbert Guildford Sprigg in the High Court case of Sprigg versus the Urban District Council of Warblington in 1899 (see Figure 1). All my other well-developed alerts in connection with buying any map or print under glass were sounding warnings. Needless to say I prevailed, a Friday night position I was not Figure 1: The label to verso of the map usually accustomed to in my youth. I had not heard of H G Sprigg but was soon able to find a news article entitled EMSWORTH CIVIL WAR from the Hampshire Telegraph of 4.09.1899 (see Figure 2) that shed a little light. You will notice that the sworn statement by Sprigg refers to the Urban District Council of Warblington, while the newspaper report refers to Emsworth District Council. At this point you might fancy a little flutter as to whom, Sprigg or the newspaper, might be correct in the designation of the Council except that this is not currently possible in Emsworth. I don’t know, all the fuss about the closing of North Street and not a word about the closing of the Bookie! But back to where I was. We will agree that the defendants in the legal action will be referred to as the UDC. “Emsworth Civil War” indeed, sounded like it might be an interesting interlude but there the news trail ended, my investigation limited by my inability to use the search package. It was not until a little later and an occasion when I was idling around the Museum (a frequent happening) that I came upon the booklet The Parish Church of St James, �Emsworth, Hampshire. The First Hundred Years by Norman Simmonds, 1980. It turns out that H Guildford Sprigg was the Rector of St James Church at the time of the writ, but why would the Church take the UDC to court? The Simmonds article gives a deliciously dry and wry account of the entire episode and I would urge anyone to read it directly, as my subsequent paraphrasing does the thing no justice at all. It was clear that the Rev H Guildford Sprigg was a high achiever and a free spirit in the church even before his induction to St James on 1 February 1893. His arrival in Emsworth immediately confirmed his standing as a man of great intellect and formidable resolve, so much so that few parishioners thought he would remain Rector of Emsworth for any length of time. Indeed all bets on the subject were off, although as things turned out it was not until January 1920 that the Rev Sprigg Figure 2: Hampshire Telegraph 4.09.1899 actually did retire from office. In fact one earlier attempt at resigning the Emsworth Rectorship in 1913 was thwarted by a petition signed by 900 parishioners urging him to reconsider his decision. One particular incident that endeared him to parishioners, if not the common man and lovers of underdogs everywhere, concerned the Church’s dispute with the UDC as to the right of use of the church path increasingly being used as a short cut for, amongst other things, accessing the railway station. The Church had no truck with foot passengers using the path in this way but the growing use by other traffic, if not checked, could forfeit the Church’s ownership of the path thereby hindering planning permissions on certain extensions to the southern aspects of the building that it had had in mind for some little time. Until 1881 the Church practice had been to lock the Churchyard gates at night, but since then things had lapsed. A Church Council meeting in July 1899 chaired by Rev Sprigg decided to lock the gates symbolically for one day. Sometime before a stone stile had been erected to assist the passage of pedestrians through the churchyard on occasions when the gates were locked. The UDC was informed simply as a matter of courtesy as the Church Council thought the matter to be entirely uncontentious. The UDC, however, thought differently and in a number of increasingly heavy-handed and authoritarian responses that were reliant on some degree of bluff, wrote at one point that the Rector and churchwardens were not empowered to close such a churchyard path and that it would instruct the Council Surveyor to break the lock and its workmen to demolish the stile. Someone should have warned the UDC of the formidable nature of the Rev Sprigg’s resolve in such matters, for knowing well his ground, and after a short exchange of letters he called the UDC’s bluff by taking the case to the High Court. As well as the rector knew his ground so the parishioners knew him and again all bets were off as to who would be the victor in this particular conflict. The UDC, ignoring the mounting costs falling on the ratepayers, blindly blundered on and decided to contest the case, only to be persuaded on the High Court ‘steps’ that they had no case. The minutes of a subsequent UDC meeting record the basis of the UDC withdrawal as being on the advice of -2- �the Clerk to the Court that the Judge was certainly not favourably impressed with the action they were taking, and neither was their Counsel! Quite at which point my Friday night acquisition was used in the above proceedings is not clear, although that it was used as an exhibit is the claim on its reverse. The question of how it came to be used is perhaps more interesting, for just after I had taken charge of my map I noticed on the front a list headed The Property of Geo Whicher, Esq. (see Figure 3). Comparing the map with specimens elsewhere showed this not to be present on any other map and on closer inspection I was able to see that it was a manuscript addition. Most people in the locality of Emsworth and Havant are familiar with the name Whicher’s Gate. The map in my possession shows that the land on the other side of the gate to the Havant Thicket belongs to Geo Whicher, as indeed do a number of other adjoining land parcels and properties, including the Staunton Arms. All these things lead me to conclude that the map was once the private property of one George Whicher, or else his land agent, and that this George is the Whicher of Whicher’s Gate. So who was George Whicher or rather which Whicher is this, as there seem to be a number of candidates around that Figure 3: George Whicher’s properties as marked on the map time? In the early 1800s there are two strands of the Whicher family living and working in Emsworth. Both strands emanate from the same paternal source, Thomas Whicher, who was baptized in April 1715 in Westbourne and was buried in 1781 in Stoughton. Thomas married Elizabeth Collins on 21.07.1761 at Aldingbourne, a marriage that produced two children, the eldest being George (we will call him George I), baptized at Stoughton on 10.04.1766. Elizabeth died and was buried at Stoughton on 21.12.1771 and so on 4.10.1773 Thomas married Elizabeth’s sister Joanna, a fairly common practice at the time. This marriage produced four children, the third born being Henry, baptized at Stoughton on 10.5.1778. It is George I and Henry who forged business interests in Emsworth in the 18th and 19th centuries, George I in brewing and Henry in butchery. -3- �George I’s marriage to Olive Mower in 1788 produced eight children, only the third born being male. This child, named George (denoted George II), was born 19.02.1794. Incidentally the second child, Sarah, born in 1792 died aged one while the fourth child, also named Sarah, lived to the age of 101! What of George II? Well he died aged 14 and that rules him out of contention as the Whicher of Whicher’s Gate and as the previous owner of my map. The confusion surrounding George Whicher arises because Henry Whicher (George I’s half brother) married Hannah Miller in 1801 and produced at least eleven children, the third of whom was born in 1808 and named George (denoted George III). By 1793 George I was doing exceedingly well as a brewer and maltster, having started his own business around 1788. George III was also a successful businessman, becoming a master butcher by the time of the 1851 census. This success comes a little late to credit Whicher’s Gate to him (born 1808) because it begins to appear on local maps at the beginning of the 19th century. In fact the initial Ordnance Survey map of 1810 is the earliest map I have found so far that marks Whicher’s Gate. George III would also appear to be a little young to have amassed the considerable portfolio shown on my map of 1833. So my Charles Lewis map, won on a Friday night, previously belonged to George I i.e. George Whicher born 1766, but how does that connect with the Rev Sprigg’s spat with the UDC in 1899? Well, it turns out that George Whicher (no confusion now) was a big man in the church, St James’ Church, Emsworth to be precise. Simmonds (ibid), notes that at the Vestry meeting of 23.04.1848: A Resolution in the form of a unanimous tribute to the late Mr Whicher, the Minister’s Warden from the first when the church was consecrated, in terms of high praise for his zeal, example and efficiency, and that these sentiments should be conveyed to his widow and family. George Whicher had died and was buried in Warblington Churchyard on 24.02.1848. Obviously an able and principled man who was hit hard by the death in infancy of his second born child, Sarah, and his third born child, and only son, George II, if the arrangement of their graves in the Warblington churchyard is anything to go by. George Whicher would also appear to have possessed valuable people management skills as the Vestry minute and a certain church notice of 1842 might indicate (see Figure 4). The notice is sent from the Sexton but note that George Whicher is one of two people riding shotgun on the issue, having to implement the policy by facing up to miscreants. Valuable people management and negotiation skills indeed, born of working in the brewing trade no doubt. It is probable that in his will George Whicher was generous to St James’ Church having been its church warden since its beginning, and the Charles Lewis map may well have been part of the bequest. The map was thus used in the court case because it was in the Church’s possession is the obvious explanation. But there is a 50 year gap between receiving the map and using it in the court Figure 4: Church Notice as it appears in Simmonds (ibid) -4- �case. Easily enough time for the church to have forgotten its existence, and anyway where would it have been stored to make it so readily recalled and available after such a length of time? So, as I sit here writing on a Friday night, you would expect me to be a little contentious and to forward an alternative explanation, wouldn’t you? And anyway I have an ulterior motive. Recall Sarah Whicher, the survivor, destined to live 101 years. She married, in 1821, William Hipkin of Stoughton. William seems to have impressed Sarah’s father, for George Whicher set up a joint business with William as coal merchants in the middle of the 1820s, called naturally enough Whicher and Hipkin. By 1829 the business was sufficiently well established to appear in White’s Trade Directory and it traded successfully until the demise of William Hipkin in 1871. Evidence enough therefore to suggest that George Whicher treated William Hipkin as the son he didn’t have. Additionally at the time of George’s death in 1848, Sarah his fourth born child had become his eldest surviving child when the first born, Olive, died age 51 in 1841. It is quite possible therefore that the map was part of George Whicher’s bequest to William and Sarah Hipkin. Sarah died in 1897 and so the map could well have been given to the church at this juncture. If that is indeed the case the map would have been relatively fresh in the minds of certain Vestry members when faced with the issue of rights of way over the St James’ church path that resulted in the serving of the writ on UDC in 1899. I have, as I said, another reason for leading you along this possible route of the map’s progress from George Whicher to the Church of St James’, and it’s this. When moving to Emsworth a little while ago, the house that I jointly purchased with my partner was called Bonheur. It had carried this name at least since the 1920s but we didn’t like it and so we took it down. A little further delving revealed that it had been called Ipswich Cottage in the 1901 census and Hipwich Cottage previously, the name it had carried since it was built around 1865. Ipswich is a misheard Hipwich and is the usual kind of George Walls made by census enumerators everywhere, but we had never any idea about the origin of the name Hipwich. Looking at my Friday night purchase I can now see that the land on which my house is built belonged to George Whicher in and around 1840, and most likely its ownership passed to Sarah and William Hipkin in George Whicher’s will of 1848. It is not the biggest leap of credibility made in this article to suggest that Hipwich is a simple corruption of Hipkin and Whicher. But why not Whichip? Sarah remained a Hipkin all of her life after her marriage and is buried as a Hipkin. With both William and Sarah alive in 1865, and with Sarah’s fidelity to her married name I guess Hipkin was always going to dominate. William’s indebtedness to Sarah’s father would explain the addition of George Whicher’s name. I’m left wondering what input William and Sarah Hipkin actually did have in the naming of my house. All bets are off on the subject of whether or not I’m feeling pleased with my winner’s trophy from that Friday night at the Emsworth Auctions. More than pleased I should say. I am really excited to unwrap the stories it contains and to discover the answers it has given to a number of seemingly unrelated questions. Not least I am more than chuffed at meeting up with some pretty formidable characters, who have almost become mates over the time I have been researching my map. I tell you, with mates like Sprigg and Whicher around, riding shotgun on my life, things might have turned out differently. I could have waved goodbye to youthful uncertainty and angst. Hot wired and fully charged I could have negotiated a Friday night challenge anywhere and in whatever shape it came. So now, how do I recover my youth? A Clive Pugh -5- �Acknowledgements My sincere thanks are due to the many people I have spoken to during the course of writing this article among them being the late Linda Newell, Robert West, Ralph Cousins and Margaret Rogers. I owe a special thanks to Emsworth Auctions for providing my Friday night excitement fix. I am in special debt to Roy and Sheila Morgan for their willingness to share their time and findings, and I am forever in the debt of Wendy Bright. * -6- � 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 EMHT1331 Title A name given to the resource Friday Nights: Me, Sprigg and Whicher Description An account of the resource Finding Charles Lewis 1833 map of Emsworth and discovering more about Herbert Guildford Sprigg, George Whicher and their disputes and families. Includes four figures. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Pugh, A. Clive Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01.11.2015 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bury, Christine Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. 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St James' Church, Emsworth; Whicher's Gate Subject The topic of the resource court case, family history, house, list, property Modes Classified Name Additional information relating to the object map Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 47, November 2015, editor Rogers, Margaret, pp.6-11, EMHT1328 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/40f520dd5d83a7fed84867bec5f6ca8e.pdf 20e1be8bc698b2054af04e245e3eb82e PDF Text Text Two Prehistoric Axes About 40 years ago a local fisherman was working in the Prinsted channel to the east of Thorney Island; when he brought his dredge to the surface he noticed a strange stone lying on the top so picked it out and took it home to look at it. It was roughly 5”(127mm) long by 2”(51mm) wide and about 1”(25mm) thick, with rounded ends which tapered to a sharp edge. Someone he knew identified it as probably Neolithic, now confirmed as a polished axe about 6,000 – 7,000 years old, in fairly good condition but with a large chip off the cutting edge. It would have been mounted on a wood or bone handle fastened on with raw hide which would shrink and hold it firm. A lot of effort had been put into making this tool, not just in working it to the desired shape but rubbing it on another rock over a long period of time to smooth it down. It must have been a valuable possession which was ruined by the large flake coming off the edge. A few years later the fisherman was again in the Prinsted channel dredging nearer to the bank. The water was fairly clear and he saw what he thought might be another axe lying on the surface of the mud. He picked it out but thought it was a rather poor specimen as it was fairly roughly shaped with a lot of chip marks and not polished like the Neolithic one. Again he took it home to clean and gave both axes to his grandson to take to school, after which they ended up in a drawer for several years. When he retired he asked for them back so that he could give them to the Emsworth Museum and their provisional identification as Neolithic and Palaeolithic respectively was confirmed by David Rudkin, the former Director of Fishbourne Roman Palace. The second axe is of great interest – it is roughly heart-shaped and measures 4.5”(114mm) by 4”(101mm) with a width of about 1.5”(38mm). It is heavily patinated from lying in the river water, the iron content of which has coloured it a warm brown. Two flakes were broken off by the dredge when it was lifted but otherwise it is in good condition. This type of Lower Palaeolithic axe was produced around 500,000 BC, the date of the discoveries at Boxgrove to the NE of Chichester, and by the same type of human (homo heidelbergensis). A lot of skill was involved, first of all to visualise the shape required from a large lump of rough flint and then to remove large flakes in a methodical way to achieve the desired tool – actions requiring intelligence and planning. It was Figure 1: Neolithic Axe Head (6,000-7,000 years old) Figure 2: Lower Palaeolithic Axe (approx. 500,000 years old) �hand-held, could be used for cutting or scraping and sharpened by the edge being re-flaked when it became dull. These two axes put us in touch with people who lived in this area an unimaginable time ago, and to hold one is a privilege. We should be grateful to the fisherman whose sharp eyes noticed them and for his generosity in giving them to the Museum for everyone to see. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EMHT1330 Title A name given to the resource Two Prehistoric Axes Description An account of the resource Detailed description of two hand-held stone and flint axes plus two photographs. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lawson, Dorothy Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01.11.2015 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bury, Christine Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. 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Prinsted channel, Thorney island Subject The topic of the resource bone, flint, Homo Heidelbergensis, stone, wood Modes Classified Name Additional information relating to the object axe, axe-head Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 47, November 2015, editor Rogers, Margaret, pp.4-5, EMHT1328 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/adb15f57deeee023562174edd543d382.pdf 426d558e2af9ea3e25447e1461954cfb PDF Text Text Archivists’ Report No. 46 Banking in Emsworth Banking is recorded from 1821 onwards. Before it disappears altogether we thought it might be helpful to record what has been available over almost 200 years. The earliest recorded banking activity is in 1821. Holloway and Westwood were agents for a Petersfield local bank which had been founded in 1808. Holloway and Westwood were local merchants and millers in Emsworth and it was usual at this time to start banks when merchants had credit or cash before they had to pay over, e.g. malt dues. The most persistent site of banking was 15 High Street. The Lloyds’ site was originally a two-storey building. The third-storey was added in 1923/4. Below is a list of the eight sites where banking has taken place over the years: A 3 High Street 1902-23 London & County Banking Co. Ltd. 1923-68 Westminster Bank B 4/6 High Street 1927-1984 Barclays Bank C 15 High Street 1864 Hampshire Banking Co. 1877 Hampshire and North Wilts. Banking Co. 1878-1902 Capital and Counties Bank 1959 National Provincial Bank 1968 Merger with Westminster Bank 1980 Nat. West Bank D 10-12 High Street 1984-2014 Barclays Bank E 30 High Street 1902-1918 Capital and Counties Bank 1918-2014 Lloyds Bank F 49 High Street 1937-1959 National Provincial Bank G 40 High Street 1968-1980 Westminster Bank H King Street 1821-1841 Holloway and Westwood Agents for Hector, Lacy and Hector, Petersfield. �Map of central Emsworth The above material was obtained from the archives of the various banks plus excerpts from directories. Margaret Rogers also provided an extract from the Hampshire Telegraph of 21st February 1842 which reported that the London & Counties Bank opened a facility at the Black Dog every Friday between 10 a.m. and noon. August 2015 Roy and Sheila Morgan, Hon. Archivists � 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 EMHT1329 Title A name given to the resource Archivists' Report No. 46 (Banking in Emsworth) Description An account of the resource Third item in report lists sites of banking activity in Emsworth. Includes town map. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Morgan, Roy and Sheila Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01.11.2015 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). 16.03.2018 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1821-2014 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. High Street, King Street, Emsworth Subject The topic of the resource banking, banks Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 47, November 2015, editor Rogers, Margaret, pp.3-4, EMHT1328 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/467f244d7f783affe8ac498bded0c832.pdf adda2bdfb7418808488c495a00d6fd98 PDF Text Text Havant and District Directory 1937 1 came across a 1939 Coronation issue of the 'Havant and District Directory' that was printed and published by the Hants and Sussex County Press. The Directory was produced at their offices at 12/14 North Street, Emsworth, and its undertaking was to list in its pages every business and residential property in the surrounding area. The publication was 'sponsored' by local businesses that were trading in the area by placing adverts in the Directory. With a particular interest in the businesses and pubs in Emsworth in the 1930s I include below an extract from the Directory listings. The advert has been copied with a degree of 'artistic licence' in the fonts that have been used and software limitations have restricted replicating some of the finer detail, however the layout and the wording has been recorded accurately. All Emsworth's main thoroughfares were listed in the Directory: North Street (west side), North Street (east side), High Street (west side), High Street (east side), West Street (south side), South Street (west side), King Street, Havant Road (North), Queen Street (south side), Queen Street (north side), Havant Road (south), and Southleigh Road. Highlighting as an example the advertisement of just one, that of HR Fogden at No. 11 High Street (west side): ** ST MARGARET'S HOSIERY AND UNDERWEAR ** H.R.FOGDEN General & Fancy Draper 11 High Street ** Emsworth Ladies' Outfitting — Millinery and Baby Linen — Paton and Baldwin's Knitting Wools — Agent for Perth Dye Works The Fogdens' advert interestingly refers to St Margarets hosiery and underwear, a brand that survived until recent times. Nathaniel Corah (1777-1833) started the company in Leicestershire where he produced garments on a knitting frame. By the 1830s his company was established in Leicester and the company was renamed N Corah & Sons Ltd. The Corah, St Margaret's trademark, first used in 1866 and registered in 1875, is the oldest surviving hosiery trademark. In 1926 the company began supplying their St Margaret knitwear directly to Marks & Spencers and continued to do so until the year 2000. Paton & Baldwin, also referred to in the Fogden's advert will be a familiar name to countless knitters who will have used the patterns and the wool produced by this company. The business began as two separate companies, founded in the late 1770s by James Baldwin of Halifax, Yorks, and about 1811 by John Paton of Alloa, Scotland. The companies merged in 1920 and diversified into producing wool for home knitters as well as publishing knitting patterns under the `Patons Rose' and `Baldwins Beehive' trademarks The company was merged with J & P Coats Ltd in 1961. The Patons trademark continues in use today. Stephen Miller � 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 EMHT1326 Title A name given to the resource Havant and District Directory 1937 Description An account of the resource Businesses in Emsworth. Highlighting Fogden's, a general and fancy draper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Miller, Stephen Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01.11.2016 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). 01.03.2018 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1937 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. High Street, Emsworth Subject The topic of the resource business, hosiery, knitting wools, shop, underwear Modes Classified Name Additional information relating to the object advertisement Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 48, November 2016, editor Rogers, Margaret, p.18, EMHT1316 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/169f8ab64c1aa550301b38539a3a2ac8.pdf 1cdedb2811d7a99858ec9b303b133d06 PDF Text Text Milk Emsworth Up to the mid 1800s milk was sold locally in the markets and the summer was the cheese making season when there was a surplus of milk. A cow delivered about 1.5 gallons per day then. Dairying was a cottage industry throughout historical times until the middle of the nineteenth century; country people kept a cow per family and in built-up areas cows were kept at the back of shops or in yards or stables in order to supply the urban population; the start of dairies in towns. The cows were changed at intervals and returned to the country to “recuperate” and a fresh cow was brought in exchange. One can only imagine the amount of hay and straw needed to feed these cows, and the amount of dung that had to be taken out, adding to the burden from hundreds of horses already working in the cities. However, in 1865-6 a plague of Foot and Mouth in London swept through the London herds causing a shortage of milk and later in the 1890s and 1911 there were very hot summers and one in five infants died because the milk had become bacterially contaminated – no refrigeration during transport and then delivered 'loose' to customers. Louis Pasteur, a French microbiologist, conducted the first pasteurisation tests in 1862. Pasteur is credited with revolutionising the safety of milk and in turn the ability to store and distribute milk well beyond the farm. Commercial pasteurisation machines were then introduced in 1895. The milk was pasteurised by HTST (high temperature short time) when milk is forced through pipes, which are heated to 72 °C, for 15 seconds. Then sold as pasteurised milk. The rapid development of the railways enabled milk to be transported from the countryside to the towns. Specialised companies formed which bought the farmers’ milk, transported it to the cities and distributed it to their customers. At the farm the milk was put into churns which the farmers took to the station, or they put their full churns by the roadside. These were then collected from farms each day by the factory’s own transport, which would leave clean empty churns ready for next days’ milk, and from about 1920 it would have been a factory lorry. Every dairy farm had its own milk stand at the roadside, all at the same height as the lorry so that the churn could easily be rolled on board. Churn stands were structures of individuality, every farm had a different model, its size, shape and materials largely the choice of the farmer. They were often of a combination of materials, wood, brick, concrete, steel, local stone or even railway sleepers. In 1950 the MMB (Milk Marketing Board) arranged for insulated tankers to collect from farms, thus removing the labour intensive moving milk in churns, but churns continued to be used until the early 1960s. By 1978 its entire collection was by tanker from the farm, with the cooled milk stored in bulk at the farm. When in 1958 new TT milk regulations came in, many farmers would not upgrade their milking parlour, so became arable farmers. When the Milk Marketing Board was abolished in 1994 the price paid to the dairy farmer for his milk was reduced to the point whereby production became uneconomic, and forced dairy farmers out of business or turned them away from dairy to arable farming. But that is another story. �The result was hundreds of thousands of redundant milk churns. Where did they all go? Many were sold abroad where they continued to be used for their original purpose, but a few remain visible when occasionally we may see a churn for sale at an antique shop. Emsworth Emsworth had its own dairy farms supplying milk to the village and you either went to the dairy for your milk or it was delivered by horse and cart. In North Street there was originally Silvers Farm but no dairy, and further up the road was The Milkman’s Arms public house apparently called such as it was built on the site of the farm’s dairy. In Horndean Road was Cold Harbour Farm where Arthur Tier was listed as a dairyman in 1931. In West Street where the Antique shop is now, was Huttridge’s dairy: milk was sold from there and later in 1939 they took over the Jersey Dairy Tiers had a dairy behind the Old Pharmacy, now a charity shop, and well before the second World War and the cows used to be brought from Warblington Road through the town to the dairy and returned. This took place twice a day. What an upset that would be nowadays with the modern traffic. The Milkman,s Arms PH was built on the site of the Brook Farm dairy. To the right of the farm house was the farm yard used by the Rubicks as a builder’s yard. Since the 1970s it has been used by engineers and a boat chandlers. The farm barn was in daily use until it was eventually demolished. In 1999 the Milkman’s Arms PH closed and in 2003 it was demolished and houses built on site. I am sure there are many Emsworth inhabitants that can add much more to the information we have about the Emsworth milk supplies. Tony Yoward Fig.1: Churns awaiting collection Fig. 2: Home delivery… -2- �Fig. 3: Home delivery! Fig.4: The Milkmans Arms pub -3- � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EMHT2019 Title A name given to the resource Emsworth Echo Articles Description An account of the resource Articles published in the Emsworth Echo Annual Bulletin Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various authors, mostly Members of EMHT or local researchers Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 until the present Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Emsworth Echo Article Articles published in the Annual Bulletin Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EMHT1325 Title A name given to the resource Milk in Emsworth Description An account of the resource Milk delivery and pasteurisation plus four photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Yoward, Tony Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01.11.2016 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). 01.03.2018 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 19th century, 20th century Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Emsworth Subject The topic of the resource dairy, farms, milk churns, milk delivery, Milk Marketing Board, pasteurisation, public house Modes Classified Name Additional information relating to the object milk-container Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 48, November 2016, editor Rogers, Margaret, pp.16-17, EMHT1316 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/b82cf67af5d19d6ed6fb3edb864ef56e.pdf 65c8f146c21b103551c32d7b4a4eff4c PDF Text Text The Oyster saga continued In 1902, it was said that Emsworth oysters had caused the deaths of the Dean of Winchester and one other following a mayoral banquet through typhoid occasioned by a sewage system laid in the 1890s. All sewage in Emsworth was directed through this system, part discharged into the top of Dolphin Quay, which then flowed down the eastern side of Emsworth Harbour and part discharged at the bottom of South Street … right into the centre of the oyster beds laid along the foreshore. It was not until the beginning of WW1 that the sewage system was cleaned up when in 1914 a new sewage system was built for Emsworth in conjunction with Westbourne parish, with the main treatment plant at Thornham Lane at the top of Thorney Island, which meant that raw sewage was not then pumped straight in the harbour. The finger of suspicion pointed at the industry again in early 1916 when, although no deaths were involved, the allegation that their consumption had put one of His Majesty’s battleships, lying at anchor in Portsmouth Harbour, out of action in time of war was equally serious. This was one of the matters that a meeting of the Warblington Urban District Council had to discuss in January 1916. The fact was that the ship’s complement of officers had been incapacitated due to having consumed suspect food with the allegation that Emsworth oysters were to blame! Taking up the case for the trade was the Emsworth Dredgermen’s Co-operative Society who, refusing to accept such culpability, wrote to the Medical Officer of Health but having not received a definitive reply appealed to Lord Selborne in his capacity as President of the Board of Agriculture & Fisheries. He stated that following a full investigation he had satisfied himself that the contamination did not come from any drainage pollution in the Emsworth Channel. Emsworth oysters were exonerated but the enquiry by his Lordship may well have been influenced by the next item on the agenda. This related to Council expenditure and the desire, in time of war, to make savings. One member ventured to suggest that the Council dispense with paid professionals, one of whom was an Engineer employed at the sewage works investigating a leak! References: No. 11940 The Evening News and Southern Daily Mail, 12 January 1916, p3 ‘Uncovering the Past… Emsworth, Oysters and Men’ by Linda Newell, Chapter 8, pp 66-72. Copies are available in the Museum. Philip Magrath Sylvia Courtnage � 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 EMHT1324 Title A name given to the resource The Oyster saga continued Description An account of the resource Demise of the Emsworth oyster industry Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Magrath, Philip Courtnage, Sylvia Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01.11.2016 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). 01.03.2018 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1902 to 1916 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Emsworth Subject The topic of the resource industry, oysters, sewage Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 48, November 2016, editor Rogers, Margaret, p.15, EMHT1316 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/5f469836d7b7f5a7485ae4634fb8c9a4.pdf bbdd037abc677844204b7a03eb35e11f PDF Text Text Emsworth Ship Bowls Reminders of Emsworth’s past as a port and ship building centre are to be found in Bristol and Liverpool Museums. Both museums have in their ceramic collections examples of ship bowls relating to Emsworth ships built, owned and manned in the eighteenth century. Ship bowls are so called because they commemorate the launching of a ship or the appointment of a master. They are individually painted with a ship inside, and they measure approximately 27 cm (10.5ins) in diameter and 11 cm (4.5ins) in height. Frank Britton in his book English Delftware in the Bristol Collection illustrates such a bowl, decorated with a floral border outside and on the inside ‘a ship in full sail with a red ensign at the stern, the union flag at the bow and a pennant from the top mast.’ Below is the legend : ‘Success to the LIVELY OF EMSWORTH – ROBERT RANDELL, Master.’ He has identified this ship as being in Lloyds Register of Shipping for 1764: ‘LIVELY, Master W. Hicks’. Trading London-Dublin, 80 tons … Built Emsworth. First registered 1747. Owner R. Randell’. He has also found a reference to LIVELY OF EMSWORTH in the Bristol Merchant Venturer Society’s Anchorage and Wharfage Books in 1746, paying dues on a voyage from Ireland, and suggests that she was registered in the following year. The Bristol Port Books in the Public Record Office also record the LIVELY, with Robert Randall as Master, sailing from Southampton to Portsmouth in 1755, and with John Wright as Master in 1756. The same Port Books record another Emsworth ship, the PROVIDENCE OF Emsworth, with William Randall as Master, sailing from Exeter to Chester in 1755, and again in 1756 for a unknown destination. Mr Britton suggests that this ship was also built n Emsworth and that Robert and William Randall were related. A study of the Warblington Parish registers for the period produces scores of Randells (with several variations in the spelling), the first Randall appearing in the Baptismal Register in 1655. Robert, Master of the LIVELY, was born in 1692 and appears to have had nine children, one of whom, William, was born in 1733. This would make him 22 in 1755 when William is recorded as Master of the PROVIDENCE, which is perhaps rather young to be the Master of a ship. However, Robert had a nephew, also named William, born in 1725, so he may have been the Master of the PROVIDENCE. The Parish Registers also record Wrights, John Wright, a mariner, married Kitty Harris in 1760, and they produced four sons between 1763 and 1769, so this is probably the John Wright recorded as the Master of the LIVELY in 1756. There are no Hicks in the Register for the relevant period. The ship bowl in the Liverpool Museum is also of Delftware, having a similar ship in full sail, red ensign at the stern, union flag at the bow and pennant from the top mast, painted in polychrome enamels on the inside. The legend below reads: ‘Success to the EMSWORTH, JOHN SHEPHERD Master, 1757’. The Chichester Council Minute Books for 1767 record a John Shepherd of Emsworth landing coal at Dell Quay and paying dues of £1.1s.10d. Again the Parish Registers record Shepherds, with various spellings, from 1695, and several Johns for the relevant dates. As the fathers’ occupations are rarely recorded in the Registers till 1813 it is not possible to differentiate between them. However, I think it highly likely that the Master of the EMSWORTH was an Emsworth man. �Although these three sturdy sailing ships have long since disappeared, it is satisfying to think that they are survived by fragile pottery bowls to provide us with a glimpse of the lives of some of the inhabitants of Emsworth two hundred years ago. Sheila Morgan -2- � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EMHT2019 Title A name given to the resource Emsworth Echo Articles Description An account of the resource Articles published in the Emsworth Echo Annual Bulletin Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various authors, mostly Members of EMHT or local researchers Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 until the present Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Emsworth Echo Article Articles published in the Annual Bulletin Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EMHT1323 Title A name given to the resource Emsworth ship bowls Description An account of the resource Ceramic ship bowls comemmorating the "Lively of Emsworth" and "Providence of Emsworth" Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Morgan, Sheila Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01.11.2016 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). 01.03.2018 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 18th century Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Bristol, Emsworth Subject The topic of the resource ceramic bowls Modes Classified Name Additional information relating to the object ship, vessel Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 48, November 2016, editor Rogers, Margaret, pp.13-14, EMHT1316 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/47859d837912121f5ec120290f305136.pdf da44932cb2335c215be8ede2a60973c0 PDF Text Text What might have been Between the late 1840s and the 1890s Britain had seen the establishment of a national railway system. But by 1890 that momentum had slowed down considerably and the railway engineers then turned their attention to the improvement of existing stations. Emsworth’s first station had been built in 1847 by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Company. In order to do so it needed to ask permission to cross North Street, a parish road, as recorded on 9 April 1846 in the parish of Warblington with Emsworth Vestry Book. This was granted subject to a station being built on the west side of North Street “with accommodation and appearance equal to that at Fareham at least (sic) in the land of Mr Hale to the south of the railway”… . So on Monday, 15 March 1847, Emsworth station opened to a large queue of would-be passengers. As well as two platforms and a small booking hall entrance, Emsworth station had an adjacent signal box, a large animal yard, sheds and a coal storage depot with its own sidings. According to the Railway Clearing House handbook of Railway Stations, it stated that the types of traffic Emsworth could handle included goods, passengers and parcels, furniture vans, carriages and machines on wheels, livestock, horse boxes, prize cattle and vans – and reception for these had been provided accordingly. Some twenty years later two cottages were built, one for the stationmaster and his family and the second for a member of his staff at nos. 102 and 104 North Street. Luckily these escaped the damage caused by lightning which burnt the station down in 1870 and although a much larger station was planned in 1872, what was provided was still quite basic (plan). Another twenty years on in 1891 again plans for larger facilities were drawn up and again they came to nothing. However, by 1896 Emsworth residents clearly now thought that the earlier station provision had long been outgrown and a petition was presented at the London Bridge LB&SCR headquarters on behalf of some 270 townspeople, for improved station accommodation. As a result of the petition it was promised that the Company’s Engineer would shortly visit Emsworth to evaluate what improvements were thought necessary. In the same year it was announced that an entrance to the subway on the north side of the station would be made, allowing safer access to Platform 1, and that the old lamp house and other buildings adjoining the down platform would be removed, thereby providing better platform accommodation. However, it took a further three years before a waiting room on the down platform and other improvements were put in hand. As everyone knows, over the years the whole railway network has been nationalised, Emsworth’s two signal boxes and a WH Smith’s bookstall on the down platform have come and gone as well as all the station’s goods sheds and storage, but improvements go on. Only in the last five years the station has benefited from the establishment of ‘Carriages’, serving light refreshments, a brightly painted, spruced-up and pleasant waiting room, toilet provision, ticket machines, disabled access to both up and down platforms and new bicycle sheds at either side. In keeping with the times the station’s personnel has shrunk from the provision of a full time uniformed stationmaster, porters, signalmen, and railway and telegraph clerks to a part-time ticketman, not dissimilar to other small stations all over Britain, but still able to provide an efficient and useful service for Emsworth’s townspeople. Margaret Rogers �Figure 1: The plan of 1872 Figure 2: Revised survey of platforms. May 1897 -2- � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EMHT2019 Title A name given to the resource Emsworth Echo Articles Description An account of the resource Articles published in the Emsworth Echo Annual Bulletin Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various authors, mostly Members of EMHT or local researchers Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 until the present Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Emsworth Echo Article Articles published in the Annual Bulletin Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EMHT1322 Title A name given to the resource What Might Have Been Description An account of the resource Development plans for Emsworth Railway Station plus two drawings 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 01.11.2016 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). 01.03.2018 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 19th century Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Emsworth Subject The topic of the resource plans, railway Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 48, November 2016, editor Rogers, Margaret, pp.12-13, EMHT1316 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/eaffedca353f5742901da7311fc5a3ed.pdf 887f24ad57ee7154cca14b0afc592280 PDF Text Text The Small World of PGW connections As everyone will now know, Lord Willetts has kindly consented to become the Trust’s President. Here is part of his maiden speech given to the House of Lords on 28 January 2016 (ref. http//bit.ly/1XNwITD) and quoted in the No. 78 edition of Wooster Sauce: My Lords, it is an enormous honour for me to be speaking for the first time in your Lordship’s House. Inevitably, as I stand here to give my maiden speech, I think back to a maiden speech I gave in another place, 24 years ago, after I was first elected to represent the constituency of Havant. I have tried to reflect my debt to it in taking it as part of my title. The borough of Havant includes the town of Emsworth, where PG Wodehouse lived for a time and after which he named one of his most famous characters – though I resisted the temptation to take the title Lord Emsworth. Also in this issue of ‘Wooster Sauce’, the following extract linked up to the Museum’s recent Exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme: Percy Jeeves was a brilliant cricketer who played for Goole Town Cricket Club and the Warwickshire County side. Plum saw him play for Warwickshire against Gloucestershire at Cheltenham in 1913 and was so struck by the cricketer’s immaculate attire and style that he stored the name up for future use. Sadly in WW1 on becoming Private 611 P Jeeves of the 15th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, he was one of the many who died at High Wood in the Battle of the Somme without trace on 22 July 1916. He was 28 years old. He has two memorials, one at Thiepval in France and a blue plaque in Goole reading ‘Killed on the Somme. Inspiration for P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves.’ � 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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House Of Lords, Battle of the Somme Subject The topic of the resource Wodehouse, P G Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 48, November 2016, editor Rogers, Margaret, p.11, EMHT1316 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/795594cb771aac2461cdf6156d3b2c0b.pdf 1eb23b3d667ac40af0c6823edeb2a843 PDF Text Text The Second Mrs Pink – Where there’s a Will there’s a Way I never really fancied Mary Ann Pink, digging into her life that is. However, to be fair, a graveyard headstone is not the best of places for a first encounter with anyone and a graveyard is no place for digging either. I was looking for the headstone of William Pink in Warblington Churchyard, to confirm the idyllic setting and final resting place of a foursome seemingly bound together through life and now in death. And there they were, Dorothy Francis, Thomas Francis, Sarah Pink, William Pink, their headstones eroded and overgrown but appropriately arranged to indicate the permanence of their attachment to each other. But then an additional name was written on William’s stone, it is Mary Ann Pink. Five people buried on a site planned for four. Mary Ann Pink was an interloper apparently having gatecrashed the party, more precisely, grave-crashed my story, endangering some of the symmetry that attracted me. You can understand my indifference, so I ditched her, figuratively I should add, remembering where we met. I was at this time trying to complete the research for an article about William Pink [1], and had so much material, I had to finally sit and write. The little work that I did in trying to trace the second Mrs Pink encouraged me to ignore her. William’s parents had moved to Southsea in the 1830s to become pub landlords, I believe, so for a while I mistakenly followed the incorrect person. Some floosie from the bars of Portsmouth I finally reckoned, having noted the 11 years difference in her and William’s age. So I felt confident at the time in dismissing her abruptly from the story I was uncovering. I should have known better and been more prepared to trust William’s judgement on this matter. The main difficulty preventing progress on researching Mary Ann Pink was caused by my not having her maiden name. It was David Hopkins of the East Meon Local History Group who pointed me in the correct direction. Mary Ann Pink died on 6th April 1890. Looking at Mary Ann’s probate record revealed that one of her executers was “Charles Colbourn of 41/2 Mount-street New Charlton in the County of Kent Market Gardener the Brother”. Now I don’t know a thing about fractional house numbers, so I assume that Nos 41 and 42 have coalesced. No matter this Will at least tells me that Colbourn was Mary Ann’s maiden name. I should have remembered the old saying that where there’s a will there’s a way! Even with this vital piece of information, however, the genealogical search was difficult and it was necessary to conduct it with all “variants” open. The data assembled here has been found by utilising a number of variants of “Mary Ann”, “Colbourn”, “Titchfield” her place of birth and “1824” her commonly given year of birth. For example, despite the surname used by her brother on her probate record, the correct William Pink married a Mary Ann Colborn in Woolwich, London in the third quarter of 1873. In fact “Colborn” appears to be the most commonly used form of her surname in the records I have managed to find, and so I will refer to her in this way in what follows. At the 1881 census, just after William’s death, Mary A Pink is living (within transcription error) in the property listed as Walberton Villa, next door to Warblington Villa that William and Sarah Pink had occupied since retiring from service at Stansted Park in 1855 or thereabouts. Mary Ann is listed as an “annuitant” possibly as a beneficiary, through inheritance, of some of William’s pension arrangements. There is however an alternative explanation I tend to favour as it recovers a degree of symmetry with what has gone before. At the time of the 1861 Census, a Mary A Colborn (age 38, born in Titchfield, Hampshire) is listed as Cook at Stansted Park where Augustina Dixon is recorded as Head. In the 1871 �census shortly before Augustina Dixon’s death in Kensington, London, of that same year, Mary Calborn (sic) is recorded as a servant (age 47, born in 1824 in Hampshire) to Augustie (sic) Dixon in Cromwell Road, Kensington. Clearly Mrs Dixon has moved to London, no doubt to seek better medical treatment in the latter stages of her life. Given then that the above two Mary Ann’s are one and the same person, it is notable that she is only one of two servants common to both these 1861 and 1871 households, the other is male. It seems that Mary Colborn (the soon-to-be second Mrs Pink) was a senior, highly valued, employee, and one who perhaps provided as valuable a nursing service for the second Mrs Dixon, as Sarah Jackson, the first Mrs Pink, had done for the first Mrs Dixon. From a seemingly tight-fisted initial position (remember the codicil placed in Charles Dixon’s will [1]) Augustina gained renown in her later life as a most generous member of the community. Quite possible therefore that, remembering her husband Charles’ example of how to show gratitude to excellent staff, Augustina made provision in her will to reward Mary Ann for her valuable additional service. Mary Ann could thus have been an annuitant in her own right, besides benefiting from the transfer arrangements of William Pink’s will, if any. So where had Mary Ann Colborn spent her earlier years in service? Well at the time of the 1841 census there is a Mary Ann Coulbourn (sic) (born 1824, no place given) is a servant in the household of Catherine Treager at Liverpool Terrace, St Mary, Islington, Middlesex). By the time of the1851 census, Mary Ann Colbourn (sic) (age 27, born 1824, in Litchfield (sic) Hampshire) is in the employment of Philip William Mure. As a wealthy “Distiller Farmer of 100 acres” in Middlesex, and MP to boot, he moved in not entirely dissimilar circles as Charles Dixon (wine merchant/importer and Sheriff of Sussex), so that it is possible that they were acquainted. A trustworthy vita and background on which Augustina Dixon could therefore rely, when faced with the simultaneous retirement of three of the most senior members of her household who had received such generous bequests from her husband Charles on his death in 1855. Whether this, or simply that Mary Ann was at the appropriate time of her life with the correct qualification and experience to apply for more elevated positions elsewhere, Mary Ann Colborn arrived at Stansted some time in the period 1855-61, probably as the direct replacement Cook for Dorothy Francis. Indeed Thomas Francis, as the trusted retiring butler, and William Pink, Charles Dixon’s secretary, could well have played some role in making the appointment. Philip Mure himself died in 1857, which might be a more accurate indication of the date of these staff changes. There is one small additional item that convinces me that this was a transfer of staff between familiar households, and indeed that Mary Ann was not alone in making this transfer. That is, according to the 1851 census record, also listed as being in the service of Philip Mure is Ellen Bullard. I have no direct evidence of Ellen Bullard’s appointment at Stansted since, unlike Mary Ann Colbourn, she does not appear on Stansted’s 1861 census return. However an Ellen Bullard with virtually identical life coordinates marries Thomas Francis in the latter half of 1860, thus becoming his second wife after the death of his first, Dorothy, in 1859. Is there a more likely place than the enchanted forest of Stansted where such a union could have been formed? I doubt it. Perhaps Mary Ann Colborn and Ellen Bullard were best friends, but even if not, the emotional, as well as the physical, distances between Mary Ann and Ellen Bullard, and Thomas Francis and William Pink are so short as to make the introduction of Mary Ann to William virtually guaranteed. The Enchanted Forest can be relied on to fan the slightest emotional embers into a blaze remember, and so it proves. William marries Mary Ann and is pretty soon back knocking out engravings of Stansted again! -2- �Their relationship appears to have blossomed over its seven or so years of marriage, with Mary Ann declaring on William’s probate record, not that he was a butler, nor that he was an engraver, but that he was a Gentleman. Additionally, on William’s headstone she records the words, Not gone from memory, Not gone from love, But gone to our father’s home above. No grave-crasher then. These are fitting words, if not the password, with which to join the foursome so close in both life and death. Of course, I would like to know where she came from, and I came up with three possibilities. There are difficulties with all three but on balance the one of best fit appears to be “Mary Ann b.1823, Litchfield, Hampshire to Edward and Sarah Colborn” (elements written as they occur in the Find My Past transcription). With regards to this, there is a slight discrepancy with the year of birth, explainable by the usual birth/baptism date confusion. The birthplace is correct to within transcription error, “L” and “T” in an old hand, and an even older script, being often confused. There is also a brother Charles born in 1825. The surname however does not take the precise form used on Mary Ann’s probate certificate. So how to resolve these remaining discrepancies? The wedding certificate would do it, but am I concerned enough to find the additional expense? There does come a point at which the Law of Diminishing Returns cuts in and here, I felt, was it. These final details would be confirmed at what I consider to be disproportionate cost, so I leave it there. A slightly fuzzy end agreed, but who knows, things change, and I might need to know the exact Mary Ann somewhere up the line. So if at some future date you should find me wandering around the Enchanted Forest, then despite all romantic interpretations you could attach to this, you know exactly what I’m doing! A Clive Pugh PS: It was just two weeks before I cracked! More likely that I had nothing better to do, if truth be known. I hadn’t wanted to spend any more money than I had already spent on purchasing a Find My Past subscription, but I just had to know. At a cost of £9.25 the marriage certificate of William Pink and Mary Ann Colborn didn’t come cheap, but at least it contained one critical piece of information. Mary Ann’s father was a wood carver named Edward Colborn. Just what I needed to conclude that Mary Ann, the second Mrs Pink, was born in 1823 (baptized in 1824) at Titchfield, Hampshire to Edward and Sarah Colborn. She married William Pink on 28 August, 1873 in the Parish Church of Charlton in Kent. Of course I got a little more for my money than that. For example of the many professions declared by Thomas Pink (William’s father), on this wedding certificate he is confirmed as being a “licensed victualler” in his later life. Also the witnesses to the marriage are Robert (a bricklayer) and Emma Mitchell, aged 37 and 36 respectively living in Kensington at the time of the 1871 census. It is not clear what relationship they hold with respect to either of the married couple, but William’s stated address at the time of the wedding would appear to be that of the Mitchells, while Mary Ann has used her brother Charles’ address, New Charlton in Kent, which corresponds to that given on the probate certificate. -3- �REFERENCE: [1]: A Clive Pugh: “The Remarkable Mr Pink – An Emsworth Ill-luminary”, Havant Borough History Booklet, No. 53, September 2015, obtainable from Emsworth Museum. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: My sincere thanks to David Hopkins for the great interest he has shown in my stories and the valuable impetus he gave to this particular one by supplying Mary Ann’s probate record. I am also indebted to Roy and Sheila Morgan for the immense amount of support, advice and time they are always ready to give to my, often unfocused, requests. -4- � 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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Hampshire, London, Portsmouth, Stansted Park Subject The topic of the resource census, family history, inheritance, marriage, service, will Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 48, November 2016, editor Rogers, Margaret, pp.8-11, EMHT1316 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/b24bda8410013f676491774a4622a0c0.pdf 514472477e8b0f5709b58f7c3adaeab7 PDF Text Text Another postscript to the Gas Holder story One of Emsworth’s more unusual characters arrived in the early 1950s to take up ownership of the grocer’s shop at the corner of Victoria Road and North Street. After coming out of the army, Gerald Summers was still somewhat unsettled and whilst looking for a way to earn a living had been attracted by an advertisement which read: ‘Small Grocery and General Stores in a delightful Old World Fishing Village on the South Coast.’ In due course he arrived to take up life as a grocer in the shop, over which there were two large and comfortable rooms, ample space for Gerald, a passionate animal lover, and his animals and birds. Over time he had acquired dogs, a hawk, a kestrel, and his special pet was a large golden eagle named Random, which he had hand reared and trained from a fledgling. By the time Gerald and his menagerie arrived in Emsworth she had now grown a magnificent bird which he housed in the Victoria Road garage behind the shop. In there he had come across an old grocer’s bicycle with a delivery basket and this Gerald transformed into what he thought would be an ideal mobile eagle-carrier. With Random perched upon the well-padded framework and the dogs cantering beside him, this was Gerald’s key to the freedom of the surrounding countryside, the Nore Farm and Westbourne areas being his particular favourites. Soon established as a somewhat eccentric resident, he became a familiar figure pedalling around the town and local countryside, going as far afield as Harting. Random’s first bid for more local fame came when she landed on the top of the gas holder and flatly refused to come down again, thinking it would make a splendid look-out for possible quarry, despite Gerald’s pleas, curses and producing some of her favourite and choicest lures. As night was falling fast, Gerald decided he had no choice but to call on the gas holder’s keeper and explain the situation. The keeper refused to allow Gerald to climb the ladder to the gasometer’s top (much to his relief) but contacted the gas company’s superior officer in Portsmouth who advised them to contact the police; they in turn got in touch with the RSPCA. To Gerald’s amusement their representative turned up complete with what looked like a wickerwork cat-basket about 18 inches square, clearly unsuitable in which to cram a golden eagle measuring over 3ft in length and weighing more than 12 lbs. Fortuitously meanwhile the Southern Gas Board representative had rung to authorise the gas cylinder to be lowered. Lowered it was, slowly and imperceptibly, with Random, statuesque as ever, still perched majestically aloft, indifferent to the floodlighting which now bathed the scene and looking for all the world like a display of son et lumière. Sensing the unusual activity Emsworth residents in the meantime had begun to gather in ever increasing numbers to view what promised to be an interesting entertainment. The local newspaper reporter had also been alerted and marked the event by describing it as ‘Emsworth eagle immobilizes gasworks’ in the next day’s newspaper, followed by a somewhat sensational and inaccurate account of Random’s activities. Just one more episode in the colourful life of Gerald Summers, his golden eagle Random and the town’s gas holder. Reference: ‘Owned by an Eagle’ by Gerald Summers (1976), Collins Press. Margaret Rogers �Figure.1: Random as a fledgling Figure 2: Random in flight -2- � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EMHT1319 Title A name given to the resource Another Postscript to the Gas Holder Story Description An account of the resource Emsworth grocer Gerald Summers and Random, his golden eagle. Two photographs of Random, one in flight, the other as a fledgling 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 01.11.2016 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). 01.03.2018 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant mid to late 20th century Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. North Street, Victoria Road, Emsworth Gas Holder Subject The topic of the resource animal, eagle, gas holder, grocer, shop Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 48, November 2016, editor Rogers, Margaret, pp.6-7, EMHT1316 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/3bf8d37977ef14c3488345ba39a6a55d.pdf 480067e5eb35fa5085dcb57b772f179c PDF Text Text Bishops Come to Hampshire In the 2014 edition of the EMHT journal ‘ECHO’, our Hon. Archivists reported that they had discovered another public house in Emsworth, in New Brighton Road, to add to the records in the Museum. The publican was Charles BISHOP, described as a tailor and beerhouse keeper, whose son, William was a shoemaker. My own family history research, based mainly in Hampshire, has revealed a branch of my family called Bishop who were listed as publicans and shoemakers in Southampton in several censuses. Added to this, my forebear Daniel Bishop came from Chaldon Herring, Dorset and Charles Bishop came from Wareham, Dorset, only about 10 miles apart. I felt that somewhere in the past there could be a family link, so I decided to look at the ancestry of Charles Bishop in the 18th and 19th centuries. Charles Bishop (1818 – 1893) Charles Bishop was born in 1817 in Wareham, Dorset. In the parish register he was named Charles Prince Bishop. His parents were Charles (bap. 1784) and Ann Bishop, née Hooper. They married in Wareham in 1808. Charles Bishop and Ann Short were married on 27th December 1838 at Lady St Mary Church, Wareham. One of the witnesses was Ann’s father, William Short. The Banns were read in the previous three weeks. I have found Charles Bishop and his family in the 1841 census. Charles and Ann were living in Mill Lane, next to Bacon’s Mill in Wareham. Charles was listed as a tailor. By 1851 Charles and Ann were living in North Street, Wareham and had produced two children, Esther (11) and William (8). In the 1861 Census they had moved again, to West Street, Wareham. Charles’s occupation was master tailor and their son William was a shoemaker. Charles was about 43 years old. Sometime between 1861 and 1871, the family moved to New Brighton Road in Emsworth. The 1871 census lists Charles as a tailor and beerhouse keeper and William, his son, as a shoemaker. Various Hampshire trade directories between 1870 and 1880 list Charles as a publican or beerhouse keeper. Their pub was called “The Half Way House” as they refreshed travellers on their way between Emsworth and Westbourne. In 1881 census Charles and Ann were still living in New Brighton Road, both 63 years old and Charles’ occupation was listed as a tailor and beerhouse keeper. In the autumn of 1881 Ann died. Charles is recorded next in the Havant Union Workhouse in 1891 where he is listed as a widower, tailor, born in Wareham. His son William seems to be in the Bath Union Workhouse in that year, 1891, a shoemaker, but also a pauper. Charles died in 1893 aged 76. The only member of the family to survive into the 20th century was Alice Solomon, the daughter of Esther. Esther had married Abraham Solomon in 1869 and they were living in London in 1871. �Alice was born in Emsworth in 1873, I assume that Esther had come back to Emsworth to be with her mother for the birth of her first child. Unfortunately, Alice’s birth certificate gives no details of the address in Emsworth. So, Charles Bishop lived and worked in Emsworth for about twenty to twenty five years. I have researched back two generations before Charles, both his father and grandfather were named Charles and they lived in Wareham. Daniel Bishop (1787 – 1858) Of my own Bishop family, my four times great grandfather, Daniel Bishop, had moved to Southampton from Dorset and started a business as a baker, having previously been a dairyman in Dorset. As I have not found any definite links in Dorset in the past between the two families, I cannot claim any direct link to Emsworth although I am Hampshire born and bred. My research continues. Unanswered questions. 1. Why would Charles have been attracted to the idea of setting up a business selling beer in Emsworth, as previously to their move from Dorset, he was a tailor. 2. I have not scanned the local newspapers of the time to see if Charles Bishop or The Halfway House was mentioned or advertised. 3. It may be possible to find whether Charles continued his trade after his wife died. 4. How did Esther meet Arthur Solomon, a shorthand writer from Suffolk? I am indebted to the Dorset FHS and the Hampshire Genealogical Society for much of the information pre 1837 and our Hon. Archivists, Roy and Sheila Morgan for setting me off on the trail plus supplying local information from their records. Geoff Higgins -2- � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EMHT2019 Title A name given to the resource Emsworth Echo Articles Description An account of the resource Articles published in the Emsworth Echo Annual Bulletin Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various authors, mostly Members of EMHT or local researchers Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 until the present Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Emsworth Echo Article Articles published in the Annual Bulletin Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EMHT1318 Title A name given to the resource Bishops come to Hampshire Description An account of the resource Family history of Charles Bishop, publican, plus reference to Daniel Bishop 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 01.11.2016 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). 01.03.2018 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 19th century Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Dorset; New Brighton Road, Emsworth; Hampshire Subject The topic of the resource census, family history, publican, shoemaker Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 48, November 2016, editor Rogers, Margaret, pp.5-6, EMHT1316 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/81bfb574e239bb97914022c40837af16.pdf ed20480e62b510ab0e276b3ff033a26d PDF Text Text Emsworth’s Titanic Baker Walking down South Street you would be forgiven for not noticing No. 23. It sits amongst the old cottages and some modern buildings, very unassuming. Behind the front door though is a story, a story that many of you may not know. So let’s go back to 1851, and a family by the name of Farrenden – George and Ann Farrenden. They live in Tower Street, Chichester with their son William, eight years old. In 1876 William marries a young lady named Elizabeth Hammond from Portsea. William is a baker and after their marriage they move out to Emsworth, to No. 32 Nile Street, from where they run a bakery. By 1891 they have five children: William (jnr.), Elizabeth, Francis, George and Ernest. One would imagine the small house in Nile Street was rather cramped, so at 13 William jnr. goes to live with his widowed grandmother, Phoebe Hammond, who lives on the Square in Emsworth. Sadly Elizabeth Farrenden (née Hammond) passes away in 1900 aged 46. William is devastated and with the help of his sons Ernest and George, carries on with his bakery business. About 1901 William is given the chance to move his business to larger premises. Mr Griffiths of 23 South Street had been running his family bakery for many years but was not in good health. He wanted to retire and offered the business to William Farrenden and three of his children, Francis, George and Ernest, moved with him. After several years William found love again. Elizabeth’s sister, Francis Hammond, had been living at South Street for some time and they eventually decided to marry in 1905. Together they made a good living from the bakery and George and Ernest also became bakers, learning the trade from their father. By 1911 all the children had left home and this brings me to Ernest, the youngest of William’s children. He stayed working at the bakery in Emsworth for some time. I do not know Ernest’s whereabouts after the 1901 census as he is not living at No. 23 on the 1911 census. But during that period he decided to join up with the White Star Line and his first posting was on RMS Olympic. His profession at the time was as a baker/confectioner and he received £6 a month salary. Then on 4 April 1912, he was transferred to the marvellous new ocean-going liner, RMS Titanic. He boarded her on 5 April at Southampton. Below decks Ernest was in good company; with him on this voyage were fellow workers from RMS Olympic, Charles Joughlin and Archibald Leader. Joughlin was head baker and he was in charge of 13 staff, including Ernest and Archibald. His salary was £12 a month, making him one of the best paid crew members. Ernest received £8 a month salary, which was also a very good wage. Archibald Leader had worked alongside Ernest on RMS Olympic and as assistant confectioner his salary was £5.10s.0d a month. Leader originated from Cardiff and had spent many years based in Southampton, living at Fanshawe Street in a lodging house. As we know, the Titanic sank on that fateful night of 14 April 1912 with a tremendous loss of life, and sadly Ernest and Archibald were among those missing, presumed dead. Reports list them as drowned and their bodies, if recovered, were never identified. His father continued to live in Emsworth and died on 25 December 1917. Charles survived. On that night he had gone to his cabin to have a few whiskies as he was off duty. When the accident happened Charles left his cabin and once informed of the situation ordered his staff to take 50 loaves up to the lifeboats for provisions. He returned to his cabin �and proceeded to finish off his bottle of whisky; he then went up to where his assigned lifeboat was located and helped women and children into the boat. He himself did not get in and the lifeboat was launched without him. He then made his way down to Deck B and climbed over the railings, waiting for a chance to jump. Once the Titanic started listing heavily Charles launched himself into the sea and began swimming away. As daylight broke Charles was found by RMS Carpathia, clinging to an upturned collapsible lifeboat. Charles Joughlin was called to give evidence to a Board of Trade enquiry and he died in December 1956 in Paterson, New Jersey, USA. Anne Johnstone -2- � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EMHT2019 Title A name given to the resource Emsworth Echo Articles Description An account of the resource Articles published in the Emsworth Echo Annual Bulletin Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Various authors, mostly Members of EMHT or local researchers Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 until the present Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Emsworth Echo Article Articles published in the Annual Bulletin Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Nile Street and South Street, Emsworth: Atlantic Ocean Subject The topic of the resource baker, family history Modes Classified Name Additional information relating to the object ship Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 48, November 2016, editor Rogers, Margaret, pp.3-4, EMHT1316 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/ca9d06d7aa99a4da75a971ec90f27c9b.pdf fdda17ff85d38c98aec69de253c690d0 PDF Text Text J D Foster – Did he have it coming? by Clive Pugh A recent exhibition, “Historic Emsworth Properties – Highlights from an Archive”, at the Emsworth Museum noted that “Rate books are an excellent census substitute and a fascinating window into civic life in England”. It continued “… almost any entry in a rate book tells a story and none more so than the actual rate that is set.” In 1906 at a meeting of Warblington Urban District Council (WUDC) it was proposed that the rate be 5s in the £, an astronomical figure that attracted interest as far away as Whitby, as evidenced by this article (Fig1) in that town’s newspaper. This proposed rate is so out of kilter with the more typical 1s 10d that it prompts the question what could have caused such a monumental figure to be considered? the courts in 1906. While there were no new facts, there were new twists to the plot. Mr Foster claimed that his losses had now risen to £18,000. (Note: that was the approximate total rateable value of all property available to Warblington UDC in 1914.) It was however pointed out that he himself had been a member of the Council when the offending sewage scheme was approved. The decisive factor was apparently Jack Kennett. His business had also suffered, but he made no legal claim. The exact nature of the evidence he gave to the Appeal Court is now lost in obscurity, but it helped tilt the scales of justice. Foster’s damages were cut to £850, and Kennett was the hero of Emsworth. The italicised passages above are from ­unattributed hand-written notes contained in the Morgan archive, which was donated to the Emsworth Museum earlier this year and from which the above exhibition was drawn. The notes conclude with the following paragraph: Fig. 1. Whitby Gazette 1st May 1906 The article in the Whitby Gazette gives part of the reason. The court case brought by J D Foster against Warblington UDC in 1903, for damages to his oyster business caused in the Emsworth Oyster scare, had found in J D’s favour and he was awarded £3,300 plus costs, a considerable sum back in 1903. The ratepayers were aggrieved and bitter, and the wealthy Mr Foster was urged to forego his pound of flesh but he refused. The WUDC subsequently appealed the Court decision. The Council Meeting, reported above, had been held in anticipation of the judicial review, which was finally heard in As a postscript to this turn of the century drama, both the giant participants lived on for many years in Emsworth. J D Foster died in 1940 and was buried with some pomp, but limited local affection, in Warblington Churchyard. Jack Kennett, assisted by his son … continued in the oyster business until the outbreak of another war in 1939, and died – greatly respected – in 1950. Similar statements about the relative merit in which the two men were held in the community’s memory are made in Michael Kennett’s memoirs[1], a copy of which is held in the Museum. These, as expected, firmly support the side of Jack Kennett, so might be considered biased evidence if trying to give a balanced assessment of the fairness of the above comments. All of which seems a little hard on J D given that he is frequently credited as a hero for 1 �winning a landmark judgement that helped many grateful others across the country in their search for justice over ill-informed sewage systems. Unfair maybe, but as an explanation why such negative feelings might have been abroad in the community, it has to be said that J D had previous form as far as involving Warblington UDC in vexatious litigation and exposing them to expensive legal settlements is concerned. We refer to the less well-remembered High Court case of H. Guilford Sprigg v. Warblington UDC of 1899, known as the “Church Path Case” [2, 3]. In this year the Church of St James had aspirations to extend the footprint of the building and, as recorded in the minutes of a vestry meeting of the St James Church Council in early 1899, the issue was raised as to whether the gates of the church path being permanently open might cede the path as a public right of way. It had been the practice since the church was opened in 1840 for the gates to the path to be locked at night, but things had slipped over the last few years. So much so that the path’s use had changed from merely an access point to the church, and a convenient walk-through for pedestrians, to being used by all manner of traffic short-cutting from the west side of town to North St and the railway station. The vestry meeting decided to begin locking the church gates again at night. With an act of public spiritedness, to be expected from such a meeting, it was decided to inform the WUDC in order to maximise individual awareness and minimise inconvenience for all users of the gates. As Norman Simmonds, a historian for St James Church,[2] comments, “No-one could have predicted the outburst of indignation that followed this action.” At the WUDC Meeting of 13th June 1899, it was reported that Mr J D Foster claimed that he had received a letter that very evening, from which he read: “Replying to your enquiry, I write to say that the Rector (Mr Sprigg) and Churchwardens are not empowered to close such a churchyard path as you mention.” Mr Foster claimed that the letter had been written by the Secretary to the Bishop of the Diocese, and that he was stating the opinion of the first Solicitor to the Diocese. Based on these claims, Mr Foster convinced the WUDC to issue a high-handed missive forbidding the Rector from locking the church gates. Mr Sprigg’s immediate response was to test the validity of Mr Foster’s evidence.[3] He wrote to Mr Lee, Secretary to the Bishop, asking for a copy of the correspondence with Mr Foster. Mr Lee replied: “Mr Lee assures Mr Sprigg that no correspondence whatever has passed between himself and Mr Foster, and that he never wrote the letter attributed to him.” Faced with such a clear statement, you might have expected the WUDC to back away, but it didn’t, and threatened to break down the church gates should they be locked. After a number of exchanges of correspondence, generally belligerent from the WUDC and conciliatory from the Church, the Rector Mr Sprigg took the matter to the High Court. At this the WUDC sought legal opinion from two sources, one of which felt that their case was doubtful, while the second bluntly replied that they had no case at all. We suppose that the WUDC could only have been bolstered by the first of these opinions, which was a little more optimistic than the second, for they decided to defend the High Court action. This resistance continued all the way to the High Court steps, where the Clerk advised them that the Judge (possibly motivated by the costs mounting on the ratepayers) was “certainly not favourably impressed with the action they took, and neither was their Counsel”. The WUDC finally yielded and were landed predictably with a large legal bill. Throughout the episode of the “Church Path”, the 12-man WUDC had been split, with six councillors pushing to fight the legal action. At a subsequent acrimonious meeting of the WUDC it was suggested that these six “should be made to pay the costs”. They of course didn’t, and so it was down to the Continued overleaf 2 �J D Foster continued generosity of Mr Sprigg who lessened the financial burden facing the WUDC, when he waived the legal costs awarded to him. One can only surmise at the role J D Foster played in all of this, given his initial contribution, but some conclusions could be drawn from the WUDC elections held in the Spring of the following year and shown in Fig 2. Hundred Years by Norman Simmonds, 1980, Emsworth Museum. [3] Pugh, A C, Friday Nights: Me, Sprigg and Whicher, The Emsworth Echo, 45, pp.6-10, 2014. Acknowledgements: My thanks are due to Roy and Sheila Morgan for their great support and willingness to share their knowledge with me. My sincere thanks also to Wendy Bright for her unstinting support in my times of need. A Clive Pugh Fig. 2 Electoral Results The Hampshire Telegraph 3rd April 1900 It is notable that J D Foster was a retiring member seeking re-election, but was unsuccessful. Notable also is the fact that the Rector, Mr Sprigg, was successful in his attempt to gain a seat on the WUDC. It seems that the electorate had clear views as to who was the villain of the piece in this particular episode. PS: In Fig 2 it is shown that W B Foster was also up for re-election and, like J D Foster, he also failed to regain his seat. Was W B simply collateral damage arising from J D’s dispute with the WUDC or did it have substance of its own? A little bit of both maybe! Fig 3 shows that W B was quite capable of carrying on his own disputes within the community. Although dated July 1900 it is clear from the text that the dispute had already been fomenting for some little time. Two years later, by the time of the oyster scare, J D Foster had regained his seat on the WUDC. Electorates, it seems, have short memories. The community’s collective memory of him seems to have lasted longer, their “Church Gates Case” views being reinforced no doubt by perceptions of J D’s role in the oyster scare. If indeed these views were strong enough to hold for the following 40 years until his death in 1940, it could be said that he had it coming to him. Being such a giant of the town both physically (he was 6ft 2in) and metaphorically, it would be surprising to learn that he didn’t know it was. [1] Kennett, M, The Kennett Memoirs, Emsworth Museum. [2] Simmonds, N, The Parish Church of St James, Emsworth, Hampshire. The First Fig 3 Evening News 10th July 1900 3 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Emsworth Harbour, St James' Church Emsworth Subject The topic of the resource church affairs, court cases, oysters, reputations Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 49, 2017, pp. 20-22 EMHT1308 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/1c4b8c471d3810c1629bd4244c395f3f.pdf ac994426a79b5629bcbafaee39f3858e PDF Text Text Emsworth Football Exhibition Extra by Steve Miller In January 2017, the Emsworth Maritime and exhibition. In some instances, the players’ Historical Trust invited me to put together an names were available, but sadly in a high exhibition about local football. number they were not. Having left Emsworth over 50 years ago and only been involved directly with football in the town in the 1950s and early 1960s, I wasn’t sure that I would be able to do the subject the justice it deserved. However, I had written a book entitled ‘Emsworth Youth Club Football 1958 – 1962’ which was based on my personal recollections and backed up by information from numerous newspaper cuttings featuring scores, match reports and team photos that my parents had collected over the years. I had also written narratives about football at Emsworth County Primary School in the early 1950s. I decided to use these as a basis for the exhibition and to start the task of researching data held in the Museum archives to supplement my personal contributions. Using the Museum’s Omeka content management system, I started to gather the relevant acquisition numbers related to ‘football’ that was held in the archives. The system identified a number of photographs that were available. With help, a collection was scanned and printed ready for the When collecting the available data, I discovered that since the early 1900s, Emsworth Wanderers, Emsworth Wednesday, Emsworth Brotherhood, Emsworth United, Emsworth Boys’ Club, Emsworth Youth Club, Emsworth County Primary School and Emsworth House School all represented the town. Each season on Saturdays, Wednesdays (when early closing days were still in operation) and Sundays from the middle part of the twentieth century, teams had turned out in the West Sussex League, the Portsmouth League, the Waterlooville and District League, the Lads League, the East Hants League, the Havant Sunday League etc. From 1909, Emsworth teams played their home games at ‘The Diamond Jubilee Recreation Ground’ or the ‘Common’, as it was more generally known to locals. Prior to 1909, records suggest games were played on ground adjacent to Beach Road. In the 1940s and early 1950s, I recalled there was a very soggy pitch in Seagull Lane (Brook Continued overleaf 1 �Emsworth Football Exhibition Extra continued Emsworth Wanderers 1908-1909 The team played in the Portsmouth and District Lads League. In 1907-1908 they played their games in land located off Beach Road. In 1908-1909 they relocated to Emsworth Common (Recreation) Ground. The Club’s president was Dr L E W Stephens. Back l to r – E J Hoar (Hon Sec), Rogers, Critchett, Rudland, House, Bailey; Middle l to r – Phillips, Antil, Jenkins; Front l to r – H Gilby, Coombes, A Boutell (Capt.), C Head, F Dridge Meadow) that was used for some games. But at the time I could find nothing in any available records that would confirm this! ex-Portsmouth, Ipswich and England centreforward, on the 17th June and ran until the 9th July 2017. At this stage, it was disappointing that there were so many nameless, but in some cases very familiar, faces staring out of the archive photographs. Nevertheless, the material was now sufficient to fill the ten wallboards and the three display cases in the David Rudkin Room. The exhibition, ‘A Brief History of Local Football’ was opened by Ray Crawford, the That’s when the people of Emsworth came to the fore: Kenny Jeffery provided a narrative describing his family’s involvement in Emsworth football, an account of Emsworth Church Schools in the 1954-55 South East Hants Cup Final and when Emsworth United won the West Sussex League in 1961-62. These were included in the exhibition at the eleventh 2 �hour along with photos of the winning West I met up with so many old friends, some for Sussex League team and Kenny’s medals. the first time in over 50 years. Jill Littleton, Janet Searle, Colin Marley, Roy Miller, Norman Bishop, Doug Bishop, Dave Smith, Kenny Jeffery, Bernie Gudge, John Lillywhite and many others identified a number of players in the photographs that were previously unknown. Strange that once the name was identified the memories of the person came flooding back! Gwen Jones brought in two photographs of a trophy-winning Westbourne team, but the team consisted of players who at one time had played for Emsworth. This supported evidence that there were times when Emsworth could not raise a team to play for the town. Richard Joy took us into the 1970s when he provided a photograph of the Emsworth team that won the Malcolm Simmons Cup in 1971-72. The existence of the ‘soggy pitch’ in Seagull Lane was confirmed by a number of visitors and by two photographs that appeared in ‘Brook Meadow Through the Ages’ published by The Brook Meadow Conservation Group. So, was it all worth it? Personally, I think it was well worth it! This wasn’t so much about football per se: the exhibition’s content was more about the people of Emsworth and the town’s rich heritage. Exhibitions of this kind give the Museum the chance to give free access to the public and help to bring past memories into the present. The attempt to generate new and confirm previously speculative Emsworth football material has been reasonably successful. When fully updated the Museum’s Emsworth Football archive will have benefited from the memories and recollections of the people who attended the exhibition. My thanks go to the EM&HT for giving me the chance to put on the exhibition and to Bernie Gudge for scanning and printing the nostalgic photographs in the ‘Pictorial History’ sections. John Shacklady travelled from Southsea to visit the exhibition and provide a photograph and players’ names for the Emsworth team that won the West Sussex League in 1967-68. Jill Littleton organised a get together in the Museum that included her brothers Rusty and Ivan, Keith Sadler and Sammy Offer who all played for Emsworth teams in the mid-twentieth century. Jill’s sister Avril and Sammy Offer’s wife Jill also attended. Jill Littleton was particularly pleased as this was the first time her family had been together for 20 years. Sadly, the antics/comments of famous Emsworth supporter ‘Tuley’ Kennett, who allegedly on one occasion implored that he ‘heard the linesman wave his flag twice’, will forever be consigned to urban myth. Bessy Offord searched and found her late husband Jimmy in the photographs. She proudly showed me photographs of her grandson Luke who signed professional terms for Crewe Alexandra in 2016. Emsworth’s football connections continues through the ages! 3 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Emsworth Subject The topic of the resource exhibition, football memorabilia, teams Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 49, 2017, pp.17-19 EMHT1308 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/053ee1b2304ef20579d3f31ef3ea74be.pdf 9c744ad103cbb6d50ff3d97fd89f8b33 PDF Text Text Sid Kennett Retires After 49 Years’ Service The following article by Maria Court, Shared Services Manager with Chichester Harbour Conservancy, appeared in the Chichester Harbour News and Guide 2017 and is reprinted below with her kind permission. Sid Kennett enjoying his 45 years of service celebration in 2013. Photo: J Tweddell Sid Kennet is such a well-known face around Emsworth, constant as the tide, he’s known for his ready smile and distinctive radio style. But after nearly half a century of service, Sid has decided that the time has come to retire from full-time work. Sid has worked in the Harbour all of his adult life. He followed his family into the fishing industry, sailing out with his father from Emsworth to fish for bass, flounder, scallops and oysters in the Solent. His grandfather had previously used his expert boat handling skills to crew the J class racing yacht, Velsheda, winner of the King’s Cup at Cowes Week in 1936. However, in the spring of 1968, the prospects in fishing were not good and a 16 year old Sid was looking for some other temporary employment to tide him over. He enquired at the local council offices and was offered some work maintaining moorings around Emsworth. Forty nine years later, he’s still there. Why did he stay? “lt’s the lovely people that l meet every day” he explains. He started working on the moorings barge that in those days had to be towed with a launch and relied heavily on muscle power to operate. He worked with three other men lifting mooring buoys, replacing chain and installing withy posts. He enjoyed the work and the security of a regular wage whilst still working on the water. Over the years he has included infrastructure checks and a ferry service in his duties, but other than the introduction of more mechanisation, the work hasn’t changed much. What has changed is the type of craft he encounters. As sailing became more popular and accessible in the 1970s and 1980s, the number of dinghies increased, then larger yachts became more popular. Now he sees more stand-up paddleboards, kayaks and canoes than ever before. He gets such job satisfaction from passing on his wealth of knowledge and helping solve problems so that sailors can have an enjoyable day out on the water. 1 �This, and living life according to the sunrise and the tides, is what has kept him so positive and cheerful. Surely there must be bad days, what about the weather? “Bad weather is character building!” he exclaims, but he is pleased that better clothing and safety equipment has lessened the adverse effects of going out in the wind and rain. What advice would he give to whoever takes over? “Be helpful and friendly to people and develop good relationships with all the Harbour users.” What will he miss most? “Most definitely the people.” So what next? “I’m not a sit-athome type” he comments and is sure to keep busy…. So finally, why does everyone call him Sid – his name’s Philip? “Well, my grandfather was Sid and my father was Sid, so l guess people thought l should be a Sid too.” Well Sid, everyone at Chichester Harbour Conservancy, and surely the whole Harbour wish you well, enjoy your retirement, you’ve been ‘first class’! 2 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Emsworth Harbour, Chichester Harbour Subject The topic of the resource harbour, work life Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 49, 2017, pp.16-17 EMHT1308 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/50485774cbb0bd120b8c76bb70ce8640.pdf a7f68addb664ff62b2219784c87aea3d PDF Text Text Jutland – the Men of Emsworth by Philip Robinson Earlier in 2017 I made a presentation on behalf of the Museum to commemorate the central naval battle of World War One, The Battle of Jutland, Wednesday 31st May 1916. The story of the battle was told through what happened to 12 men, the names of 11 of whom appear on the War Memorial in Horndean Road. The exception was Fleet Surgeon Herbert Lyne Geoghegan who is commemorated on the War Memorial at Rowlands Castle. There wasn’t time in the lecture to give details of the 12 and in what follows this is provided; remembering the loss of the four ships in which the men of Emsworth lost their lives, HMS Queen Mary, Invincible, Tipperary and Black Prince; listed in the order in which the ships sank. As Acting Leading Stoker, William Kennett was possibly in charge of one of the seven boiler rooms in Queen Mary. He would have been aware of impending action, off the Danish peninsula of Jutland, as his ship surged forward at about 26 knots (30 miles per hour). Part of the German High Seas fleet had been spotted south of Admiral David Beatty’s First Battle Cruiser Squadron and the Admiral had decided to attack. William’s job was to ensure that his six Yarrow boilers maintained their temperature to generate the steam to drive Queen Mary’s turbines. The boilers were fed by coal, sprayed with oil to increase combustibility. A hard, demanding, relentless task in hot conditions as coal was organised into piles then fed into the furnaces. William was 22, a small man at 5 foot 3 inches, who had been in the navy since June 1912. He had been posted to Queen Mary on the day she was commissioned, Continued overleaf 1 �Jutland – The Men of Emsworth continued 4th September 1913, and his diligence in challenging work resulted in his being promoted, in March 1916, to Leading Stoker. A promotion that may have given him special pleasure when his older brother, Walter, was posted to his ship just as she was about to leave Rosyth on 27th May 1916. The two brothers would have had little time to exchange family news. Walter Kennett was slightly smaller than William and had been a fisherman in Emsworth before joining the Royal Navy in October 1912, maybe encouraged to do so by the experiences of his younger brother. The Kennett brothers had been born in Slipper Road, Hermitage, next door to The Great Eastern public house and had been baptised in St. John’s Church, Southbourne. The same church where, on Monday 20th June 1892, a day of sharp showers and bright intervals, Joseph Kennett married Mary Starr, daughter of Isaac and Hannah Starr. Before her marriage, Mary had been a cook for the Rev Thomas Shaw in Horndean Road and Joseph was a mariner. Their first child, Walter, was born 23rd September 1892, and their second, William, on 1st March 1894. In total, Mary gave birth to ten children, six of whom survived infancy. The Kennetts were a well-known and established family in Emsworth. Jack Kennett, a cousin to Joseph and Mary, served on Warblington District Council and was President of the Emsworth Dredgermens’ Co-operative Society. On that fateful Wednesday in 1916, William and Walter would have been oblivious to the ferocity of action, of gunfire and shells, as the British and German squadrons engaged each other. A noise of battle drowned by the roar of furnaces and the intensity of feeding rapacious boilers. Unaware that is, until 16:26, when the very floor of the boiler room would have started to move and slide as Queen Mary rolled to starboard. An incoming shell had effected an explosion in one of her gun turrets, an explosion of such ferocity that it ripped a large hole in the side of the ship and she sank within a few terrifying minutes. 1,266 officers and men lost their lives. Alongside William and Walter were other Emsworth men: Albert Couvell, John Jelley and Arthur Rubick. Albert Couvell, also a stoker, had enlisted in March 1907, just after his eighteenth birthday. He had been born in Bosham, the third child of James and Louisa Couvell. Albert was 5 foot 5 inches tall, of fresh complexion and had been a gardener. He had served on Queen Mary since November 1915. His recently widowed mother lived at Sea View (bottom of South Street) and three months after receiving the news of the death of Albert she lost another son, Francis. Francis had fought on the Somme with the 8th Battalion East Surrey Regiment, had been wounded and died in hospital in Boulogne on 8th October 1916. John Jelley would have been very much engaged with the action as an Able Seaman. He had been born in Redhill, Surrey and joined the Royal Navy on his eighteenth birthday, 22nd May 1905. In June 1914, he passed the examinations necessary for him to become a petty officer and had served on Queen Mary from August 1915. His mother, a widow, moved from Redhill to Shanklin on the Isle of Wight and at the time of John’s death was living at Southdown Cottage, Hermitage. Arthur Rubick was born in Emsworth in April 1880, the second child and eldest son of George and Mary Ann Rubick. His father had moved from Chichester and was a bootmaker at 19, Queen Street, a business continued by his second son, Albert, who in 1911 was in business at 43, North Street. Arthur had enlisted in the Royal Marines in 1898 and served for 12 years. On his discharge, he became a crane-driver in London Docks, got married and lived at 54, Albany Place, Camberwell. He was recalled to the Royal Fleet Reserve when war was declared and was among the troops at Ostend in August 1914 in the vain attempt to protect Belgium ports from the Germans. In September 1914, as a Royal Marine, he 2 �HMS Queen Mary was posted to Queen Mary, and at the Battle of Jutland could well have been part of the crews operating one of her eight 13.5 inch main guns. The explosion on Queen Mary was catastrophic; essentially through poor practice in handling the explosives necessary to fire the 13.5 inch shells. To expedite the speed of loading, bags of cordite were stacked in the tower leading to the gun turret and thus vulnerable to ignition and explosion if the turret was hit by an aggressive shell. This is what had happened on Queen Mary and this is what happened to HMS Invincible. She was a battle cruiser that had inflicted extensive damage on the German Lützow but at 18:34 she suffered the same calamitous explosion as Queen Mary, having been hit by a German shell. Amongst the 1,020 men killed was James Cribb. 1914 he was posted to Invincible and, like William Kennett, reached the post of Acting Leading Stoker, and like William was probably unaware of the acrid intensity of the Naval engagements until the fatal explosion. Night descended, confusing and confounding the chaos of battle. The 4th Destroyer Flotilla, led by HMS Tipperary, commanded by Captain Charles Wintour, had lost contact with the core of the British Grand Fleet. At about 23:30 an outline of ships was detected to starboard, following a similar course to Tipperary, and Wintour sent out a recognition signal. The ships were German and in the glare of the searchlights they had switched on, Westfalen at about 1,000 yards was able to deploy accurate and devastating gunfire that sank Tipperary with a loss of 184 of its complement of 197, amongst whom was Arthur Parham. James Cribb was born in Emsworth in 1887, the fourth child of William and Emily Cribb née Newell, from Wincanton. The family lived at 5, Orange Row and William was a bargeman. James enlisted in the Royal Navy just before his twentieth birthday. He appears to have been a boisterous sailor. His service record assesses him to be of good or very good character though punctuated by two periods in the cells, one of four days and one of three. When war broke out in August Arthur’s parents , George and Ruth Parham, lived in Lumley Lane in the 1881 Census; they had five children, the youngest William was just six months old. Arthur was not born until 10th April 1884, by which time his mother, Ruth, was a widow, her husband having died during the later stages of her pregnancy. Arthur joined the Royal Navy in 1904 and his service record shows him to be on Hecla Continued overleaf 3 �Jutland – The Men of Emsworth continued in May 1916. Hecla was a base ship moored at Chatham and used for training purposes. That may have been his intended next posting but on 31st May, he drowned with Tipperary in the North Sea. The night-time confusion that resulted in the loss of Tipperary was to affect HMS Black Prince, which had also become detached from the British Grand Fleet. Just after midnight she detected some nearby ships and in the darkness sent out a recognition signal. Black Prince was immediately illuminated by the spotlights of Thüringen, Ostfriesland and Friedrich der Grosse and became a target for the High Seas Fleet. Fires broke out along the decks of the Black Prince and then at 00:20 on 1st June her magazines exploded and she sank with all her crew of 857. Five men from Emsworth died that evening including the most senior officer of the local men who drowned that night, Fleet Surgeon Herbert Geoghegan. Dr Geoghegan was born in Malta in 1872 and educated at Neuwied in Germany and Trinity College Dublin from where he graduated as a medical doctor. He had worked for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company before joining the Royal Navy. In September 1909 he married Isabella Anne, née Pickthorn, at St. Mary’s Church, Fulham. His widow subsequently married Mr Downs and lived at Arun House, Climping, Littlehampton. A Stuart Downs was a witness of the wedding of Herbert and Isabella in 1909. Dr and Mrs Geoghegan lived at “Lyndenhurst”, Rowlands Castle. Leigh Buick was born in Station Road, Emsworth on 27th April 1888. His father, James, came from Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland and was a carpenter for a wheelwright. His mother, Maria, was born in Paris. Leigh was their first child and on his eighteenth birthday he joined the Royal Navy for 12 years, becoming a Leading Seaman and in July 1915 passed the examination for promotion to Petty Officer. In the same summer he married Bessie Salisbury in Portsmouth. He had served on Black Prince from 21st April 1914. Petty Officer Victor Whiting joined Black Prince on the same day. Victor was nine years older than Leigh and had originally enlisted in the Royal Navy in October 1897, like Leigh, on his eighteenth birthday. He was the fourth child and fourth son of Henry and Sarah Whiting who kept a shop in The Square, Emsworth. At the 1911 Census his father is listed as the Landlord of The Anchor Public House in South Street. (now 36 On the Quay). Victor married Ethel Bradnum in the early spring of 1910 and they had one child. In the Portsmouth Evening News of Thursday 8th June 1916 is this simple but heartfelt message, “In loving memory of my dear husband, Victor John Whiting, who lost his life on HMS Black Prince – From his sorrowing wife and little son, Victor, 18, Thorney Road, Emsworth”. The remaining two men from Emsworth who lost their lives at Jutland are George Pearce and Harold Gilbert. George was the second child and son of William and Agnes Pearce. William was a fisherman and the family lived at 3, Hampshire Terrace, Queen Street. George was born on 1st November 1896 and joined the Royal Navy just after his eighteenth birthday and in July 1915 was posted to Black Prince as Stoker First Class. Harold Gilbert had first joined the Royal Navy as a boy sailor just after his fifteenth birthday and on his eighteenth birthday, 5th December 1915, enlisted as an Able Seaman for 12 years. He would have been very familiar with Black Prince having joined her on 21st April 1914, the same day as Leigh Buick and Victor Whiting. Harold was the fifth child of Charles and Hannah Gilbert. His father was a shepherd in Up Marden but died in 1909 and at the time of the 1911 Census Hannah was living at Locksash, West Marden with her three sons, Charles, George and Harold and her youngest daughter, Gladys. 4 �For the people of Emsworth, the first reports of the battle appeared in The Portsmouth Evening News on Saturday 3rd June, informing its readers of the loss of HMS Queen Mary, Invincible, Tipperary and Black Prince amongst ten ships listed with six still unaccounted for, as the newspaper’s leader phrased it “in hundreds of homes there is weeping for those who will return no more”. One Emsworth man who did return was Royal Marine Bill Yalden, seen here second from right, middle row. HMS Monarch (below) fired 53 13.5 inch shells during the Battle of Jutland. Photos: B Gudge 5 � 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 EMHT1312 Title A name given to the resource Jutland - The Men of Emsworth Description An account of the resource Battle of Jutland in 1916 and the 12 Emsworth men who took part and died with their ships. Includes map and photographs of HMS Queen Mary and Monarch, and of the Royal Marines aboard HMS Monarch. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robinson, Phillip Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01.11.2017 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bury, Christine (editor) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1916, 05, 31 to 1916, 06, 01 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. North Sea Subject The topic of the resource battle, death Leigh Buick, Albert Couvell, James Cribb, Herbert Geoghegan, Harold Gilbert, John Jelley, Walter Kennett, William Kennett, Arthur Parham, George Pearce, Arthur Rubick, Victor Whiting, survivor Bill Yalden Modes Classified Name Additional information relating to the object weapon, cannon Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 49, 2017 pp. 11-15 EMHT1308 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/3464fbfb4178cadd88e5c8b264bddbc7.pdf fa6df44d346a73962fb2f78b255de19f PDF Text Text The Vietnamese “Boat People” on Thorney Island by John Pointon In the late 1970s the refugee exodus from Vietnam increasingly hit the headlines, an issue that impacted upon the UK when British freighters picked up boatloads of refugees at sea which resulted in their asylum here. We talk of “Boat People” but some clarification is needed. Land routes out of Vietnam were blocked by conflict and the only way out was by sea. Those from the south set out across the open seas facing the real threats of storms and pirate attack. Their only real hope of salvation was to be picked up by a passing cargo ship. On the other hand, those from the north faced the relatively easy journey along the coast of China, being resupplied along the way until they reached the British colony of Hong Kong. By 1980, Hong Kong held 80,000 refugees in makeshift accommodation and it was from there that the government finally accepted 10,000 into the UK. Thus, the majority of refugees who passed through Thorney Island were from the north of Vietnam and were ethnically Chinese with little exposure to English and western matters. Of course freighters did pick up southerners and they did come through Thorney. They were ethnically Vietnamese and having lived alongside the Americans had experience of English and a western way of life. So, it was in about August 1979 that we learned that the ex-RAF station Thorney Island was to house 500 Vietnamese “Boat People”. For a few months I had been working at Sopley in Hampshire, where there were 600 refugees from the freighter Sibonga. What had been intended to be a six month project for them turned into a rolling programme when the new Thatcher government accepted the 10,000 refugees. With the 1 �west wing of the Officers Mess but when the camp was expanded the following year, some houses opposite were pulled into use. In Hong Kong each family was allocated a bare wooden bunk but here a family was housed in a single room kitted out with comfortable bunks and bedding. Incidentally, when it was equipped, some of the supplies (sheets, blankets etc.) that appeared had been in store since pre- Second World War. BCAR staff had rooms in the other senior officers’ houses but Maj. Arrowsmith lived in The Glebe. A little later, houses in Vulcan Road were made available for teachers and, after the expansion, also in Hornet Road. Awaiting rescue Photo: The Independent subsequent announcement of Thorney Island, I was ‘poached’ by West Sussex LEA to set up the secondary and adult education provision there and my wife Mandy was appointed general assistant. Time was very short and we had barely a month to get staff recruited and ourselves organised. In fact, Thorney Education opened for business on 22nd October and by then refugees were already on site and waiting for us. The full-time education and health provision was supplied by West Sussex County Council and funded by the Home Office. One of the houses was equipped as a Health Centre. The County reopened the Primary School and an Education Centre for secondary age children and adults was established in the west wing (now demolished) of the Officers Mess. What had been junior officers’ quarters in the Mess, essentially large single bedrooms, became classrooms. It was a tight fit but fortunately the people’s needs were not just for ‘chalk and talk’; there were practical things the refugees needed to know and to do. Classes were often taken out and about, visiting places such as supermarkets and post offices. Thorney Island was a large air station and so only the area of West Thorney was used; essentially, the Officers Mess and surrounding houses. The establishment was administered by the British Council for Aid to Refugees (BCAR) led by Maj. Basil Arrowsmith and they managed the reception, accommodation, catering and resettlement, all the while providing 24 hour welfare cover. Their admin department was set up in the old Station Commander’s house and included the functions of resettlement and job seeking. With regard to accommodation, initially all the refugees lived in the main block and the Many other organisations came to help the refugees either on a voluntary basis or as part of their community responsibilities. The local police would come in and give lectures on safety and the laws of the land, and help with any issue which would arise from having a community of people living under one roof in unfamiliar circumstances. The DSS would come in to advise and prepare people for claiming benefit once in their own home. The job centre would also help individuals to find work once they knew where home was going to be. Religious groups would offer counselling and support and much of the Continued overleaf 2 �The Vietnamese “Boat People” continued organisation of these visitors came under the auspices of the general assistant. building was auctioned off. Mandy and I were the last employees and our family were the last residents on the island before the Army took over. As I say, time was very short and an early admin problem was that the Centre was always open. We had to staff for a full 50 week year but of course teachers’ contracts gave normal leave entitlements. Very quickly we had to work out processes to enable these issues to be resolved. Fortunately, the refugees came to our aid. Notionally, they were to be with us for three months before resettlement but of course as families left other groups would arrive. Because of this, classes were therefore constantly being amended or dissolved and reformed and it became easier for teachers to take time out without disrupting work. Clearly, we were doing something right, for, in 1980, the camp capacity was increased making it the largest in the country. In the same year, Thames Television made a TV programme about Thorney Island introduced by Sandy Gall. (I think a copy maybe available from the British Film Institute.) The whole point of the project was to resettle the refugees into UK society. Most refugees were distributed to different parts of the country, wherever local authorities could provide housing. However, most areas were devoid of a Vietnamese community in which individuals could find personal support and there was a natural gravitation towards London. Chinatown now sports many successful Vietnamese restaurants. Our time working with the refugees was perhaps the most rewarding, entertaining yet humbling experience of both our lives. We welcomed people who had no English, who had little or no education in Vietnam but would leave the Centre with a basic ability to communicate in a foreign language and had pride in their achievement. We welcomed people who took our own children to their hearts, who would give them anything they could although they had very little themselves. We welcomed people who would cook food for us in their rooms on the most basic of equipment (not allowed but we turned a blind eye). In ad hoc parties our wine glasses would be topped up with whatever alcohol came to hand, so beer would go on top of wine which would go on top of port etc. – cocktails took on a different meaning. We welcomed people to the Centre who had experienced trauma, humiliation and extremes of endurance which defy understanding and yet they looked forward not back. That brief two years taught all of us on the Island, both refugees and any who had contact with them, a tremendous amount. It was truly an amazing experience. Then, in 1981, came the time to close the camp. No more refugees were received and as resettlement continued so numbers fell. Of course it was irregular and in Education we tried to phase staffing reductions in line, erring where necessary towards overstaffing. Finally, virtually two years to the day, in October it was all over. All education kit and resources, funded by the Home Office, was handed over to the Prison Service and all the redundant equipment in the Main 3 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EMHT1311 Title A name given to the resource The Vietnamese "Boat People" on Thorney Island Description An account of the resource Running a refugee camp plus generic photograph of Vietnamese refugees at sea awaiting rescue Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Pointon, John Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01.11.2017 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bury, Christine (editor) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1979-81 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. West Thorney Island Subject The topic of the resource education, refugees, settlement, welfare Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 49, 2017, pp.8-10 EMHT1308 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/0ab4809e4778f2fac2c94a60b5ad06db.pdf f903e9a0b104e4b244ac759721b7bc7a PDF Text Text Crabb, Emsworth Cockles and the Cold War by Steve Miller In April 1956 there was a Cold War going on between the Soviet Union and the West. But what did I need to know about that? I was 13 years of age and although living in Emsworth, I was attending Portsmouth Building School for Boys. One school day the science teacher, Mr Monckom, announced that 10 lucky boys from our class had been selected to pay a visit to Portsmouth Dockyard to see three Soviet warships that would be arriving in Portsmouth. The Communist Party First Secretary, Nikita Khrushchev, and Soviet Premier, Nikolai Bulganin, were coming to Britain on a goodwill visit on board the Ordzhonikidze. The cruiser, together with two other warships from the Russian Navy, would be docked at Portsmouth. The warships were scheduled to arrive on 18th April 1956. The visit was to last four days. It was all part of Khrushchev’s plan to try to rid the Soviet Union of the ruthless reputation it had gained during Josef Stalin’s brutal rule. I was one of the ‘lucky 10’ selected for the visit and that’s how I began to get a little closer to the Cold War. After meeting the rest of the party at school on Sunday 22nd April we set off for the Dockyard. On arrival we were met by our hosts from the Soviet Navy. We were escorted around the ships by friendly Soviet seamen exchanging Navy cap badges and Russian cigarettes in return for small change sterling coins. We concluded our visit with fond farewells and handshakes whilst clutching our spoils. Not a hint of East/West conflict, Glasnost and Perestroika abounded almost 30 years before Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the policies. All was sweetness and light above the waterline but something more sinister may have been taking place in the murky waters below the boats! But more of that later! Russian Cruiser Ordzhonikidze (above) Red and Gold Soviet cap badge (left) Fast forward 13 months or so to Sunday 9th June 1957. Being an Emsworth boy, summer weekends always involved some activity close to the sea. This particular Sunday we (myself and four or five pals) had planned a day out on the sands around Pilsey Island to do a spot of cockling. It was mid-morning as we approached the Thorney Airfield gatehouse on our bicycles and it was obvious something was different this day. There were extra guards at the gate and they informed us that there would be no cockling expeditions as the sands at Pilsey were ‘off limits’ to all personnel. Disappointed, we headed back down the Thorney Road where we were met by an Emsworth fisherman. We related our story and the fisherman informed us that the gatehouse security had no jurisdiction over certain areas of foreshore and they could not prevent our planned expedition. So with renewed optimism, together with our well-informed companion to carry out negotiations, we approached the gatehouse again. After a few minutes of much deliberation we were through and cycling merrily on towards Pilsey Sands. 1 �When we arrived, it was low tide and the sands as always were exposed for a considerable area. But on the west side of what was Pilsey Island at high tide, there were canvas screens erected on the sands. Official looking men milled around the area and we guessed that this had something to do with the original stance of the gatehouse personnel. However, we were there to do a job and without a further thought of what was going on behind the screens, we spent the rest of the day cockling on the sands. Back at home, even before our cockles had finished their saltwater soak, rumours started to circulate around Emsworth. The town was buzzing with stories regarding the reasons for the additional security on Thorney Island and the mysterious screens on Pilsey Sands. Commander Crabb Apparently a body had been found in Chichester Harbour by fishermen and landed on the sands at Pilsey. Police and Ministry officials had been summoned and they had called for the additional security measures to be put in place whilst they carried out their investigations. One thing was certain amongst the rumours, there was a body and there was some attempt to keep too much detail from the general public. Even now there is a great deal of uncertainty about what really led up to that Sunday in 1957, but after months/years have passed a ‘story’ has emerged which goes like this... The body is now popularly believed to have been that of Commander Lionel (Buster) Crabb. Crabb was a Royal Navy diver in World War II. He was awarded the George Medal and an OBE for his wartime exploits. Apparently MI6 recruited Crabb in 1956. In an April 1956 assignment, Crabb dived into Portsmouth Harbour to investigate ‘certain features’ of the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze. But he was never seen alive again. Crabb’s companion, who had stayed with him in the Sally Port Hotel in Portsmouth, removed all his belongings and also took the page of the hotel register on which they had signed in. Ten days later British newspapers published stories about Crabb’s disappearance following an underwater mission. MI6 tried to cover up this mission. A week after our school outing on 29th April 1956, the Admiralty announced that Crabb had vanished when he had taken part in trials of secret underwater apparatus in Stokes Bay in the Solent. The Soviets responded by releasing a statement stating that the crew of the Ordzhonikidze had seen a frogman near the cruiser. A little less than 14 months after Crabb’s disappearance, a body in a diving suit was brought to the surface in their net by two fishermen off Pilsey Island in Chichester Harbour. The body was brought to shore in a landing craft operated by members of RAF Marine Craft Unit No. 1107. It was missing the head and both hands, which made it impossible to positively identify the body given the technology available at that time. Expert witnesses claimed that the body had the same height as Crabb, the same Continued overleaf 2 �Crabb, Emsworth Cockles and the Cold War continued body-hair colour, and was dressed in the same clothes: Pirelli two-piece diving suit and Admiralty Pattern swim fins. Crabb was allegedly wearing a similar outfit when he embarked on his final mission, wherever that may have been? However, neither Crabb’s ex-wife, nor his girlfriend were able to identify the headless body as that of Crabb. A pathologist examined the body and stated in a short report for the inquest that a careful examination of the body failed to reveal any body scars or marks that would positively identify Crabb. In a complete turnaround, following a subsequent re-examination, the pathologist reported that he had found a scar in the shape of an inverted Y on the left side of the left knee, and a scar on the left thigh, about the size of a sixpenny coin. But did this prove that it was Crabb’s body pulled out of Chichester Harbour? Did he die in Portsmouth Harbour during his dive? Was he murdered by MI5 (responsible for home intelligence) owing to his unreliability and the fact that the mission would cause embarrassment to the government? Did he defect to the Soviets? Was he acting as a double agent anyway? We have a story, but the truth surrounding these mysterious events may never be known. A little more may be revealed when Cabinet papers are belatedly released in 2057. Too late for me! The only thing that is certain in all this, my friends and I, on two separate occasions, were very close to this Cold War ‘mystery’ of the 1950s. 3 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context EMHT1310 Title A name given to the resource Crabb, Emsworth Cockles and the Cold War Description An account of the resource Schoolboy visit to Russian warship, cockle picking off Thorney Island and disappearance of Commander Lionel (Buster) Crabb plus photographs of Russian warship Ordzhonikidze, Russian cap badge and Commander Crabb Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Miller, Steve Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01.11.2017 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bury, Christine (editor) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1956-7 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Pilsey sands, Portsmouth harbour, Thorney island Subject The topic of the resource cockle picking, cold war, diving, Royal Navy, Russian Navy Modes Classified Name Additional information relating to the object badge, personal ornament, cap-badge, boat Relation A related resource Article in The Emsworth Echo, Issue No. 49, 2017, pp.6-8 EMHT1308 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Stored Location The place where the physical object is stored Digital