Gallery
The three photographs below are of
crop circles made at Manor Farm, north of Fort Nelson, Portchester
in 2004
Saturday July
5th 2008
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The new gazebo successfully
erected
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Part of our display. A very busy
day.
The 6 photographs below were taken by
Joyce Wadey using a simple disc camera in 1987 and 1988
Toby's thatched
cottage - 158, Castle Street, Portchester
The thatch had been blown from the roof in the great
gale of October 1987 and carelessly left against the wall
The following 5 photographs of the fire were taken on March 10th
1988
The thatch on the ground was ignited and rapidly spread to the roof
Fire service arrives and is quickly in action
but the roof could not be saved
Hospital Lane (bottom of Castle Street) Portchester
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The beauty Queen is Beverley
Robinson (now Wilkins)
May 27th 1967
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The lady sitting behind the driver is Rosetta May
Robinson
The three photographs above are from a collection of
100 slides dating from 1963 to 1975 . The collection will eventually
be put on the Archives/Pics page possibly as a slide show (no date)
Portchester Ladies Cricket Team 1930's
Jean Withinshaw, Chairman of The Portchester Society, presenting a picture of a
'Birds Eye View of Portchester Castle' painted in 1817 by an unknown
artist to Mr Matthews, Headmaster of Portchester Community School,
White Hart Lane, Portchester and pupils Dominic Warren and Zoe
Freeman.
The presentation took place at The Portchester
Society Meeting in the Methodist Church Hall on September 3rd 2007.
We are waiting the return of this plaque.
The land on which the Old Parish Hall stood is shown on
the Common Fields Map of 1405.
This will be the subject for research of the Farms in Portchester with
the names of who owned and farmed it from 1405 onwards.
The drawing is on one of our notelets (see our 'Publications' page for
details)
The remains of a
windmill still standing near Portchester foreshore. It was known as
Pycroft Mill
The field on which it stands will be a subject of research from 1405
until the present day. (See common fields map of 1405 above)
The Millers House near Portchester foreshore. Note
the castellated new building behind the house (photograph below)
(see remains of windmill in photograph above)
The field on which this building stands is part of
the research on the history of the Common Fields of Portchester in
1405
History in the making in the grounds of the
Millers House, close to the remains of the old windmill.
A beautiful new castle for Portchester?
