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How We Used To LiveEncompassing talks, exhibitions and hands-on exploration of the past, our local history group encourages local inhabitants with long memories to recall past family life.
Our focus is on the local area as well as the wider New Forest. |
Talks |
We are planning a new and exciting programme of talks to relieve the desert that was COVID-19, starting in October, 2022. Programme to be announced. In the meantime please put the following dates in your diary: Tuesdays, 7 pm sharp: 11 October 2022; 25 November 2022 (a Friday not a Tuesday);13 December 2022; 14 February 2023; 14 March 2023; 18 April 2023 (not a second Tuesday to avoid Easter); 9 May 2023 and13 June 2023.
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Our History |
We began with a chance discovery of documents in the attic of a local family builder. Saved from the bonfire at a local farm this important find now forms the Payne Archive at the Christopher Tower Reference Libray at the New Forest Heritage Centre in Lyndhurst. Ledgers dating back to 1837, architects’ plans – some on linen – wages records and builders’ work books with client and house names reveal a fascinating story of past life.
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