ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO — 29 SEPTEMBER 1893

ADVERTISEMENT ANDOVER RACING CLUB.

AUTUMN MEETING WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11th & 12th.

THE Course adjoins Weyhill Station on the Midland and South-Western Railway, and within easy reach of Andover Junction.

CHEAP FARES from all principal Stations on the London and South-Western and the Midland and South-Western Railways.

Admission to the Course, 1/-; Paddock, 2/-; Grand Stand, 4/-.

REFRESHMENTS to be obtained on the Course and in the Enclosures.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO — 27 SEPTEMBER 1918

ADVERTISEMENT CARRYING ON!

We are inclined to take pride in our record for the four years of War.

2,500 of our trained men have left us to join the Forces.

We have had to fill their places with women who were, of necessity, inexperienced in the trade.

We have had to undertake a huge increase of work to carry out the various rationing schemes.

We have met our difficulties as they arose with the minimum of disadvantage to our customers.

If new ones arise, we shall still hope to overcome them and to CARRY ON.

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SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO — 1 OCTOBER 1943

THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

A beautiful service to commemorate the Battle of Britain, and to pay homage to the gallant airmen who lost their lives in saving England when she was in deadly peril, was held in St.Mary’s Church, Andover, on Sunday morning, when the crowded congregation overflowed into the gallery.

It was very fitting that such a large number of R.A.F. personnel, men and women, airmen from the Dominions as well as from Great Britain, should have pride of place in the procession which was led to and from the Church by the Band of the 1st Battn.

Hampshire Home Guard. The Mayor, members of the Council, and officials attended in state, escorted by a posse of police. All the Civil Defence Services were represented, so were the Andover Division of St.John Ambulance Brigade, the Home Guard, Andover Squadron of the Air Training Corps with their Band, the National Fire Service personnel, and a fine turnout of the Housewives’ Section and the Women’s Voluntary Services. Members of the Boys’ Brigade lined the steps leading up to the Church. The sidesmen had an unenviable task, to find enough seating accommodation for the general public.

ADVERTISEMENT

They will march to Victory on the leather you save.

To find leather for a million marching feet is no easy task — with markets closed, shipping space crowded and many cargoes at the bottom of the sea, it can only be found if others go short.

That is why we ask you to spend your coupons carefully — never to buy new shoes until you must — and when you must, buy Utility.

Milwards, High Street, Andover.

FIFTY YEARS AGO — 27 SEPTEMBER 1968

DRIVERS USING WEYHILL SERVICE ROAD TO OVERTAKE

Andover Rural District Council’s Roads Committee heard on Friday how vehicles used the service road between the Star Inn and the Sun Inn at Weyhill to overtake traffic on the main road.

In a letter, Brig G.Mullens appealed to the committee to take action to prevent the “misuse” of the service road.

He pointed out that there was nothing to indicate it was a service road and not a lay-by.

Some people who used the service road not only left bottles and other picnic litter in the ditch on the other side of the footpath but also used the ditch as a lavatory.

He had often seen vehicles use the service road in order to overtake slower moving vehicles, such as a tractor or tank transport, on the main road.

“They pull over to the left outside the Star Inn; accelerate up the service road and debouch on to the main road again at the Sun Inn.

“This practice is extremely dangerous for anyone such as myself or the inhabitants of Weyhill House coming out of their entrances on to the service road” he wrote.

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO — 1 OCTOBER 1993

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR – DO YOUR DUTY

Mr Charles Rushworth writes from 17 Huxley Street, Hulliwell, Bolton, Lancs: This summer, along with my wife, I visited my home town of Andover. My wife asked me to show her some of my old haunts.

On visiting St Mary’s Church we were both appalled by the state of the Cenotaph and the Remembrance Gardens. It was littered with beer bottles, chip papers and a lot of unprintable things.

Surely some of my old comrades, who gave the supreme sacrifice in the war, deserve more respect than this.

Come on Andover – do your duty to them.

Sort it out and clean it up!