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'FAREHAM PAST & PRESENT' (ISSN 0960-1023 -- Background )
ln 1960 a group of people came together at Price's School to form a local branch of the
Workers' Educational Association and make a study of the Fareham area. They went to various
lectures and began searching through old documents and finally brought their research together
with the first publication of Fareham Past and Present in February 1965 at the price of one
shilling. Miss Alice Hilton was the leader of the study group and becarne over the years the Editor
of a very popular booklet selling about six hundred copies by the second edition in August 1965.
By Autumn 1984 the format had changed
from the old stapled together pages to a
more compact booklet of A5 pages,
including photographs. Miss Hilton, now
Mrs Alice James, was the Editor helped by
her husband Lieutenant Commander
'Jimmy' James and they continued this
partnership for many years, producing two
booklets a year and occasionally an extra
at Christmas.
ln 1994 Pam Wendon retired and, having bought
several of the booklets over the years,
joined the Fareham Local History Group
and met Mrs James. ln
1997 she wrote her first piece of research 'The
Gingerbread Man of Fareham' and offered
it to Alice and it was accepted for the
Spring edition.
Over the next few years Alice gave Pam
documents of various kinds, some dating
back to 1650, that had been found wet and
decaying in a skip. She wrote them up briefly
before they were sent to the Record Office
for safe keeping. They appeared under
'More from those six sacks' in most editions.
By 2002 both Alice and Jimmy were finding it a strain to get the edition together in time for the
usual date. They were still typing on an old typewriter and addressing the envelopes to the
mailing list clients by hand. Pam typed up several articles for them and amazed Jimmy by
presenting him with addressed labels. The mailing list of about 200 took two
days rather than a long tiring week.
ln Spring 2003 Alice and Jimmy decided it was time to give up in order to regain their health.
Alice had been producing Fareham Past and Present for 45 years and had found it increasingly
difficult to cope with the hard physical work, such as delivering nearly 500 books arounnd the
Iocality and finding suitable storage in the home. The need to get the booklet to the printers in
time had become a worry as was the difficulty of typing up the articles.
It was decided that Mrs Anne Baxandall should take over the running of the monthly local history
group at the Westbury Manor Museum and Pam would take over the production of Fareham
and Present.
Fareham Past and Present continued to be published twice a year and contained the the usual
mixture of local memories and serious research but gradually problems arose. Publishing involved typing out A5 pages separately
and handing the printers, Studio 6, a batch of 60 loose pages. They then had to cut them to
arrange them in a printable order to fit their machines. This cost money and time. Then Sarah at
the printers, offered to show how to present the work in a more efficient manner for everyone.
However the economy took a down turn and FP&P outlets began to close. Postage went up and sometimes, for no obvious reason the
booklet was judged to be over 100grams and other times under. This was solved by reducing the
number of pages to 56 instead of 60 but postage increased and several faithful overseas
readers were paying more in postage than the book cost and gradually dropped out.
Sales have continued to decline as more and more is available on the net. lt is no longer cost
efficient to continue the production of the booklet.
So, it was have decided that Autumn 2016 will be the last edition. FLHG have asked if anyone can
over but there have been no offers. Maybe in the future someone will start it again.
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F.P.&
P. - ISSUES / CONTENTS
Volume VII and
Volume VIII
Volume VI
Volume V
Volume IV And IMAGES of an index (ie as a .PDF file ) Volume I
also as a further example: The Autumn 1991 Edition(Book XV Volume III) was the 45th Edition, containing 52 pages. The items in this edition covered: 1 Editor's Notes 2 Courts, Prokes. Places & Yards - 0.W.J.Hurden 5 Price's School - K. Harrison & A.J. 12. The Hamble, River of my Boyhood - A.T.P. Cooper 14 Fareham Council Workmen - A.J. 15 Some Rerniniscenses of Fareham - R. Sanders 19 Staff at Timothy Whites - Mr. Worfold 20 Drama in Fareham Creek - J.O. Hall 23 Poor House & Paupers - Mrs. A. Baxandall 25 Russel Place - E.C. Davis 26 The Mill House at Peel Common - J Small 28 The Riggles Family - Mrs. A. Hayter 29 Knowle Hospital - F. Hoare 33 I Remember - Mrs. K. M. Mouland 35 Who's For Tennis - A.J. 36 Fareham, in the 1920s - Miss M.E. Jelley 41 My Garden of Memories - A. Swatton 42 Down End and East Cams - Mrs. J.C. Shepherd 46 Information Required - A.J. 47 Some Modern Memories - Mrs. F. Barton 49 Extract From Deeds - A.J. 50 Corrspondence & Information It is hoped that, sometime, the full text of some of the issues of FP&P will be published here. |
F.P.&
P. PAST ISSUES
Sets of copies of the FP&P magazine are held by . . BACK NUMBERS available as at Autumn 2016 At £1.00
The above are still available. Please add postage of 60p for one booklet, 85p for two, £1.10 for three etc. (U.K.2016). Ask re postage abroad.
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