Edwardian 1901 – 1910 Period – Hampshire History

Taskers of Andover Ltd

Taskers of Andover Ltd, Tasker & Co, Tasker & Sons the list goes on but the company is the same. In 1803, Robert Tasker, a twenty one year old blacksmith from Devizes, left his home to look for work and found a job with the blacksmith at Abbotts Ann. He was a hard working and…

Shepherd Lawes

Shepherd Lawes, buried in Martin Hampshire was the inspiration for the shepherd in W.H Hudson’s book, ‘A Shepherd’s Life’. Wriiten just before WWI it remembers the life and observations of a shepherd in the Wiltshire Hampshire Downs.

Hythe Pier Railway

Hythe Pier in Hampshire is home to the worlds oldest continuously running pier railway. It reaches out into Southampton Water to connect with the ferry. A ferry has been making the crossing here for well over five hundred years.

Wymering Fields Cosham

This image of the Wymering Fields Cosham, is a reminder of a time when this suburb of Portsmouth was a rural area of farms and fields. To the south of Wymering the mudflats of the tidal shore, it sits tucked under the chalk hills at Portsdown north of Portsmouth. After much reclamation and the passage…

The Royal Pier Southampton

The Royal Pier at Southampton gave access to the ships that the travel hungry Victorians expected. Its wooden structure however meant it was far from an ideal or practical piece of engineering.

Emsworth Oyster Fleet

The Emsworth oyster industry used to supply a 100,000 oysters a week to the London market but the contamination of the bivalve with typhoid and other enteric diseases sent the industry into a spin from which it never recovered.