For nearly one hundred years Romsey was known around the world for its wonderful Jams. In a Tudor style building in the Hundred was the jam factory and at the time it was one of Romsey's biggest employers. The smell of warm strawberries gave the town a pleasant aroma while its children killed Queen wasps for sixpence reward. Kids used to go picking blackberries (me also) and take them to the jam factory and get a few bob for them. The Old Jam Factory, was a warren of wooden buildings behind an historical High-street building (now Aldi supermarket). It was run by Richard Hattatt who's brother David run a grocers shop in the Hundred. The factory closed in 1960. It was then used as storage for classic cars until it was destroyed by fire in 1963.

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Jam Factory chimney seen from Crosfield Hall late 1940's