Romsey people past and present

Inside Chas E Smiths Government Surplus Stores, The Hundred
Romsey
Lynn?, Rex Smith, Anne Lucas, Harold Smith and Audrey
Smith

The well known Romsey character Johnny Zammit with his mother

Mike Mason, Roy Stratton, Peter Kewe and David Ford
entrance to Church St by veg shop

Romsey's first traffic controller "Yorky"

Brian Carpenter who once lived at Burma Rd Romsey

Milkman Wilf Johnson

Bertram Courage and Fred Viney

Sam Porter and Rodger (Podge) Gunner

Ann (Moore) and Skinner Viney

Ladies working at "The Gardens" Winchester Hill,
Romsey
including, Mabel Randell, Daisy Green, Pat Thrower and Molly
Elvin (nee Powell)

Tom Lewis and John Vidler

Reg and Dorothy Calvert. Lived for a while over Tates TV
shop in Church St, Romsey
Reg ran dances in the Crosfield Hall and the Drill Hall in
Station Rd, late 1950's
Later he managed the Fortunes pop group and ran a pirate
radio station in London called Radio City
It was through his involvement with pirate radio he was shot
to death by a Oliver Smedley

Lads in Bill Collins Cafe in the Hundred 1964

"Podge" Gunner and Bill Collins

Ken Collins and Podge Gunner in she repair shop in the
Hundred, Romsey

Gary Windibank famous for strongman exploits

Bill Newell,
Mick Purver and Sid Tubb with cycle plus Tom Viney's Hillman
Minx

Pinks grocery shop cycle in Bridge Rd Romsey

Todd Bennett who trained at Timsbury Manor

Tom Doling

Ron Sillence 1950's

Hazell Wedding 1948. The Hazell's had a chemist shop in
Church St.

Tom Edwards (steeplejack) and Doug Reeves (taxi driver)

Lord Mountbatten presenting TV
to Tom Doling

H C Emery Post Office farewell gathering
Winchester Rd, Botley Rd Junction
Retirement of Harold and Belle Emery
April1976 Do you recognise anyone?
Photo courtesy of the Lower Test
Valley Archaeological Study Group (LTVAS)

Romsey Weighting Club presentations
1968 with Podge Gunner
Kings Head darts team, Crosfield Hall,
Romsey

Romsey sweeper for many years, Bill Weeks 1960's

Jim Whale 1985, closing of
fishmonger in Romsey

1975 Outside Duval the dry cleaners
in the Hundred next to Woolworths (now Co-Op)

Ladies who worked at the Purchases
store in the Hundred Romsey 1940's

Banning St Romsey, 1937. George VI
Coronation Celebrations.
Pat Redman, Pat Smith, Fred
Bevous, Kit Weeks, Lil Payne, Mrs Cox,
Bill Merryman, Lou Rickman, Prill
Cole, Jack Hann and Maurice Redman

Banning St Romsey, 1937. George VI
Coronation Celebrations.
Do you recognise anybody

Banning St Romsey, 1937. George VI
Coronation Celebrations.
Do you recognise anybody
Standing left is Vera "Betty"
Redman the one with a friends hands on her shoulders

Tudor Rose Xmas 195?
Joe Middleton, Deafy King, Jim
Pile, Norman Eldridge, Paddy Burke, Paddy Irvine and unknown
kneeling Albert Levy

Old Romsey Cadets very 1st Romsey
Carnival entry (Strongs yard) 1962

Romsey Boys Club show at Crosfield
Hall 1958


Malmsbury Rd, Romsey, V.E Day 1945

Group in Mill Lane, Romsey V E day 1945

Group of Romsey HCC workmen mid 1960's
L/R:- Bill Angel, Dennis (deny)
Baker , Alf Pointer,
Stan Bloomfield, Brian Swatton and John Martin
 Stan Viney, George Eldridge , Lew Hann, Maurie
Edwards, Ashley Edwards,
Alfred (Sam) Gerrard 1949, building site at Manningham
Way, Timsbury

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