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Hamble River's Classic Superyachts - 3rd April 2025 File Uploaded: 21 April 2025 1 MB An Armchair Tour of the Hamble Valley - 6th February 2025 File Uploaded: 11 February 2025 594.6 KB Hamble River Collection - 7th November 2024 File Uploaded: 16 November 2024 454.8 KB College of Air Training - 12th September 2024 File Uploaded: 26 September 2024 739.7 KB My Life as Hamble's Policeman - 6th June 2024 File Uploaded: 11 June 2024 71.8 KB Amazing story of Hamble Regattas - 4th April 2024 File Uploaded: 12 April 2024 903.3 KB Historic Ships of Southampton - 1st February 2024 File Uploaded: 5 February 2024 876.3 KB Old Newspaper Reports of Hamble - 9th November 2023 File Uploaded: 14 November 2023 540.1 KB The Local Story of the Spitfire - 7th September 2023 File Uploaded: 11 September 2023 64.2 KB Hamble Shops - 8th June 2023 File Uploaded: 20 June 2023 676.4 KB Southampton Passenger Ships and Docks - 6th April 2023 File Uploaded: 27 April 2023 68.5 KB Nevil Shute, the man who never forgot Hamble- 2nd February 2023 File Uploaded: 11 February 2023 67.1 KB Boats of the Hamble River - 10th November 2022 File Uploaded: 11 February 2023 68.5 KB Hamble River Valley Railways - 8th September 2022 File Uploaded: 11 February 2023 68.2 KB Working at Fairey Marine - 14th July 2022 File Uploaded: 19 July 2022 66.1 KB Hamble Warsash Ferry - 7th April 2022 File Uploaded: 15 April 2022 639.5 KB Hamble Warsash Ferry booklet File Uploaded: 15 April 2022 377 KB The Jolie Brise - 3rd February 2022 File Uploaded: 8 February 2022 458.4 KB Hamble Families & People - 11th November 2021 File Uploaded: 16 November 2021 48.9 KB Hamble Families & People - Booklet File Uploaded: 16 November 2021 84.4 KB Hamble Pictures from the Past - 2nd September 2021 File Uploaded: 8 September 2021 62.4 KB Hamble Pictures from the Past - Booklet File Uploaded: 8 September 2021 102.5 KB History of the River at Bursledon - 6 February 2020 File Uploaded: 15 February 2020 194.1 KB History of Satchell Lane - 7th November 2019 File Uploaded: 8 November 2019 196 KB History of Satchell Lane - Booklet File Uploaded: 8 November 2019 190.6 KB Tudor Shipping, Seafarers and Trade in our area - 5th September 2019 File Uploaded: 10 September 2019 268.6 KB 100 Years of Hamble River Sailing Club - 6th June 2019 File Uploaded: 11 June 2019 200.4 KB 100 Years of Hamble River Sailing Club - Booklet File Uploaded: 11 June 2019 203 KB Southampton from Blitz to D-Day - 11th April 2019 File Uploaded: 12 April 2019 198.2 KB Warsash and the River - 7th February 2019 File Uploaded: 11 February 2019 192.5 KB Aviation at Hamble - 8th November 2018 File Uploaded: 10 November 2018 195.1 KB Aviation at Hamble - Booklet File Uploaded: 13 December 2018 222.1 KB TS Mercury Old Boys' Memories - 20th September 2018 File Uploaded: 23 September 2018 192.9 KB GE Aviation - History of the factory - 7th June 2018 File Uploaded: 12 June 2018 192.6 KB A trip up the Hamble River 1910 - 5th April 2018 File Uploaded: 7 April 2018 198.3 KB The Story of Itchen Village - 8th February 2018 File Uploaded: 11 February 2018 200.1 KB Hamble Schools - 9th November 2017 File Uploaded: 12 November 2017 198.3 KB Hamble Schools - Booklet File Uploaded: 12 November 2017 826.1 KB Hamble's Training Ship, TS Mercury - 7th September 2017 File Uploaded: 10 September 2017 201.2 KB Hamble Oil Terminal - 8th June 2017 File Uploaded: 13 June 2017 195.2 KB Netley Hospital and Chapel - 6th April 2017 File Uploaded: 12 June 2017 195.7 KB Blue Star Boats to the Beach Hut Cafe - 9th February 2017 File Uploaded: 12 June 2017 264.1 KB Spitfire - 10th November 2016 File Uploaded: 12 June 2017 283.4 KB Postcards from Hamble - 8th September 2016 File Uploaded: 15 June 2017 274.1 KB The Local Strawberry industry - 9th June 2016 File Uploaded: 11 May 2022 194.4 KB Seaplanes at Hamble - 7th April 2016 File Uploaded: 12 June 2017 196.9 KB Henry V's Ships and the Grace Dieu - 4th & 11th February 2016 File Uploaded: 15 June 2017 331.9 KB Women Pilots of the ATA - 12th November 2015 File Uploaded: 12 June 2017 194.3 KB School of Navigation to Warsash Maritime Academy - 17th September 2015 File Uploaded: 12 June 2017 197.8 KB Hamble Pubs - 11th June 2015 File Uploaded: 12 June 2017 200.1 KB Hamble Pubs - Booklet File Uploaded: 13 June 2017 203.9 KB Hamble's Historical Novelist and a Titanic Tale - 2nd April 2015 File Uploaded: 12 June 2017 192.4 KB Pirates of the Solent - 5th February 2015 File Uploaded: 12 June 2017 265.1 KB Hamble River - A glimpse of the Past - 13th November 2014 File Uploaded: 13 June 2017 198.1 KB Hamble River - A glimpse from the Past - Booklet File Uploaded: 13 June 2017 227 KB Hamble Farms - 11th September 2014 File Uploaded: 13 June 2017 197.4 KB Cunard Line - 5th June 2014 File Uploaded: 13 June 2017 195 KB Woolston Floating Bridge - 10th April 2014 File Uploaded: 13 June 2017 195.3 KB Wrecks of the Solent - 6th February 2014 File Uploaded: 13 June 2017 200.1 KB Hamble in the Past - 14th and 22nd November 2013 File Uploaded: 13 June 2017 194.9 KB Hamble in the Past - Booklet File Uploaded: 13 June 2017 226.4 KB Cricket Camp - 12th September 2013 File Uploaded: 13 June 2017 194.2 KB Calshot Lifeboat - 6th June 2013 File Uploaded: 13 June 2017 198.1 KB Hamble in the 1850s - 11th April 2013 File Uploaded: 13 June 2017 195.1 KB Moody's Boatyard - 7th February 2013 File Uploaded: 13 June 2017 194.1 KB Petters of Hamble - 15th November 2012 File Uploaded: 13 June 2017 200 KB Nevil Shute's Solent - 20th September 2012 File Uploaded: 13 June 2017 195.5 KB SS Shieldhall - 14th June 2012 File Uploaded: 13 June 2017 194.2 KB History of Hamble Parish Council - 19th April 2012 File Uploaded: 13 June 2017 201.1 KB Fairey Marine - Powerboat Era - 16th February 2012 File Uploaded: 16 July 2022 170.4 KB Big Class Yachts in the 1930s - 17th November 2011 File Uploaded: 13 June 2017 195.8 KB College of Air Training - 15th September 2011 File Uploaded: 13 June 2017 198.8 KB Bursledon Brickworks - 9th June 2011 File Uploaded: 13 June 2017 189.4 KB River Itchen - 28th April 2011 File Uploaded: 13 June 2017 191.8 KB Faireys of Hamble - 10th February 2011 File Uploaded: 13 June 2017 194.9 KB Archaeological remains Project Report (1) File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 3.2 MB Folland's hovercraft projects and other hovercraft - 23rd September 2010 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 275.7 KB Hamble Regattas - 22nd June 2010 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 382.8 KB Hamble Regatta - Booklet File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 239.1 KB Shops in Hamble - 20th April 2010 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 193.7 KB Hamble's Compass Expert - 16th February File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 196.3 KB Hamble River History - 17th November 2009 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 362 KB Avro at Hamble and the Vulcan Bomber - 22nd September 2009 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 371.3 KB Avro and one of its Test Pilots - 15th September 2009 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 305.6 KB 900 years of St Andrew's Church - 23rd June 2009 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 280.3 KB Union Castle Line - 21st April 2009 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 188.3 KB Archaeological remains of the Hamble River - 27th January 2009 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 196.7 KB Archaeological remains Project Report (2) File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 3.8 MB Mapping out Hamble's Past - 18th November 2008 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 189.2 KB 50 years of Hamble Old Boys' Hockey Club - 23rd September 2008 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 195.7 KB Scouting in Hamble - 17th June 2008 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 199.1 KB Air Transport Auxiliary - 15th April 2008 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 194.9 KB Piloting the Solent - 5th February File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 192.8 KB Hamble-Warsash Ferry - 20th November 2007 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 192.5 KB Hamble-Warsash Ferry - Booklet File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 199.1 KB Antique China Restoration - 18th September 2007 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 188.3 KB Smuggling in the Hamble Valley - 17th July 2007 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 188.8 KB Armchair tour of the Hamble Valley - 17th April 2007 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 704.6 KB Living on the Hamble River in the 1950s - 14th November 2006 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 189.5 KB My life as a Magistrate - 20th June 2006 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 188.1 KB Hamble as I knew it - 18th April 2006 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 190 KB The Gannet Society - The last TS Mercury training ship - 14th February 2006 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 186.7 KB Red Funnel Ferries - 22nd November 2005 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 187.2 KB Out and About in Hampshire - 27th September 2005 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 187.6 KB Tracing a Family Tree - 21st June 2005 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 185.2 KB Air Service Training - 21st June 2005 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 186.3 KB Hamble Memorial Hall - 15th February 2005 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 185.9 KB Marine Archaeology - Hamble River Project - 23rd November 2004 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 190.1 KB Hamble Lifeboat Service - 21st September 2004 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 191 KB Portable Antiquities - 21st June 2004 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 187.4 KB Hamble Street Names - 27th April 2004 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 187.7 KB Boatbuilding in Hamble - 10th February 2004 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 185.1 KB Hamble Fire Brigade - 18th November 2003 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 184 KB History of Ordnance Survey - 23rd September 2003 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 193 KB RAF during WW2 - 24th June 2003 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 187.6 KB Hamble Schooldays - 15th April 2003 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 188.7 KB History of Hamble Players - 18th February 2003 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 190.1 KB Genealogy - 19th November 2002 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 184.5 KB Southampton in Jane Austen's Time - 17th September 2002 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 185.9 KB Tour of St Andrew's Church - 18th June 2002 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 182.5 KB Tour of St Andrew's Church - Pictures File Uploaded: 3 September 2021 905.2 KB Working and Playing in Hamble - 16th April 2002 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 188.8 KB A trip up the Hamble River in 1910 - 12th February 2002 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 188.9 KB Hamble Church - 27th November 2001 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 186.6 KB Sydney Lodge and the Aviation Industry - 25th September 2001 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 188.9 KB The Taylor Family and Sydney Lodge - 19th June 2001 File Uploaded: 14 June 2017 247.1 KB Working in Hamble Garages - 24th April 2001 File Uploaded: 15 June 2017 189.8 KB Working in Hamble Garages - Transcript File Uploaded: 15 June 2017 136 KB History of Satchell Lane - 20th February 2001 File Uploaded: 15 June 2017 185.6 KB TS Mercury - 10th October 2000 File Uploaded: 15 June 2017 184.1 KB Millennium 'Pictures from the Past' exhibition - 19th & 20th August 2000 File Uploaded: 15 June 2017 265 KB Sharing earliest memories of Hamble - 20th June 2000 File Uploaded: 15 June 2017 184.2 KB History of BP Oil Terminal - 13th June 2000 File Uploaded: 15 June 2017 186.2 KB Hamble Airfields - 18th April 2000 File Uploaded: 15 June 2017 185.9 KB Southampton shipping through the ages - 15th February 2000 File Uploaded: 15 June 2017 179.3 KB The Taylor Family of Hamble - 23rd November 1999 File Uploaded: 15 June 2017 184.7 KB Hampshire Museum Service with reference to Hamble - 14th September 1999 File Uploaded: 15 June 2017 183.4 KB A story of a novice local history researcher - 22nd June 1999 File Uploaded: 15 June 2017 181.6 KB Inaugural Meeting - 20th April 1999 File Uploaded: 15 June 2017 179.9 KB