David Borrett
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 27, 2026
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Back Through the Pages: Jobs threat at Legg's and Cavaliers hid in cottage loft (opens the original)
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ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOUR YEARS AGO – FRIDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 1862 We are requested to call the attention of the authorities to a nuisance arising from a drain immediately in front of the Star and Garter Hotel. Whether it is stopped or not, is not clear, but the smell caused by it in the hotel itself and in Mr Ellen’s offices is intolerable, and worthy the attention of an Inspector of Nuisances, if such an official exists in Andover. It is to be presumed that the sanitary character of Andover is ge
How centuries of trade and change shaped Andover’s historic market (opens the original)
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Many readers will recognise this familiar, though hazardous, Saturday scene of market day in Andover in the days before the High Street was closed to traffic. Before that, shoppers had to negotiate the constantly moving vehicles – cars, double-decker buses, trucks and lorries – all around them, while trying to look at the market stalls. No doubt there were many close shaves from time to time. Before town development and the building of the shopping centre there was also traffic going in and out
Back Through the Pages: Carnival caught on camera and town gets first pelican (opens the original)
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ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOUR YEARS AGO – FRIDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 1862 CORRESPONDENCE Sir: Having observed in your last number, some comments on what is called the singing in Andover church, I beg to offer some explanation respecting your assertion that a short time since the singing was worth listening to. It is well-known that some time ago it was spoken of, far and near, but it is perhaps not well-known that then I expended a great deal of time and labour, as well as money, in finding out persons wh
The forgotten coffee house that became two High Street shops (opens the original)
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This photographic view of the upper High Street is one of the best views of the two shops that once lay between Reynolds’ Leather Warehouse to the right and Robert Nelson’s ‘domestic machinery’ premises to the left. Domestic machinery in those days could mean anything from sewing machines and prams to patent labour-saving devices such as meat choppers, knife cleaners and butter churns. In 1905, the pair of shops in between were occupied by watchmaker Thomas Ashton and greengrocer Robert Layton.
From The Sun to Weyhill Fair: Remembering the long history of the demolished inn (opens the original)
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Many readers will have been saddened to see the recent destruction of the Weyhill Fair inn. Its imminent demolition had been well heralded over the previous months, including an ‘official’ last viewing of the spectacular mural on the long wall of the first-floor meeting room, painted by local artist David Featherby in 1985. This had comprised imagined scenes of the ancient and ‘greatest fair in the kingdom’, including one alluding to the famous scene depicted by Thomas Hardy in his ‘The Mayor of
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