Hampshire Family History Research Recommended:
Hampshire On Line Parish Clerk (OPC) Project
http://www.knightroots.co.uk/parishes.htm
Hampshire Parishes Portsea & Portsmouth
http://website.lineone.net/~hantshistory/parish-pm.html
Ann Barrett’s Isle of Wight Family History page with list of many former police offciers.
The Society would like to hear from anyone who is researching the history of policing of their Hampshire home town.
In the 1920s a memorial, in the form of stone pillars, was installed in the entrance steps to the old Headquarters in Romsey Road, West Hill, Winchester. This was in memory of those Hampshire officers who were killed in the Great War and listed their names. The pillars ‘disappeared’ after the old building was demolished in the 1960s – anyone know what happened to it?
A mystery – was there another police force operating in the town? The latest news is, ‘yes there was.’ It was Metropolitan police officers, living in Gosport, policing the naval establishments, either the Portsmouth Dockyard or the newly established naval bases on the Gosport aside of the harbour.
Cliff Williams at Headquarters, Winchester, is researching the History of Law and Order/Policing in Andover 1800 – 1967 and would welcome opportunity to hear from those who served in Andover during that period.
