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The Elephant and
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The Cross Keys |
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The original bridge
over the Test |
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The River Test
flowing into Southampton Water
The reed beds are used for thatching |
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The second bridge
over the test the older bridge is on the right
These views were taken from the modern fly-over of the A35 at
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Batts corner in Totton
showing the sign with
London 77 miles and Bournemouth 24 miles painted
above the shops |
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The Savoy Cinema
With St Mary's hall to the left. |
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Savoy House which was once the
Savoy Cinema and then an industrial garment factory |
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been a Ladies & Gents hairdressers here for decades,
Hamilton Terrace (right) was where the road is on the left of
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Hamilton Terrace,
(Junction Road) the hairdressers shop from the photo left can be seen on the
right of this picture. |
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Eling Council Fire
Station and crew 1908, the old fire station was in Rumbridge
Street |
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Goddards cycle shop
which was later a local motorcycle franchise and is now
modernised and still sells motorcycles |
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The old toll gate at
Eling |
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Harold Blundells
flower shop in Junction Road |
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Elmfield House, once
a doctors surgery |
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The Red Lion
Commercial Road |
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The old cinema in
Winsor Road |
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Rumbridge Street
still has some familiar family businesses such as Goldsmiths
Newsagents and Matthews Electrical shops. The Enterprise public
house is on the right |
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The main post
office Rumbridge Street |
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Totton Working
Men's Club, Rumbridge Street |
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Old cottages at
the junction of Rumbridge Street and Brokenford Lane |
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Cobland House in
the High Street now part of an industrial complex |
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The front of
Totton Station |
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The station taken
from the footbridge |
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The railway
station taken from the gate |
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The former
Station Hotel. Before Commercial Road was built traffic used to
turn into Station Road (at the junction shown below) and enter
the High Street to access the village |
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This was across
from the greengrocery and
bank and closer to Batts corner than to the
old Woolworths (now an antiques shop.) They
were my grandparents and purchased the
store from his sister, Kate Crook. It later
belonged to Forders and then Hopkins.
Photo kindly submitted by Diane Rutherford |
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The T Burt, Commercial Road,
taken in the 1920s
Photo kindly submitted by Diane Rutherford
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The World Stores
on the junction with Salisbury Road (Right) Ringwood Road (
Left) and Commercial road in the foreground this is now a
roundabout in the town centre |
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Station Road, the
middle shop was owned by
John Walters and also the
Welwyn Cafe
was next door |
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Lloyds band with The Swan Inn
next door at Batts Corner above the top window is the date A1870D |
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one of the oldest
shops in Totton, John Walters, which moved from Station Road to
Rumbridge Street, and
is now in Junction Road |
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The High Street,
only the newsagents remain of the old shops and the green
building was the former Babeys Paints the level crossing is
beside it |
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The Traveller's
Rest, Salisbury Road taken in the 1960s,Courtesy of Peter
Hollamby, Totton. The building to the left behind the toilets
usesd to be the ARP headquarters and a blast wall was put up in
front of the door and a steel roof put in place to give
protection against bombs. The Tree to the left is where the
allotments used to be and this was also the site of an
anti-aircraft gun during WWII. The pub has long gone and is
replaced by a modern doctors surgery. |
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Eling school in
School Road with the Infants
entrance in the bottom picture |
