A big thank you from the organisers of the open gardens event, the parish council and EHDC to everyone who turned out for the litter collection event ahead of the open gardens, next weekend.
There were around 25-30 people involved ranging from local children through to a number of older members of the community. The initial team at 10:00 is shown below.
The Chawton Heritage Society has allowed their "memories, recollections and anecdotes of the people of Chawton" to be made public for the benefit of the village and as a way of preserving the village history.
The files in this area are encoded in MP3 format and you can listen to the recollections of the 1900's to the year 2000 by clicking on play button to the left of each player.
Note that there is about 10 hours of audio in this area. If you have a download manager, you may need to disable it to correctly listen to these files.
Tony Day's Introduction
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Robin Pink and Tom Pink
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Robert Knight
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Ken Grace
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Joyce Kemp
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Jack Colston
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Millicent Tripp and Cicely Gerlach
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David Whitaker
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Annie Charlton and Ruth Thomas
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Frank Benham
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Pam Watts and Maureen Pink
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Peter Gannon
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Ian and Meik McNaughton
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John Cleaver
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The files in this area are the copyright of the Chawton Heritage Society and we would like to thank Tony Day for his approval for publishing the files on this site and his work in preserving the village history.
If you would like to participate in other Chawton Heritage Society events or have other historical information, please contact Tony Day, his details are listed in the village contacts section
Pub car park - parking changes
Tuesday, 27 March 2007 22:40
Ongoing parking problems within the village have resulted in additional measures being introduced to the Greyfriar's pub car park - by the introduction of wheel clamping
Peter Whitehead, publican at the Greyfriar explains the reasons for this change.
Farringdon residents Lorraine Mills and David Williams had their 15 minutes of fame when they took part in the BBC Gardener of the Year 2006 competition.
Lorraine entered the competition last summer and after a barrage of horticultural questions and a visit from the BBC found herself in the final.
Hundreds of school children will be taught how to ThinkSafe with a week of realistic safety scenarios.
Children will be given a lesson in the dangers of everything from fire to firearms and
Police are appealing for witnesses following a crash near the Chawton Roundabout on the A31 in which an elderly woman was seriously injured. The crash happened shortly after 2.30pm
Police are appealing for witnesses after hundreds of pheasants were stolen from a farm in West Tisted.
Sometime between 11pm on Friday 12 March and 7.15am on Saturday 13 March 300 to 350 ph
Although the date for the General Election has yet to be announced, East Hampshire is making arrangements, as the poll must take place by early June.Returning Officer Sandy Hopkins
Budding engineers will learn how to harness the power of the sun at a technological contest this summer.
The Hampshire Solar Challenge will task year six children to invent and build a sola
Do you really know whats going on in the village ?
The Chawton Heritage Society has allowed their "memories, recollections and anecdotes of the people of Chawton" to be made public for the benefit of the village and as a way of preserving the village history.
Ongoing parking problems within the village have resulted in additional measures being introduced to the Greyfriar's pub car park - by the introduction of wheel clamping
Farringdon residents Lorraine Mills and David Williams had their 15 minutes of fame when they took part in the BBC Gardener of the Year 2006 competition.
