Julia Sandison News Today

Today has, like many in recent weeks, deposited a huge amount of rain on to the ground below.  In Winchester, due to the fact that our County…

THE Hampshire Field Club was one of 22 organisations that participated recently in the Institute of Historical Research Festival in London to mark…

NETFLIX’S star-studded film The Dig highlights the exciting discovery of a great Saxon treasure at Sutton Hoo in 1939. A few years earlier in 1932 Winchester had its own moment of excitement when excavation at Olivers Battery unearthed one of Hampshires finest Dark Age treasures, the Winchester hanging bowl. For many years it was held by the British Museum, but is now in the City Museum, Winchester. The full story of its discovery by a local archaeologist can be googled and read in a Hamp...

THE last piece of a vast restoration project has been completed. Hockley Viaduct, the Victorian structure that carried a railway across the Itchen Valley south of Winchester, has been restored in recent years. It includes a signal and pieces of coloured glass have now been inserted into the arm. The pieces of red and green glass complete the signal which is positioned as ‘clear to proceed’. Julia Sandison, chairman of the Friends of Hockley Viaduct, told Belgarum: “We’ve finally...