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Fovant History Interest Group has accumulated quite a mass of material over the past few years, much of which has been kindly donated to us. It is convenient to treat the individual items of this mass as Objects, whether they be documents, photographs, artefacts or even computer files.

This page lists the objects that we hold, together with an Identification Number (ID). We will be pleased to email further details of any items which are of interest to you, which you may have found by pressing the ‘Search’ button on the Introduction menu.

You may get in touch with us either by pressing the ‘Contact us’ button, also in the Introduction menu, or by clicking here.

Please note that the list doesn’t include items that only appear on the Web pages, which you can see around here.

The list of objects

ID Object

6705 “Save Fovant school” information (correspondence file in Custard)

3604 1787 map of houses now gone

6526 1840 Rent ‘map’ – reference only

6525 1840 Tithe Reference (map in chart chest) x 2

6503 19th century Fovant – chronological and alphabetical

6502 19th century Fovant – notes from Kelly’s, VCH, Clay Papers

2434 2 Mills bombs

7840 2014 Exhibition railway track plan

5553 A Century of Fovant Weddings display

5765 A century of Fovant weddings folder

5312 A collection of WW1 newspaper cuttings collected by Dr E.G. Coward

0881 A general view of Camp 13 near E. Farm with badges in the background

2534 A token of goodwill to Fovant Home Guard from City of London Rifles

3293 A. Black (Australian)

2425 Adexolin capsules tin

7420 Aerial photo of Fovant School, showing lake

3777 Aerial Photograph. Chiselbury Camp, badges. (With notes on reverse)

7748 Aerial view of Fovant

1606 Aerial view of Fovant Downs E to N. Showing crop marks of WW1 Camp.

1604 Aerial view of Fovant Downs N to S.

1605 Aerial view of Fovant Downs S to N.

1786 All dressed up inside the church.

1785 All dressed up outside St.George’s church – Occasion and date ?

5111 Ammunition from the ranges display

6790 Ammunition used on Fovant Ranges (WWI and WWII)

0876 An aerial photograph of Fovant

5805 Ann Harris tape

5809 Anne and Derek Read tape

5608 Armed Forces New Testament donated by Miss Penruddocke of Dinton

2427 Army Service Corps mug (china)

0630 Australia Badge between Hurdcott and Fovant

1962 Australian and 6th Battalion, London Regiment badges – M025

1963 Australian and 6th Battalion, London Regiment badges – M026

1964 Australian and 6th Battalion, London Regiment badges – M027

1965 Australian and 6th Battalion, London Regiment badges – M028

1966 Australian and 6th Battalion, London Regiment badges – M029

1961 Australian and 6th Battalion, London Regiment badges.

0842 Australian Commonwealth Military Force badge cut into Fovant Down.

1974 Australian Commonwealth Military Forces + an unknown badge.

1301 Australian football team

1952 Australian football team.

5556 Australian graves list

2483 Australian Infantry badge

5047 Australian letters – DD Clarkson

1980 Australian map on hill at Compton Chamberlayne.

3314 Australian officers

6963 Australian officers photo

3311 Australian soldier

5557 Australian visitors

4847 Badges on the Hill frame

5309 Badges Society Correspondence

5311 Badges Society Working Parties: ‘Casual labour’ arrangements

5310 Badges Society Working Parties: Correspondence

5296 Badges Society, Drumhead Services: Correspondence

2382 Bank of France 5 franc note with explanatory details.

5611 Bill Grant at Yeomanry camp (two cards)

2392 Board of Trade coupon for 2 “E” Unit, 30.11.42

1187 Bob Combes and people around Australian flag

2424 Boots Ointment tin

2428 Boots’ Pamphlet “Open Day and Night”

4859 Boy in the Bag frame

2391 Brass anchor

4906 Brass case 1 (could be trench candle holder)

4907 Brass case 2 (could be trench candle holder)

5803 Brian Burton tape

5768 Brian Morris on Edith Mary Langford’s seat – Now

2342 British bayonet

7567 Broken stile & view from Chiselbury.

0762 Brook Street Fovant – F038

0763 Brook Street Fovant – F039

0764 Brook Street Fovant – F040

5430 Builders of Fovant Camp

3181 Camp medical staff

0968 Camp 13 during WW I

0965 Camp 13 field now

0853 Camp 13 from Chiselbury.

1947 Camp blacksmiths.

2682 Camp Cinema

1951 Camp cinema at the south end of Green Drove.

3182 Camp cooks

6941 Camp cooks

1949 Camp General Office.

4905 Camp hospital and street

7805 Camp Life board – Training

3295 Camp overlay

3352 Camp plan to associate with Object 965

2731 Camp showing huts and tents

0973 Camps 1, 2, 3 & 4

3233 Cap badge – Australian Military Forces

2383 Card of photo of spectacled soldier holding an armful of parcels

5091 Cartoon of Rev Peel

4869 Cast-Iron Sixth frame

0885 Cattle in Fovant High Street

2420 Certificate from Signal School Number 7,

1807 Charabanc outing – all Fovant people – 5th September, 1920

1809 Charabanc outing – all Fovant people – all male – O073

1810 Charabanc outing – all Fovant people – all male – O074

1808 Charabanc outing – all Fovant people, date ?

1806 Charabanc outing – all Fovant people. date ?

5955 Charity Commission document for Youth Club land

1601 Chiselbury Camp and Badges. – G101

1602 Chiselbury Camp and Badges. – G102

6509 Chiselbury x 2

7847 Christmas card 1916 from Driver C. Padgham, B battery, 336 Brigade.

7807 Church graffiti table

1710 Church interior – facing towards bell tower.

1708 Church interior – facing towards the altar. – R013

1709 Church interior – facing towards the altar. – R014

5158 Church tower graffiti

1703 Church, from top end of churchyard + service graves + Manor Farmhouse.

1702 Church, from top end of churchyard + service graves.

1699 Church.

2465 Cooks from various regiments, Fovant Camp 1916

5273 Correspondence FBS 1983-86

2695 Cricket match – probably Australian.

0756 Cross Keys Fovant – F032

0757 Cross Keys Fovant – F033

0758 Cross Keys Fovant – F034

0759 Cross Keys Fovant – F035

0760 Cross Keys Fovant – F036

2416 Death scroll for F. Brooke

2014 Dedication of church war memorial – date unknown. – M077

2015 Dedication of church war memorial – date unknown. – M078

5954 Deeds for purchase of Youth Club premises – 1968

7808 Demobilisation boards

4928 Descriptive text – Boy in the Bag

4930 Descriptive text – Military hospitals

4926 Descriptive text – The Australian Presence

4927 Descriptive text and map – Fovant Military Railway

2502 Dinton Station 1917

5162 Display frame – Rev. Dymond Peel

2418 Duplicate of silk bookmark

7682 Earliest school photo

5958 Eight photographs of Youth Club outing to Weymouth

0815 Elm Cross, Fovant

2381 Embossed printed card ‘Dreaming of Home” by Gunner AW. Madden (probably a poem)

2388 Embroidered card of Royal Field Artillery badge

3320 Enclosure map

2330 Ernest Victor Smith demob certificate

7809 Essentials frame

3533 Evacuee now

3534 Evacuee then

0497 Exhibition necessities (e.g. gazebo)

7931 Exhibition Visitors book

4969 Explanatory text – Camp establishment

5575 Extract from RAF Chilmark diary

5182 Extract from the 1787 Enclosure Map

5183 Extract from the 1840 Tithe Map

5144 FAME scrapbook 1

5145 FAME scrapbook 2

2010 Family memorial in church – Christopher Usher killed 23rd May 1918, aged 20 .

2009 Family memorial in church – Vivian Clay, killed 19th October 1916, aged 24.

3697 Farm sale

1205 Fever Cottage – Expedition party

1219 Fever Cottage – Expedition party 2

1223 Fever Cottage – Expedition party 3

1226 Fever Cottage – Expedition party 4

1227 Fever Cottage – General scene

1225 Fever Cottage – Nettles 2

1207 Fever Cottage – Oven door 1

1208 Fever Cottage – Oven door in situ

1213 Fever Cottage – Roof tile closeup

1206 Fever Cottage – Rubble 1

1220 Fever Cottage – Rubble 2

1214 Fever Cottage – Stone blocks 1

1215 Fever Cottage – Stone blocks 1 – closeup

1217 Fever Cottage – Stone blocks with map 1

1218 Fever Cottage – Stone blocks with map 2

1228 Fever Cottage – Stone blocks with map 3

1216 Fever Cottage – Stone blocks with marker stick

1210 Fever Cottage – Stone with post hole 1

1211 Fever Cottage – Stone with post hole 2

1222 Fever Cottage – Stones in nettles

1221 Fever Cottage – Tiles 2

1224 Fever Cottage – Tiles 3

1212 Fever Cottage – Tiles in situ 1

5114 FHIG at work display

2834 FHIG Book – 01 History

2864 FHIG Book – 03 People

2865 FHIG Book – 04 Buildings

2866 FHIG Book – 05 Religion

2869 FHIG Book – 08 Services

2870 FHIG Book – 09 Military

2886 FHIG book – Pages from our History

3540 FHIG Exhibition material – 2004

3566 FHIG Exhibition material – 2005

0491 FHIG postcard collection

5140 FHIG postcards of neighbouring villages

5235 FHIG web site

1510 Fir Hill over to Tisbury Road.

1508 Fir Hill towards Tisbury Road – G007

1509 Fir Hill towards Tisbury Road – G008

1449 Fir Hill. Site of former village saw pit.

3351 First edition of Two Towers

3125 First stage of transporting the church bells to the Whitechapel Foundry

3124 First stage of transporting the church bells to the Whitechapel Foundry. R19a

3126 First stage of transporting the church bells to the Whitechapel Foundry. R19c

2387 Flattened packet for Players Navy Cut Medium cigarettes

5249 Flow chart for Book

0729 Flying machine at Fovant

5564 Follow-up from range graffiti display

5960 Four photographs of Youth Club at Village Fete

5965 Four photographs of Youth Club kitchen decoration

3331 Fovant – Ancient & Modern

1943 Fovant – R.E. and R.F.A. camps in the distance.

7238 Fovant – then – Frame 01 – Houses

7241 Fovant – then – Frame 02 – People

7242 Fovant – then – Frame 03 – Shops & Shopkeepers

7243 Fovant – then – Frame 04 – Employment

7311 Fovant – then – Frame 05 – Public services

7334 Fovant – then – Frame 06 – Medical

7679 Fovant – then – Frame 07 – Education

7744 Fovant – then – Frame 08 – Religion

7745 Fovant – then – Frame 09 – Agriculture

7746 Fovant – then – Frame 10 – Public Houses

7747 Fovant – then – Frame 11 – Communication

8253 Fovant – then – Frame 12 – Self help

5562 Fovant Badges poem frame

1854 Fovant Band – date unknown.

5439 Fovant Band – early picture

1859 Fovant Band 1908.

1872 Fovant band at the British Legion Parade in Tisbury.

5109 Fovant Band display

1855 Fovant Band in competition. Venue and date unknown.

1856 Fovant Band in competition., 1907.

1861 Fovant band in the Pembroke Arms car park.

1853 Fovant Band outside the original Cribbage Hut.

1857 Fovant Band outside the original Rectory. – O118

1858 Fovant Band outside the original Rectory. – O119

1612 Fovant bus.

6940 Fovant camp

5610 Fovant camp 1916 – boys of hut 17

2520 Fovant Camp 1918

1946 Fovant Camp huts in 1918.

1944 Fovant Camp huts. – M007

1945 Fovant Camp huts. – M008

0818 Fovant Church – F094

0819 Fovant Church – F095

0821 Fovant Church – F097

0822 Fovant Church – F098

0823 Fovant Church – F099

0824 Fovant Church – F100

0825 Fovant Church – F101

0820 Fovant Church.

3621 Fovant Club (etc. see index)

1338 Fovant Cross – B036

0737 Fovant Cross – F014

0738 Fovant Cross – F015

0816 Fovant Cross – F092

0736 Fovant Cross 2

1326 Fovant Cross, Garage House, Pembroke Arms, the shop, the Cross Keys.

0739 Fovant Cross, Looking down the High Street 1

0740 Fovant Cross, Looking down the High Street 2

2519 Fovant Downs and lake

0773 Fovant Downs and lake (Soldiers Delight) – F049

0774 Fovant Downs and lake (Soldiers Delight) – F050

0775 Fovant Downs and lake (Soldiers Delight) – F051

4861 Fovant during WW I frame

7250 Fovant Elm

3942 Fovant Estate to be sold by Earl of Pembroke

5440 Fovant fete – Betty(s) Boatwright and Stevens

5441 Fovant fete – collecting point version 2

5442 Fovant fete – Daphne Allington

5443 Fovant fete – late 60s – float collecting point

5444 Fovant Fete – Mrs and Miss Hanham ?

5445 Fovant fete – Peter Haskell and Rob Hall?

5446 Fovant fete – Robin Coombs, ? Squires

5447 Fovant fete – Sheila Riggs 2

5448 Fovant fete – W.I. float. Mrs.Margetts, Bea Welchman

5449 Fovant fete – Young Wives – Sheila Riggs

5450 Fovant fete – Young Wives floate – Astronaughty

5620 Fovant Football Club 1956

5621 Fovant Football Club 1981

1888 Fovant Football team.

1883 Fovant Frolics. August 1984.

1596 Fovant from the Limbway. – G096

1597 Fovant from the Limbway. – G097

1598 Fovant from the Limbway. – G098

5359 Fovant Garage in the 1950s

2002 Fovant house gate showing Pegasus, badge of Airborne forces.

5451 Fovant Hut in the 21st century

7785 Fovant Hut old

3475 Fovant Military Hospital. Soldiers, nurses, ward, etc. 1918-19

4855 Fovant Military Railway frame

5545 Fovant Pig Club (?)

5546 Fovant Pig Club (?) site is possibly ‘the hanging’

2594 Fovant Playgroup and First School 1993/94

6529 Fovant Rights of Way

2551 Fovant school group – probably late 19th century

5832 Fovant School text book

1291 Fovant schoolchildren 1920

7779 Fovant schools

0831 Fovant showing R.E. and R.F.A. camps in the distance

1364 Fovant Stores – 1980s

7254 Fovant Sue’s map

5453 Fovant Telephone Exchange in the High Street.1932

6501 Fovant turnpikes

6548 Fovant Turnpikes x 2

0734 Fovant view

2469 Fovant Village High Street pre 1914

1298 Fovant War Memorials

2459 Framed hackle and cap badge of 2nd Battalion of Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

2451 Framed photo of Lord Kitchener

2452 Framed photo of soldiers on horseback

2349 Framed photo of train at Fovant Station. 1918

4865 Frank Brook memorabilia frames

4864 Frank Brook notice of death frame

1545 From field behind Weeping Ash towards Fovant Woods.

1505 From Fir Hill towards the Elm. – G004

1506 From Fir Hill towards the Elm. – G005

1507 From Fir Hill towards the Elm. – G006

0743 From Fovant Cross down High Street – F019

0744 From Fovant Cross down High Street – F020

0745 From Fovant Cross down High Street – F021

0746 From Fovant Cross down High Street – F022

0747 From Fovant Cross down High Street – F023

4883 General view of camp

7541 General view of growth near Fovant Hut. Path obscure.

1239 General view of Hospital Field

1013 Geology map

2529 German Howitzer shell case 1916

1485 Gerrard’s Cottage and Gerrard’s Farm House.

5147 Gerrard’s Farm sale catalogue

1406 Glenlea, Mill Lane, now demolished

4846 God Save the King frame

5343 Graffiti in framed lead

5051 Graffiti in Sutton hut

5346 Graffiti on church tower roof

2415 Grave registration card for Bdr Brooke

7812 Grave visitors frame

3325 Gravestone

3532 Gravestones of Australians

6964 Group of Australian officers photo

4851 Group of donors’ shields with accompanying text

2477 Group of seated and standing soldiers in front of hut 33C

2476 Group of seated and standing soldiers in front of tin hut

4848 Group of shields of Donor’s badges

2475 Group of soldiers in shirt-sleeves and caps with spades.

2438 Heart-shaped pin cushion.

4892 Henri (nearly) in the bag

4893 Henri in Australian uniform

5098 Henri leaving home

5097 Henri out of his Bag

7848 Henri ready to go in

4894 Henri’s grave in Australia

0784 High Street Fovant

0741 High Street, Fovant – F018

0779 High Street, Fovant – F055

0780 High Street, Fovant – F056

0781 High Street, Fovant – F057

0782 High Street, Fovant – F058

0783 High Street, Fovant – F059

0785 High Street, Fovant – F061

0786 High Street, Fovant – F062

0787 High Street, Fovant – F063

0788 High Street, Fovant – F064

0789 High Street, Fovant – F065

0790 High Street, Fovant – F066

0794 High Street, Fovant – F070

0795 High Street, Fovant – F071

0796 High Street, Fovant – F072

0797 High Street, Fovant – F073

0798 High Street, Fovant – F074

0799 High Street, Fovant – F075

0800 High Street, Fovant – F076

0801 High Street, Fovant – F077

0802 High Street, Fovant – F078

1377 High Street. Old Fovant House on the right.

5934 Hill View – 1930s

6728 Hospital – William Brayshay

7814 Hospital board

1255 Hospital drain – close-up 1

1256 Hospital drain – close-up 2

1257 Hospital drain – close-up 3

1240 Hospital drain right

1245 Hospital drain 2

1241 Hospital drain 2 & Margaret

1242 Hospital drain 2 & Sue

1243 Hospital drain 2 close

1244 Hospital drain 2 inner

1246 Hospital drain close 1

1247 Hospital drain inner

1248 Hospital drain left

1249 Hospital drain pipes

1250 Hospital drain right 1

1251 Hospital drain steps

1253 Hospital drain top

1252 Hospital drain top 2

1254 Hospital drain up 1

1232 Hospital Field – FHIG group 1

1233 Hospital Field – FHIG group 2

1234 Hospital Field – FHIG group 3

1235 Hospital Field – FHIG group 4

1236 Hospital Field – FHIG group 5

1237 Hospital Field – FHIG group 6

1238 Hospital Field – FHIG group 7

1259 Hospital field – Stone 1

1260 Hospital field – Stone 2

1261 Hospital field – Stone 3

7815 Hospital staff frame

7816 Hospital train frame

7246 Houses frame

0840 Hurdcott Camp

5264 Hurdcott Graffiti report

0886 Huts in Camp 13

2337 Identity certificate 1919

3531 In Australia

7266 Indoor & outdoor staff at Rectory 1947

1895 Indoor and outdoor staff at Fovant Rectory 1947.

1958 Inside page of programme for YMCA Empire Day.

1956 Inside page of programme of YMCA New Hut (Hurdcott) 4/1st London Reg

3536 Inside the Youth Club

7902 J. Eades’s book

7752 Jerrett’s (Gerrards) Farm sale catalogue 1891

5468 Jingoistic WWI postcard

7423 JPEG version of FOW map

4860 Keeping in touch frame

7817 Key Stage 2 collection

7818 Key Stage 3 collection

4878 King George frame

2429 Knife Polish tin

2400 Large brass RFA button

2410 Large framed hand-coloured portrait photo of Bombardier Frank Brooke

5043 Lead from St George’s church roof

2524 Leather belt and buckle (British Army)

2527 Leather breast strap with pistol holder and ammunition pouch

2525 Leather holster and straps for ? entrenching tool

7820 Lest we Forget boards

4899 Letter card form – 1

4900 Letter card form – 2

2365 Letter concerning Private WG Cross’s grave

6533 Letter from British Library re Fovant maps held there

2332 Letter from Buckingham Palace

6532 Letter from County re Fovant maps held there

2335 Letter from POW charity (WW I)

2411 Letter from Royal Field Artillery (RFA) Record Office, Woolwich.

2333 Letter of enclosure for medals

0410 Lever’s Account Book

5327 List of Fovant war dead

5344 List of names on graffiti

2550 Lithograph of school

0967 Location of Military Camps

2385 London Rifle Brigade pocket watch-shaped lighter.

7819 Long case

1550 Looking down on the Elms from Fir Hill.

1554 Looking over Dinton Road towards Tisbury Road. Neath hill. Thorneycliffe.

1555 Looking over Dinton Road towards Tisbury Road.. Fox Hill.

1607 Maitland Shorland’s Scout car outside Fovant Rectory

7401 Map of 18th Century paths

2463 Map of Australia cut 1916, Hurdcot Camp

6551 Map of centre section

2532 Map of Fovant at Lord Pembroke’s sale

7417 Map of river showing fishing lakes

7416 Map of river through Fovant

6546 Map of roads and paths in Fovant

6793 Map showing the Butts

6727 Maps

3654 Maps – rent/enclosures/tithe/rights of way

0429 Maps OS 25″

5811 Marjorie Wyatt tape

5810 Mary Lee tape

3108 Medical staff at the Military hospital

2448 Metal hinged, D-shaped kitbag fastener

4890 Military gravestone

4857 Military Hospital frame

1436 Mill House plus Fir Hill.

2419 Miniature photo

5042 Miss Croome’s autograph book

5563 Model of a rifle range

5808 Monica Borwick tape

2470 Mounted group of soldiers

2435 Mounted heavy machine gun bullet (found 1926 at Beaumont Hamel)

2414 Mounted photo of cemetery headstone for Brooke

1201 Mr & Mrs Austin at Fovant Post Office

5807 Mrs Green tape

1202 Mrs Harte & son at Fovant Post Office

5806 Mrs Turner tape

2445 Musketry Regiment pamphlet, part 1

1420 Nadder Villa, now Orchard Villa

7821 Named individuals frame

5320 Names on the Village War Memorial

7282 National stores Fovant

0633 National Stores Fovant, Soldier, possibly in “hospital blue”, outside the shop

5250 Network used to plan FHIG book

2396 New Testament, signed both H. Padgham and C Padgham, 2nd 5th Sussex, 1914

0832 News and Views from Fovant Camp – F108

6552 Newspaper cutting (S of similar sale of local villages

3115 Newspaper cutting reporting George Lever’s death.

1394 Norman’s shop (?) plus Australian soldier and cabinet makers workshop

1503 North end of village from Fovant Woods.

1544 North end of village from Fovant Woods. Allotments?

5966 Note on coffee bar in Youth Club

5964 Note on decoration of Youth Club

5944 Note on Fovant Youth Club 1940s-1950s

5952 Note on Fovant Youth Club 1960s-1970s

5968 Note on Fovant Youth Club 1980s

5899 Note on Scratch dials

5956 Note on Youth Club fund-raising

5945 Note on Youth Club outings

5962 Note on Youth Club re-generation in 1970

5946 Note on Youth Club reunions

5974 Notes on current Youth Club

0005 Notes on the History of Fovant

3132 Nurses and patients from the Military Hospital.

7655 Obstructing maize from the waymark on old railway

4694 Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 map – 2003

3605 OS 1811 map of houses now gone

6954 OS map of camps area

2884 OS map of Roman Britain

2338 P.O Rifles Brigade

3109 P.T. at the military camp. M17a

3110 P.T. at the military camp. M17b

7822 Padgham frame

5184 Page from the 1919 Pembroke sale catalogue

4872 Painting of Fovant Badges in frame

2523 Pair of leather gaiters

2528 Pair of leather, laced boots, calf-high

3602 Parish Registers

2021 Path 01 – Stile near Fir Hill Plantation

2049 Path 02 – Path towards old railway track

2064 Path 02 – Railway track near Mains Corner

2078 Path 02 – Waymark near railway embankment

2109 Path 05 – Crossing old railway

2255 Path 16 – Chiselbury

7409 Path 16 – View on Chiselbury

4901 PC of Fovant – Another waterfall

1021 Peace celebrations at Fovant Hospital

2433 Pelaw shoe polish tin

0751 Pembroke Arms and Cross Keys Fovant – F027

0752 Pembroke Arms and Cross Keys Fovant – F028

0753 Pembroke Arms and Cross Keys Fovant – F029

5003 Pembroke Arms collection

0750 Pembroke Arms Fovant

1348 Pembroke Arms. Gardens now developed.

1347 Pembroke Arms. Outbuildings now have tiled roofs.

2017 Permanent war graves seen from church tower.

2016 Permanent war graves.

2331 Photo and Regimental Badge 6th London Regiment

2412 Photo of Bombardier Brooke

2533 Photo of Home Guard 1940-45

4968 Photo of Roy Nuttall

2417 Photo outside bell tent with rifle

6535 Photocopies of Estate Map

2513 Photocopy Garrison Cinema

2522 Photocopy of 3rd class railway ticket for Fovant Camp

5134 Photograph album – Fovant School 1847-1997

5969 Photograph of side of Youth Club

5943 Photograph of Youth Club

5975 Photograph of Youth Club, with gates

1295 Photographs from the Youth Club

5345 Photographs of graffiti on lead

6531 Photos of Enclosures map

5358 Photos of Fred Harman (Then and Now)

3348 Plan of church with key

2472 Pond Farm Camp showing bell tents and horses

2473 Pond Farm Camp showing same as Item 165

4985 Postcard – Fovant Badges (First day cover)

5732 Postcard – L/Cpl Percy Shephard

2394 Postcard of group of sailors outside hut

0841 Postcard of Hurdcott

6978 Postcard of patients outside the Cross Keys

2401 Postcard of sailor. ? Royal Naval Division

6813 Postcard of William Russell’s House interior – Salisbury

3323 Postcard of Wilton House

5489 Postcard. First Earl of Pembroke 1

5639 Postcard. First Earl of Pembroke 2

3591 Pre-history – Chiselbury

6537 Presentation folder of ‘In the valley of the Brook’ by Flyfisher

7904 Presentation folders

2423 Princess Mary box

2325 Print of Badges and Soldier

2366 Private Bert Tovey.

1834 Programme for Youth Club performance of Aladdin. 1952

4881 Railway cutting

4880 Railway embankment

1110 Railway engine ‘Westminster’

7758 Railway track across allottments

2370 Ration biscuit in cellophane

2395 Rectangular tin, painted, Grandma and child. Mazawatte ? American

4853 Regimental badges frame

2474 Regimental Band in front of bell tented camp

2336 Repatriation POW Army form.

4841 Report on Fovant Rifle Range Butts

3530 Return to Australia

5090 Rev Peel in uniform

5089 Rev Peel with horses

5495 Reverse of jingoistic card

1835 Reverse of Programme for Youth Club performance of Aladdin. 1952

1825 Reverse of Youth Club Mixtures Cabaret programme. 1948.

1823 Reverse of Youth Club Variety Concert programme

2397 RFA brass insignia

6527 Roads in Fovant Enclosure Awards (map in chart chest)

1909 Rob Boatwright outside Lever’s Garage – Then

1608 Rolls Royce outside Fovant Rectory. Date unknown

6518 Romano-British burial in Fovant

7424 ROW map accompanying report to Parish Council

7422 ROW map used in booklet and elsewhere

0457 Roy and Mary Simper tape

5501 Roy Nuttall

7272 Roy Nuttall

4879 Roy Nuttall frame

5502 Roy Nuttall with wine

5282 Roy Nuttall’s Collection. Box 1

5294 Roy Nuttall’s Collection. Box 2.

5281 Roy Nuttall’s papers

6818 Roy Simper’s photographic collection..buldings, military, geography.

5804 Ruby True tape

2422 Safety razor, cut-throat razor and box

1734 Salvation Army Band playing at North end of the High Street. Date unknown.

7692 Save Fovant school poster

7426 Scanned map of Fovant ROW (use unkown)

6523 Scenery and geology + map of Fovant area

1931 School

0418 School – lithograph 1850

0608 School 1. Late 19th century

2554 School building – unidentified man with bicycle standing in the garden.

0419 School certificate – H Goodridge

2572 School choir 1959 – Mrs Bradford and Mrs Jay.

2573 School Choir 1961 – Mrs Bradford and Mrs Jay.

5590 School closure party

5505 School Group

2559 School group 1920

2562 School group 1926 – Miss Pratt and Miss Galliat

2569 School group 1932 – Miss Hanham and Miss Wright

2571 School group 1956 – Miss Hanham and Mrs Jay.

2581 School group 1978 – Mrs Smith, Mrs Bradford and Mrs Reilly.

2582 School group 1980 – Mr Scott and Mrs Reilly.

2583 School group 1981 – Mrs Reilly and Mr Scott.

2584 School group 1982 – Mr Scott and Mrs Reilly.

2585 School group 1983 – Mrs Adams, Mrs Reilly and Mr Scott.

2586 School group 1986 – Mr Townsend and Mrs Ann Bull.

2587 School group 1987 – Mrs Brenda Dunn, Mr Townsend and Miss Sue Baron.

2588 School group 1988 – Mr Townsend and Miss Sue Baron.

2589 School group 1989 – Mrs Kealing, Mrs Maralyn Hurren and Mr Townsend.

2590 School group 1991 – Mrs Maralyn Hurren, Mrs Carol Chaugh and Mr. Townsend.

2592 School group 1992

2593 School group 1993

2596 School group 1994

2599 School group 1995

2597 School group 1995 – Mrs Jo Brotherton and Mr Ian Townsend.

2604 School Group 1997

2600 School group Summer 1996 – Mr Ian Townsend and Mrs Alison Young

2566 School group, date unknown – Miss Galliat and Miss Pratt.

3587 School head teachers

7681 School line drawing

7781 School questions

5770 Scratch dial photograph 1

5784 Scratch dial photograph 2

5785 Scratch dial photograph 3

5786 Scratch dial photograph 4

2471 Seated and standing group, untitled, (Figure 84 in ink)

2436 Selection of bullets and fired cartridges

0838 Senior workmen of the camps

2384 Sepia printed Christmas card 1915 (London Rifle Brigade)

5613 Set of four cards – coloured, ‘Onward Christian Soldiers’

1589 Shaftesbury Road (A30) site of former house gardens. – G089

1590 Shaftesbury Road (A30) site of former house gardens. – G090

2421 Shaving mug and brush

2413 Silk printed bookmark in memory of Brooke.

2393 Silver metal trench candle

5970 Six photographs of ‘Fovant It’s a Knockout’ from Youth Club

5587 Sketch map of Ju88 crash

4866 Small WW I artefacts frame

2399 Small, silver RFA button

7214 Social effects 01 – Introduction

7215 Social effects 02 – Military use of Fovant land

7216 Social effects 03 – Disruption and Upheaval

7217 Social effects 04 – The army moves in

7219 Social effects 06 – Integration

7220 Social effects 07 – Fraternisation

7221 Social effects 08 – An eye to the main chance

7222 Social effects 09 – They came, they went and some came back to be demobilised

7224 Social effects 11 – The Pembroke Sale

7225 Social effects 12 – The demise of the Fovant Military Camps

7226 Social effects 13 – Moving on, a New Normality

7227 Social effects 14 – Return of the land

7228 Social effects 15 – Conclusion

7229 Social effects cover

7240 Social effects document complete in colour

7234 Social effects document complete in greyscale

7230 Social effects title page

3107 Soldiers at the camp – date unknown

7771 St George’s church

5898 St George’s Church (MAM) folder

3332 St George’s Church and churchyard

5917 St George’s Church folder

1095 Stamp & Camp postmark

5953 Statement of purpose of Fovant Youth Club

3090 Stephen Burton and Andrew Parsons ready to go to school – mid 1960s

5518 Steps to former WW1 Camp Cinema

7568 Stile on Herepath near Chiselbury.

2486 Studio photo of Australian soldier in kit

5519 Sunday School 1955

5520 Sunday School pre 1955

3340 Sundials

5348 Survey of – church 2006

5971 Table tennis inside Youth Club

7900 Tape cassettes

3069 Taped reminiscences – P Wyatt

1938 Ted Simper – pre 14-18 territorial ? Card sent home to his family

1941 Ted Simper – pre 14-18. Card to his mother from Windmill Hill Camp.

1986 Ted Simper card, 1915, but venue unknown.

1940 Ted Simper to his sister Card home from camp 1911

1939 Ted Simper to his sister. Card home from camp 1911

2013 Temporary war graves – Hedley Jarvis gardener.

4854 The Australian Presence frame

0829 The Camp Post and Telegraph Office – F105

0830 The Camp Post and Telegraph Office – F106

0827 The Camp, General Office – F103

0828 The Camp, General Office – F104

1989 The demolition of the camps. – M052

1990 The demolition of the camps. – M053

1991 The demolition of the camps. – M054

0811 The Elm, Fovant – F087

0813 The Elm, Fovant – F089

0812 The Elm, Fovant.

5314 The Hatcher Review Vol V No 46 – The Black Death in Wessex

1905 The National Stores – shop assistants unknown.

1472 The Old Rectory now Fovant House. – B170

1473 The Old Rectory now Fovant House. – B171

1474 The Old Rectory now Fovant House. – B172

1475 The Old Rectory now Fovant House. – B173

1476 The Old Rectory now Fovant House. – B174

1458 The School in 2002.

1459 The School. Early 20th century.

2564 The school’s boys posing with a football – mid 1930s?

2379 The Soldier’s Compendium of Useful Information.

7824 The Village boards

0767 The Waterfall, Fovant – F043

0768 The Waterfall, Fovant – F044

5099 Then and Now folder

5967 Three photographs of Youth Club coffee bar

5959 Three photographs of Youth Club five-a-side

3087 Three Towers magazines

0848 Tinted PC of Village Hall (from Australia)

1903 Tipperary Tea Rooms in the garden of what is now Old Fovant House.

0987 Tisbury Convalescent Hospital

1518 Tisbury Road towards Fir Hill. Pippins and Willows.

0806 Tisbury Road, Fovant – F082

0807 Tisbury Road, Fovant – F083

0808 Tisbury Road, Fovant – F084

0809 Tisbury Road, Fovant – F085

0810 Tisbury Road, Fovant – F086

0805 Tisbury Road. Fovant

0542 Toads Pond Cottages – now called Oakhanger Barn

5526 Toad’s Pond Cottages – now Oakhanger Barn (B96.1)

5527 Toad’s Pond Cottages – now Oakhanger Barn (B97)

5802 Tom Coombes tape

7918 Tommy

0889 Train at Fovant Camp Station

1950 Train in Fovant Camp Station.

5570 Treasures in the Church display

5614 Twelve assorted cards, many mention Fovant by name

5961 Twelve photographs of Youth Club at ‘It’s a Knockout’

6934 Two officers and rifle range

5963 Two photographs of Youth Club around 1970

5973 Two photographs of Youth Club ‘It’s a Knockout’ 2005

3086 Two Towers magazines

5286 Tythes of Fovant 1813

7412 Uncoloured map of Fovant paths

1640 Unknown cottage – P025

1977 Unknown house and badges.

7619 Unknown tree from the east

7620 Unknown tree from the west

1192 View of 6CLR & AIF badges & rifle butts

0724 Views of Fovant – F001

0725 Views of Fovant – F002

0726 Views of Fovant – F003

0727 Views of Fovant – F004

0728 Views of Fovant – F005

0845 Village Hall, Fovant – as F080 but tinted.

0803 Village Hall, Fovant – F079

0804 Village Hall, Fovant – F080

0414 Village Plan – 1971

2556 Village School 1908 Claiming to show the first headmistress of the school.

1906 Village shop – shopkeeper could be Mr. Jukes – carriage occupant unknown.

1745 W.I. drama group in Legion Hut. Date and title unknown. – O009

1746 W.I. drama group in Legion Hut. Date and title unknown. – O010

1747 W.I. drama group in Legion Hut. Date and title unknown. – O011

1748 W.I. drama group in Legion Hut. Date and title unknown. – O012

1749 W.I. drama group in Legion Hut. Date and title unknown. – O013

1750 W.I. drama group in Legion Hut. Date and title unknown. – O014

1751 W.I. drama group in Legion Hut. Date and title unknown. – O015

1752 W.I. drama group in Legion Hut. Date and title unknown. – O016

1753 W.I. drama group in Legion Hut. Date and title unknown. – O017

1754 W.I. drama group in Legion Hut. Date and title unknown. – O018

1755 W.I. drama group in Legion Hut. Date and title unknown. – O019

1756 W.I. drama group in Legion Hut. Date and title unknown. – O020

1738 W.I. drama group. 1941. Title of play unknown – O002

1740 W.I. drama group. 1941. Title of play unknown – O004

1741 W.I. drama group. Date & title of play unknown – O005

1742 W.I. drama group. Date & title of play unknown – O006

1743 W.I. drama group. Date & title of play unknown – O007

1744 W.I. drama group. Title of play unknown. Early 40s? – O008

1739 W.I. drama group. ‘We’re a Couple of Swells’. Date unknown – O003

1737 W.I. group. Date unknown but W.I. started in Fovant in 1934 – O001

3640 War dead 1914-18

5274 War Graves.

1297 War Memorial

1698 War memorial, flagpole and service graves.

4867 War service of Bert Tovey frame

4849 Wartime Currency frame

5161 Wartime poets

1117 Watching cricket, many Australian players

5113 Water meadows display

6534 Water meadows in Fovant

0769 Waterfall, Fovant – F045

0770 Waterfall, Fovant – F046

0776 Waterfall, Fovant – F052

0777 Waterfall, Fovant – F053

0778 Waterfall, Fovant – F054

4868 WG Cross War Graves Commission frame

7933 Wilts Local History Forum newsletter

3324 Wiltshire Family History publication

0456 Winifred Hardiman Tape

4856 Wm Bees (family) military groups frame

6631 Women’s Institute collection

2328 Wooden painted shield for 1st Battalion Devonshire and Dorset Regiment

2316 Wooden painted shield for 212 Australian Machine gun Battalion

2322 Wooden painted shield for Army Cadet Force

2323 Wooden painted shield for Queen Victoria Rifles

2324 Wooden painted shield for Royal Army Service Corps

2326 Wooden painted shield for the City of London Rifles

2357 Wooden painted shields Queen’s Gurkha Signals

2356 Wooden painted shields Salisbury

2449 Wooden shield with Black Watch Regimental Badge

0833 Workmen and their foreman outside an Army hut at Hurdcott Camp

0834 Workmen, and their foreman, outside a partially constructed camp hut.

5112 WW II graffiti in the Butts display (2)

5152 WW II graffiti in the Butts first display

5561 WW1 War Graves Project display

7665 Yellow arrow on stile on Herepath near Chiselbury

5612 Yeomanry Camp – card to Ted Simper 1908

4902 YMCA 1

4904 YMCA 2

1954 YMCA Central Hut showing the interior of hut.

0894 YMCA Central Hut, Fovant

1953 YMCA Central Hut.

3180 YMCA p/c with names on the back

1167 YMCA, 6CLR, Rising Sun badges

5619 Young Wives + Youth Club cricket match – date ?

5544 Youth Club – no date

1845 Youth Club and Young Wives re-union 1994.

1846 Youth Club and Young Wives re-union, but different, unknown ,date.

1847 Youth Club and Young Wives re-union. 2000.

1833 Youth Club comic football match

5957 Youth Club members’ signatures

1824 Youth Club Mixtures Cabaret programme. 1948.

1820 Youth Club outing to Brighton. 1948. – O084

1821 Youth Club outing to Brighton. 1948. – O085

1832 Youth Club outing to Littlehampton. 1952.

1836 Youth Club production. Aladdin – O097

1837 Youth Club production. Aladdin – O098

1838 Youth Club production. Aladdin – O099

1839 Youth Club production. Aladdin – O100

1840 Youth Club production. Aladdin – O101

1841 Youth Club production. Aladdin – O102

1842 Youth Club production. Aladdin – O103

1843 Youth Club production. Aladdin – O104

1844 Youth Club production. Aladdin – O105

5947 Youth Club reunion – 1994 (1)

5948 Youth Club reunion – 1994 (2)

5949 Youth Club reunion – 1994 (3)

5950 Youth Club reunion – 1996 (1)

5951 Youth Club reunion – 1996 (2)

1822 Youth Club Variety Concert programme – date?

5942 Youth Clubs folder

The author of this page would like to apologise in advance for some duplications in the list and also the fact that some of the descriptions are not as complete as they might be. Rest assured that the process of beating the list into shape occupies quite a few of his waking hours (and some sleeping ones too!)

M.C.L.H.

March 2007

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11 September 2018