New Postcard added to website
A new postcard has been added to the Butts Road & All Saints Church, in the around Alton section of the website.
The image has been taken by someone outside what is today 27 Butts Road looking towards the High Street. The photographer seems to have caught the attention of some lads, four of them are standing in the road with their bicycles (not something I would recommend trying today!), with the lad on the right holding a coal shovel and standing next to a bucket, I wonder if he is on clean up duty or simply collecting fertiliser for the vegetable patch.
On the far right of the image, you can see someone heading away from the camera, they have walked past the Police Station (now the site of the Fire Station) and are crossing Tower Street, perhaps they are heading to the Dukes Head (Now the George) in the distance.
The boy in the middle of the image is standing by the junction with Queens Road, with the railings outside All Saints Church on the other side. I presume these railings along with others locally were removed, as part of the war effort between 1940-1944.
The Vicar of All Saints Church at the time of the image would have been Rev Francis Henry Sumner (1853-1935) he arrived in 1892, following the departure of the Rev George Stenning. Rev Sumner ministered the parish until 1912, departing to become the Vicar of St Nicholas in Chawton.
Contact Information
Memories of Alton
Find Memories of Alton, Hampshire
Alton, Hampshire, GU34