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HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 9 STATION ROAD Part 4 Back to the Station Following on from the last article, a stroll back to the station. Immediately after St Johns Super Store you cross Warfield Road (the name is believed to be a corruption of Warren...

HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 8 STATION ROAD Part 3 An amble through fields and meadows Okay, so you came by train to Hampton, what are you likely to see as you come out of the station before walking down Station Road to Beveree. Until the coming of t...

HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 7 STATION ROAD Part 2 No longer a Country Lane The second article in this little series will look at the part of Station Road that leads from Beveree to the 111/216 Bus Stop, a route taken by supporters leaving after the ...

HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 6 STATION ROAD Part 1 No longer a Country Lane This article was written way before anyone had really heard of Covid-19. It was supposed to be for the first game of the 2020/21 season, in front of supporters who would have...

HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 5 PLATTS EYOT (Part 2) The Island today Further to a previous article, we get to the reason for my sudden interest in Platt’s Eyot…. As a railway enthusiast (okay, a 70 year-old train spotter) I came across an item relati...

HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 4 THE BOMBING OF THE ROYAL OAK Revisited Two years ago, I wrote about the bombing of the Royal Oak pub in South Road, Hampton. Briefly, during the night, bombers came over and dropped up to eight high explosive bombs in a...

HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 3 KEMPTON PARK MUTINY British Troops fed up! With Remembrance Sunday just a matter of days away, a look at a little-known incident related to the First World War – the Kempton Park Mutiny. When war broke out, all horse ra...

HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 2 PLATTS EYOT (Part 1) Hampton’s Secret Island Platts Eyot is an island that is easy to miss unless you take a walk or drive down the Lower Sunbury Road. The Island has an industrial history connected to Thorneycrofts who...

HAMPTON, AROUND AND ABOUT Things you may not know, or didn’t know you knew! No 1 ZENITH-JAP MOTORCYLES Located in Hampton Court Ah, yes! Where were we when so rudely interrupted. I think that I will just carry on from where I left off (but, can I have my summer of cricket and speedway back!). And, I...

Many know that I write local history for the match day programmes and have done so for over 10 years. Last season only 9 made it as the season was truncated due to Covid 19. The articles did make it onto the Online Edition but I have received comments that they would like to see them back on the for...