| Description | A set of 28 images showing evacuation sites in Hampshire with a hand labelled packet and 2 donation letters. Images show the local area and landscape including snow and ice, the work huts and the billets. One image shows Montagu Norman on a visit to the site.
1) Verso: '5 47'; 'Canteen'.
2) Verso: 'B 9'; 'The Daily Path'.
3) Verso: 'B 20'; 'Path to office in the morning The "blasted 6aK"'.
4) Verso: 'B 22'; 'In the grounds. There are deer sheep pheasants cows etc.'.
5) Verso: 'B 23'; 'Whitchurch entrance The Lodge'.
6) Verso: 'B 25'; 'The Mansion. Inside is General Enquiries, Establishments Office, The Library, A large hall where there is a weekly cinema (+ also performances), a weekly (once a week) recital of gramophone records etc.'.
7) Verso: 'B 30'; 'In the office Note The Governor Mr. Montagu Norman'.
8) Verso: 'B 34'; 'Monty again'.
9) Verso: 'B 45'; 'The steam roller making a footpath outside the work-hut'.
10) Verso: 'B 47'; 'The other side of the mansion (back), grand doorway and left is old wing. Lovely oak staircase with minstrel gallery Tapestry covered over and the stairs are likewise covered'.
11) Verso: 'B 49'; 'Mens' huts'.
12) Verso: 'B 50'; 'One of the Men's sleeping huts. Note umbrella'.
13) Verso: 'B 51'; 'Part of Deeds I my office'.
14) Verso: 'B 53'; 'The recreation half of the canteen. Darts and ping pong at the top end'.
15) Verso: 'B 56'; 'Whitchurch village about 2 miles from the mansion'.
16) Verso: 'B 57'; 'In the grounds'.
17) Verso: 'B 59'; 'Another view of the mansion Hurstbourne Park. Once the family home of the Portsmouth family and lately the residence of Mr Donar M.P.'.
18) Verso: 'B 60'; 'The avenue of Beeches in September 1939 (end)'.
19) Verso: 'B 136'; 'All things were cased in ice during the cold weather, huge branch broke with the weight of the ice and one dare not walk near the trees'.
20) Verso: 'B 138'; 'Covered way from sleeping hut to ablution hut!'.
21) Verso: 'B 139'; 'We hope this will be a covered way one day. Note icicles'.
22) Verso: 'B 140'; 'Frozen branch'.
23) Verso: 'B 141'; 'Oscar sitting on a Kalamazoo we hope there were no impressions left on the page'.
24) Verso: 'B 142'; 'Canteen, note queue. You take your food to your chair'.
25) Verso: 'B 145'; 'Coming home at night back to the [...avers] this is the view you get of the church as you approach the village'.
26) Verso: 'B 154'; 'The cut again'.
27) Verso: 'B 156'.
28) Verso: 'B 157'; 'The cut'. |