Trevor handed me some photographs and a disc containing images of the station area in 1972 (9 years after closure). At this time, the station site was being used as a Havant Borough Depot.
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Introduction During 2013 we established a very good relationship with the IoW Steam Railway. We secured an agreement to bring Freshwater back home for the 50th Anniversary commemoration which had to be cancelled because we could not raise the £6000 needed for the movement and the necessary security arrangements, This is the subject of another [...]
The Langstone Oyster Beds were restored for nature conservation in 1996 / 97. The following describes the major civil engineering project which achieved this successful restoration and led to the site’s designation as Havant Borough Council’s first Local Nature Reserve Towards a Solution From 1987 the Council explored various options for overcoming the problems of [...]
Introduction Oyster fishing has been practiced in a number of locations on the shores of Hayling Island since Roman times. The Oyster bed site at the north west of Hayling Island was developed in 1863 by the South of England Oyster Company, on re-claimed mud land created in the construction of Hayling Branch line by [...]
In late Victorian times it was generally assumed that Hayling Island was about to become an important suburb of Portsmouth. The narrow but fast-flowing entrance to Langstone Harbour would, it was supposed, be bridged and land values on the Island would rise. There was speculation in land and a branch railway was constructed from Havant [...]
In July 1860 the Hayling Railway Company was formed, in order to build a branch line from Havant to South Hayling. It was estimated that it would take seven years to raise the money, acquire the necessary land and build the line. The civil engineer contracted to build the line was Frederick Furniss, who was [...]
Francis Fuller was a land Surveyor and Estate Agent with a long association with railways being surveyor to the London Brighton & South Coast Railway for 25 years for some time also surveyor to the Metropolitan District Railway. He was one of three promoters of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Held in London, at the [...]
The Hayling Island Gas Company was absorbed by the Portsmouth and Gosport Company. Gas was then supplied from Hilsea and piped onto the island.This article from the Evening News, Aug 6 1937, describes the formal handover and the closure of the Gas Works.
In 1825, William Padwick purchased the Manor House from the Duke of Norfolk and with it the title ‘Lord of the Manor’. This would lead to a chain of events that would change the character of the island.
The Duke of Norfolk is the premier duke in the peerage of England, and also, as Earl of Arundel, the premier earl. The Dukes had a manor house on Hayling Island and had the additional title of Lord of the Manor. The island was rural with a few homesteads and farms. The island was largely [...]
