Category: Hampshire

This page is about bygone life in the city of Southampton. If you’re interested, at the end we have a link to a separate page about the Port of Southampton in the old days.

This page is dedicated to footage about the ships filmed at the Port of Southampton in the old days, and complements our page of videos about bygone life in the city (see the link at the end).

Discover vintage film of Aldershot Army days, including the popular Aldershot Army Show which has entertained visitors for many decades.

Famous for its memorable image as the fictional TV show Downton Abbey, Highclere Castle is a stately home found in the county of Hampshire. It has been caught on film many times in the past, but is the heart of a country estate still in family ownership.

In 1937, the Minister for Health, Sir Howard Kingsley Wood, visited families working as hop pickers in Hampshire.

Highclere is a village and parish in the county of Hampshire, in the region of South East England. It is most famous for being home to Highclere Castle, whose exterior was used as the image of the fictional TV series, Downton Abbey. We’ve found vintage footage of the stately home, which is in the Historic Places…

Aldershot, home of the British Army, is also home to a civilian community of more than 30,000 residents. The lido, stock car races, ice rink and railway station are key locations for many nostaligic memories. Aldershot became a major base for the British Army back at the time of the Crimean War. Not surprisingly, there’s…

Old videos of schools in Fleet and Church Crookham are especially funny if you know anyone in them.

Fleet in Hampshire was little more than a village in the Victorian era, but today is a thriving a popular town.