... Digging up the past: a collection of Waterside stories ...In 2021, I started writing a series of articles for the Herald magazine, published in Hythe every three weeks, featuring historical events, family connections, and personal recollections of life around Fawley and the Waterside villages. In January 2023 I then published a collection of 28 of these articles as a book, "Digging up the past: a collection of Waterside stories".
The original stories are available on the Herald website, although the versions in the book are extended with more in-depth information and images.
1: Fawley Cottage and Orchard Close - Issue 403, March 11th 2021
2: John Pusey of Hardley Lane - Issue 405, April 22nd 2021
3: Evie Somes and the pies - Issue 406, May 13th 2021
4: The families of Cowleaze and Hilltop - Issue 408, June 24th 2021
5: The Beaulieu Ice Carnival - Issue 409, July 15th 2021
6: Theo Smith and Ashlett Mill - Issue 411, August 26th 2021
7: Mrs Loesely & the honeycomb - Issue 412, September 16th 20218: Miss Barnett of Ower Green - Issue 413, October 7th 2021
9: How the Speddings came to Exbury - Issue 414, October 28th 2021
10: The Speddings in Exbury and Lepe - Issue 415, November 18th 2021
11: George Spedding & Baron Forster - Issue 416, December 9th 2021
12: David and Annie Spedding of Lepe - Issue 417, January 7th 2022
13: The Lepe and Exbury railway - Issue 418, January 27th 2022
14: The Fawley Tithe Map - Issue 420, March 10th 2022
15: The history of the Ashlett saltmarshes - Issue 421, March 31st 2022
16: Fish traps at Ashlett - Issue 422, April 21st 2022
17: Fawley and Ashlett salterns - Issue 423, May 12th 2022
18: Digging up the past - Issue 424, June 2nd 2022
19: A sad tale from Quab Gutter - Issue 425, June 23rd 2022
20: The division of Fawley parish - Issue 426, July 14th 202221: Memories of Fawley in the 1970s - Issue 427, August 4th 2022
22: The Swing Riots of 1830 - Issue 428, August 25th 2022
23: The social scene in 1875 - part 1 - Issue 430, October 6th 2022
24: The social scene in 1875 - part 2 - Issue 431, October 28th 2022
25: The social scene in 1875 - part 3 - Issue 432, November 18th 2022
26: Moonbeam - Issue 433, December 12th 2022
27: The blizzards of April 1908 - Issue 434, January 5th 2023
28: The Fawley Temperance Movement - Issue 435, January 26th 2022
Digging up the past is available in paperback - ISBN 978-1-8380136-7-7 and e-book format - ISBN: 978-1-8380136-8-4 from my online shop.
In November 2024, I published "Digging deeper", the follow-up to "Digging up the past".
