Basingstoke Collection

5th Battalion Connaught Rangers, Basingstoke, WW1
Men of the 5th Battalion Connaught Rangers, 10th Division, arriving at Basingstoke from Ireland before going to Gallipoli during the First World War. Date: May 1915

Poulterer - Fishmonger
A fine pre-Christmas display by a poulterer / fishmonger of Basingstoke, Hampshire : mostly of poultry, but also a royal sturgeon and advertising for T Walls Sausages

ENGLAND / BASINGSTOKE
Winchester Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, with its busy parade of individual shops. Date: early 1950s

Wallis & Steevens Road Roller OU5979
Wallis & Steevens Road Roller, regn. OU5979, number 8065 at Southampton. Built in 1930 by Wallis & Steevens of Basingstoke. (Note : the spelling of Steevens is correct) Date: 24 June 1972

Wallis & Steevens General Purpose Engine HO5601
Wallis & Steevens General Purpose Engine, regn. HO5601, 7294, The Sheaf of Arrows at Buckfastleigh. Built in 1912 by Wallis & Steevens at Basingstoke, powered by a 6 Nhp single cylinder steam engine

Wallis & Steevens Steam Roller Simplicity (msn 8023), built 1930, at the 1959 Crystal Palace Steam rally. (Wallis & Steevens of Basingstoke, Hampshire, England produced agricultural equipment)

Basingstoke Church Street early 1900s

Basingstoke Wote Street early 1900s

Basingstoke, London Street

Basingstoke, New Street

Basingstoke Railway Station early 1900s

Basingstoke Town Hall probably 1920s

Basingstoke, Winchester Street

Basingstoke Winchester Street early 1900s

Wallis and Steevens Steam Roller ACG 760 Mallard
Wallis and Steevens Advance-class steam roller ACG 760 Mallard (msn 8096), built 1935, at the Peterborough Steam rally on 26 August 1973

House In Hampshire, Garden Front
An architectural photo lithograph showing the garden front of a house in a woodland clearing in Hampshire, between Basingstoke and Newbury

House In Hampshire, Entrance Front
An architectural photo lithograph showing the entrance front of a house in a woodland clearing in Hampshire, between Basingstoke and Newbury

Old Basing Church
A painting of a white motor vehicle outside the entrance drive to St. Mary's Church, Old Basing and Lychpit, Basingstoke. Date: circa 1917

Near Basingstoke, Hants
A poster style painting of a white motor vehicle emerging from behind a bush, on a road near Basingstoke, Hants. Date: circa 1916

Fork-lift truck Gagarin salute
A salute is made to the achievement of Yuri Gagarin, first man in space, at a demonstration of fork-lift trucks at the Basingstoke factory of Lansing Bagnall Ltd

The Vine, Basingstoke, the seat of William John Chute. House reformed by Chaloner Chute from designs by Webb, Inigo Jones son in law

Stratton Park, Winchester, the seat of Sir Thomas Baring
Stratton Park, Winchester, the seat of the banker and slave owner Sir Thomas Baring. Neoclassical design by George Dance with Doric portico and gardens landscaped by Humphry Repton

Watermouth, Devon, the seat of Joseph Davie Bassett. View of the house with its eastern terrace and romantic scenery. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by F.W.L

Basingstoke Union Workhouse
A view of part of the Basingstoke Union workhouse, Hampshire Date unknown

National Fire Brigades Association certificate, confirming First Prize to Southend Fire Brigade in the Combined Motor Pump Competition held at Basingstoke, dated 8 September 1922

Wallis and Steevens Road Roller GOU 537 Amy
Wallis & Steevens Road Roller GOU 537 Amy at Redruth steam rally. Advance 10 ton Steam Roller supplied new to the War Department (Royal Engineers, Aldershot)

Wallis and Steevens Road Roller 7832
Maker: Wallis & Steevens of Basingstoke Type: Road Roller Number: 7832 Built: 1926 Registration: HO 6472 Class: SY Cylinders: Single Nhp: 1 Date: 1970s-1980s

Thornycroft Wagon Dorothy AD 115
Thornycroft Wagon, regn. AD 115, number: 39, Dorothy. Built in 1900 by the Thornycroft Steam Carriage and Van Company in Basingstoke. Date: 1960s

Wallis & Steevens General Purpose Engine Fair Rosamund
Wallis & Steevens General Purpose Engine, regn. BL 4707, number: 7370, Fair Rosamund - Old Bill ). Built by Wallis & Steevens of Basingstoke in 1914, powered by a 6 Nhp single cylinder steam engine

Wallis & Steevens Traction Engine HO5815 Boxer (msn 7115), built 1910, at the 1959 Andover Steam Rally. (Wallis & Steevens of Basingstoke, Hampshire, England produced agricultural equipment)

Women WW1 Work
A group photograph of View Room Girls at Thornycrofts, the shipbuilding and engineering firm which was based at Woolston, Hampshire. The card is dated by the sender, 27th May 1917 and is marked K.A

Flaxfield Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. Showing The Pear Tree Inn with Dray Horses Date: 1920s

High Street, Odiham, Hampshire
High Street, Odiham, Hook, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. Date: 1906

Basingstoke
Distant view of Basingstoke, Hampshire, from the cemetery on Chapel Hill. Date: circa 1830

Basingstoke, St Thomas Home
A view of the St Thomas Home, Basingstoke, a Magdalen Home where penitent single mothers spent time. Date: circa 1906

The Village, Popham, England
The Village, Popham, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. Date: 1910s

MODERN SIGNPOST
An example of the modern RAC signpost, at the point where the road forks to either Salisbury or Basingstoke. It is placed at eye-level some distance before turning. Date: 1940s

Basingstoke incinerator cooling tower and electrostatic precipitator

Ramshackle Farmstead
A rather ramshackle old farmstead, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. Date: 1950s

Lord Kitchener reviewing new army recruits, Basingstoke
Lord Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916) reviewing new recruits of the 10th Division at Basingstoke during the First World War. Kitchener was so greatly involved in the drive for volunteers at

Bastingstoke Exchange
The Corn Exchange at Basingstoke, Hampshire

Frimley Green - 1906
The Basingstoke Canal Frimley Green Surrey

Nanny with Four Kids
A nurse with four charges in a garden at Basingstoke, Hampshire, England

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