ST ANDREW’S Methodist Church in Western Way, South Ham, Basingstoke, is 66 years old this year.
THE QUESTION is often asked as to how Basingstoke first became involved in its change from a small market town to the massive development that it is today.
MUCH has been said in recent years about the Second World War, but perhaps not enough is written and remembered about the blackout.
FOR this week’s Flashback, we are sharing one of the columns written by the late historian and photographer Robert Brown for the Gazette in April 2005.
WITH the recent opening of the Tesco Express store at Buckingham Parade, Kempshott, and the forthcoming opening of the Tesco Metro store opposite Woolworths in the Basingstoke shopping centre, on April 16, they bring the subject of supermarkets to this series.
