Image Gallery Introduction

This image gallery contains copies of photographic slides (Hawkins) and negatives (WCC) and photographic prints (Salmon) held in the archives of the City of Winchester Trust. All these images have been included in a searchable online Gallery Image List. It is planned to digitise and present further collections from the Trust Archives over time. To date the collections included are:-

This Collection was a bequest made by Graham Hawkins to the Trust in 1998. It consists of over 200 slides of Winchester scenes giving us evocative glimpses of life over 100 years ago. Graham J Hawkins (1934-1998) like his father, Charles, worked on the railways. He was born in Kingsclere District and moved to a railway cottage between the railway station at Chesil and Chesil Road. He joined the railway as a lamp-boy at Worthy Down Station, later moving to Winchester City, British Railways Southern Region. Here he worked in the parcel office, and was later promoted to ticket collector. He married Frances Lane in Winchester in 1965 and lived on Greenhill Road for most of his life. He was an active member of the Royal British Legion and also a keen railway enthusiast. He had no children and became well known for his illustrated talks on Winchester using the very slides that he bequeathed to the Trust. He also had a large collection of postcards of the City and is held in high esteem by those who remember him.

If the Image List is consulted it can be seen that 37 of the images in the Hawkins Collection were taken by WT Green (nom de plume for WT Greenland 1851-1921). Walter Thomas Greenland was born in Woodford, Northants, to Thomas (a curate at Towcester), and Martha. He had 4 brothers, all born at Wembaston, Suffolk where his father was vicar. By 1871 Mr Greenland senior was rector at Raithby, Lincs where 2 sisters and another brother were born. At this time WT was 19 years old and a student. In 1891 he was 39 years old and employed as a tutor of modern languages in Lincolnshire. However by 1901 he was living in Winchester at 28 Upper High Street. It was between January 1900 and November 1904 that WT sold 389 photos to Warrens the Winchester printers. He was paid 5 shillings for each photograph and Warrens used them to illustrate several books they published at this time. The 1911 Census records describe him as living at 27 and 28 Upper High Street. He was employed as a private tutor and unmarried. Mr Greenland died in Winchester in 1920, aged 69.

This collection covers 138 photographs taken in the 1950's of buildings in Winchester. These buildings were earmarked for demolition in the mid 1950s, and in order to have a pictorial record of them, the city council had all the relevant streets and houses photographed. The original photographs are in an album held by the Hampshire Record Office ref. W/C5/10/23. The City of Winchester Trust (then the Winchester Preservation Trust), was formed in an effort to limit the destruction of these old buildings. Canon Street and St John's Street were saved by the Trust but most of the buildings in this collection were demolished. A newsreel shows Duncan Sandys, MP for Norwood and Minister for Housing in 1954-1957, visiting families about to be rehoused in a typical 'slum clearance' of this era.

Henry William Salmon (1859-1940) ran a successful photographic business from number 77 High Street. This shop was opened in 1888 by HW. His son, Gilbert H Salmon joined the business in 1917, finally closing it down in 1966. HW was born in Reading and in 1901 lived at 81 High Street with his wife, four children and two servants. He died in Wokingham at the age of 80. During the early 1900s Messrs Salmon produced the 'Salmon Series'. This was a collection of several hundred photographs of which this gallery contains 65. Most of the Salmon Series were centred on Winchester's Cathedral and College, but there were also shots of Hursley, Romsey Abbey, and other, usually, religious buildings in the villages and towns around Winchester.

Access Instructions

The gallery is organised as a series of pages each showing 28 thumbnails of the images. Arrow keys allow the user to browse backwards and forwards through the pages of thumbnails and clicking the block between the arrows returns the user to this page. By clicking a thumbnail a seperate window is opened to display a larger copy of the image. Within this window are arrow keys that allow the user to browse directly through the larger images and clicking the block closes the window.

Trust News Back Issues & Annual Reports

In addition to the image gallery, there are also Back Issues of TrustNews and Annual Reports held on this web site.