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A Genealogical
Enquiry from Victoria Australia
Hello, my
name is Helen and I live in
Victoria Australia, during the
past 12 months that we have been
in COVID lockdown off and on, I
have taken the time to research
my Ancestors in England. I
am currently researching my “Hallett”
family. I have been sent a
copy of a newspaper article in
the Hampshire Chronicle dated 12
January 1818. It appears
to be a type of advertisement
for a Dr James Hallett (who is
my ancestor). I am
currently trying to find out
more information about him.
In this advertisement he says
that he can be consulted “at his
house Emsworth, near Mr
Tollervey’s mill”. I
believe at this time he lived at
No 8 Halfway-houses Portsea.
I have just found and read an
interesting story about Mr
Tollervey and his mill.
I also
believe that his sons Job, John
& James Jnr worked with him as
well in some of his
dispensaries.
I would be
most appreciative if you could
direct me to where I might find
any information on Dr James
Hallett. I don’t believe
he was a real Doctor, but more
likely a druggist although he
did call himself Doctor. Helen Allan 16th February 2021 If you can help with this enquiry please email the editor: info@emsworthonlinr.co.uk
Concerns re Bridge Road parking
I wish to express my concern at
the new parking restrictions
which seem to have been imposed
without notice in the Bridge
Road, Emsworth car park. This
car park is used by many local
residents to alleviate the
parking issues in Victoria Road
and Bridge Road. We live in
Victoria Road and, rather than
congest the parking in Victoria
Road, my husband and son always
park their cars in the Bridge
Road car park. The new '24 hour'
restriction raises many issues
and questions which directly
affect residents:
Christine Ward
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Market Banners Vandalized
Hampshire
Farmers Markets are very proud
to be able to sell their produce
at Emsworth and as such feel we
are adding to the success of the
Town.
Each month we display banners at
Emsworth ensuring
that all the local people and
any passing motorists see these
so they are reminded that the
market will be on that weekend.
We do pay a fee to
Hampshire Highways to display
the banners/boards and these
banners are our property, it
recently cost us over £300 to
replace the banners ensuring
that they were off a good
quality and were the right
image.
For the last two months these
banners have been taken down and
had the ties cut so they were
not visible to the general
public.
Hampshire Farmers Markets are no
longer prepared to accept this
and as such will be seeking
advice from the Local Police
since this is wanton damage to
our property and as such will be
seeking compensation of same.
If anyone in Emsworth sees or
knows of anyone damaging our
signs, Hampshire Farmers Market
would be pleased to hear.
Valerie Nicel Office
Manager/Director
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Emsworth Public Toilets(follow up to letter of 16th Octobe
Further to my letter recently on
this subject, norse operational
services manager dropped a card
through my letterbox whilst I
was out. I have since spoken to
him and they will address the
hand wash scale issue, but the
urinals have been reported to
"maintenance" who will deal with
that matter. He says it's rust,
but stainless does not rust as
such, it will always clean up.
Lets watch this space and see
what happens. Why this was not
flagged up sooner I don't know.
An Emsworth Resident
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 Emsworth Public Toilets
adjacent to Pay and display Car
Park near the harbour
The notice outside the toilets says “Every effort is made to keep these toilets clean……….” Unfortunately, this is NOT true. The men’s urinals are DISGUSTING and have been for over a year now. The cleaning contractors all want sacking, and  someone
with Marigold gloves needs to
ACTUALY DO SOME WORK, and SCRUB
the urinals with a scouring pad
to remove the crystals left in
the bottom of the urinals. .
The hand driers are not much better. They also need a good scrub to remove accumulated dirt in the “bowl”. (With a DIFFERENT SCOURER) So, every effort to keep these toilets clean is NOT true. Please Employ somebody who actually does keep the toilets clean. These toilets are barely fit to use. An Emsworth Resident 16th October 2018 |
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Royal Mail Deliveries
I live in Selangor Avenue, since the closure on our sorting office my mail has been between three and four days late, I have contacted my neighbour whose mail is also late, so the problem is not just me. I have written today to Royal Mail, but I do not know if this street has been selected for appalling service, or the problem is more widespread. An
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Urgently calling all
artists local and not so local
Come and paint views of old
Spencer's Restaurant 36-38 North
Street. Posterity needs a record
of the place. Once gone, it will
be gone forever.
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Demolition of 36-38
North Street Emsworth (formally
Spencer’s Restaurant)
You may not be aware but 36-38
North Street Emsworth (formally
Spencer’s Restaurant) building
is to be demolished. I have
written to Havant Planning
Department (see
attachment)
to object. If you agree with me
please send a letter as soon as
possible (at least before Friday
2nd October) to save this
Georgian Façade from being
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Not so Friendly
Emsworth! 'Your website says that visitors to Emsworth are welcomed and generally we have found this to be true during our week-long stay. We have done all our shopping locally and enjoyed some lovely meals in the town. However we are leaving with a slightly sour taste having returned to our car, legally parked in King Street after 6pm, and found a message PARK WHERE YOU LIVE NOT HERE. This was the one occasion we parked in that spot, having been concerned to respect local residents' needs. Not a very friendly welcome! ' Chris Dyke 30th July 2015 |
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"We must build more houses"
Sirs,
I am thoroughly fed up
with people spouting the popular
mantra "we must build more
houses" and when I say, "WHY"?,
they are quite perplexed.
There are thousands of houses on
the market. What has to be
clarified, but never is, is that
we need housing that the people
who are not home owners, can
actually afford. This will never
come about until the Government,
it can only be the Government,
tackle the admittedly extremely
thorny question of land values.
The whole planning system needs
turning on its head.
If all the unused land
currently owned by government
and councils had housing built
on it without the outrageous
additional price generated by
"Planning Permission" for the
land and developers were removed
from the scene, houses could
almost become AFFORDABLE which
is what everyone means when they
say "we must build more houses".
There is plenty of land
available on brown field sites,
which usually means that a fair
proportion of the necessary
infrastructure is already in
place, which would bring down
the cost considerably, at the
same time doing away with the
notorious 106 schemes that adds
cost tremendously to the final
selling price. Do people really
think that the money a developer
contributes to the locality
around his development comes
from his own pocket, dream on.
It is the homeless that pay for
it, inflated by the profit a
bank makes on a mortgage.
Near where I live there is an
area considered to be one of the
most underprivileged in the
country and it is crying out for
housing for the younger
generation. A developer is
building houses not terribly far
away and before he got planning
permission he stated that there
would be "affordable housing" to
the statutory level available
for purchase. Try
explaining that to the
youngsters round here who will
have to find a quarter of a
million pounds to "Get on the
Housing Ladder"
The five million people on
countrywide waiting lists, are
waiting for the price of housing
to come down and this will not
happen unless Government
addresses the whole financial
equation that creates the
ridiculous prices currently
being asked.
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Horses starving to death
There is another cruelty case
and nobody is showing any
interest! Will it take another
pony to die, suffering from
starvation & neglect before it
reaches the papers. The grey
mare along Long Cospe Lane is
suffering in silence whilst the
local community of apparent
horse lovers just ride on by.
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Round House?
I'm
a Canadian descendant of an
Emsworth family, and Ive really
enjoyed reading through this
site.
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Flying The Flag
I
see one of the members of the
Hermitage Liberation Front is no
longer in distress, sadly the
Crown Public House is; or does
flying the flag the wrong way
have another interpretation on
land? I find it sad that we live
in a naval coastal area yet the
flag is flown incorrectly.
However, I have also seen it
flown incorrectly in the
capital. Perhaps Emsworth should
lead the way and ensure its
citizens all know how to fly the
flag correctly before the
Jubilee.
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THE GREAT SURGERY
SWINDLE On
the evening of 22nd
November Havant Borough
Councils’ housing development
committee, after 7 hours of
deputations, decided by 4 votes
to 3 that a Developer would be
given planning permission to
build 280 houses on land known
as Hampshire Farm, and this was
to include the unusual lure of a
new Doctors’ Surgery plus
Pharmacy
MYSTERIOUSLY, only during the
last few minutes, was it
becoming publicly clear that
this wonderful doctors’ new
surgery, had not actually been
offered to the Emsworth GP
Partnership on any specific
financial terms in relation to
their occupancy. It was further
revealed that if the Partnership
did not contract to take on the
new building within a set
time-scale, including the
Pharmacy presumably, the land
would revert back to Havant
Borough Council. They may then
feel it would be expedient to
build the surgery themselves,
out of Council Tax Funds of
course, rather than have a
derelict plot at the entrance to
this grand development which
will definitely not be
affordable to anyone on the
housing list!!!!
I wonder if the Housing
Committee had been made
thoroughly aware of that, if
not, THE
COUNCIL
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Such a shame 30
years ago my mother and I quite
often use to on a Sunday
afternoon visit Emsworth as we
found it a charming place. Sadly
we visited it today my mother is
now 86 years old went to park my
car in the car park in an empty
space when an aggressive man
appeared from nowhere in a land
rover reg no. **** *** and
started accusing me of taking
his parking space to such an
extent that he insinuated if we
didnt move we would come back to
the car with two slashed
tyres!!! My mother was so
distraught that we had to come
away. Isnt it such a shame that
Emsworth has such people living
there now a days!!!
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Emsworth News As
a former resident of Emsworth
who used to live at 78 Victoria
Rd. and emigrated with family to
Western Australia in 1957 I
really enjoy looking at the
Emsworth News, I may be 90 years
young but I have many memories
of Emsworth, thank you very
much.
Sydney Hammond |
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Food Festival We
need the Food Festival, so lets
get a NEW committee and proper
chairperson.
Owain Evans |
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