What we said… 100 years ago

Author: Anon.

Description: Miscellaneous cuttings from the Southern Evening Echo, with quotations from 1873 to 1887. Shooting in the New Forest; a monster adder; foot and mouth disease; furze fires; Shaker camp at Hordle; incendiarism; highway robbery; New Forest Act 1879; a criminal called Hurst; the need for school lunches (Miss Braddon); Count Batthyany giving up his residence at Eaglehurst; Queen of Sweden; gangs of boys at Minstead; Easter holiday trippers; Whit Monday trippers; death of Mary Ann Girling; visit of the British Association to Southampton - New Forest workhouse; excavation of subterranean forest; new gate at Lyndhurst church; geyser(?) in Brockenhurst; death of Daniel Soffe; railway proposals; public cost of maintaining the Forest for public recreation; giving children a change of air in the Forest; proposal for steamer pier at Lepe; snow stopping hunting; proposed demolition of Calshot Castle; fox-hunting; Crown Lands Bill; harvest and potato blight; storm damage to Shaker camp; squirrels; parliamentary question by W. H. Smith about profits in the New Forest; C. Ch. Crespigny and the Salvation Army; bazaar at Cuffnells; undermining of commoners rights to collecting fuel; three new roads in the north of the Forest; bridge between Lyndhurst Rd station and Woodlands; pink coats for women hunters; proposal for Schools of Forestry; Shakers summonsed for debt; fires in the Forest; deer stealing; ‘Prepare to meet thy God’ carved into sandbank near Beaulieu Road station; carter fined for sleeping in a wagon; proposed revival of Lyndhurst races.

Period covered: 1873 to 1887

Format: Single-sided

Primary Reference: 300003571

Last import: June 1, 2023