It's a sad day for those of us who remember New Lane in the heady days of the late sixties. In 1968, my first real 'summer holiday' employer, Kenwood Manufacturing, was supporting Colt in their famous staff initiative. Boxes of Kenwood Chefs, Kenwood Mini foodmixers and the first ill-fated Kenwood Dishwashers left the plant with … Continue reading Colt – ‘We’re backing Britain’, fifty years on
Category: Community
HCS Response to 40 Acres development plan
While some might consider this application outside of the Havant Civic Society remit, we believe that the application poses important issues to the wider Havant community. Havant Civic Society supports our Bedhampton peer groups and we've now submitted our own response to the application for development on this site. To read the HCS response, please … Continue reading HCS Response to 40 Acres development plan
June 23rd – Heritage at your feet
Since 2013 a group of volunteers has been looking after the cemeteries in New Lane, Eastern Road and Warblington. They are now the Friends of Havant Cemeteries (FoHC) and meet on the morning of the last Tuesday of each month to work on clearing and tidying the cemeteries, managing weeds, sowing wild flowers, and they also have … Continue reading June 23rd – Heritage at your feet
Homewell Spring
Thanks to Volunteers who cleared the Spring of some of the weeds recently, a spring widely believed to be the reason why the settlement that eventually became Havant, exists. Now we need some funding to replace security timbers and repoint the stone walls. Another HCS project?
WDRA ‘The big lunch’ event
A very big 'thank you' to Jan Jenkins and the rest of the team at the Warblington and Denvilles Residents' Association for the invitation to a terrific community event today at the Stride Centre in Denvilles. The HCS stand attracted a lot of attention from a lot of friends, old and new. We never cease … Continue reading WDRA ‘The big lunch’ event
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