The 14th April is St Tiburtius' Day, when traditionally the first cuckoo of the year should be heard. This poem about the Cuckoo dates from the 1920s and is by Godfrey Fox Bradby, a member of the Bradby family of Hamble (46A06/A9/7/1) #hampshirearchives #hampshireheritage
Clocks go forward 1 am tomorrow (Sunday)
Pic: clock at St Mary and All Saints' Church, #Droxford in the #MeonValley with Leonard Westbrook and others repairing and regilding it (1927) (Kenneth Ward Collection: HRO 217M84/37/34)
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April is #NationalPetMonth . This photograph from 1902 shows members of the Rose family of Bursledon Towers, Bursledon with their pets, which included a monkey (12A05/7/33) #hampshirearchives #Bursledonhistory , #hampshireheritage
Our accession of the month: a view of the Swan Hotel in #AltonHampshire , with a poem about The Swan, both dated 1940; the poem is by 'H D O'N' - perhaps Harry Duncan O'Neill (1867-1946) - he was living at 92 Normandy Street in 1939 (32A24)
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