St Barbara's Royal Garrison Church and Hilsea Barracks

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Wessex Film and Sound Archive is based in Winchester. Providing the opportunity to see and hear history, the archive contains nearly 40,000 film, video and sound recordings relating to Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, ranging from late Victorian times to the present day. It includes both amateur and professional material, local newsreels, military and maritime subjects, as well as footage produced by individuals, businesses and organisations.

St Barbara's Royal Garrison Church and Hilsea Barracks

Wessex Film and Sound Archive
Hilsea
1963-01-01
Silent
5m

On a cold day in the early 60s we see various buildings at Hilsea barracks, which were later demolished. Starting at St Barbara's Royal Garrison Church, an example of a Victorian 'tin chapel', we then see the various barracks and outbuildings. The film then moves to Wylie Road in Hilsea, looking at houses under a mantle of snow. There is then a brief shot of the frozen salt-water Canoe Lake in Southsea before the film ends.

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