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Description: | This junction is now very busy with the traffic being controlled by traffic lights.
Twyford had its own fire engine in 1934 manned by volunteers, before that the village had relied on a fire engine coming from Alresford. The Twyford firemen were called on during the Second World War to help fight fires in Southampton when it was bombed. The fire station (built 1961) ceased being used as such in the late 1990's and the village now has to rely on fire engines coming from Winchester.
The Dolphin Inn was built in 1740 and the house next door was built in 1760, unusually using header bricks for the front of the house which were expensive. Coaches running between London and Southampton would stop at the inn. Soldiers from the camp in Hazeley Road drank there during the First World War and during the Second World War Canadian soldiers billeted in the village were also frequent visitors. It ceased trading as a pub in the 1990's.
Reference:
Pearce, D. and Crooks, S. (1999) Twyford: ringing the changes. pp.137 - 139 | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Hampshire Library and Information Service - Hampshire County Council | Subjects: | building fire station Dolphin Inn Hazeley Road street Post Office Twyford | Temporal: | start=1988-08-01; end=1988-08-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Derek Dine | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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