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Description: | High Street is still a mixture of shops, offices and private houses. Now a conservation area, it has many fine examples of Georgian houses. Many of these Georgian houses have long gardens on the east side of the street reflecting the pattern of the burbage plots, plots of land let by the overlord of Fareham at that time, the Bishop of Winchester to local traders and which formed the basis of the mediaeval borough.
Between some of the larger houses were passages leading to courts or cottages. The trees on High Street once stood on the road but kerb stones were put along the front and the space filled in with pebbles.
It was also the site, since the 13th century, of the St Peter's Fair or Cheese Fair which was held on 29 - 30 June each year - a boisterous affair as livestock and other commodities were also sold as well as cheese, plus an accompanying fair. In fact, the cheese fair was the largest in the country. There were stalls selling toys, sweets, clothes etc, roundabouts, coconut shies, a peep show situated near the Red Lion Hotel and horse trading. In its heyday the fair spilled over into the churchyard which used to hold the cattle and the event ended with a grand regatta on the river. The fair declined over the years however and the last Fair was held in 1871.
References:
1. Lloyd, David W. 1974. Buildings of Portsmouth and its environs, p. 32.
2. James, Alice. 1989. Fareham between the wars, p. 39.
3. Brown, Ron. Fareham of Yesteryear, p.19.
4. Emery, John. 1985. Fareham in old picture postcards, p. 29-32. | 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: | roundabout inn peep show shop building Avco Trust sweets stall Angelis coconut shy street High Street restaurant fair General Accident cheese fair Greek restaurant Atalanta Boutique Red Lion event toys hotel St Peters Fair | Temporal: | start=1983-06-01; end=1983-06-30; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Copied by: Dine, Derek; Hampshire County Library; | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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