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Basingstoke has a wide diversity for musical groups ranging from brass bands to symphony orchestras. [64] The Basingstoke Concert Band is a traditional wind band which has now been in existence for more than 35 years. [64] The band was started in 1977 by Lawrie Shaw when Brighton Hill Community School opened, where he was the first headteacher.
The Greek diaspora in the twentieth century, Basingstoke: Macmillan 1999. Greece 1940-1949. Occupation, resistance, civil war. A documentary history, Basingstoke et alib.: Palgrave Macmillan 2002. Bearing gifts to Greeks. Humanitarian aid to Greece in the 1940s, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2008.
Milestones Museum of Living History is a museum located on the Leisure Park in Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK.Milestones is made up of a network of streets that have been recreated according to those found in Victorian and 1930s Hampshire.
A nurse at Park Prewett Hospital in 1941. Park Prewett was an enclosure dating back to the time of Edward I. [1] Following a report by the Lunacy Commission into overcrowding at Knowle Hospital in the south of the county, a new site was required to house the expanding population. [2]
The wind engine outlasted the railway, surviving until the 1940s. [3] The station was used for the filming of 1937 film Oh, Mr Porter! which features Cliddesden as the fictional Buggleskelly . [ 4 ]
Settlement patterns suggest the existence of a town at Basingstoke attached to the nearby oppidum of Winklebury prior to the Roman conquest of Britain. [2] In the early Roman era it was the nearest town to Calleva Atrebatum, lay between two roads leading to Venta Belgarum and Noviomagus Reginorum and was populated predominantly by the Atrebates.
The Basingstoke and Deane category refers to places and activities within the local authority area Basingstoke and Deane, in Hampshire. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
Historically, Basingstoke has been a Conservative safe seat, but in 2024 it elected a Labour MP for the first time in its history. With the exception of this and a Liberal MP being elected in 1923, it has elected Conservative MPs since the seat was created in 1885.