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Friends of Romsey Abbey travelled to Southsea to visit the D-Day Story museum, which honours the 1944 Normandy landings, and Southsea Castle. A spokesman for the group said: "The D-Day story is a very ...
Romsey Abbey is actually almost like a cathedral - a vast, beautiful, largely Norman building, in a town not far from Southampton. One of the gravediggers who discovered the hair there in 1839 ...
The first four Tuesdays of the month will feature piano recitals by accomplished professional concert pianists.
Romsey Abbey is marking its 900th anniversary of the present Norman church which is believed to have been started in c1120. The Abbey itself has a much longer history, going back to c907 ...
Each week, we select one of our favourite images submitted to the Romsey Advertiser Camera Club to publish on our letters page.
THE bells of Romsey Abbey are set to ring out as the government begins to lift lockdown restrictions. The ringing is expected to resume after July 19, when the Prime Minister is expected to ease ...
Romsey Abbey dates from the year 907, when the Saxon King Edward the Elder, a son of Alfred the Great, built a home for a religious community of nuns that included his daughter, Elflaeda.
For the past few months, archaeologists have been testing a full head of hair found in a coffin. Is it the hair of a saint?
For the past few months, archaeologists have been testing a full head of hair found in a coffin. Is it the hair of a saint? In October 1839, the work of some gravediggers came to an abrupt halt ...