SCULPTURE in the Gardens returns to Greys Court this month and will run for five weeks. More than 30 artists from the Oxford Sculptors Group will be exhibiting .
Basingstoke: The south’s first town of the motor-car age. A shopping centre on a platform; separate routes for cars and pedestrians. It is the showpiece town of the South of England. That’s how our town was described by the Hants & Berks Gazette (which became The Gazette) in August 1962. The new town took shape. The planners aimed to separate people from traffic, with a ring road, distributor roads around new estates and small closes or terraces of houses. House designs varied, but innovations such as split-level houses and gas warm air heating were not popular. There were to be no high-rise blocks, apart from Oakridge Towers.