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FOR this week’s Flashback, we are sharing one of the columns written by the late historian and photographer Robert Brown for the Gazette in April 2005. In 1905, workmen put the finishing touches to a brand-new hotel on the corner of Junction Road and Station Hill – the site of which is now part of the gardens to the left of the railway station entrance. It was called the Station Hotel and was built mainly for the accommodation of railway passengers. Public and private bars were included in the large building, which faced the front of the station, to attract people arriving by train into Basingstoke.

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