I went to the now-gone, Andover Grammar School. So, memories of those five years remain. In the large hall and long corridors there would be many voices, loudly chatting, laughing, although we would gather in our small groups and didn’t feel it was too loud then. Yet the numbers were in their hundreds I am guessing now. There was a stage for the head teachers, deputies and others to sit on their wooden chairs. Black flowing gowns and flat black hats with tassels held them tall. In assembly the girls sat to the right, the boys to the left. How the teachers kept that silence, I wonder but I recall it may have been due to their raised shoulders and utter silence, with eyes pointing in the direction of those misbehaving.
Dear Editor, My poor mother passed away in December 2019, and was laid to rest with my late father at Charlton cemetery in January 2020. To date their grave has not been flattened and remains an eyesore. We have communicated with Test Valley Council, through emails and phone calls. We have had several promises that this would be sorted to no avail. The excuses range through Covid, weather, supply of turf – none of which are believable as newer graves have been flattened. It isn’t as though no one has been working up there as unfortunately burials have continued. My sister has tried to contact local councillors to no avail.