Our duty to the future is to be accurate about the past

Aerial photograph of Church Street with foreground of castle green. Bus turntable clearly shown. Before Dolphin development - Dolphin demolished, site vacant. Photo used in Allen Whites book on Church Street - Christchurch Through the Years, page 17.

Christchurch town and Church Street, view from the Priory tower. Churchyard, castle mound with distant water meadows (in flood)

Copy of painting/drawing of Church Street by Benjamin Ferrey Architect 1810 - 1880, view from High Street end towards the Priory. Square House shown and the Dolphin, horse drawn carriages and water pump.

Young shop assistant - Denise Jeans (now Mrs Mcnulty) shown serving a lady customer in Roberts toy shop in Church Street. Shop then owned by Mr Hogben then later Mr Fleetwood

Church Lane looking towards Church Street. Medieval house,(Tithe number 3874, 1841 Census gives family as George Drew, Newsman, wife Mary & 9 children) house/corner shop with stone tiled roof (demolished 1905) prior to Copper Skillet. Straight is the 'Carlton'. (tea shop/ restaurant ?). The Carlton premises were on the site of the former Leper hospital known as 'The Hospital of St Mary Magdalen', plot vacant in 1841 Census, Bookends had these premises before moving to the High Street in late 1990s.