1) Name the current business on the far left. What was it before that put Chandler’s Ford on the national news?
2) Do you recognise these buildings? What were they known as?
3) Name this charity in Chandler’s Ford. What does it do and where is it? What business occupied this place before?
Hi Janet et al
No.2 is the old Isolation Hospital, a.k.a. Fryern Hill Hospital, off to the right of Oakmount Road as you headed towards Leigh Road … the site now, I believe, of Toynbee School (more or less) and the houses of Fir Croft Drive … The hospital was built in 1912 and catered those people in the Borough Of Eastleigh with highly infectious diseases, such as Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria.
Hi Doug,
Wow! Thanks for your brilliant answer. Yes Eastleigh History has this information:
No.1 is now the Steel Tank Alehouse, and was previously the HSBC Bank (formerly the Midland Bank). Its claim to fame was the attempted robbery there in September 2007, when one of the armed robbers was shot and killed by Metropolitan Police firearms officers in the roadway outside.
I agree that no. 2 is the former isolation hospital, but the old maps show it further north, more towards the current site of St. Swithun Wells School.
No. 3 is the Wessex Cancer Trust shop, on Winchester Road, just north east of Fryern Arcade.
Thanks John! Well done! You’ve got 100%! I don’t know much about the hospital – thank you for your information.
Here are the photos of Steel Tank Alehouse, and Wessex Cancer Trust shop. I’ve been to the charity shop many times – I love this place!
Have you been to Steel Tank yet? What is it like? I’m curious.
John,
Two robbers were lawfully killed by Met Police, not just one!
Closure of HSBC Chandler’s Ford Branch. Do Bank Branches Still Matter?
You are correct, two were shot at the scene – one died there, one later in hospital. The rest of the gang were convicted in 2008, but, having been released, tried again in 2011 and were convicted of that and other raids in 2014.
John,
I still remember that morning, I wondered why some helicopters were hovering and it was quite unusual. My son told me that in their infanc school (Kings Road – not too far from the bank!), they were locked inside and couldn’t play outdoor.
I can remember the news about the former HSBC bank.
Was told that as a small baby I was in the isolation hospital (the photo) along with my older sister but can’t remember why we were there but evidently I screamed every time a nurse tried to feed me or do anything and would only let my sister attend to me, must have been a bad baby!!
I would have been between 1 and 3 years old I think, so it would have been during the war, 1943/44/45 time.