Photograph query

[Paul180]

I have found this photo on ebay and it say's it's North Camp & Ash Vale? Which it is not I was wondering if any on recognized it. which it is not I was wondering if any on recognized https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254368190246

 

[30907]

I found it online as Aldershot Town, which it equally isn't, nor is it on the Camberley line!
However, the fresh chalk-face in the background rang a bell and made me wonder if it was the Meon Valley line through the Hampshire chalk which only opened around 1900, and had very spacious layouts.

After a bit of digging I think it is Droxford:
http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/d/droxford/
the 1910 map shows the footbridge and signalbox as in your photo; the loading gauge and a windpump (though not a water tank) show in the pre-closure photo.
The footbridge seems to have been standard along the line - West Meon and Wickham definitely had the same design.

PS here is a correctly labelled photo showing the box and footbridge from the other side:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Droxford...to-Alton-Line-6-/262690675339?redirect=mobile

 

[Paul180]

I found it online as Aldershot Town, which it equally isn't, nor is it on the Camberley line!
However, the fresh chalk-face in the background rang a bell and made me wonder if it was the Meon Valley line through the Hampshire chalk which only opened around 1900, and had very spacious layouts.

After a bit of digging I think it is Droxford:
http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/d/droxford/
the 1910 map shows the footbridge and signalbox as in your photo; the loading gauge and a windpump (though not a water tank) show in the pre-closure photo.
The footbridge seems to have been standard along the line - West Meon and Wickham definitely had the same design.

PS here is a correctly labelled photo showing the box and footbridge from the other side:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Droxford...to-Alton-Line-6-/262690675339?redirect=mobile

Thanks for that I think that's the best bet I was thinking of Ropley but it didn't quite look right.

 

[30907]

Thanks for that I think that's the best bet I was thinking of Ropley but it didn't quite look right.

Doubt it ever had a footbridge and the signalbox there was older, like Alresford's.
The Meon Valley's stations were seriously over-engineered - as if the LSW wanted a main line to Gosport. Perhaps they did?

 

[Sir Felix Pole]

Looks to be the return of Admiral Doveton Sturdee to his home village after his naval victory in the Falklands in 1914. The lady with the flowers is either his wife or a villager about to make the presentation. There is a better shot in this article (scroll down).

Doveton Sturdee

Hero of the hour turned tables on German fleet
It was 102 years ago this week that the Royal Navy exacted spectacular revenge on the Imperial German Navy for one of our most embarrassing defeats of the First World War. As former News defence correspondent TIM KING reports, the victory in the South Atlantic came thanks to an admiral from the Meon Valley
By The Newsroom
Friday, 9th December 2016, 6:00 am
UpdatedWednesday, 14th December 2016, 1:56 pm


Admiral Sturdee returned to his Droxford home in triumph and the village turned out to greet him when he was given a presentation at Droxford Station. His wife was given a large bouquet.

 

[Cowley]

Looks to be the return of Admiral Doveton Sturdee to his home village after his naval victory in the Falklands in 1914. The lady with the flowers is either his wife or a villager about to make the presentation. There is a better shot in this article (scroll down).

Doveton Sturdee

That’s a nice little bit of extra information.
Just to add in another minor link with the nearby Mid Hants Railway - In the 90s their repatriated 2-10-0 WD was painted in Longmoor Military Railway blue and named ‘Sturdee’.