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    Hampshire

    Feb 09, 2021 3 minutes

    Hampshire has an impressive variety of heritage attractions, research hubs and museum collections on offer for family historians. Although all of the city and county collections are currently closed because of Covid-19, staff are working hard towards longer periods of stability.

    The county is home to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, the ‘military quarter’ of regimental museums in Winchester, and the medieval walls of Southampton. It was here that in 1909 Noel Pemberton-Billing purchased engineering workshops on 3,000 acres of land. The Pemberton-Billing company would eventually become better known by the name

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