New Forest Villages in old pictures

The New Forest has for generations been a fertile ground for artists and photographers, who have left behind a large body of work depicting the New Forest and its villages in times gone by.

Click on the thumbnails below to see a full page view of the same intriguing image. Some are from the pages of antiquarian books; others come from equally aged magazines, whilst many of the remainder are from early post cards.

Apart from an absence of traffic, the presence of commoners' stock in Lyndhurst, and markedly different fashions, the New Forest villages have remained refreshingly unchanged.

Beaulieu
Beaulieu Abbey - 1783	Beaulieu Mill - 1920	Beaulieu Village - 1930s	Montagu Arms - 1950s?
Brockenhurst
Brockenhurst Park c. 1780	Brockenhurst station c. 1906	Brookley Road	Brookley Road
The Balmer Lawn Hotel	Ivy Bridge	The Cloud Hotel	The Water Splash
Burley
The Tree House	Burley church c. 1909	Burley village	Burley - 1955
Lyndhurst
Donkeys near the Post Office in the High Street	Lyndhurst in the 1880s	New Forest Inn, Emery Down	Ponies at Gales Green
King's House, 1839	A Lyndhurst winter - early 20th century	Lyndhurst High Street c. 1909	The Lyndhurst and Lymington motor coach
Miscellaneous
Charcoal burners in Mark Ash, 19th century	New Forest Pony Fair, 1871	Time to relax: Parkhill Inclosure	The Southampton road, 1848