Barbara Carpenter Turner was also the initiator of the campaign to save the Theatre Royal from demolition and redevelopment in the early 1970s. 

The former cinema had closed and the city council, due no doubt to her advocacy, spot-listed the building. 

A group consisting of her, with Alderman Stanley Steel, the scientist Barry Richardson and my father Geoffrey Gibbons, secured it for the Winchester Theatre Trust.

Imagine Winchester with no city centre theatre; the site, now occupied by a decaying 1970s office block!

Not just a person of history and writings, but action and achievement too.

Tim Gibbons,
East Street, 
Alresford 

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