OLD photographs sent to the Hampshire Chronicle show how the city has changed in the last 100 years.

The photos were sent in by Andover resident Nigel Sacree and show the view from St Catherine’s Hill back towards the city, taking in Winchester Meadows.

The images, which are part of a family album inherited by Mr Sacree, show how the rural landscape around the city has changed since they were taken in approximately 1914.

A notable feature of the older photographs is the presence of the Newbury to Southampton railway line, years before the Winchester by-pass was constructed alongside it. The railway was closed in the 1960s. The bypass was constructed in the 1930s and removed when the M3 was completed through Twyford Down in the 1990s.

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The photo also offers a clear view of Winchester Cathedral.

Mr Sacree provided more recent photos of the view taken by him. One of the biggest changes shown in the photographs is the increased presence of trees in recent years as the land is no longer used for farming.

A final photograph provided by Mr Sacree shows the view of Winchester Hill from near the stream at the bottom of Cripstead Lane.

He said: “My mother and her Ward siblings were brought up in Back Street, St Cross and would have known this area very well. In later years her children, three of whom were born at St Cross, were also to have many adventures here.”