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4 unusual facts about Hayling Island


Gerard Fairtlough

Born on Hayling Island, Hampshire, Fairtlough trained initially as a biochemist at Cambridge University.

Portsmouth and Arundel Canal

The Portsea section was connected to the rest via a 13-mile channel dredged through Chichester Harbour, past the southern side of Thorney Island (original plan was to go around the northern side) and to the north of Hayling Island, and finally across Langstone Harbour.

Sir William Treloar, 1st Baronet

Sir William and Lady Treloar greeted their first patients at the railway station of Alton on 8 September 1908 and a new branch was opened at Sandy Point, Hayling Island, in September 1919, with 50 patients.

TF Carrier

By 1883 Carrier was surplus to requirements at Granton and was sold to the Isle of Wight Railway Co which wished to establish a ferry service between Langstone station on the LB&SCR's Hayling Island Branch and Bembridge on the island.



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